I really don't know where to start with this review.   There were some real bombshells in the storyline tonight.  As the Doctor made contact with the Sontaran space ship via video link Rose Tyler appeared briefly looking as if she were screaming a warning.   Martha Jones is saying her goodbyes in the TARDIS to Donna and the Doctor and the TARDIS starts travelling with Martha on board.    Then if that was not a big enough talking point at the end of tonight's episode we see a trailer for next week.  A young blonde woman appears and the Doctor announces she is his Daughter!  More storylines and sub-plots than you can shake a sonic screwdriver at.

That is just the additional storylines - the episode itself was excellent.    The strong writing continued from last week and as predicted this week is when the adventure really kickstarted with the Sontaran invasion.     The gas from the ATMOS vehicles transpired to be a clone feed and the Sontarans were intending to turn the Earth into a great big nursery to make billions of Sontaran soliders - but hooray for the Doctor - the Doctor, Donna and Martha managed to defeat the dastardly plan with the sacrifice of many UNIT soldiers and Luke Rattigan the child genius turned evil Sontaran foot soldier.  The Doctor, hvaing caused the sky to burn to burn the gas away from the planet (excellent special effect)  had then transported himself to the Sontaran spaceship preparing to blow himself and the ship up.  However, Luke Rattigan saved the day by altering the teleport, transporting the Doctor back and pressing the button himself to detontate the bomb blowing the Sontarans and himself up.  It was actually quite a touching moment seeing the realisation on Luke's face when he realised what he had been a party to and realising he had been double crossed by the Sontarans.

Also there was an interesting plot with Martha Jones.  The Sontarans had made a clone of her which was causing all sorts of problems in UNIT control and helping prepare for the Sontaran invasion.  However, the Doctor sussed the clone very quickly and rescued the real Martha.  He removed real Martha from the clone life support system and this then led to the clone's death.   It was an interesting piece of writing to see Martha effectively having to watch her own demise and it was well by Freema Agyeman.

I did enjoy the style writing and the pace of tonight's episode.  There was, as ever, a good sprinkling of humour as well with great big make shift weapons being made and quips and comments.  I especially liked the Doctor's quip at UNIT that he needed a "Brigadier."   This was a welcome nod to the character of the Brigadier in the original series involving UNIT stories who became a close ally to the Doctor.  There was also no shortage of jokes about the size and looks of the Sontarans.

Also I thought quite profound sights of the clouds of gas emitted from cars choking cities and towns all over the world.   Seeing London in a fog of gas from cars was an excellent special effect.  Also Donna's Mother's comment at the end of the programme about people not wanting to travel in their cars and the streets being clear and children out on the streets on their bicycles was good too.  We could all do with timely reminders of the importance of clean air and the environment.

Really great fun tonight just pure Doctor Who but obviously some very strong and revealing story lines still to come.

8 out of 10

 

Name: Zoe Brown | Age: 28

As is often the case with two-part episodes, we end the first part on a thrilling cliff-hanger with no obvious solution, and then spend the following week chewing our fingernails waiting to see how on earth the Doctor will get out of this predicament, only for him (or someone else) to think of a completely logical answer that seems so simple, you berate yourself for not thinking of it at the time.  This is exactly what happened here – having spent the week thinking that surely the only way to free Wilf from the smoke-filled car can’t be to simply break the window, we rejoined the action only to find Sylvia doing just that (although where she got the huge axe from is anyone’s guess).  For all his amazing knowledge, sometimes the Doctor doesn’t see what’s right under his nose, and this is one of the reasons why I think Donna is so good for him – she cuts through all the nonsense and gets straight down to the nitty-gritty, a quality that she’s clearly inherited from her mother. 

 

Donna’s mother tells her to stay away from the Doctor (just as Martha and Rose’s mothers did before her), believing him to be dangerous.  However, Wilf seems to be the dominant influence in Donna’s life, and he supports her all the way, telling her to stay with him.  He clearly wants Donna to make the most of the opportunities he never had – you can tell that he would dearly love to go travelling with the Doctor himself, but is never jealous or envious of Donna for doing it. 

