The Girl in the Fireplace

However long the modern Dr Who lasts, I bet this episode will still rank as one of the best episodes.

A history lesson and love story all in one, this tale is beautifully played out.

Sophia Myles for me steals the show with a wonderful performance, as well as having lovely chemistry with David Tennant's Dr. There's also a very understated turn by Billie Piper as Rose, who realises that there will always be someone else for him to save.

With a heart-wrenching end, this is a very good episode overall.

I've seen a lot of the Doctor over the last thirty-odd years, and this episode has the greatest emotional depth I've ever encountered. It doesn't hurt that it presents a complex story with skill, charm, and sensitivity. It also doesn't hurt that the twists of the story surprised me regularly through the entire hour, or that the performance by Sophie Miles was superb. It was also nice that Rose was in great form, and that Micky was finally showing solid promise as a character.

Still, the best parts for me were the personal interactions, and the new slant on some of the questions raised in Schoold Reunion. This has helped make the Doctor a more complete character, and also one who is more sympathetic. It's a powerful reply to the questions raised throughout the New (and the New, New) Doctor as to whether evil follows him, or whether he goes where it is inevitable in order to try to prevent its effects.

This is a great episode, and it is my favorite of all I have seen thus far.

The Doctor, Mickey and Rose land on a Spaceship which has a link to Reinette, Madame de Pompadour, but why are there so many windows to her life, and what do the Clockwork robots want with her?

It is utterly beautiful to look at, the production values look worthy of a massive budget film, it is gorgeous, from the ship, to the views of Paris, the bedroom, Versailles, Sophia Myles, the robots, everything is perfection. It looks like it cost big bucks to put it together. It always leaves me with a little tear.

Murray Gold's music is wonderful, it fits in so well and enhances the script without overtaking or being intrusive. It's romantic.

The connection between Tennant and Myles is wonderful, what a brilliant beautiful actress she is, a casting masterclass.

David Tennant's Doctor gets better and better, he's taken the show to another level. He connected with Sarah Jane last week, Madame de Pompadour this time, was there a plot to get him away from Rose's clutches I wonder?

I just knew this was going to be a heart breaker, one of the best, 10/10, the show is going through a bit of a purple patch isn't it.

The best Doctor Who episode I've seen. Although there are some major plot discrepancies and they could probably explain the clockwork droids a little more, this episode really hit it right home.

I could watch it over and over again and feel this weird tingly sensation after. And what gorgeous music. Kudos to the music guy...whoever you are.

This episode did not have too much visual effects and action so I thought it was going to be rather plain but I was astounded as to how the emotional part of the story really carries it through the end. Writer Steven Moffatt penned a wonderful script and the contrast between Mickey/Rose's more colloquial, modern speech and Reinette's flowy poetic period piece was beautiful.

We've always seen the Doctor as some sort of superhuman being but this episode really emphasizes on his humanity. It puts his feelings on the line and I like how the audience got a glimpse of him when Reinette read his mind. One question though: How come she had that ability? The ending always gets me choked up and teary...damn that sweet sweet music *sob*! But for all the space age action (well of course being a sci-fi series), it's such a fresh change to see Doctor Who in 18th century France.

Ah...the end.

This episode is the reason for me to watch the dr. Who series again. Really, after the famous (and me being 6 years old) 70's Tom Baker dr. Who , I hardly took interest in watching the series again. Every time I was disappointed. But this episode/season stroke me. It think it was even much better than the 70's best episode. The music is great, the story is wonderful, David Tennant and the other characters make this the best dr Who so far :) So after re-looking all of the 2006 episodes I can only say that to me this series is the most catching series until now. I'm really looking forward 2 what's to come :)

The story lines are so great, the music is beautiful and finally, the characters are chosen perfectly.