Doctor who has returned post reviews/thoughts of first episode here.

From BBC
"The Doctor has regenerated but is thrown into danger before he's able to recover.
With the TARDIS wrecked and the sonic screwdriver destroyed the new Doctor has just twenty minutes to save the world... but he has a young woman called Amy Pond to help him."

This was a good beginning , It was a very British and very strong script , you can tell Moffat knows exactly what he wants to do.

I was looking out for little easter eggs in the episode along the lines of the Bad wolf thing , I did notice the laptop had the word Myth on it and wondered if that would come up later as i could not see any reason for them doing that ?

The new tardis is pretty stunning and Matt smith makes a good doctor , It seems to me that Tom Baker had such a massive influence on Doctor who that every doctor since apart from peter Davidson and Mcgann has tried to emulate him in some way.

I think matt smith pulls this off with also a splash of troughton.

Looking forward to what comes next.....

Ok, so a new doctor, a new companion, a new producer, a new Tardis, a new logo, a new title sequence and a new musical introduction but even with all these changes I liked this story. Matt Smith has taken up his new role well, as a critic of some of the new series of doctor who I was waiting to be deflated by an over hyped new beginning but was actually impressed.

Let me step back and comment on the title sequence, I loved the new titles, reminded me of Tom Bakers titles, however the music was awful. I understand that show must be kept up to date and there has been many versions of Ron Grainers original theme but for me this pop version of the theme lost the wow/scare factor it has always delivered to the watching audience.

The new logo is also really cool, I really like it.


The story as with most regeneration stories sees the doctor taking time to adjust to his new body. The hospital looked similar to the one in spearhead from space and a nod was made to this episode with the doctor taking his clothes from the staff changing rooms as John Pertwee had done in 1970.

The Doctors outfit however nods towards Troughton with the bow tie and braces. So as a watcher who was brought up watching the classic series I felt quite warm with all these references and similarities. It was also good to see the hat stand back.

To the story, it reminded me a little of girl in the fireplace with Amelia’s disappointment of not seeing the doctor for years.
I think it was generally interesting but I will leave the story anaylsis to other posters.

I don’t think as Barry Wocks suggested that the logo on the laptop has anything to do with the series rather than an anonymous brand rather than product placement that the Beeb are always so careful to remove.

I do however believe that the crack was caused by the Doctor. Not just from what Prisoner Zero says but at the end when the Doctor switches the oscilloscope off below the standard line pattern was the same shape as the crack on Amelias wall.


Prisoner Zero says "The Pandorica will open", I believe that this has some fundamental element to this series. Its significance will become more apparent. I also believe I’ve read that one episode is called ‘the Pandorica opens’.

I thought the music was a bit of a let down , although in the middle of the tune it sounds like they have used the exact sound effect from classic who when it plays the main theme , i did like that.

We will have to see about that logo on the Laptop but it was a designed logo and if they had to cover it up why design a logo and not just cover it with a black mark.

But it is not that important , i should perhaps forget about RTD and realise this is moffat and that is an RTD thing to do.

This is interesting it links the both things you and me noticed i cut and pasted it off another website.



"It is obviously Pandorica, and MᴪTH was made up so they didn't ... Pandorica sounds like Pandora, a greek Myth. But its a Myth, not a MΨTH. ."

Here is a really in depth review