Space babies, Space babies, Space Babies

The number of time the Doctor says this during the episode is ridiculous.

The Doctor takes Ruby off on her first adventure in the TARDIS, they find themselves on a space station with a monster and babies... I wasn't impressed with this on first viewing and I was interested in seeing it again. I thought a second watch might mean I'd reappraise it, get past the not so good aspects and enjoy a great episode, but no. Its not something I can be proud of as a fan, quite frankly I want to disown it completely.

Its RTD's Doctor Who by numbers, doing the same stuff as he did when he relaunched in 2005 - jiggy pokery with the mobile phone, almost idenitcal shots from End of the World.

The first 10 minutes isn't bad, going back in time seeing dinosaurs, Ruby treading on a butterfly, arriving at the space station but then the babies come out...

Each time there is a new Doctor, there's a period getting used to the new person, is this still the same character that I've known and loved. This Doctor seems less like the Doctor than ever, but then maybe thats how Colin Baker was recieved on his first story (I know my family turned off after the Twin Dilemma). Maybe it needs change to continue, but that maybe with out me.

Apart from the constant 'Babies, Space babies' said by the Doctor, there's also the ramming it home that the Doctor is an orphan reinforcing the worst retcon that ever entered the Doctor Who universe, and for me I find it alienating and unnecessary. The fact is that sooner or later a show runner will decided 'lets find out who the Doctor is' and write a story of how the Doctor was abandoned. Then there'll be no mystery left and a few years later someone else will want to put the mystery back and do another retcon.

The episode isn't as bad as I remembered, but as with Aliens of London/World War Three its not one I'll be revisiting much.