Smith and Jones

I thought it started really well and that it was going to better Army Of Ghosts (4/5), which I loved and rate as RTD's finest work to date. But alas Smith And Jones just went further and further downhill as it progressed.

Positives:
+ Superb dialogue at the beginning with the junior doctors and patients
+ Very good introduction to Martha, the Doctor and the TARDIS
+ Martha appears to be an intelligent companion who can look after herself (something good that RTD has brought to Doctor Who)
+ Fabulous effects (although this is something RTD appears to rate more over storyline. One american critic wrote that the new Who has great effects but the old Who had the great storylines)

Negatives
- More of that annoyingly cheesy, 'operatic' music
- Over the top screaming by people when the hospital lands on the moon (and some dreadful acting by extras), which is just a poor device by RTD to make us like the non-screaming Martha and Doc more
- Aliens that just happen to look like rhinos. Does the new Who team have any imagination?
- The straw - leave it in Red Dwarf please, where it would be funny
- David Tennants stupid dance, as if he could send all the radiation into his shoe. I'm sure an intelligent child would find this embarrassing aswell
- The colossal power required for the plasmavore's device at the end (how?)
- The continual use, by RTD, of major alien happenings on Earth (like the battle of Canary Wharf). Doctor Who is supposed to be on our Earth and in our time (I'm sure RTD would agree) yet such monumental things would change our culture, society - did you see a huge alien ship over London last christmas on the news(The Christmas Invasion - set in 2006)? I didn't - this is why Earth invasions in the classic Doctor Who were mainly covert operations, so that it was feasible
- Martha's family appears to be trash straight off of a Trisha show (not again!)
- Worst season opener to date
- David Tennants stupid dance, as if he could send all the radiation into his shoe. Have I put this one in twice? And rightly so

I have finally lost faith in the new Doctor Who. Even last season had some good episodes but I fear this one wont have any at all. It isn't even Doctor Who anymore, he doesn't appear alien. The only way we know he is alien is because he mentions it often ("I'm a Time Lord", "E's got twin 'earts!"). I'm quite angry as well and I hope RTD leaves as soon as possible to let someone in who has quality control (and doesn't rate soap operas and big brother - and isn't scared of critics. Hmm I wonder why that is Russell?).