Doctor Who Project - "The Christmas Invasion"

Ooooh the first Christmas special of the new era (probably one of the better ones too) and David Tennant's first episode as The Doctor (the last minute of "The Parting of the Ways" doesn't count) although he's not around for large chunks of it. That's right it's more of the extended Tyler family drama. Woo.

"The Christmas Invasion" isn't too bad too be honest, it's camp and it ticks off all the required Christmas elements: turkey, brass band, Father Christmas, the Queen's speech (or at least a nod to it with Harriet Jones, Prime Minister advising it's been cancelled) and even snow albeit ash from the destroyed spaceship.

For me this episode has more in common with Castrovolva than any of the Christopher Eccleston episodes. Saying that I always found The 10th Doctor to be more like the 5th Doctor than any other. No surprise they teamed them up for the "Time Crash" special. Getting ahead of myself though.

All in all not a bad episode, not the worst but certainly not the best. It was a bit Torchwood though with all this blood control and threatening to kill a third of the world's population. Maybe Russell T Davies is subtly introducing us to it? After all Harriet Jones mentions knowing of Torchwood, the destruction of the Sycorax ship is done in a very Torchwood-esque fashion and in 2 episodes time we get to see the Torchwood Estate. Anyway more of that to come.

One thing I noticed on re-watching this episode is that David Tennant is credited as'The Doctor' in the closing titles whereas Christopher Eccleston was always 'Doctor Who', that's something that's bugged me upon re-watching these episodes.

Oh well onward and upward, so many classic 10th Doctor stories (and quite a few duds too!).

ALONS-Y!