 

The sure sign that you’ve become an official companion of the Doctor’s is when he presents you with a TARDIS key.  When Donna’s big moment finally comes this week, the Doctor tries to give it the requisite fanfare, but she once again brings him back down to earth by reminding him that they can celebrate later when Earth isn’t under attack.  She and the Doctor are separated for the majority of the episode, but the fact that he consciously plants her on board the Sontaran ship and entrusts her with the responsibility of reactivating the teleport links shows just how highly he regards her, especially this early on in their relationship.  However, Donna doesn’t have much faith in her own abilities yet – I’m sure that by the end of the series this will change, as she will have been on an incredible personal journey and will come away from her time with the Doctor a better person. 

 

The Doctor’s prickly relationship with UNIT doesn’t see a great deal of improvement during the episode, particularly when they decide to launch a nuclear strike against the Sontaran ship and ignore the Doctor’s warnings.  The Martha clone puts a stop to this, but we are left in no doubt about the consequences of war when Ross and his fellow soldiers are massacred by the Sontarans, their weapons having been rendered useless.  The audience had emotionally invested in the character of Ross, which made his demise all the more tragic as he became the human face of the conflict, as well as a reminder of all the soldiers who are fighting in the real world. 

 

The Doctor seems to be slightly more impressed by UNIT when they enlist the Valiant to help disperse the smoke and attack the Sontarans.  The Valiant, the airborne aircraft carrier commandeered by the Master, was last seen in The Sound Of Drums / Last Of The Time Lords, and the Doctor is clearly happy to see it being used for good purposes.  There was at last a welcome mention for the Brigadier – his absence is explained by the fact that he’s stranded in Peru .

 

Whilst last week’s episode saw the Doctor, Donna and Martha working together as a new team, this week they’re acting alone.  The audience are already aware that Martha is not all she appears to be, but are unsure as to whether the Doctor has realised this yet.  It becomes apparent quite early on that he certainly suspects something is wrong – the careless remark about being stranded on Earth “like a human”, which Martha never comments on; the revelation that Martha has strangely not yet contacted her family and fiancé to warn them about the gas; and her seeming indifference to the plight of the planet at large.  The real giveaway is when the Doctor tells Martha that Donna has returned to her family, unable to deal with the situation because “she’s not a soldier”, when the audience knows that the TARDIS (with Donna inside) has been teleported onto the Sontaran ship, exactly as the Doctor had planned it.  Later, when the Doctor has freed Martha and beamed Donna back to Earth, the “new team”, as he puts it, works very well – Martha and Donna bond once more, again making reference to the fact that Martha has moved on with her life, but when the Doctor rescued her, it seemed like the bond between them was still very strong, especially when he gave her his coat to wear (a repeated gesture, having draped his suit jacket around Donna’s shoulders in The Runaway Bride).  Although, if there was one moment that summed up the differences in the Doctor’s relationships with his two companions, it was after he returned to Earth in the teleport – Martha ran over, sat down next to him and clutched his arm, while Donna walked over and smacked his other arm, before sitting down on his other side and mirroring Martha’s pose.

 

The character of Luke Rattigan, having shown great significance in the previous episode, seemed to have been moved to the sidelines in this episode.  It transpired that he had set up his academy in order to select and train his own army of intelligent students to fight alongside the Sontarans, only for the students to refuse and leave when they learned of his true intentions.  He then realised that he was disposable in the Sontarans’ eyes too – they only contacted him in order to set up ATMOS, and now that it was established, no longer needed him or his students and were actually intending to kill them.  For all his great knowledge, he was still essentially a teenage boy, and spent the remainder of the episode either in a rage or deeply upset.  While his sacrifice to save the Doctor was noble and unexpected, it was inevitable in a way, as the character had nothing to lose and nowhere else to go – his academy was in ruins, ATMOS was no longer viable, and he couldn’t really go back to a normal life.

