Obviously spoilers

while this has been getting a lot of good reviews I though it was just ok. I've been a big fan of plucky blond wonder girls but geni wasn't as mary sue as she could have been or as annoying as rose was.

I like both donna and martha. I could do without the doctor's grandstanding obout not wiping out entire races since he has infact wiped out entire races.

her ending was not surprising at all but I though it would have to do with clones having very short lives which also would have explained how no one from seven days before could still be around. to have it be only seven days and have them not know that then all the original crew member would have had to been killed or that old dude was the last of the original crew and he created the myths to get to explain things.

they did explain that the war started when the ship's captained died and the hath and human split up into faction trying to be incontrol.

I just had a thought


When they found the Doctor hands were Clean they saw him as idea for cloning .
could the fact that the works hands we dirty cause the download to screw up and causing the idea they were or need to fight?
I mean if the area where they took the cell sample from had some kind of ore or other on them this could mess up the machines.
plus if the was a problem with the download system and instead getting told how to fight the elements they were told how to fight the enemy.

its just a thought .

CC

Good performance by Tennent-- proving that he actually can deliver the gravitas that Eccleston did so well-- too bad that the scripts so rarely allow for this. Donna continues to be an excellent companion. Martha just pales in comparison though-- too bad since Agyeman actually put in one of her better performances that she just doens't have Tate's acting chops.

1.) I liked the look of the episode. It was clearly done on a budget, but the production designers' imaginations trumped the budget.

2.) The introduction of Jenny didn't have the emotional impact it could have had since she was unproblematically cloned as a /fully dressed/ adult without any backstory whatsoever. There might have been greater story potential she been from the Doctor's untelevised past.

3.) The Hath are cool looking but we never learn a thing about them. If we learned more about the Hath, maybe we could have had a more interesting story leading up to the peace settlement brought by the Doctor.

4.) The week-long clone war is a great idea but it's never taken to its logical conclusion: no old timers from the first days of the war, no massive carnage that would necessitate constant cloning, no harvesting of corpses for raw material for making more clones, et cetera.