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I don't think the second half was as good at the first, due to DT's lengthened struggle to choose between J. Smith or the Doctor. I can understand that it was a difficult decision, but I think they streched it. However, I will commend DT for his fantastic acting- literally playing two characters in the same episode and doing it well and distinguishable.

Tho, you would think that for a dying species of Alien bent on universal domination, they wouldn't connect all their ship's vital pipes to the heater! Nitwits.

I loved it! heart

The trouble with this episode is that you get the feeling the wrong man lived at the end of it. Like The Girl in The Fireplace the doctor's back destroying the lives of any and all he comes into contact with. Martha's obsession is a long way away from being healthy, and the way he just assumes he's this better version of John Smith in the end is far from decent towards the people who've unwittingly helped protect his disguise.

Which leads me to another point. Why was he hiding exactly? For starters if he could throw his smell like that all along why didn't he just do that in the first place and bluff the Family into lowering their guard? When push came to shove they were just like any other rent-a-villain who could be outwitted with the old random button pressery trick. His going to such extreme lengths to protect himself seems a little suspect after a second look. When it's someone else whose life's in peril he's got no problem about getting involved but for once *he* was the target. And basically he ran off and hid like a big girly coward o_o Some hero.

You know, despite their fates, the Family did survive. Have we truly seen the last of them? I would love to at least see Jeremy Baines return, somehow freed from his scarecrow prison intent on laying vengeance on the Doctor for what he did to his family.

Harry Lloyd makes one hell of a creepy villain. I really hope he comes back sometime in the future. Who's to say that the he won't find a way to unfreeze himself from time. Remember, he's ever so good at science. twisted

I watched this episode at a friend's house, and we loved it!
it was spoilt by three things -
My friends little brother, who was hyper and couldn't keep still
The 'trapped in every mirror in existence' stuff.
And it had my SCHOOL HYMN! (Although it was kind of fun annoying the hell out of everyone by singing it really loud!)

Loved it!

Exactly. Also, he got a load of people killed in the process.

But really, the thing that pissed me off the most about this episode was the whole "lonely god" thing. He defeated the enemy with the deus ex machina buttons and killed them with impossible stunts, having spent the rest of the episode being stupid.

Other than that though, it was more-or-less significantly OK.

I think a lot of this Lonely God stuff comes from the Paul Cornell books in the Virgin novel series...and guess who wrote this one in the first place...? He also has a sometimes-annoying habit of doing weird, poetic &/or symbolic things in his Who novels, like dancing with Death waaaay back at the beginning of the Virgin novel series, & having owls in so many of his books. I'm amazed owls didn't get into this episode.

As for whether being dumped in a black hole would kill the mother--I've heard it theorised that everything gets infinately stretched out on the event horizon, including time, so you'd end up effectively falling into the black hole forever without reaching it. I'd bet that's what they were thinking.

I liked this episode OK except for the ending. I actually liked Tim better than most anything else in this story.

Great episode, not as good as the first one but still good. I almost cried when John Smith was with Matron and saw what his future could be. He was crying, or at least almost, and I was gonk that poor guy is pretty much accepting the fact that he has to die. They closed most of the big yawning plotholes from the first episode, but made a few new ones too. They never really explained how that boy could see the future, oh well. And I don't know how bad being a American Whovian, but here in Canada I haven't even found anyone else who watches Dr.Who, let alone likes it! How can so many people have never heard of Dr.Who scream !