The sixth story of the series sees the return of Martha Jones, who was last seen in Last of the Timelords waving goodbye to the Doctor. Now she is a proper doctor who is working for UNIT. First of all I think its nice that Russell T Davies is still using UNIT as a professional group. The story itself wasn’t what you would call a great one, the whole purpose of the story seems to be to introduce Martha and show what she has been doing since she left Doctor Who. The idea that Jim Robinson is running a clinic was amusing enough but the idea that they have created something that could revolutionise health was quite a good idea that never really got time to develop properly.
All the main characters seem to have to take a back seat with the return of Martha. Jack seemed to be having a fun with Martha and Owen was trying to get Martha interested in him with the expected result it was looking like an episode from Series 1 but unlike a series one story, this one had good monsters and once all the action got into the pharm it picked up. The shock at the end where Owen got shot was the biggest. Alan Dale was very good in this story and despite his contract that says he has to appear in every TV drama on the planet (this guy gets round faster than Superman) he was quite enjoyable. Freema Agyeman was very good as well in this story, her character has developed well since she left Who and it was nice to see her taking control and not needing the Doctor’s help (though she did apparently get the job with UNIT because the Doctor put a good word in). I think she will go even further character wise before she returns to Doctor Who.
Whilst this story wasn’t as good as the previous adventure Adam it was really all about Martha and the next episode Dead Man Walking looks like it will be worth watching.
All the main characters seem to have to take a back seat with the return of Martha. Jack seemed to be having a fun with Martha and Owen was trying to get Martha interested in him with the expected result it was looking like an episode from Series 1 but unlike a series one story, this one had good monsters and once all the action got into the pharm it picked up. The shock at the end where Owen got shot was the biggest. Alan Dale was very good in this story and despite his contract that says he has to appear in every TV drama on the planet (this guy gets round faster than Superman) he was quite enjoyable. Freema Agyeman was very good as well in this story, her character has developed well since she left Who and it was nice to see her taking control and not needing the Doctor’s help (though she did apparently get the job with UNIT because the Doctor put a good word in). I think she will go even further character wise before she returns to Doctor Who.
Whilst this story wasn’t as good as the previous adventure Adam it was really all about Martha and the next episode Dead Man Walking looks like it will be worth watching.
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