Look folks, let’s be honest.

It was good.

Eccleston is good – seriously alien and believable. Piper is good – not just screaming. Even Clive was good – the comic, self-referential moments didn’t overwhelm it. The settings were good (even if, thanks to , I now know that some of them were in Cardiff not London). The background music was OK, certainly not as bad as Sylvester McCoy warned. The only thing that didn’t quite gel for me was the climax, which I thought was drawn out a bit too long.

Ken from Dublin via Antwerp and Anne’s sister were here to help us watch it. I’ll be in America next weekend, and Albania three weekends from now, but hope to catch all the rest.