Cyberclogs

The second episode of the third season of Dr Who, the Shakespeare Code, last night was fairly enteratining enough although I personally found it a bit disappointing after the breezy opener Smith and Jones. The Doctor and Martha go back in time to Earth in around about 1599 when Shakespeare was a younger man and is in the middle of writing what would become his lost masterpiece. But of course things evil are afoot (as usual) as three ugly witches are brewing a plot to invade the planet with their own kind using Shakespeare's words to bring their kind into the world as well as commit heinous acts of witchcraft to kill off innocent people. So its up to you know who (the Doc) to stop them.

Something about this episode didn't really quite do it for me, I think the plot of the witches being an "alien" species trying to bring their own race into the world seemed a bit too hackneyed again as its been done so many times before and towards the end it all got a bit too silly. Nonetheless I did enjoy Dean Lennox Kelly's performance as William Shakespeare as the Doctor kept quoting Shakesperian lines to him and his constant "that's a good line, I might use it". Freema as Martha was pretty good again (looking great in that leather jacket!) and I liked the scene where the Doctor lies on a bed with Martha (nothing sexy of course) and he tries to figure out what's going on and says "Rose would have said the right thing by now and that would have been it" and he looks to Martha and gets no answer.


Well let's hope next week's return to the New New York (originally in New Earth), Gridlock, is bit tauter and more fun.