The Tenth Planet is a very mediocre sort of story. The Cyberman designs are really fun, better than the more recent more robotic versions just by virtue of how it reminds you they were human once, too, but then it doesn't really do much interesting with them other than an "Oh no! The enemy is invading the world again!" plot. The side characters are okay but nothing special, so the plot is mostly carried by the main cast, but even then Polly as the single female character in the whole serial gets sidelined as The Screamer every time the Cybermen enter.

But perhaps more than any of that, I'm going to miss the First Doctor :(

A meandering, pointless story that only breaks from its dullness to be racist

OKAY FAIR PLAY EVERYONE WAS RIGHT

The one main thing I was told going into Torchwood is that s3 was good. Others may have their highs and lows but s3, I was assured, is good

And they were right. On every level this was a brilliant set up to a new series: the plot lines, the Big Bad and the little bads, the new characters dynamics, all of it. It was also what Torchwood has not quite managed to achieve yet, a darker, more adult Doctor Who that isn't just a bit silly. Just. Fantastic all around

Considering how much I enjoyed Caedroia, it should have come as no surprise how good I found The City of the Dead. Lloyd Rose loves putting fantasy into Doctor Who and it's marvellous every single time

Fair play this was a solid finale. Torchwood has finally managed to get stakes which a series but not silly (ie, The Devil In Real Life) as well as establish a tone that's more mature than Doctor Who without being, well, silly (ie Alien Sex Gas). Tosh's death was done very well, the kind that makes you go "I miss her already" as her character is still on screen

I miss Tosh :(

The plot was fine, probably. I wasn't here for any of that I just know Hull and wanted to see (well, hear) it in Doctor Who. And yknow what? Funny as hell. Shining blues of the the River Humber indeed

Torchwood finally remembers it's got an ensemble cast!

No but seriously, this was a good episode. We got to spend a good amount of time with everyone, and the backstories were fascinating and worked really well with the established characters

As much Dodo's leaving was. written really boringly, I enjoyed The War Machines. Ben and Polly are delightful and feel more like people than any characters we've gotten since maybe Ian and Barbara. WOTAN is a lot of fun but that might just be the computer history in me - it's the pre-Internet Internet and the pre-2001: A Space Odyssey HAL 9000. Sure, some of the props were a bit rubbish, but I have a lot of love in my heart for this one

Adrift is a STRONG episode. It's paced well, the characters are used well, and the tension happens in all the right places. I don't know how I felt about the ending though - most of it landed, but I just don't think Gwen would have been in agreement about all that. Still, that's maybe a few minutes of an otherwise very solid story

A solid 3 stars because what we lacked in characterisation we more than made up for in aesthetics, tension, and atmosphere. A bonus half a star because I am a simple person: I see a good clown design, I have a fantastic time