One of three or four Doctor Who specials that are taking the place of regular season episodes (first Torchwood then Doctor Who, what’s next The Sarah Jane Adventures?), the first being the Christmas special The New Doctor and the second airing tonight on BBC America called Planet of the Dead, the third, The Waters of Mars, is coming soon.  These specials are to serve as the swan song on the current Doctor and to lead the way to a proposed Doctor Who movie (with the current Doctor played by David Tennant) and the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith).

I stupidly thought the show was coming on at 9 PM Eastern, but I was wise enough to set the time based on the name of the episode so when I turned on the tele I didn’t miss the show.  In my opinion the episode was pretty good, the story was solid, most of the plot holes patched up before the end of the show, and the character interactions (between The Doctor and Lady Christina de Souza, the other actors barely existed in the script).  The story gives an open end to a possible revisit of the main protagonist later.  I loved the hero worshiping scientist.

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