Ah, the obsession continues

Watched the 3rd episode of the 2nd season of Doctor Who. David Tennant has officially grown on me. Like fungus. Can't get him off. Nice mix of emotion and SF magic in this episode. While it doesn't go to great lengths to explain the science, it doesn't seem utterly laughable. And after all, when does Doctor Who go to any lengths to explain the science?

Favorite Scene: Rose and Mickey are tied down, about to be used for parts. The Doctor arrives to save the day, apparently drunk off his arse wearing sunglasses with his tie around his head.
The Doctor: "Have you met the French? My... GOD, do they know how to party."
Rose: "Look what the cat dragged in. It's the Oncoming Storm."

Nice reference to his tragic/romantic/heroic role as the nemesis of the entire Dalek race. I don't remember this in the old Who, but it is noted in the wikipedia article on the Doctor.

"To his greatest enemies, the Daleks, the Doctor is known as the Ka Faraq Gatri, the "Bringer of Darkness", "Destroyer of Worlds" or "The Oncoming Storm". This is first mentioned in the novelisation of Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch and subsequently taken up in the spin-off media, particularly the Virgin New Adventures books and the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip. In "The Parting of the Ways", the Doctor claims that the Daleks call him "The Oncoming Storm" — this name is used by the Draconians (whose word for it is "Karshtakavaar") to refer to the Doctor in the Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War by Paul Cornell."

Update: we've watched another six episodes! Some major character development, a weak episode, a couple of really far-out space adventures, and last night we watched "Love and Monsters", which I'd have to say was a beautiful little piece of storytelling. Oh so nice, despite the absence of the Doctor and Rose for much of the show. David Tennant has made the character his own and I like his mercurial personality, his angry face, his volubility.