I'll give it a 5. It was a strong episode, like the last three (Blink, and
The Family 2-parter).
I liked seeing the Master again, although I will have to adjust to the new
younger Master. Right now in the brief glimpse I got of him, his mannerisms
were far to similar to the Doctor. It felt like they could have cast the guy
as The Doctor instead of Tennant and we'd never have known the difference.
I'd have preferred someone who was 5-10 years older, a bit more reserved, and
more menacing. He almost had a playful quality to him.
Having the Master have his own stopwatch was genius, even though I had a
feeling all along the professor was going to turninto the Master (I think I'd
heard a preview that one of the doctor's "old enemies" was going to be back,
and I figured it was going to be the Master)
The bad guys felt like a ripoff of "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars", with
less gore, but I liked them.
There were none of the cartoonish monsters that I'd been complaining about in
previous seasons. I'm very pleased with the trend here -- The Family, Blink,
and Utopia have all had convincing, and almost frightening, monsters.
Who knew "you are not alone" was going to be a warning, and not a sign of
something good to come.
A good episode all the way around.
--thelostguy
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