Series 3 Episode 7: 42

Terrible episode, I hated every minute of it, for most of it didn't make sense, and the episode is very bland. Stories in which the events that happen on-screen take the same amount of time as the audience spends invested in the film or television program are nothing new. It happened in the classic “High Noon” (the original, not any of the substandard remakes) and viewers can see it unfolding each week on the hit series “24.”
But to have a story unfold in “real time” is something new and different for “Doctor Who” and something that couldn’t have effectively happened in the original series. Building to a cliffhanger every 24 or so minutes wouldn’t have allowed the “real time” concept to work quite as effectively as it does here.
So, it’s interesting that even though the central hook of “42″ is something that could only happen on the new series, the episode itself would be firmly grounded in the conventions of the classic series. And that this hybrid of new and old would make for one of the most effective and entertaining stories of series three and David Tennant’s run as the Doctor.

So overall, the worse episode ever written.

Rating: 2/10