The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour was the newest episode of the ever so classic television series Doctor Who. In this episode we were introduced to the newest Doctor, his new companion and a new TARDIS. In all honesty I was kind of expecting this to be a ho-hum episode, as the End of Time felt a little off the mark (especially after The Water of Mars). I was, however, glad to be wrong. David Tennant stepped into the role of the Tenth Doctor and did a great job of updating him for the new era we live in.

Matt Smith manages to take on the Doctor that David Tennant had created and bring him even further into the new digital age. He does a great job with the goofy traits the Doctor has without making him seem more comical than heroic. He also does a great job in not being too broody with the Doctor.

Amy Pond, the new companion, makes me want to marry a Scottish Woman. I know it sounds awfully misogynist, but really, her short skirts are a term I call 'hyperfoxy.' She's also a great companion, kind of reminds me of Romana from the Tom Baker days.

All in all, the episode was a little goofy; a little girl has a crack in her wall that she hears voices from, she prays to Santa to send someone to fix it, and at that same moment the TARDIS comes crashing into her backyard. I loved the idea of the Doctor telling this little girl he needed to fix the phase inhibitors in the TARDIS and he'd be back in 5 minutes, but due to the error of time travel comes back in 12 years. The Voices are a prison in an alternate dimension with a prisoner who's escaped through into Earth, the Doctor, of course, stops the Atarxi from vaporizing the Earth in order to stop the escaped prisoner. But really, how stupid would Doctor Who be if he lost and the world ended?

At the end of the day, I am excited to see more of Matt Smith as he gets more of a chance to grow into the Doctor. I am also excited to see where Steven Moffat takes the series after 5 years of Russell T Davies running things.