New earth (2006)

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This episode was broadcast on 15 April 2006. A brief and somewhat spoiler-ish summary of the plot: the Doctor and Rose travel to New New (New... New... New...) York and end up healing the sick.

With this episode we're back in the year five-billion-and-change, and we encounter some of the familiar faces that we first met in the previous year's 'The end of the world'.

Some good things about this episode:

• it's well-paced and well-acted. Also, production values... episode looks like serious money was spent on it... yadda, yadda, yadda
• there are two memorable scenes in this episode: the disinfections in the elevators, which I still find very funny, and the 'what did you do with Rose' exchange between the Doctor and - spoiler ahead - Cassandra, which gives David Tennant some of the Doctor's intelligence and intensity to work with

That's it, really. Some less good things about this episode:

• the story makes no sense whatsoever. There are so many plot holes that I don't know where to start
• the episode has three very different 'moods' - the broad body-swapping comedy, the moral indignation over the 'lab rat' subplot and the endings for Chip / Cassandra and the 'lab rats' which are clearly meant to be touching though they don't quite succeed - and they simply don't mix well
• I realise the idyllic relationship between the Doctor and Rose is meant to maximise the impact of the series finale, but that doesn't make it less irritating

My verdict:

Utterly forgettable eye-candy.

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