Dr Who Episode 4: The Doctor’s Wife.

*Spoilers*

It’s OFFICIAL, I am IMPRESSED … !

Really, I am impressed … !

And just so you know … ?

I’m impressed with tonight’s episode of Dr Who, the award-winning Neil Gaiman written, The Doctor’s Wife.

Because the one thing Neil Gaiman managed to do with this episode, is get the Doctor talking to his one constant companion for the past … oooohhhh … 48 years … !

Ahem … !

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Phew … !

I’m in burble mode …

Not that you probably hadn’t noticed, had you … ?

The Doctor’s Wife sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory receive an apparent distress call from a stranded Time Lord. Seemingly, one that’s stranded in a small pocket universe, with only an asteroid called House and it’s seeming occupants, Aunty, Uncle, and Nephew, a badly damaged Ood.

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There’s a problem, there …

House … The asteroid … ?

House has a bad habit of capturing the few remaining Time Lords who survived the Time War — only one of whom is named, the never seen Corsair — and then stealing an draining their TARDIS’.

There is, of course, a flaw in the evil plan’s of House.

The one other occupant of the planet is a seeming mad woman, called Idris, played by Suranne Jones.

Althoug it’s never explained who she was — I’m assuming a crashed traveller — who she becomes …

Is the Dr’s wife of the title …

She’s the one constant in the years of the series …

She one thing the Dr always and never refer’s to by name, but always directly as ‘Old Girl’.

You’ll have noticed the third photo in this post … ?

Courtesy of a friend of mine’s daughter … ?

THAT’S why I’m impressed with The Doctor’s Wife.

Suranne Jones is playing the TARDIS …

And, my lord, I didn’t that one coming … !

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Now, I was saying impressed … ?

Yes, definitely … !

Now there are those who could happily argue that The Doctor’s Wife isn’t necessarily the best episode of the show to date.

I’m not sure I’d disagree with them.

Certainly, quality wise, they may have a point: although bagging Michæl Sheen as the voice of House was something of a coup.

But where I’m going to disagree … ?

Is on that simple basic idea the Neil Gaiman’s put into the show.

What if the TARDIS could take a shape …

And talk … ?

Lets face it, how many of us own something — a car, a bike, a computer in my case — and don’t give a name … ?

Hang on, you mean you don’t … ?

You strange person, you …

At any rate, you’ve met someone who does, surely … ?

The Doctor’s Wife manages to quite nicely turn thing’s up on their heads in the Dr’s relationship with the one constant in his life … !

I mean …

I expect Bruce, me Mac Mini, to say things.

But no more than announce the time, or to tell me if an application is having some description of hang.

After all, that’s how I set up his system preferences … !

If he starts having an intelligent conversation, in front of witnesses, whilst none of us were having some kind of collective psychotic episode … ?

Well …

That WOULD be just as devastating, now wouldn’t it … ?

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Yes, it would, wouldn’t it … ?

Just a touch devastating, at least … !

But it’s certainly an idea that put outright joy into The Doctor’s Wife

There’s a wonderful scene at the end of tonight’s episode, that I think is possibly Matt Smith’s best. Possibly even the defining one of his tenure as the 11th Doctor.

That sees him — for the first time in 700 years — literally having a conversation with the TARDIS, one I think and hope will stay with me for a long time.

The TARDIS was right, I think …

‘Alive’ is a complicated word …

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