On the contrary, and episode I hated as a kid is now I think the best of the season, and among RTD's top. This has the most emotional depth of anything in the show. The Tyler family, the 'soap' stuff, has already been introduced, is important throughout, but this is the episode which is allowed to make it the focus. It's resonant and sad and meaningful and I think my changing view of it is that the weight of it is speaking to a weight of experience which is 'adult' in a much more weighty way than Torchwood.
'The other baffling thing about this story is why the Doctor lets it happen in the first place.'
Well, hot on the heels of being 'a good dalek' in Dalek and his anger at Adam, I think this is the third part in a trilogy of episodes where the Doctor backslides and we see what the Time War made him before Rose's influence.
'It has... not aged brilliantly.'
On the contrary, and episode I hated as a kid is now I think the best of the season, and among RTD's top. This has the most emotional depth of anything in the show. The Tyler family, the 'soap' stuff, has already been introduced, is important throughout, but this is the episode which is allowed to make it the focus. It's resonant and sad and meaningful and I think my changing view of it is that the weight of it is speaking to a weight of experience which is 'adult' in a much more weighty way than Torchwood.
'The other baffling thing about this story is why the Doctor lets it happen in the first place.'
Well, hot on the heels of being 'a good dalek' in Dalek and his anger at Adam, I think this is the third part in a trilogy of episodes where the Doctor backslides and we see what the Time War made him before Rose's influence.