Doctor Who - The New Series - Series 2 - Vol. 4 Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

A space helmet for a cow?

He comes from the planet Gallifrey, belonging to the race known as 'Time Lords'. He, a friendly, mysterious time-space travelling alien who calls himself 'the Doctor'. He journeys through time-space in a craft called the TARDIS (an acronym that stands for 'Time And Relative Dimension In Space'). In his TARDIS, the Doctor can travel anywhere - he can move through space, forward in time, backward in time, sideways and throughout our current time and in and out of parallel universes. In his travels, the Doctor (David Tennant) and his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) have encountered many alien species - some friendly and some very, very nasty ones. You are in for the trip of your lifetime. The Impossible Planet: The Doctor takes Rose to an alien world, at the darkest limits of creation. But what is the secret with The Bore? What is mined? Who is in charge of the mine? What are the Ood? The Satan Pit: Follows on from ‘The Impossible Planet’ Love And Monsters: An ordinary man called Elton Pope becomes obsessed with the Doctor and Rose and their mysterious blue box. But when Elton's investigations bring him to the attention of the enigmatic Victor Kennedy, his harmless hobby suddenly plunges him into a living nightmare.

Good but spoilt by Peter Kay

I only give this 5 stars because of the first two episodes - he Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit - classic episodes both. Love & Monsters is a bit of a mess... and it is spoilt by Peter Kay. All the hype about him appearing in Dr Who, we expected great things, not a second rate story - although Marc Warren was good as always.

Fab - but random

First two items on here are great and then there is an absolute gem of a third piece, defiinitely the Dr Who equivalent of an end of term skit but stunningly written and excellent acting. Good stuff.

What a gOOD disk

The First two episodes contained on this disk are excellent suspenseful and action filled wheras the third is somthing different, somthing unexpected , an episode with fleeting appearences of the main characters. Its not to everyones taste but still a watchable episode that keeps you watching until the end to see what happens. overall I found it excellent

Good actors, but variable quality in scripts

Doctor Who is the best science fiction series idea ever. The Tardis can go anywhere in time and space, so the possibilities are endless. The Doctor can keep regenerating, so you don't have the kind of discontinuity suffered by Star-trek, yet each new Doctor can bring an entirely new personality to the quintessential eccentric 'Englishman' from 'Galifray', (or however you spell it).

However, despite great acting performances, the current Doctor and his companion being amongst the best, The scripts are a bit variable in quality, and despite the macro story weaving through all the different episodes, there is not always a consistent feel to it, with the spoof episode, 'Love and Monsters' or what ever it was called, being entirely out of place despite being quite amusing.

There is also a certain amount of unreality in it. Where as the science can get as weird as you like, who knows what is possible, the relationships between people have to be real to be convincing, and sometimes things happen which just wouldn't. For example when the Doctor abandoned Rose for the sake of Madam Pompadour, she would never have forgiven him, let alone casually welcome him back on his unexpected return.

Also they keep going on about the Doctor being the last Time Lord, which is nonsense. The destruction of Galifray being an event in time, the Doctor can go back to it before that time, and similarly, other Time Lords could have travelled forwards in time, so by-passing the destruction event.

The script writers are stuck in time-sequential thinking, which is part of our reality, but not that of Doctor Who.

There are few episodes that really reach near to the full potential of the idea, and there are far too many Earth-bound adventures, though I suppose Rose does need to go and see her Mum occasionally.

A mixed bag

After the excellent two-parter (Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit), the third episode Love & Monsters comes as a real change of mood but represents the low point of the series for me. I know many sci-fi series have had their deliberately tongue-in-cheek episodes, but this episode amounts to little more than an extended comic skit that falls flat for me, mainly due to my complete inability to suspend my disbelief when faced with Peter Kay in a ridiculous monster suit! Still, my kids liked it (in a 'that was a bit weird' sort of way), and future generations will probably look back on it as a classic of self-parody!

More excellent Who...

The first two episodes on the disk are excellent and thought provoking. The third story, Love and Monsters, is more of an acquired taste - the producers were trying something new which didn't work for me.

Still good

Not quite as good as Volumes 1-3 but still very good watching. I keep saying it but I still say that David Tennant makes a brilliant Doctor and I hope we have a long run with him.

Don't order this DVD Tesco took 4 months to send it.

Great DVD but due to Tesco bad service I would advice you to buy them in the shops as this along with the other Doctor Who DVD's were on order from November 2006 and the first one came April 2007

Mind blowing

Absolutely brilliant. I hired this originally for my son and I ended up getting hooked. Keep them coming doctor.