Doctor Who Review

Overall Rating

The effects are light years ahead of the old series and the CGI is up to current Hollywood standards. The acting is generally good and the sets convincing.

Like Jon Pertwee, the current Doctor mainly seems to be stuck around earth travelling mainly in time rather than space. The dialogue is well written but the locations are now lacking in originality for a second series.

The BBC has generally done a good job bringing back Dr Who, with convincing sets, CGI and believable dialogue. Both David T and Christopher Eccleston are up there with the previous Doctors in the acting stakes. I felt a little let down with the second series in that the plots and locations in several episodes (not all!) lacked in originality.
There seems to be too many episodes set on earth in the period 1700 - 2015. I would like to see more alien planets and cultures. I also feel I have seen enough of the daleks and cyber men, they were scary once
but making them more indestructible hasn't really made them that much more scary now.
I expect the BBC is constrained on set design and CGI costs rather than ideas for plots from science fiction writers so hence why alien planets do not feature heavily.
For the future I hope the high viewer figures will encourage a production company with more money to spare to team up with the BBC to allow more expenditure on sets and CGI.
Despite the slight criticisms, it is still one of the best sci-fi dramas around at the moment.