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Confusion reigns as the Doctor delivers Rose back a year later than expected, but bewilderment soon subsides, as an alien pilot more traditionally found in pies, charts a peculiar path from distant far-flung skies. In tandem, the Prime Minister seems to disappear and the Time Lord's excitement soon turns into fear, as the true culprits let rip with a sound you can hear, while presenting without any noticeable ear - they are aliens after all, although not having ears is the least of our concern considering their more noticeable features and characteristics - and the running CGI for that matter.

Finally the first real indication in any Doctor Who that a companion's disappearance can have an impact on people's lives, their friends and families. Camille Coduri was genius casting as Rose's mum, her upset at Rose's unexplained year long absence is great, she was such an endearing character. Mickey is also much better in this one, he's seemingly been under suspicion for murdering Rose due to her absence. There are some real goodies in this one, the Bad Wolf theme is now ringing alarm bells as it's quite prevalent. We hear the Doctor call Micky 'Ricky,' Jackie's sideboard looks like it's full of tonics of some sort, both themes are picked up later on. We get the first new series appearance of UNIT and a first appearance of Toshiko. We get the usual BBC NEWS 24 updates (what happened to those, I used to love a news update.) Aliens of London is big and fun, from the Spaceships falling through London destroying Big Ben, the Slitheen themselves and the glorious performance of Penelope Wilton as Harriet Jones. It is hard not to watch this without a smile on your face, it's not iconic but it's fun. I understand the farting cabinet will irritate some of the die hard fans, but humour can be great when it's combined with a dark element, had this been a darker more sinister episode it would have worked a lot better, as it stood, it was a bit too light. Finally we get a Doctor Who cliffhanger and it's a good one, with multiple characters in danger, the Next week clip gave too much away though.

The first two part story of "Nu Who" opens with Aliens of London. A ballsy episode that eschews keeping the aliens under wraps and instead makes the media response to such a event part of the story.

Heading back to present day London, aiming for just a few of hours after they left. A miscalculation with the Tardis leads to Rose (Billie Piper) and the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) arriving almost a year later. Jackie (Camille Coduri) has reported her daughter missing and is naturally astounded when she shows up. Their reunion is cut short though, when an Alien ship crosses central London, crashes into Parliament Tower and lands in the Thames.

What I like about this episode of "Doctor Who" is that it's the first time that interaction with the "real world" happens. Usually, in most episodes, the exposure to the alien is limited to a few people who are either killed, or saved by the Doctor and keep their stories to themselves. This one, the invasion is on worldwide TV almost as it happens - and the Doctor has to brush up against the Army, U.N.I.T and the Government before getting to the centre of what's happening in this episode. There are a few other aspects of the show that are interesting. Penelope Wilton debuts as Harriet Jones, a politician who will feature a few times across the Russell T Davies era and Naoko Mori debuts as Sato - who will go on to feature in "Torchwood". It's a nicely plotted first half of a story that's both exciting and relatively clever.

It's let down, somewhat, by its alien threat though. The Slitheen are OK when they're in their natural form towards the end of the episode, even if their faces could have been a little scarier. But the repeated farting gag gets tiresome pretty quickly and the unzipping and transition effects don't really hold up that well. I appreciate it's a balancing act, in not scaring the children too badly, but the Slitheen could really have benefited from being slightly more scary overall.

It's a good episode though, with the second half to come.

A first two part story of the newly resurrected show begins with the episode Aliens of London and concludes with World War Three.

The first part features an alien spacecraft crashing into Big Ben in a very well done effects scene. It turns out alien race the Slitheen have a dastardly plot which involves them gaining access to the Prime Minister and senior officials and inhabiting their bodies. The Doctor goes to Downing Street with Rose where UNIT and world scientists are gathering in the Slitheen's trap. He then has to battle the Slitheen to stop their plan. Backbench MP Harriet Jones (Penelope Wilton) helps them out. Wilton is a great actress and is fabulous in her role as Harriet Jones who went on to appear in later stories with the 10th Doctor. There are lots of other positives too and this is a fun adventure overall but there are flaws which detract from its quality.

There is a cheesiness to some of this production and some silly humour involving Slitheen making farting sounds as they struggle to remain hidden inside smaller human bodies. Those aspects do not make it bad in my opinion and indeed I am sure that a new generation of fans found it amusing but from my point of view as an older fan I couldn't help thinking that if this had been a darker story with Slitheen as a fully menacing and scary alien it could have been a better story. I personally wished the farting aspect wasn't used and that the humour had been restricted to the witty aspects with banter between Rose and the Doctor and Harriet Jones. I feel maybe pressures were felt to not be too dark and scary and maybe trying to make it kid friendly. In fact, many kids love to be scared and to have some dark edge to their entertainment. It is people judging what is 'good for kids' who have pressured Doctor Who makers to soften the content throughout the show's history. In this case they definitely softened the story for a family audience but Russell T Daves is clever enough not to take that too far and he still provides plenty of scary scenes as Slitheen reveal themselves and chase and kill people. So overall whilst this isn't a favourite of mine it is good fun for all the family.

