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Waiting for a train home today, ds (4) and I got chatting about Dr Who (I had been trying to get him out of the London Transport Museum for the best part of an hour by hissing 'We will miss Doctor Who if we don't go leave right now' in my best threatening-yet-not-notifiable-to-Social-Services voice).

I told ds the doctor would have a new companion and asked if he remembered who Donna was. Guy on the next seat to us was pissing himself laughing when ds piped up 'I know, it's Am-I-Bovvered, face-bovvered, bovvered, face, lady'.

Reading this post I'm coming over all warm and cuddly at the thoguth of thousands of geeky families up and down the UK watching Dr Who together tonight. I wonder if there was some sort of movement on the reicter scale when Rose turned round as thousands of families turned to each other and went OOOHHH!

Ah yes, thanks for explaining. Am aware there was big gap in my knowledge having missed Christmas 2006 episode. (Couldn't be helped, had just lost MIL v. suddenly; went to stay with FIL who really "doesn't do" Dr Who and the like!!)

DH forgot it was on last night and went out . On his return I smugly reminded him it had been on, dropped a few hints about the plot then refused to say any more because of "spoilers" . I expect they'll repeat it sometime, maybe tomorrow on BBC3, I said airily.

He came to bed later, much later (2am) after having watched the whole thing on tinternet.... cue long whispered conversation dissecting the plot and characterisation at 2am as we tried not to wake the baby with our squeeing...

My we are a geeky household

I'm a big fan (although miss Martha very much) but I thought this was a bit weak for a series opener. Too many similarities with previous eps (swish corporate environment masking evil alien plot to hatch lots of aliens) Maybe Russell T is running out of ideas, but nobody dares criticise him? He does seem smug on the Dr Who confidentials (or is it just me?)

Put it this way, those little Adipos aliens are this years Christmas toys, no more no less

there is No Way i should be letting a two-year-old watch this, is there? but how am i supposed to get her into bed befor 6.20? she watched it last night and has talked constantly of 'the doctor' 'the lady waving in the police box that was flying' and, er, 'the baby owls in the lady's tummy'. i am a Bad (Wolf) Mother.

Don't sweat it, Aitch. My boy has been watching it since he was two, and he loves it.

There's no sex, no swearing, and no adverts. It is a show above all shows. The ultimate goody beats baddy, with nuance upon nuance inbetween.

What more can you ask for?

next week's looks a bit scary, though. dd has also been asking to look at pics of 'bolcanos' on the internet...

you didn't let him watch blink, did you? i shat myself at 36.

it's so great it's back, just like last summer DS (6) and i have a sofa date every saturday now, we make sure we tire DD out all day so she's in bed nice and early, and snuggle up together with a cushion each to hide behind if necessary. last night we actually clutched each other and squealed when rose reappeared. i remember cuddling up with my dad on a saturday night back in the peter davison years...just a lovely bit of family continuity going on here!

plus david tennant is hot

Do you mean the Weeping Angels?

That's been voted the scariest Dr Who to date

Aitch, I would let DD watch it, tbh. She'll leave the room when things get scary, and then she'll return.

Dr Who has been the stuff of childhood since 1961. You just know you have to do it ...

Good post, HellsBells

i've watched it about 10 times, it was BRILLIANT i thought. i had a dvd of it and made people who came into the house for a drink sit down and watch it. i was a bit of a blink bore, tbh. dd didn't like the tummy stuff last night, that was the thing. i don't think i watched dw at two, but i certainly remember it when i was 4 or so. why the HELL is it on so early? (like i don't know the answer, but still...)

blink scared the living crap out of me and i'm 31 - couldn't get to sleep for ages that night and when i finally managed it DS woke me up cos he'd had a nightmare about the 'scary angel statues'!

i'm with charlie brooker when he said that wasn't just the best doctor who ever, it was up there with the best tv ever...steven moffat should be knighted or sainted (or have a statue of him put up on the fourth plinth in trafalgar square....DON'T EVEN BLINK!)

i wanted sally sparrow to be the new assistant, she was absolutely lovely, that actress.

they kind of left the door open for her though didn't they? something in the way the doctor looked at her at the end...i think she'd make a fantastic assistant too and maybe she'll be back...(although was pleasantly surprised by catherine tate last night, thought she put in a great performance)

i was fairly pro CT, she is a talented actress.
but there's somehting about the SS girl, she had real intelligence and humour in her performance. i hope they get her back one day but i fear they won't.

my favourite episode is the Weeping Angels, pure magic and lets have some more Stephen Moffat real soon. My 10yr old DS was crappin himself but if hiding behind the couch as a kid was good enough for me then how could I not let him watch? Tis a tradition

SPOILER ALERT Doctor goes back to the alternate universe with Rose, to save it from something or other. The other Doctor stays in our universe ? and then has a botched regeneration, where he swaps bodies with the Master. So David Tennant will play the Master and John Simm will play the Doctor next year

lol not much of a spoiler alert! where did you get that from?

Sally Sparrow brings to mind the one out of Primeval who disappeared.
You'll have to bear with me. I don't get tv reception, and rely on my aged Mum to tape things for me.
Usually a series of 10 episodes can be distributed over 12 or more videotapes

yeah i loved sally sparrow, she really had something about her - clever and cheeky and bold. don't think she went down too badly with the dads too!
newshmoo - steven moffat is doing a two-parter in this series i think. which i'm quite excited about after the genius that was the empty child/the doctor dances...

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