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Was shit.

Was shit.

The Claire cheerleader chick has got to be the most fragile person in the world... I mean I KNOW she is invincible, but, uh, she sure breaks (so, yeah, she can heal) real often.

The Asian dude is fricken cool though.

I'm digging this. More on it later, I'm sure...

It really is just people shagging aliens.

We sat and watched the BBC2 repeat. That was an experience in itself as I fought the crappy internal ariel to get a picture where you could see Welsh people "coming and going" *snigger*.

But hey, it's sort of worth it, because despite the random swearing, this is defiantly a Doctor Who show. if you wanted something very different, I'm afraid you are in the wrong place. This feels the same. I know it, you know it, and in a few weeks we'll all know it when the Cybermen show up.

I wasn't sure about the whole Jack-on-a-building scene... it might be a riff off the whole plot twist at the end, but pfft... it went for far too long.

We also have that same Who-thing where they feel the need to crap on about the fact that it is in Wales.

The one thing that you have to say is that the make up is very nice... although I'm not sure why the mindless alien parasite things from the sewers are such snappy dressers. I hope this is explained later. Also I'd like some kind of explanation about the Dinosaur thing that flies around every now and again. It seems a little unnecessary.

I think that Torchwood has potential. I hope to see some more who elements in here, otherwise declaring this a who spin-off is a waste of time. You could have just made the Welsh X-Files (which I guess they have).

We need some Yetis and Zygons man! DO IT!

Well that was. Good? Good. Good! I can't decide! I think I can recognize that Russell can't write for shit. I think I realise that he is an ideas man. I.. wait. This isn't going right. Hang about...

OK, so 13 weeks boil down to this. No matter what happens, it's going to be disappointing, even if it's only because I enjoyed the slight terribleness of it all. And some of it was terrible (you managed to fuck up the ending to your Werewolf episode. You had to try to drop the ball on that one. Then you had a killer episode to that shite one last week, and I spent all week waiting for this...

... and it doesn't dissapoint. It just didn't amaze. The Daleks were a bit lame, while kicking ass, and it was all there. I was annoyed at the Cybermen needlessly shouting "DELETE" every now and again, and the ill-advised "exterminate!"/"Delete!" dialog when they are fighting was a drain, but hey it's the Doctor. They even explain some annoyances of the past episode (I'm talking about the need to keep putting those 3D glasses on. Neither cute nor funny).

I guess I'm being harsh. I was annoyed by the Cybermen this year. Why the hell continue Doctor Who, rather than reboot, if you're going to use a parallel world trick to bring an ancient foe back? Well, as it turns out, it might have been a clever plot device to bring back the Daleks. So I'll let it slide. A little. The new Cybermen are still shite though. This was good. It really was. Family fun. Enjoyable. Sad ending, with a bit of a surprise, I look forward to Christmas, read the rest of the post to see why.

Someone clearly didn't like Who-

Intelligent 900-something bi male seeks companionship (possibly more):

Anyone over the age of five still watching Doctor Who?

We do of course, but only out of a morbid sense of curiosity to see exactly how bad it can get. The one light at the end of the time tunnel was the upcoming death of Rose. We were hoping she was going to get slowly beaten to death by a Cyberman using Mickey as a club or suffocated in her mum's cleavage, but she'll probably go out saving the universe or something. Well not the universe as that would imply that this Doctor knows how to travel beyond the M25, but you know what we mean.

We were so looking forward to the death of Ms Tyler that we hadn't given much thought to who would replace her - neither it seems did BBC Wales who in an inspired moment of genius seem to have just pointed at whoever was wandering around the set. Freema Agyeman is the girl for the job - she's the one that the Doctor killed on Saturday by zapping her iPod or something - recycling, that's what we like.

The current timelord, David Tennant said: "She is not only very talented and very beautiful, she's great fun and I'm delighted she's coming on board the Tardis full-time." Russell T Davies, the Bafta winning executive producer and lead writer, said he had been secretly searching for a new Doctor's assistant for some time when Agyeman auditioned for the part of Adeola in Saturday's episode. "Watching her during filming confirmed what an exciting new talent she was, so under cover of darkness we called her back in to audition with David for the role of the new companion. It was a sensational combination, and her range, presence and charm blew us all away."

Not her stirling work in Crossroads then? The Mail are running with the startling revelation that the actress is black , while the Sun prefers to concentrate on the fact that she's a "stunner".

It's a shame that the actress will be playing a totally different character from the one who was killed in Canary Wharf as giving the Timelord a dead assistant may have given him more of an edge. Then again we have had two seasons and a Christmas special with the Doctor as some kind of time stalking paedo using his TARDIS as a grooming device... maybe necrophilia is a touch passé after that.

On the right. Hideous monstrosity, on the left. Comparable perfection. These are the new Cybermen that I just saw desicrate my TV. I hate them, and I hate you for bringing them to me and spoiling my eyes and ear and... fuck!

You know what? They look cooler than most of the old Cybermen, but I'm going to even prefer the cloth faced twats over these metal idiots after the shit that I just had to sit through. Fucking diabolically written trash, designed to take an old foe and de-fang them.

Why the fuck bother to continue 40 years of continuity, if you're going to ignore it. I'd rather have seen the crap 80's Cybermen return than these terrible "DELETE" shouting mother fuckers. I mean alternate worlds? That's fucking cheap mate. It's nasty. It's the worst plot device ever. Even Star Trek avoided it where it could.

WORSE! It seems this is based on the Big Finish play "Spare Parts", which is AWESOME. This is not. That is call defiling, and you should just go and rape someone, rather than destroying someone else's work. I wonder if it's a good thing that they credit the author of Spare Parts with some of the story. I wonder if he is embarrassed by it. I would be.

I am going to hunt Russell T. Davis down and make him do terrible normal things until annoying lisps disappear. Twat.