It is good to see the Doctor team up with another mate, but the whole thing seemed a little bit mild and soft. First of all, there was never a real sense of danger. It was hinted that a million people might die, but it did not feel possible. And of course, who could ever believe that those adorable little Adipose creature were really harmful? They were probably the cutest villains in Doctor Who.

Another episode, which made this episode feel out of place, was the nanny defying the laws of gravity. It can only be seen in cartoons and they should never do it again.

However, it is good to see that Donna is not as irritating as in 'The Runaway Bride' and that she can also deliver a few hilarious lines. Also, seeing Rose at the end of the episode was ominous and I will certainly be more interested to find out what has happened to her.

This episode is when Donna finds the doctor again. She's been looking for him for a very long time and eventually she finds him. However it's not that easy, they keep coming so close then missing eachother by a matter of seconds. The episode is based around these so called diet tablets by adipose. Yet of course it's not what it seems. They turn you're body fat into marshmallow like creatures that are born from the fat. Miss foster is leading the organisation and mysteriously has a sonic screwdriver remarkably similar to the doctors. At the end Donna leaves with the doctor to travel the stars!

Terrible episode - no real storyline and the only good bit was the appearance of Rose near the end. It added some REAL drama to the episode we had been waiting for for a year. And that was it on the interesting front. Noramlly Doctor Who owns, but this was wierdly and uncharacteristically bad. I mean, just look at the "storyline": Doctor meets up with Donna (fine), deranged nanny helps to transform Earth into a clone planet (at this point we start thinking "huh?") and then it gets much worse because random little baby globs of fat forming out of obese humans swarm all over the planet. At this point we realise exactly how drunk or otherwise insane the writer must have been while arranging this episode.

Davies has consistently showed himself to be one of the weakest writers for the new show, his scripts alternating between plain slapstick and mawkish sentimentality.

This one is no exception. Once again we are treated to an entirely unconvincing CGI alien, except rather than comedy he seems to have gone for the cute factor here. One of the things that he needs to realise is that he is nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is. Calling the fat aliens adipose (for those of you who are unaware, adipose tissue is where the fat cells are stored in the body) probably seemed very clever at the time, but it's not. It's trite and makes about as much sense as Star Trek having 2 races called Romulons and Remans.

I know this makes me sound pedantic, but the best humour from Dr Who should come from character interaction, not goofiness or word play. Davies should watch City of Death if he wants to see how real Dr Who comedy works.

Otherwise, Donna was not quite as horrible as I feared she would be. Hopefully she will be a bit more subdued in future episodes, and less like her character in The Bride. One caveat though, I think we've seen enough drama with the families of the Doctor's companions. When this was first introduced with Billy Piper, I welcomed it as a new direction. However, basically the same drama was played out with Martha and we see the beginnings of it here with Donna as well.

The rest of the episode was pretty uninteresting. There was no sense that the Doctor or Donna were ever in danger. The slapstick scenes of the Doctor and Donna missing each other over and over have been played a million times in a million different comedies.

Overall, pretty porr writing and a poor start to the season, but that's nothing new. Hopefully this season will see more of Steven Moffat less of Russel T Davies.