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Couple of random things that occured to me today -

- From the Tritovores' perspective, Planet of the Dead is about an ironic overabundance of faeces. They came to trade for the San Helian's poo. They found nothing but the Swarm's poo.

- The Tenth has gone from being the 'no second chances' Doctor to being all about second chances. Was forgiving the Master the turning point? If so it's another nice irony that his return gets foreshadowed right after Christina's second chance.

- "The one with the Giant Robot." As we all know, Robot was the title of the first Tom Baker adventure, but Doctor Who and the Giant Robot was the title of the Target novelisation. Since the Doctor expects that Malcom's read a UNIT file with the same name as a Target novelisation, is this, at last, an explanation for why the novelisations differ so much from the TV shows? They're not depictions of the actual events, they're the UNIT files which detail them. wink

I do wonder if that will hold true. The audience share's taken a sizeable jump down from the Christmas showing. And if the BBC weren't banking on Who being the jewel in their Easter Crown I'd be surprised, frankly.

It helps that it got a repeat showing Bank Holiday Monday I'd imagine, but the show wasn't exactly going up against stiff competition from the other channels. ITV's Who-wannabe Primeval was probably the biggest contender, and it seems to have seen that off without a hitch. Of course third time's the charm as they say, so it remains to be seen whether the quality of this episode has a knock-on effect on the next.

Nice to know the good ship Who's still sailing head and shoulders above the competition, mind. Now if only they'd put a little more sparkle in their next effort we could all be one big happy family again.

Mind sharing some of that popcorn, Whatsit?
*grabs beanie chair and sits down to watch*

Planet of the Dead was different because for once there wasn't some big bad villain, and I think I preferred it because of that.. it made the ending slightly anticlimactic, but life isn't always those huge crazy boss battles, either.