I finally got round to watching it last night (it seems more appropriate to watch Doctor Who on a Saturday), and confess I finished it thinking "Bring on Donna". What this show needs is some stroppiness and standing up to the Doctor. And Martha Jones, as long as she's got over the unrequited love nonsense.
Could have been worse, though. Given that everyone kept mentioning in the previews that Astrid was an anagram, I feared she might turn out to be some kind of embodiment of the Tardis, and we know who that was last time. Actually, did RTD manage to get through a whole 71 minutes without mentioning that person? That would be a record.
Because I didn't see it until Saturday, and I'd watched The History Boys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Boys_%28film%29) the previous night, as soon as the Midshipman came on I thought "Good heavens, Rudge!" I knew it was him even before his cap came off to reveal those sticking-out ears. I've since worked out that the reason why two other cast-members in The History Boys were so familiar is that they appeared in (different) episodes of Life on Mars. It's a small planet.
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Could have been worse, though. Given that everyone kept mentioning in the previews that Astrid was an anagram, I feared she might turn out to be some kind of embodiment of the Tardis, and we know who that was last time. Actually, did RTD manage to get through a whole 71 minutes without mentioning that person? That would be a record.
Because I didn't see it until Saturday, and I'd watched The History Boys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Boys_%28film%29) the previous night, as soon as the Midshipman came on I thought "Good heavens, Rudge!" I knew it was him even before his cap came off to reveal those sticking-out ears. I've since worked out that the reason why two other cast-members in The History Boys were so familiar is that they appeared in (different) episodes of Life on Mars. It's a small planet.