Lux

I can't believe the difference a week makes. The Robot Revolution was one of the worst episodes of DW I've seen. This, however, is high concept brilliance.

RTD pens a seriously strong script here, the dialogue is neat and tidy, the pacing is perfect, The Doctor and Belinda have a much more deep connection than Ruby ever had.

Also, Alan Cumming as Mr. Ring-a-ding is spectacular. A seriously underrated actor who knows exactly what to do with this brilliant villain.

I don't want to say too much else, but get this watched. THIS is the best episode since Capaldi. Some of you might be saying 'Don't make me laugh!' But you'll have to watch it and see....

Not long ago I've watched Torchwood which is a series about captain Jack Harkness and his team fighting everything extraordinary that comes to Earth and tries to destroy it or people. Trying not to spoil too much but there is an episode about group of circus artists getting out of the movie.

So as I've started watching Lux I've got scared that its going to be a funnier, more colourful remake of Torchwood's episode.

I'm glad to say it wasn't!

As the idea is similar, Lux was pushed in completely different direction. First of all mr Ring-A-Ding is a made up character. So it takes a while to understand his intentions. I loved the twists in the episode. I loved the animation style and how it got incorporated.

Overall it was really fun to watch it.

But I still question the originality of the show.

I know the fantasy element seems to be annoying people, but the Celestial Toymaker first appeared in the William Hartnell era (which I saw when it first went out). And one should remember that when the first episodes went out we were presented with a police box, an everyday sight on the street back then, which was bigger on the inside. That was very radical at the time.

So this episode, for me, had some echoes of my 8 year old self watching the first one. I loved the twists and turns and that nothing was quite as it seemed. There seems to be a lot of little loose ends being subtly laid down as well. I thought it a highly entertaining episode and I loved every minute of it but then I'm a 50s child and I love art deco (especially the 50s art deco revival). They had me with that cinema.

Let there be light. It starts off with a cartoon brought to life.

The Doctor and Belinda end up in Miami-Dade investigating a spooky cinema with a creepy caretaker.

Looking for missing people only to find themselves trapped inside cartoonland.

Their source of escape leads them to meet some uberfans of a fictional sci fi television show. The one segment guaranteed not to make you blink.

Russell T Davies has oodles of fun with Lux. Callbacks to his second coming and a little tribute to Rock Hudson.

Alan Cumming is spine chilling as the voice of Mr Ring a Ding. No wonder he did not want to laugh.

From second 1, the episode distinguishes itself. Cinematography was consistently outstanding and the effects of the titular Mr Ring-a-Ding was seamlessly done.

The humour hits just as hard as the serious moments, where in a moment of brain bending meta-ness, the Doctor and Co find themselves talking to some unlikely people. This had me out of the chair howling, point and at the screen in tearful introspection.

For the first time in a long time, I thought the ending felt perfectly fitting of the stakes set up in the narrative and had me wishing another saturday would come sooner.

Viva la Doctor Who.