Been too short on time to write a proper review yet so here's a short one:
- It has freaky as monsters. Personally I think they've hit the limit of what's acceptable for a 7pm audience.
- It's atmospheric and as thematically dark as I'd like them to go.
- Good plotting.
- Waters of Mars looks like it was made in Hollywood, even though a Dr. Who special has about 1/4 the hourly budget of a b-grade Hollywood film.
- There's just enough humour to break the ice (no pun intended)
- The Ice Warriorssssssss get a mention. Yay for more Old Who references!
- Good characters. Adelaide is a great guest character.
- It's a one-note story really, as the whole thing revolves around the "fixed point in history" idea from The Fires of Pompeii, although this takes the idea further and is so much DARKER (as if 20 000 people being buried alive under burning ash wasn't dark enough...). Even though it's a one-note story, the script is so well put together that it hardly matters.
- The only real detractor is some annoying and intrusive music.
Not quite up there with greats like Human Nature and the Moffat stories but this is one very good episode.
5/5
