puppetmaker | New Who Review for Gridlock

This one really had me of two minds. I thought it felt a little drug out as a story but then sitting on a highway and seeing if you can move just another inch forward feels very much like that too. I think anyone who has gotten caught in traffic sympathies with a lot of the characters we meet along the way. But then you also have the Doctor and Kittens. Where can you go wrong with that?

This had a Caroline scare factor of none. She watched the whole thing and of course loved the kitten part of the episode.

Next week "Daleks in Manhattan"

I am grateful for Fastpass and the kind people at Disney who helped us yesterday.

It was nice to see the Cat people again (if they have a name as a species, it is not coming to my brain right now). Having the Face of Boe in the mix is always fun. And the message he delivers foreshadows the end of the 3rd season. (Please discuss only up to Gridlock at this point).

I like the Doctor admitting that Martha has been kidnapped because he was showboating. It is his fault that she is in the situation she finds herself in. We have yet another Rose reference (which to me becomes the Torchwood of this season. The further we get into it the more I tend to groan when they bring it up again).

Martha did very well for herself. She dealt with the situation she found herself in and rather than screaming, sorted out solutions to her problems. Not that they worked very well. Martha is moving rapidly up behind Ace as my all time favorite companion by this point.

The message of this one seems to be that drugs (or in this case moods) are not the answer to everything or even anything. That a mood virus was created was kind of an interesting notion. And keeping people driving around to save them was rather brilliant. I have to say that I did feel for these motorists having been caught on Staten Island on more than one occasion for a period of time that doubled my total time getting back to Long Island.