The Pilot

Series 10 starts all-new with the introduction of Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie) and the re-introduction of the world of Doctor Who. A great starting point for any new fans and a great story in general. The cast give wonderful performances, and Moffat's writing is better here than most from Series 6 through 9 (with obvious exceptions like Heaven Sent). Bill is certainly a breath of fresh, and a great one at that. This episode gives hope for the final series of Moffat and Capaldi, hopefully making it both of their best.

Episode 1 "The Pilot" - 9/10

After 16 months Doctor Who is back with a pilot episode. The pilot was a nice first episode of this series, it was not big and explosive as every other Moffat series opener. It was more like RTD opener, funny and not so big. It was maybe little disappointing because of this 16 months, you would expect something much bigger...The plot was okay, interesting, but the problem is that it was rushed, too short.They just bounced from one place to another. There were some really good scenes like Bill and shower, it was 'scary' and interesting and it looked good, music was also in that scene superb. Visuals were nice in this one. The planet that Doctor, Bill and Nardole visited was beautiful. Now, let's talk about music, I didn't like it so much, it was so 'childish' when Doctor goes to search for that puddle and Bill is following him and then 'A good man' starts playing... it was so off, it didn't work with it well, they tried to make it epic. Okay, so the main part of the story is Bill and I have to say Pearl Mackie is brilliant, not just she, Nardole was also brilliant I just hope that we're going to have more scenes wit Nardole and Bill they work so good together. Peter Capaldi was also amazing, he's always amazing but he really nailed it. This trio work brilliantly! Congrats to Moffat for that!

So overall it was an excellent start to begin this series. Mackie, Lucas and Capaldi were amazing, can't wait to see more of them. I just hope that stories are going to be more serious and that we are going to learn more about Nardole. This can really be an amazing series, looking forward to the other episodes!

I was very unsure about the new companion this series, having been a fan of the last two, and wasn't sure that the writers could pull off the writing for such a character... But they did! She was written with the right amount of comedy and the right about of seriousness that makes me glad of the companion change. Though other seasons started of dull, this season opened with a mystery, that didn't have much in the way of shocks, but made up for it in terms of excellent effects and dialogue. The 50 minutes flew by. I am excited for the season, hoping that with the new doctor on his (or her) way, Bill will stay for at least another season. 9.5/10

So after a year long hiatus, Doctor Who is back on our screens with 'the Pilot'.

I have to say, this was 50 minutes of enjoyable television where new companion, Bill Potts, shone. The wonderful, and previously rather unknown, Pearl Mackie took her character in her stride making the audience fall in love with her automatically. She is very different from the marmite Clara as she is so relatable and modern. The contrast between her character and the Doctor, majestically played as always by Peter Capaldi, was stark.

Her character's introduction felt like it was something out of the Russell T Davies era with no 'timey-wimey' story-line to her character (as previously seen with Amy and Clara) and it really paid off.

The plot was simple enough, and although the villain of the week was... well, weak, it was made up by the beautiful story between Bill and her love-interest, Heather. As with all companion origin stories, the villain took a back seat so you cannot blame this episode for that. The concept of the puddle was mysterious and perhaps could have been dived into - no pun intended - with Moffat once again showing how he takes mundane every-day objects (such as statues or blinking) and makes them creepy.

Overall, this episode was an energetic, enjoyable and human piece of story-telling which introduced a lovable new companion and re-lit my love for this show.

Doctor Who is well and truly back with a solid episode all round 8/10.

Doctor Who in Peter Capaldi's third and final series is given a soft reboot. We are introduced to a new companion in Bill. She cooks chips in the university canteen and slips into the Doctor's lectures even though she is not a student. Apparently the Doctor has been lecturing there for decades, all very Professor Chronotis.

The story starts rather slowly and writer Steve Moffat keeps it all very simple. There is a puddle and the puddle chases after Bill as the Doctor takes the Tardis away from it but the puddle follows throughout time and space. Along the way we see the return of the Movellans who are fighting the Daleks. Nardole is with Tardis team to provide the quirky humour.

Director Lawrence Gough shows insights of Japanese horror films such as The Ring as the puddle manifests in a human watery form that is the pilot.