Dear god was I just disapointed.
But be warned, SPOILERS ahead.
There I was, thinking that with so many millions of pounds, a year to plan and produce, thousands of fans...neigh, millions of fans, and all the BBC could come up with was....that.
I'll admit, the first for any new assistant is a trial. Your getting used to loosing a "friend" - the relationships change, something is lost. Call it chemistry.
Not that we're going to have here. From the end of the episode...
"And for the record, I'm not remotely interested. I only go for humans."
What a lovely, presumptuous thing to say to a man you've only just met, who she didn't believe wasn't human till it was confirmed by another alien.
However...even the first episode of the new series - Rose - 2 years ago - was shaky. It was a start, with all those wonderful "girl power" lines..but eventually we had a proper assistant.
The role of the assistant is not to be eye candy. Not to be smart, not to be quick, or strong or even nice.
The role is to help us, the audience, understand what's going on. To ask those silly questions. To be that little bit thick, without being moronic.
This new Miss Jones...presented to us as being smart - a doctor, almost - yet she lacks a certain something. Most doctors in training would ask, on being presented with a patient with highly abnormal heart rhythms (aka two hearts) if the patient had a heart condition or any sort of history.
She diagnoses cramp.
She spots that if you've got a limited amount of air, you're going to have a problem. But she doesn't understand that it'll cause people to suffocate. That's left to the doctor to explain. We can't possibly have an assistant who understands consequences, can we?
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I've got to be honest and say that I actually liked the episode. In fact I thought it was one of the best episodes of Dr Who so far! Yes, I am being serious.
I enjoyed listening to the Jones family and their conversations and minor squabbles, I liked the introduction of the new assistant and pretty much everything about her (okay so the medical rounds was a bit cheesy, but then isn't Dr Who as a whole?). I think that if you were to compare this episode to the very first one in which we meet Rose, this one clearly stands out as being much better in terms of dialect, graphics and just general enjoyment (the alien with the straw was just plain amusing).
In fact, the only thing that I didn't like, was the preview for the next episode... :-/
Regards,
Luke
Have just watched it for the second time. Not as bad as you make out. all new assistants have a rocky time until we get used to them. Better than some plots. She may grow into the part.
I didn't like the preview either - spoils things.
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