New Who Review for "The Lazarus Experiment"

For this one we are back on Earth and we learn a little more about Martha and Martha's family. This is one of those Doctor Who mysteries which also has repercussions into the end of the season. The quest for eternal youth is one that has been used in our mythology and literature since probably the beginning of storytelling. This time it is told with technology as the catalyst and of course something goes wrong because something always goes wrong in these sorts of stories.

Again we are not in my favorite episode territory but after the Daleks last week, I found this much improved. The monster is pretty well done with CGI. I would almost be scared to see what they would have come up with if this had been shot in the Tom Baker era. It is also nice to have another glimpse of Martha's family and the dynamics within the family. Her sister seems upwardly mobile but a bit clueless. She reminds me of other pretty young things that get promoted and then panic on whether they can do the job they were hired for.

I am grateful for sleeping cats.

( Lazarus_Long? )