Love and Monsters

This is a big moment in the life of this blog – my first Doctor Who post.

I liked the quirky format, the idea of a group of people ‘getting geeky’ about the Doctor, and the characters involved. I thought Marc Warren was particularly good as Elton. Quite a few series have done episodes where the main characters take a backseat and we see their effect on a group of peripheral characters and these episodes are often among the best. But here the payoff was very poor, and much as I like Peter Kay … well if I can quote MSN entertainment,

“This will be a much more serious role than most of his characters.”

Er … no, I think not.

And would the Doctor really condemn a girl to eternity as a paving stone … I don’t think so.

Still there were some good lines (from memory – so not exact)

Elton: “There’s a big scary green thing there and your giving me a hard time?”

Elton: “We even have a bit of a sex life.”
Ursula: “Lets not go into that now”

Question – Elton remembered the Doctor (in Dave Tennant incarnation) from his childhood, when was that? You mean the Doctor is having adventures they are not telling us about? No fair!