The long-awaited series 3 of Doctor Who began last weekend, and it allowed the masses to finally relax in knowing that an adequate successor to Billie Piper had been found to take up the mantle of being the Doctor's companion. Martha Jones, played by Freema Agyeman, so far seems smart, and she's probably a better actress than Billie Piper. She is also really sexy and black and has one of those sexy black british accents, which is sexy. Unfortunately, over the course of the first new episode, Smith and Jones, we really didn't get a very good sense of her character. It was a somewhat fast-paced episode that featured a lot of running around, so while there were good base introductions, we really don't know much about Martha. What can you do? It's only after one episode.
Smith and Jones also featured a particularly spirited David Tenant performance. I would call it whimsical if that did not sound gay.
As far as laying out the arc for the season, well, they got started kind of early dropping hints. Martha asks the Doctor if he has any siblings, to which he replies with a dour, "Not anymore." ANYMORE DUN DUN DUN. Doctor Who rumormongerers will know that later this season, we're supposed to be seeing another Time Lord, and it looks like they're either playing off the rumors or setting something up. Either way, my dick is hard.
Anyway, I just nabbed episode 2 of season 3, The Shakespeare Code, which features the Doctor and his new companion going back to 1599 to do shit with Shakespeare. Now, Shakespeare has appeared on Doctor Who in the past, so it will be interesting to see if they make reference to that (although, of course, the only reference the Doctor has specifically made about meeting Shakespeare was that he helped transcribe Hamlet, which would be a few years after 1599). Anyway, the episode features harpy/witch-like monsters called Carrionites, which I do believe are a new monster.
Er, for the record Smith and Jones was about a species-shifting Plasmavore trolling for food by posing as a patient in an Earth hospital, circa 2007. Martha Jones works for the hospital, which is how she meets the Doctor. Things get hairy when the Judoon, an intergalactic rogue police force attempt to capture the Plasmavore by isolating it via transporting the hospital to the moon. The Doctor, of course knowing something was going to happen, was posing as a patient in the hspital at the time.
Another important note about Smith and Jones is that the Doctor introduced his new suit in the episode. It is a light blue pinstriped suit similar in design to the awesome trademark brown pinstriped suit of the last two seasons. Later in the episode, he does change back into his brown suit, but I hope we get to see that blue suit again, because it was really snazzy. In other notable wardrobe news, the Doctor also appears in his pajamas -- their first appearance since 2005's The Christmas Invasion, David Tenant's first real episode as the Doctor.
Anyway, I'd say things are looking swell in the Doctor Whoniverse.
Hmmm, technically the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride is also a third series episode. Maybe I should talk about that, too. It's been a while since I've seen it, so I will have to refresh my memory. It's much better than The Christmas Invasion was, and you can tell they sunk a nice amount of dollar into the episode's production. Yes, they found an excuse to use the Robot Santas and evil christmas trees again. The episode is notable because the titular character actually turns down an offer to be the Doctor's companion at the end of the episode. She could've been a good one, too, if that episode was any indication. The episode also features a pretty neat chase scene with the TARDIS being used to chase a car.
Exellent, most excellent.
For the record, last Saturday, I watched Smith and Jones 4 times in a row. I was so starved
