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Finally got round to watching episode 7 of the new Dr Who series, 42, which after turned out to be totally not inspired by the answer to the ultimate question (Douglas Adams etc) but in fact by 24, as it was a real time episode (well sort of not quite).

The Doctor and Martha arrive on a big cargo ship which is heading directly towards the sun and they have no way of stopping it, or so it seems, not only that but the extreme heat from the sun is effecting the behaviour of some of the crewmates. So the Doc and Martha do their very best in the short time they have (42 minutes funnily enough) to stop the ship from its date with the searing heat of the sun.

This being a Graeme Harper episode (Direction wise) I held high hopes for, although it wasn't quite as great as I was hoping it to be once I watched it, but I still enjoyed it all the same. The episode was again a sort of throwback to last season's The Satan Pit and Impossible Planet episodes, right down to the evil influence working through people and the Doctor's spacesuit which funnily enough looked identical to the one he wore in that story too! Freema looked great running round in her skimpy top and also provided a bit of depth to her character in this one as she had to phone her Mum to first of all ask who had more number one hits, Elvis or the Beatles, and then again to nearly finally say goodbye as she was trapped in an escape pod heading for the sun (OK the first one was a bit shallow). Michelle Collins also looked pretty good in this episode too as the Captain of the cargo ship, although I still couldn't shake off the feeling of her having wandered into the Dr Who set after taking a break from Eastenders.

So next week's episode Human Nature looks like a neat departure again from the norm Dr Who story, with the Doctor supposedly as a human back in 1930s.

PS. I'll stick with the current font, Aria wasn't that great. If it aint' broke as they say...