 

Again, the Sontarans’ role was also reduced in this episode, being restricted to only brief glimpses en masse on board their ship, or during the battle scenes at the ATMOS factory.  We never received an actual explanation from them as to why they had come up with this plan – it was all down to the Doctor’s deductions that we found out that they had been at war with the Rutans for the last 50,000 years, and, being a clone race and needing to grow more soldiers, they had decided to turn Earth into a giant hatchery, using the gas as clone food.  Having shown great eloquence and intelligence last week, they now only spoke in military terminology, and were quite happy for the Doctor to wipe them out, such was their desire to die with honour in battle.

 

As for the Doctor himself, whilst still not entirely trusting UNIT and disapproving of their reliance on weaponry, he showed great ingenuity by allowing Donna to be effectively kidnapped by the Sontarans and then assigning her the key task of infiltrating their ship.  His ultimate plan to defeat the Sontarans – harnessing Luke Rattigan’s atmospheric converter to burn off the smoke – again proved exactly why he doesn’t need to use weapons himself (with the exception of his sonic screwdriver, of course).  Even though he can be ruthless at times, no-one could ever say that the Doctor isn’t fair, and as always, he gave the Sontarans one last chance to return to their home planet before putting his plan into action.  The Doctor was quite prepared to pay the ultimate price to save the Earth, as he has done on so many previous occasions, but Luke Rattigan finally stepped up and adjusted the teleport pod so he could swap places with the Doctor and press the button himself. 

 

In the same way in which Bad Wolf and Torchwood were referenced in each episode leading up to the climax of their respective series, so we had another shock reappearance by Rose, this time appearing briefly (and silently) on the TARDIS scanner, apparently calling for the Doctor’s help.  Although he didn’t see her, Donna did, and we can only wonder at this stage whether she has remembered that this is the same girl that she spoke to in ‘Partners In Crime’ or not.  If so, she won’t yet know that it’s Rose (although she knows of her), so we are left waiting once again for their eventual meeting. 

 

The other tantalising moment in this episode came as Donna said goodbye to Wilf before returning to the TARDIS.  Wilf promised Donna that he wouldn’t tell her mother, and urged her to go back to the Doctor and “see the stars”, before they bade each other a tearful farewell.  We’re unsure what this secret might be, and are once again left wondering what will happen next (and whether it links to any of the events that have gone before).

 

Just as the Doctor and Rose asked Sarah Jane to rejoin the TARDIS crew in School Reunion, now Donna asks Martha to do the same.  Although she admits that she misses it, Martha’s quite sure that she wants to stay behind, but the TARDIS has other ideas.

 

It’s always been a point of debate as to whether the TARDIS is a living entity in its own right, and whether it can take the Doctor to planets and times where he is needed without being given a destination.  Based on the events in the final scene, this appears to be correct, especially when the Doctor’s severed hand, which he retrieved from the Master, started moving around in its jar.  The Doctor has said previously that the TARDIS would know if there were any other Time Lords in the universe, and Captain Jack had used the hand as a “Doctor Detector”, knowing it would react whenever he was nearby.  It looks like the TARDIS has found some family for the Doctor, and it seems to be his daughter…

 

With Donna and Martha largely indisposed for much of the episode, the Doctor had to work alone, and once again David delivered in spades.  As in last week’s episode, he gave a solid and well-rounded performance, showing all the facets of the Doctor’s character, from his anger at UNIT’s decision to use nuclear weapons; to his sadness at saying goodbye to Donna and Martha; and his cheekiness in saying to Colonel Mace, “Are you my mummy?”, when they were both wearing gas masks (a brilliant reference to The Empty Child, from the Ninth Doctor’s era).  Russell T Davies has already stated that this is Donna’s series, and Catherine Tate is really working well with some very emotional scenes – the ones with Bernard Cribbins are always a highlight – but never loses her feistiness.  Freema Agyeman made a very clear distinction between Martha and her clone, and the scene where they talk at length was seamlessly acted. 

