I'd go so far as to say Turn Left is possibly my all time favourite Nu Who episode, bold statement, I'll try to explain why.
In brief, The Doctor and Donna land in china town, Donna goes for a psychic reading, with dark consequences. Donna explains how she met the Doctor, it all hinged on a single decision where she turned left, The Psychic pinpoints this and asks what would happen had she turned right. Something lands up on Donna's back, we see what would have happened had Donna not met the Doctor......
Back in Pompeii Lucius mentioned Donna had something on her back (he didn't say it would be the most rubbish prop of the 21st century did he!!)
This is the best episode penned by Davies, very closely followed by Midnight. To make not just a credible, but a fabulous 'what if' story is immense, to link in the recent history was amazingly done, nothing felt forced, the Hospital, the Titanic, the Adipose, very clever. (Even the awful Atmos devices have a place!!)
The episode is so bleak, it literally has me on pins from start to finish, it's definitely THE episode you cannot have on in the background. It leaves me exhausted and genuinely with a sunken feeling. When they hear the stars are going out, and see the Bad Wolf I literally nearly dropped. The trailer was almost too much to cope with, but wohhhhh.
The single best companion episode of all time, Tate is unbelievably good from start to finish, I just love Donna. She blew Martha out of the water in the trio of earlier episodes, and she does the same to Rose.
Piper is a little on the wooden side, but as a massive Rose fan I was so glad to see her back.
Sylvia was actually a very good character, she is rather grim, naturally, still suffering the death of her husband. She mentions him, a nice heads up to Howard Attfield, who had played Donna's dad Geoff in the Runaway Bride, but sadly died not long after it was made.
Fans of the Sarah Jane adventures will have seen the Trickster in Whatever happened to Sarah Jane.
It gets us all thinking and wondering what would be had we done things a little different. Turn Left, unique, thought provoking, outstanding. It had me in tears i'm not afraid to say 10/10
In brief, The Doctor and Donna land in china town, Donna goes for a psychic reading, with dark consequences. Donna explains how she met the Doctor, it all hinged on a single decision where she turned left, The Psychic pinpoints this and asks what would happen had she turned right. Something lands up on Donna's back, we see what would have happened had Donna not met the Doctor......
Back in Pompeii Lucius mentioned Donna had something on her back (he didn't say it would be the most rubbish prop of the 21st century did he!!)
This is the best episode penned by Davies, very closely followed by Midnight. To make not just a credible, but a fabulous 'what if' story is immense, to link in the recent history was amazingly done, nothing felt forced, the Hospital, the Titanic, the Adipose, very clever. (Even the awful Atmos devices have a place!!)
The episode is so bleak, it literally has me on pins from start to finish, it's definitely THE episode you cannot have on in the background. It leaves me exhausted and genuinely with a sunken feeling. When they hear the stars are going out, and see the Bad Wolf I literally nearly dropped. The trailer was almost too much to cope with, but wohhhhh.
The single best companion episode of all time, Tate is unbelievably good from start to finish, I just love Donna. She blew Martha out of the water in the trio of earlier episodes, and she does the same to Rose.
Piper is a little on the wooden side, but as a massive Rose fan I was so glad to see her back.
Sylvia was actually a very good character, she is rather grim, naturally, still suffering the death of her husband. She mentions him, a nice heads up to Howard Attfield, who had played Donna's dad Geoff in the Runaway Bride, but sadly died not long after it was made.
Fans of the Sarah Jane adventures will have seen the Trickster in Whatever happened to Sarah Jane.
It gets us all thinking and wondering what would be had we done things a little different. Turn Left, unique, thought provoking, outstanding. It had me in tears i'm not afraid to say 10/10