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Sunday 12th April 2009

As is the custom nowadays, didn't see Doctor Who until after the kiddies were in bed.  We never see it go out live anymore; this is of course purely in order that we might vet it for scariness before we let Greta anywhere near it, and NOT because she would inevitably talk all the way through it, possibly resulting in me going a bit The Shining on her ass.

Well, it sort of WAS Pitch Black on a bus, wasn't it, but by no means the worse for that.  Michelle Ryan seemed to be going for the same kind of aloof sexiness as Diana Rigg in The Avengers, but, like Diana Rigg in The Avengers, generally came over as unbearably smug (you still wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers, mind you).  DT just reminded me how much the show and the public are going to miss him (no pressure, young Matt).  Weird that Lee Evans went for a slightly variable Welsh accent when there's been a preponderance of genuine (and frequently incongruous) Welsh accents throughout New Who.  Nice that he got a proper Lee Evans moment with the fire extinguisher. 

Didn't see it in all its HD glory, unfortunately; the V+ box can record in HD but it eats up so much disk space that it stops working properly until you delete whatever it is you've recorded.  Hope it gets repeated on the HD channel - the desert location looked wonderful but - sorry - kind of CG-ish...  Not sure the Mill boys couldn't have produced an equally convincing desert, but then the DW gang wouldn't have gotten their Dubai jolly (not that there's anything particularly jolly about Dubai - went there myself once.  Once.)  

Meanwhile, Waters Of Mars, eh?  Like the title.

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