 

This was an excellent episode, and whilst not quite the barnstorming conclusion I was hoping for, was still extremely well-written and acted by everyone involved.  I’m very glad that it’s not the last we’ve seen of Martha – she and Donna make a very good team – and have already started to look out for each other in a sisterly way.  The Doctor is clearly relieved that they haven’t been arguing over him, but I’m looking forward to seeing what happens when they meet the Doctor’s daughter next week – in Fear Her, Rose found it quite hard to come to terms with the fact that the Doctor had been a parent, so how will Martha and Donna react?

 

 

Zoë’s Rating:     9/10

 

I’m secure enough in my geekyness to say all this.

I’ve been really looking forward to the end of the Sontaron story.  I think this is largely down to the actual coolness of the aliens themselves. Of all the aliens we have EVER had in Doctor Who they have to be my favourite, for a number of reasons. Firstly because they believe in themselves one hundred percent, and believe in the glory of war, and death so wholly, they do not fear it. It makes me give them immediate respect, which I know is bad, because they are trying to destroy the planet, but come on, you must all be thinking they are incredibly cool also. And secondly because they don’t really beat around the bush in their plans. They want to take over earth; they don’t mind engaging us in war to do it. Right, well thanks for telling us that, now we can just get the Doctor to come and save us all, job done.

The basic plot of “The Poison Sky”: The Doctor must save the world from the Sontarons, who plan to take over planet Earth and use it as a breeding planet. The ATMOS gas is quickly spreading, and increasing in thickness, meaning that he is up against the clock to do this. The only person who can really help him is Donna, stuck on board Sontaron Air, as Martha is well, not Martha.

I am seriously upset! Why, oh why, did Ross have to die? It’s just not fair, the nice people always die. It wasn’t even a proper honourable death, he couldn’t even fight back bless him with his gun being disabled and such. It really was a waste of a nice guy. On the up side, the extremely irritating Luke Rattigan died, justifiably, because the whole situation was partly his fault. In a way, it was the only thing he could do, and it was like he was facing up to his mistakes, and meant the Doctor didn’t die, so I suppose he has to go up in my estimations for that. Otherwise he really was an idiot, and slightly manic. The statement “I’m cleverer than yooouuu!”  And the whole gun scene was quite ott, let’s face it.

I loved the sense of tension within “The Poison Sky” because for a while I forgot we were only on episode five and thought, what would happen if things actually went wrong. I will admit to being scared when the Sontarons were annihilating any humans in their way, and getting quite concerned right at the end of the episode that the Doctor may actually sacrifice himself. One of the things that I really admire about the Doctor as a character is that for humans, he will actually do anything. It makes me wonder whether he would do it for any other race in the galaxy, and if not, why are we so special.

The fact that Donna really did contribute more than Martha in saving everyone is quite important, because it lets us know that the two are equally needed, and beneficial. In my opinion Donna is the stronger of the two, possibly due to being more mature, and if Martha is in many more episodes that may become more evident. My observation is probably most clearly seen when the Doctor returns from the Sontaron ship, and Martha just sits and hugs him, whereas Donna “whacks” him, and then gives an affectionate arm squeeze. She’s not afraid to show her true emotions.

I wonder if anyone else felt as much pride as I did when the Colonel made the speech about the people of Earth, and how we were going to make a stand. Then the Valiant came down triumphantly and eliminated some of the gas. It was just one of those moments where I shouted, “Oh yeahhh” at the screen. I felt proud to be a human being.

Ahh there were quite a few little one liners strategically placed in this episode. The Captain Jack reference was rather amusing, as was the Doctor going “Are you my mummy?” with his gas mask on, how that brought back good memories. The “Belittle” comment was also quite funny.

The more I watch Wilfred, Donnas grandfather, the more I love him, he is just so cute, it’s untrue, she better had bring him back a piece of the stars, I’ll be having words if not.

