I also figured it would be in Other Media, Lee. And I am so not eschewing them because of the... thing with the extra canon stuff.

I mean -- there is going to be wee Sam and wee Dean !

Doctor Who 3.5 was interesting. I'm sort of fascinated and amused by Dalek psychology. They ARE good for smackdowns, though: "You told us to imagine...and we IMAGINED YOUR IRRELEVANCE." I agree with you, Tom, about the DNA stuff, which is of course beyond ridiculous, but that's par for the course with this show. I wonder about the last Dalek. They've been emphasizing the "last Time Lord" stuff, which does imply another one will pop out of the ether soon enough (but then where will the Doctor find his emo???), and I can't imagine they'll get rid of the Daleks, so that last Dalek has to somehow become more or yet more have to have been hiding out of time or some such thing. Something else that was surprising was the Doctor's compassion for the last Dalek. One of his strongest character traits is his pathological fervor for the sanctity of life, embodied in the immortal "Everybody lives!" But his hatred for the Daleks seems to be at odds with that, and it was kind of cool that he recognized that while he really really wanted them dead, he wasn't about to do it himself. Well, this time. Hasn't he basically destroyed them all in each finale? I forget how it worked in the first finale. In the second finale, maybe he just threw them into another dimension?

"The Doctor is supposed to survive by his wits, not by dumb luck.

I'm not sure. Through most of his history dumb luck has played on heck of a role.

the first finale and the second finale were much the same, P-C. the daleks did the whole temporal fold thing. each time the doctor thought he'd seen the last of them and didn't know that any had escaped.

I actually liked 3x05 more than 3x04. still waiting for the show to catch its stride though.

Dr Who: I think they've done a pretty good job of defining Martha, above and beyond not!Rose. The not!Rose part to me seems to be more in how the Dr. reacts to her. I like her because she's bright and resourceful...not that Rose wasn't so much, but Martha's mind races ahead with things. Oh, and the pining doesn't hurt. Rose would never have done that, but I sure would have. He's kinda hot. I think they're doing a good job of defining a different sort of spunky (sometimes I hate that word, but not right now) and useful female hottie companion.

Who 3.5: I actually liked the fact that the Doctor was prepared to face the Daleks and seemed perfectly ready to die; he's at a stage where he just doesn't care any more, again. Poor Martha. Even the hug, which seemed genuine, was instantly regretted .

I agree with ita re: Martha; I like her a lot and I feel like I know who she is and have a good idea of how she'll react to a situation. I could do with a little less of the pining myself, though I do think it's very understandable. It's interesting to me how much Rose's shadow is hanging over the whole season to date, which I hadn't expected.

I thought this episode was really pretty silly, though some of that could have been redeemed with a better script. I think Ten is a lot more foolhardy than Nine was, with all the strutting about unarmed in front of the Daleks. I admire Ten's bravery, but I don't trust him like I trusted Nine.

Nine's reaction to being the only Time Lord left was sort of sociopathic, like he would kill anything just because. This season's Ten seems, as mentioned, almost suicidal. It's not his morals that may have left him, like Nine, but his self-preservation instinct.

Re: Who 3X5 I can't believe a sun flare at midnight was what the Daleks were going to use to power their system. The DNA stuff was silly, but that's pretty darn absurd.