My rating for both episodes: 7/10.

One for the kids, as in to have them laugh and also scare them more than any other episode of the New Who. A little to extreme at both ends of the spectrum for my taste. Too much switching from scary to childish in one episode.

Still worth the 7 stars

In another bizarre episode exploring a good premise when a UFO spaceship crash at Big Ben's Tower landing in the Thames river provoking a panic in the city, but drop with a several farts loose by aliens whose take over the Preme Minister's house, going to a laughable and distasteful episode instead to drive into a serious UFO crash in London, some weird situation for all over, worst to be continued in next episode!!!

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First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6

After handing The Unquiet Dead to Mark Gatiss, Russell T. Davies returns to write the first ever two-part episode of the new Doctor Who: London, an alien invasion and loads of humor.

The laughs come aplenty already in the teaser, when the Doctor arrives in London and tells Rose she can go home, since he set the TARDIS coordinates so that she was gone only twelve hours. Naturally, something went wrong, leading to our favorite Time Lord being accused by Jackie Tyler of kidnapping her daughter for a year. With the matter settled, a new inconvenience emerges: a spaceship has crash-landed in the Thames and the Prime Minister is mysteriously absent, which might have to do with the fact that his replacement is actually an alien in disguise.

Aliens of London works because it takes one of the original series' trademarks (something bad happening here and now, in broad daylight) and adapts it to 21st century paranoia and angst. It's sort of reminiscent of old stories like The Invasion (1968), which starred Patrick Troughton - the Second Doctor - and introduced the organization known as UNIT, which returns briefly in this episode (no interaction with the Doctor, though: Davies and BBC were adamant that no complicated references to the old mythology be made during the first season). Plus, it's funny as hell: when Rose finds out the Doctor (who got slapped by Jackie, by the way) is 900 years old, she remarks: "My mum was right. That is one hell of an age gap!".

I went over this episode already but it seems it has deleted for some reason? This episode felt quite immersive in comparison to the others, along with its second continued episode counterpart. It had more substance in the sense of the characters and their emotions, responses, etc, than any other of the episodes, it felt more real. I liked the concept of the aliens, while cheesy in nature, done in a goofy yet interesting way, in the best way. This episode felt long in a good way, it felt almost film like rather then a show, like it had lots of substance in its story line etc. I am a little sad my old review deleted as I had lots of thoughts upon this episode, but this is the jist of what I wrote.

Although a frustrating episode to being with, largely due to the use of modern day London as it's setting, the brillIant body-snatching Slitheen are used to full effect in a quite harsh political satire (especially for the BBC). An ever-shifting story, which introduces some new villains - only drawn-back by some odd plot points and some occasional off-putting writing.

Although there is a dip in quality, Aliens in London is still a good episode. It has an intriguing premise, which is slightly ruined by farting aliens, and it sets up its sequel nicely. A pretty good episode

I hate this alien mystery storyline, it's definitely the worst so far and maybe the worst of the series' episodes centered in London. But this has to be some of the best character development episodes for Rose and her mom, Mickey, and even the Doctor. Her mom is doing such great acting and really solidifying her bond with Rose which hasn't been all that clear. And we get to see Mickey show off his hacker skills which shows a whole new side to him aside from boyfriend. And the whole Bad Wolf foreshadowing is good too. The easter eggs are being planted, and hopefully by the time I get there the story will pay off.

You can just imagine Russell T Davies writing Aliens Of London /World War 3 with the explicit reasoning that it would contain something that would appeal to everyone watching . Unfortunately there's the very real danger that RTD has written something that will appeal to no one and just as bad it's at this point we start to see how much of a problem he has in creating a coherent plot structure

The story starts with a pre title sequence which has no bearing on the rest of the story - The Doctor has returned Rose to her London housing estate but the problem is that a whole year has passed since she left at the end of the first episode . Cut to her being questioned by the police as to whether she's been having a " sexual relationship " with this man known only as The Doctor . Considering Rose is 19 and has joined The Doctor of her own free will - And let's not forget she phoned her mother letting her know she's all right in End Of The World - you'll be puzzled as to why so much time is taken up with subplot . Was it just written so RTD could use the phrase " sexual relationship " ?

But it gets worse because the Slitheen arrive on Earth and they use peoples skin to disguise themselves as humans or rather human British politicians ( A contradiction in terms ? ) in order to start WW3 and in using someones skin there's a gas exchange which leads to squeaking noises which leads to a classic terrible line : " Do you mind not farting while I'm saving the planet ? " Very clever Russell I musn't say and just to prove this isn't puerile childish nonsense RTD introduces satire involving tongue in cheek references to the search for WMD in Iraq but for a discerning viewer one can't help wishing Davies had concentrated on what " Attack plan delta " is