Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars: A Cynically Enhanced Review:

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars: A Cynically Enhanced Review:

Episode written by: Russell T Davies and Phil Ford

Duration: 1 hour

First we were treated to a planet with the sole ability to kill anyone unfortunate to work within the delivery industry, and now we’re given the opportunity to make the joke “he or she is totally wet for him”, but jokes aside on an episode able to carry itself with grace for the first fifty minutes, The Waters of Mars is a mix between Russell’s best and semi-decent work he’s produced during his tenure as head-writer.

The episode has an engaging plot, the enemy is full of pant drenching weirdness and we’re given a look into the Doctor’s ability to handle the situation with a defining clarity, but with the usual hilarity to this average affair, I lost a lot of respect for the last ten minutes did at destroying three years worth of character development and then rebuilding it the moment he has  a horrifying *status quo returning* realisation, though I can’t complain about the exceedingly clear direction the series is taking for this era of Who—entertainingly dark for the Doctor.

Waters of Mars story is part of a twist setup, but I’m not going to put forwards any potential spoilers in what I mean by twist, a outline of what to expect will suffice: Doctor turns up on Mars, shit is bound to happen, shit does begin to happen, shit becomes increasingly worse, wet joke is uttered by a few viewers, shit becomes a little too much for the Doctor to stay in character, Doctor becomes an arse and shit gets delightfully dark by the end. An interesting episode, though it failed to make itself the one you want to remember by the end.

The episode was dotted with a range of characters, but none carried a truly memorable trait beyond acting as “they’re going to die” because of how the episode focused on the companion of the day—a suicide type of companion who doesn’t grow enough for you to care about her.

The episode is a filler; tying onto the grander picture in the works, making it viewable with the rest in this series of ever growing darkness—a flawed part to come with this type of series composed of so few pieces.

Thought of the Day: November 19th:

I didn’t feel much stress today and I finally got a little piece of annoyance out of the way for University, yet I don’t plan to go onto that part of education, life has too much on offer for the side of money.