Favourite line: “Back of the head”, pure genius.

“The Poison Sky” gets 9/10.

 

Name: Fiona Taylor | Age: 13

The Poison Sky is a topical and dramatic episode which sees the Doctor once again defeat his old enemies, the Sontaran. After Sylvia (Donna’s Mother) smashes the car windscreen (that Donna’s Grandfather had been trapped in) with an axe, they manage to rescue him from the toxic fumes. However, the fumes are erupting out of everyone’s cars, all over the world, causing anyone near them to cough and splutter violently. The only things they can do are stay away from their cars and barricade themselves in their houses. As usual, it is up to the Doctor to save the Earth and Donna may be needed to help…

This episode was much better than ‘The Sontaran Stragem’, and definitely kept me hooked. The script was amazing, with some great references to previous episodes (namely ‘The Empty Child’ and ‘The Sound of Drums’) and I loved the Doctor’s attitude towards UNIT and guns. The acting was superb, with Luke Rattigan (Ryan Simpson) being one of my favourite characters in Doctor Who. This episode was a lot more action-packed than last weeks’, and an excellent plot emerged throughout the episode. The CGI and special effects were amazing, especially during the battle scenes between UNIT and the Sontaran. The ending of the episode was very good, causing this to be a three-part episode, even thought the plot lines are completely different. I love how Rose keeps popping up everywhere and I can’t wait to know why…

I am not a very big fan of the Sontaran, as I think they are quite one-dimensional and after a while can become a bit boring. However, the plot is still very strong, and hopefully all of the Sontaran would have been killed in the explosion at the end of the episode.    

My favourite quote was from the Doctor “I’m stuck on Earth. Like…like an ordinary person. Like a human! How rubbish is that?!”

Overall, I thought that this was an exciting episode, even though the Sontaran are not the best of aliens. My rating for this episode is 8/10.

 

Name: Emily Cook | Age: 14

Summary: After last weeks cliffhanger, Donna grandfather is saved, and UNIT continue trying to work things through. Martha is cloned and is generally wondering around UNIT HQ being evil. The Doctor tells Donna to go into the TARDIS to get away from the atmos fumes whilst he goes to sort things out with UNIT. Private Harries and Private Gray transport the TARDIS to the Sontaran ship with Donna inside. Doctor talks to the cloned Martha, and he seems to be on to her, but doesn’t say anything. The Doctor communicates with the Sontarans, which is also being transmitted to the TARDIS. Just before Donna sees the Doctor, Rose flashes up on the screen, and seems to be trying to say something. Donna doesn’t notice her. The doctor talks with the Sontarans, whilst cleverly communicating in code with Donna. The Sonatans then move the TARDIS again with Donna still inside, knowing that she needs to do something to help the Doctor.

Meanwhile, at the Rattigan Academy, Luke tells them the truth about Planet Fall and the Sontarans, and how they are going to leave Earth, with everyone on it, to die. They all disagree with him, and leave to see if their families are alright after the atmos outbreak. From the TARDIS, Donna rings her mum, who is desperate to know if she is okay and tells her ‘gramps’ that she is not with the Doctor. Back at UNIT, they prepare to launch a missile at the Sontaran ship. This angers the Doctor, who knows the Sontarans and doesn’t think that battle is the best way around it. Evil Martha stops the launch, thinking she’s helping the Sontarans, but really she’s helping the Doctor. The sontarans begin to attack and kill some of UNIT’s guards, including Ross Jenkins. Once again Martha stops the launch. Luke teleports himself on to the Sontaran ship and reports that his academy have left him. The Sontarans tell him that they were going to kill them and him anyway. Luke telports back just in time, saving himself, and crumbles into a heap and begins to cry.

