Doctor Who - The Doctor Dances

So last episode the Doctor and Rose and the Time Agent bloke were trapped in a room of advancing gas mask zombies. Talk about a copout cliff-hanger, the Doctor just tells them to go away. Amusing, but as bad as those Rocket Man type black and white serial cliff hanger escapes.

Then there was a lot of running around trying to escape. It would have been a lot scarier if there wasn't all the time agent humour, with his sonic gun (and digital rewind, yeurgh).

However the creepiness was renewed later on in the episode with the airborne nanoprobes starting to infect the soldiers. I particularly liked the girl being handcuffed to the table with the infected soldier, nice bit of suspense, but obviously quite brief being the hectic 45 minute episodes that they are. I also liked the transformation morph, which was a bit creepy too.

The big reveal, I had guessed, fairly obvious and luckily the episode didn't hinge on it too much, it was just the key to wrapping things up.

The resolution was quite satisfactory, the Doctor laughing with glee at saving lots of lives (despite being filled with gloom 3 minutes early at the imminent destruction of the human race - I do love his mood swings). It all made logical sense in a mad Doctor Who SF way. One question, how come we could see the nanoprobes? They had a tendency to glow yellow at dramatic moments.

But then the real ending I liked even more. The time agent thinking he was going to die and the Doctor saving him. And then dancing with Rose in the TARDIS, I liked that. So next episode it's 2 companions again...

A great couple of episodes. Lots of stuff online at the BBC's page for the episode.