My understanding from a few acquaintances who have the right contacts to have seen more of the current series than us mere mortals is that it's the coming two-parter where the new production team and cast really hit their stride, particularly Matt Smith, who was described to me as (I paraphrase) "a bit Tennant, until about episode 4, when he suddenly gets *really* good - favourite doctor ever good". This from a long term fan of all the old stuff, too...
I'm currently reading "Doctor Who: A Writers Tale", and it's pretty clear from reading it that what we saw on Saturday was Mark Gatiss script that didn't make into Season 4 for schedule reasons (it was replaced by the Pompeii episode) with the added brief that "we need to re-tool the Daleks into some new merch this season, so can you swap out your old villains, and do that, please?".
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Date: 2010-04-19 04:31 pm (UTC)I'm currently reading "Doctor Who: A Writers Tale", and it's pretty clear from reading it that what we saw on Saturday was Mark Gatiss script that didn't make into Season 4 for schedule reasons (it was replaced by the Pompeii episode) with the added brief that "we need to re-tool the Daleks into some new merch this season, so can you swap out your old villains, and do that, please?".