Doctor Who

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Professor Yana regenerated into (SPOILER)Howard Saxon. The Time Lords revived him into the Professor Yana incarnation, but he regenerated after that, so clearly he found a new way around the regeneration limit.

True - but what I mean is, the Time Lords brought him back in the first place, which presumably reset his regeneration limit somehow.

I actually agree with you here BoB, I didn't think much of Martha personally, she was ok but as said by the BBC the stress of the huge scale of Dr Who started to show on her, she started well but failed to cope towards the end. Rose Tyler (Billie Piper, never thought I'd say this but she can actually act, watch secret diary of a call girl...she's actually also damn hawt in that too) was good, her storyline was well written and her role didn't try to "out-do" the doctor in any way. Not that I believe she could out-do Eccleston, hell I remember the episode where the first of the Dalek's appears and he's making this huge gun and then goes off in to a rant about the destruction of Gallifrey ect ect. It was actually moving you could believe that Eccleston was the 900+ year old lone survivor of a terrible war faced with the return of his arch enemy. The role of Captain Jack Harkness and also Rose's friend Danny were well executed too.

Agreed, for the most part. Eccleston's sense of sadness and anger came through damn well; Tennant's got some of that, but there's usually so much goofiness it's harder to see sometimes.

I found Martha a nice counterpart to Rose. Both neat characters, but strong in different ways: Rose is very emotionally-driven, she 'feels' her way through situations; she's also open-minded enough to cope with the incredibly odd experiences she gets into during her travels. Martha, on the other hand, is technically more intelligent - but, as a scientist (medical training counts as 'science' to me) she's more driven by logic and ration, so with The Doctor she's as much a fish-out-of-water as the scientifically-untrained Rose - because the worlds they travel to are just so far beyond anything that makes sense to her reasoning, rational mind.