The Doctor rings Donna in the TARDIS and tells her that she needs to get out of there and do something otherwise the whole of the planet will choke. The Doctor knows that Donna could die, but tells her it’s the only thing he can do. In the middle of his phone call, the Doctor is forced by UNIT to go outside. They all put on gas masks, and the Valient (last seen in Last of the Time Lords) which begins to shoot. The Doctor’s sonic screwdriver then leads him to where the real Martha is, where is saves her and destroys the clone. Martha and clone Martha have an emotional farewell. Donna continues reconnecting the teleport link for the Doctor, and just as some Sontarans see her the Doctor teleports her and the TARDIS back to Earth. At the Rattigan Academy, the Doctor works on a weapon to get rid of the atmos fumes. It works and the planet is saved. Donna’s family come outside and celebrate because they know that it was the Doctor who has saved them. But, the Sontarans aren’t defeated. The Doctor says goodbye to both his companions as he telports himself up to the Sontaran ship with a weapon. Both companions are devastated. However Luke take the Docto’s advice and does something good with his life. He know that part of this was his fault so he reverses the teleport link and replace himself with the Doctor. The doctor is back on Earth. Donna goes home to see if her family are okay then goes back to the TARDIS with the Doctor and Martha. She asks Martha is she’s going to come with them, but she say she needs to be on Earth. Just as Martha is walking to the door, it automatically closes, and the TARDIS begins to control itself. Martha demands to be taken home, but the Doctor can’t do anything. The TARDIS is controlling itself and he has no idea where they are going. It’s sort of a cliff-hanger, but doesn’t lead to the conclusion of a previous episode.

 

Highlights: Sylvia is just like Donna. When the Doctor can’t get into the car, what does she do, smash it. Then Donna says, mum, why do you have an axe.

Everyone knows about the doctor not being too happy with UNIT, and that is still convayed in this episode. The Doctor is not at all a military person so doesn’t like all the guns at salutes etc. When he say this it’s like he’s getting tired of saying it. UNIT has known him all these years, they should know by now that he doesn’t like guns. I am completely on the Doctor’s side! I don’t like guns either.

The highlight of the episode has to be the faction of a second when rose appeared on the screen in the TARDIS. That was completely unexpected, but a lovely surprise. I think my heart skipped a beat when she came on the screen. Rose pops up when you least expect it! Seriously, it you blink, you miss it – the weeping angles were right about not blinking. We could have missed Rose. I swear I don’t blink when watching Doctor Who. I zone out, and as soon as it finishes, it take me a little while to come back to reality. Anyway – Rose. How did she get herself on the TARDIS screen? Did Donna see her? If she did, then did she make the connection with the person she told about the car keys in episode one? What was Rose saying? Initially, it seems she’s saying ‘Doctor’, but she could be saying ‘Donna’. When saying both those name, you make similar shape with your mouth – believe me I’ve tried. Even after re-watching this clip in slow motion I still can’t work out what she says. Apparently in episode 11 (called Turn Left) rose is the only person who can help Donna, so maybe she does know about her. I just want rose to come back now! On with the rest of the story.

The Sontaran’s war chant really annoys me, and clearly the Doctor too. (we have a lot in common, so we must be made for each other). The doctor is just always so laid back when he’s dealing with aliens. I love the way he says ‘finished?’. This in doctor who are always so cleverly written. The Doctor’s communication with donna is an example of this. The doctor is so amazing that he just seems to be talking to aliens, but really a vital message is being passed on. That clip reminded me a bit of when the Doctor communicates to Mickey and jack when he is with the Cyber men in the Age of Steel.

I have always found Luke Rattigan to be a strange self obsessed character. Parts of this episode prove me right, other parts conveyed him as a very ‘human’ character. I looked really strange when he pulled out a gun, and when he yelled ‘I’m cleverer than you’ at his academy, I thought, yeah he’s self obsessed, but then seeing him in a heap on the floor crying, you kin d of have to feel sorry for him.

There were some really good special effects in this episode. The clips of all the major cites on the earth covered in atmos fumes was amazing. I mean it looked amazing. It’s not amazing that everyone could choke to death. Although we always think of Donna to be a really outspoken person, there are actually some emotional scenes, which Catherine Tate does really well. Donna on the phone to her Mum and grandpa was an example of this.

