"The Christmas Invasion" is definitely the weakest one so far. You're in for a treat the rest of the season. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> "New Earth" starts off the new season ("Christmas Invasion" is technically a special) and it's a wonderful start. There's a hilarious scene with the lifts early on. I won't spoil it for you. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />The last one I saw was "Love & Monsters". It features the Absorbaloff, a monster created by a 12-year-old who won a Blue Peter contest to design a monster to be featured on an actual episode. (Blue Peter is a British kids show with a long and happy relationship with Doctor Who.) It's surprisingly grim for something invented by a kid, especially the way it's realized, but the episode has plenty of fun to make up for that. The Doctor and Rose barely appear in that episode; it's told from the perspective of a man who briefly met the Doctor when he was a little boy and who joined a group of people who have encountered the Doctor and are now searching for him. I was pleasantly surprised by that one; I was expecting it to be unbearably cheesy, even for Who, but it wasn't.<br /><br /><br />BTW, I was grinning in the real world when i said "sorry for the spoilers". <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> I should've put a smilie in here too. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>