Jenny

Odd this one. It took me a couple of viewings to like it properly. But I'm left with a few quibbles... (and they (RTD, Alice Troughton, David Tennant) even mentioned them in the commentary too.)

Nigel Terry - the white haired General guy - Cobb. Surely he's a LOT older than just one week old? So why doesn't he remember things from before then? Tsk. They should have had all the cast in this episode in their 20s and that would have made things a little more believable. A bit. Since I do have a problem with the war thing having only lasted a week. A year, six months - possibly but just the one single week? Please. Also - when they're talking about so many generations - what was it? Something like 20 a day... or so - that's going to be an awful lot of dead bodies - where did they put them all?

Hath Peck - drowning. In the commentary RTD mentioned it wasn't the writer's fault - he was told he had to have quicksand in there - a fx of glass breaking to try and make it work. You need to hear the commentary for this bit.

There was a few points of similarity with the Sontaran episodes.

Poor Martha getting fully emersed in gloop again. Terra-forming gases. [The Sontarans where terraforming Earth to make it into a massive cloning planet) Cloning soldiers for war. The whole cloning off-spring business itself.

Now either this is a mistake on the production staff or is, as I suspect, part of the story arc. Because (and I've only watched this twice so I might have missed something) there wasn't anything overtly arc-y I could detect. No mention of disappearing bees, no sightings of Rose (they've only happened in present day Earth so far), no cryptic prophecies - which leads me to conclude the cloning thing is part of the arc. Maybe Jenny will put in an appearance at the end too - if she can find herself a time-machine on her travels that is...

So the finale looks like it's going to involve Davros, Daleks, clones and cloning,
invisible back-hugging insects?.

*mmmmmm - strokes chin.*