Freema acted evil cloned Martha quite well, as I could tell it was a different person, however I think she’s better at playing a kind person. I think it great having clones in Doctor who, especially people who you think are on your side. When cloned Martha began doing evil things, you could just tell the Doctor was onto her, but doesn’t say anything.

Donna continuously calls the Sontarans Sonatrns which I really liked.

One of my other favourite highlights from this episode was the Doctor on the phone to Donna and Donna having to out and face to Sontarans to save Earth, when Doctor knows Donna could die. It really was the last resort. It was so sweet of the Doctor encouraging Donna. I would love to meet the Doctor. Donna was great at killing the Sontaran, even if she did look a bit weird carrying a mallet, but who cares! Donna is a fantastic, different character. The lovely Doctor gives have compliments and she tells him to shut up!

There are always references to past episode of Doctor Who in current Doctor Who, but I think this week has one of the best. When the Doctor and UNIT had the gas masks on etc, I immediately think empty children (as I do whenever I see a gas mask now a days) then for him to turn round and say ‘Are you my mummy?’ was just great. No one (other than us) knew what he was going on about, but it shows that, even though the Doctor looks different, he is still the same person. Once upon a time the phrase ‘Are you my Mummy?’ cause the Doctor A LOT of trouble – now – in the middle of another crisis – he can joke about it. The Doctor’s hair got all messed up when he took off his gas mask and David Tennant does look gorgeous with messy hair. I also thought the Doctor looked very hot when shouting about Colonel mace. When he shouts and when he bares his teeth gives me bigger butterflies than when I am just looking at him being normal.

I loved the way the Doctor dealt with clone Martha. He told her she smells! HA! And I loved the reference to Captain Jack. Martha did look ridiculous in the Doctor’s coat. She did look like a kid in her dad’s clothes. I think she really has got over the Doctor.

The atoms fumes clearing was also amazing. Imagine looking out of your window and seeing that. And also, Marion Price and colonel mace snogging! Where did that come from?

The Doctor say goodbye to both his companions was also sad scene. Even though we know he won’t die in the middle of a series it is still tense. But the Doctor is always so morally right. he has to give the Sontarans a chance to surrender, even after all the people they have killed. I thought that Luke would probably end his life doing something good, and he did! He saved the saved the Doctor, which is the best ‘good’ thing he could have possibly done. In a reunion with the Doctor, Martha hugs the Doctor and Donna slaps him. For, me that was the best way of showing their differences.

So far this series has showed references to some important issues in our country. Partners in Crime was may be trying to tell the nation a thing or two about being obese, The Planet of the ood was about salvery and captivity, with is a big issue that Fair Trade are trying to tackle, and this episode The Poison Sky stopped people using cars. Sylvia said the streets were full, and no one uses cars any more. Perhaps our planet would be better and really benefit if a few Doctor Who episodes became reality!

The end of the episode really made my heart pound. No one was expecting a cliff hanger (it was sort of a cliff hanger. It wasn’t separating 2 parts of an episode. The episode the Poison sky came to a conclusion.) I think Doctor Who is just keeping us on our toes. But what on earth happened?

 

Favourite Bit: Other that Rose appearing on the screen in the TARDIS, the best bit was the Doctor on the phone to Donna and Donna knocking out the Sontaran and succeeding in what the Doctor told her to do. It was a really good Doctor companion relationship.

Favourite Quotes: "Well as prizes go…that’s Noble"

"Are you my mummy?"

"If I see one more gun….."

"and, no offence but you really smell, you might aswell walk around with a T-shirt on saying ‘I’m a clone’, but just don’t let captain Jack know."

"I feel like a kid in my dad’s clothes" "well, if you’re calling him dad then you’ve definitely got over him!"

 

Rating: 8/10

(part of me wants to give higher scores, but I know I’ve got to