The Girl in the Fireplace

Not youВ’re every day girl in the fireplace but for what I thought would be a minor episode the latter half was a time bomb of an epic with some great twists and a heartbreaking endВ….

The Doctor really did come into his own and for a romance (thank goodness BBC one advertised that bit in advance) for its not usually Doctor Who territory and something that season one could not even in a million light years have thought of doing.

However the right setting, a woman who was every bit the doctor type and the plain fact the now crew of three В– are definitely a crowd it was actually a very relevant episode and gave David Tennant the chance to prove his worth and more.

His acting was breathtaking and his character was absolutely tortured by the end of this В– I think itВ’s the first time right at the end where the enthusiasm and confidence that makes the doctor who he is was no longer there in any form and boy did it show.

Ok back to the point it broke even with last weeks В‘School ReunionВ’ and undeniably he loved both Sarah Jane and Reinette with the plain simple fact that the latter was able to get inside his mind literally - something that scared him as much as it drew him in even more.

Plus and added to that he was completely head over heels by the opening five minutes of this episode and blimey who would not have wanted to be Sophie it was one heck of a snog! By both parties and that she came onto him В– the poor man had no chance and that he was already way to emotionally involved from the first moment he seen her as an adult.

Anyway leaving the romance aside for a moment the plot was complex and from my point reminded me a little of Quantum leap minus any leaping! However it was clever well thought out and every part of what makes Doctor Who tick came into play.

Stunning costumes, great wizardry enough myth and space like factors set against a historical backdrop with a romance included and that all were played out beautifully it did indeed in everyway raise the game by at least another two notches.

However it was what it addressed more than anything out with the fact that David Tennant literally stole the show and weВ’re not even half way through the season yet that made this episode so unique and different.

It took a whole load of new concepts and ran with them and that the 10th doctor has indeed got a very vulnerable soul, one we glimpsed at last week and one that we seen again in a different light this week and though he is the В‘TimeLordВ’ he like everyone else makes mistakes. One that he paid for dearly and though he quickly dropped Rose he was absolutely smitten but I did note and though itВ’s not as obvious as it was with Christopher Ecc. David TennantВ’s - Doctor Who needs Rose just as much, if not more and that he keeps her at arms length possibly for her own protectionВ…

Anyway IВ’m again of subject. We get to see our doctor in whole new way and every range and power of emotion is shown here and from the earlier episodes, I had the feeling they would sooner or later show this 10th doctorВ’s weak point.

One that he fell right into and made me wish again for both the earlier scenes of the kiss and where he was over the top drunk В– plus the famous words from a musical stuck in there and though it was a doggy scene it could have been a thousand times worse had it not been in David TennantВ’s hands.

However it was the last twenty minutes that powered this episode В– a doctor discovering the error to late - that time is not always on his side, which was played of against that epic horse and mirror scene where he was in his element and absolutely all inspiring.

Then the silenced and alone doctor at the end and the further question to the whole Doctor/Rose fate it maybe lacked a little and the ending was disjointed but never the less a stranded doctor who was overjoyed to find a way back to Rose and Mickey did in a way answer something and that in one way or other we are on the tip of a very big iceberg!

One that is going to get even more interesting in the weeks to follow and the only further thing I can add is that the attention to detail, the powerhouse of a story and the raw emotion of the doctor left this in a league of its own. No other show could do it better or in such a way and we cannot but help feel for him in the endВ…

Real nice and leaves me asking what on earth is to come next putting the doctor through more pain?