Love & Monsters

LOVE AND MONSTERSВ…..and well Marc Warren stealing the whole show in Hustle like fashion!

Can I just say nice little episode in light of the fact Billie Piper is leaving however our two main leads take a back seat in this one. Letting the superb guest cast which was a pick of great British talent and more or less letting them shine instead (good idea with this line up)

It was also a wickedly clever episode, David Tennant and Billie Piper getting the funniest and yet serious bit in one blast В– Marc WarrenВ’s Elton telling the story in true hustle like fashion only the con was on him to a certain extent.

However for an episode that wavered in places and that though it was well done it never the less lacked somehow in places В– not down to the actors but more the script and what last nights episodes did make obvious.

Something that has been getting to me of late in the last five episodes the fact that neither Billie Piper or David Tennant are getting the kind of scripts that are really giving them the chance to deliver and its no use!

Ok on to the good points the scary funny alien at the start and the doctor on classic form and the great line В‘DonВ’t I know you from somewhere?В’ ah nice way to get us all hooked considering how it all fell into place at end.

The comedy of Kay who is on fine form here and as weВ’ve never seen him before or want to again more to point. The flashbacks Elton telling us the highВ’s and lows of his life the doctor arriving just in the nick of time to save him and in no way to be forgotten Jackie!!!!

Who seemed determined to steal the show in ever other way and give us a good laugh as well, this episode was a classic in many ways and since I watched Marc Warren away back in Band of Brothers.

He has only continued to grow and enthral as an actor and he was the one who really made this episode so unique and special (plus ironically it was his second appearance on Doctor Who)

It was an episode with its moments and the tale it tried to tell is done with wit and style its serious point coming across in all to true Doctor who fashion yet it was the expressions, the one liners and that as Elton rightfully pointed out there is a price to pay with being with the doctor and put it this way В– wait till Doomsday and maybe then all which has been hinted at will bar fruit.

Along with what shone in The Christmas Invasion once more coming back into play only with the depth all these episodes since have given and for a further tiny point David Tennant was great here in this episode especially the opening bit where we see him to start with!