I think there’s a sense in the production that David Tennant isn’t as “heavyweight” as Christopher Eccleston, and so consequently nothing written for Tennant really has the weight or shadow of the first-season stuff. Tennant’s Doctor is, however, becoming ever more eccentric, if not just outright batshit — Tennant with his shoes off, crooning “barefoot on the moooon” to himself — which, panto excesses aside, just about kept me interested in this humorous opening episode about an elderly female vampire armed with a drinking straw. Pure children’s television. Lili liked it.
It’s already fallen into rote, of course — the new assistant (or, as the production staff would have it in the behind-the-scenes followup programme, “Doctor Who girl”) has her own Wacky Family who will doubtless bore our tits off over the next two years like the last one did, and this year’s Famous Historical Personality episode is up next. But, you know, it’s a kid’s show, and kids like repetition.
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