It's been a really frustrating day. It's the one day of Wimbledon you get to spend the whole day watching tennis, not just in the evening. But instead we got nearly an hour of one woman thrashing another. I could have watched a different match on 301 or 302 but frankly, it would have just been the same. I would have been quite happy watching tennis from 12 till 9ish, then watched Doctor Who, but it wasn't to be.

The only good thing about it was I got time to clean the house and make flapjacks and they decided just before Doctor Who started that there would be no more play today, so I was free to watch it live. Although I shouldn't have done because I had five minutes of Galaxy 4 part 2 to go, which was a bit surreal to listen to afterwards.

There were some things in the episode that I liked and other things that annoyed me, but I'll put them behind a more since they contain SPOILERS:

Last week, when John Simm aged the Doctor, it was obvious that there were two ways out of it - de-aging him in some way, or regeneration. And there was nothing to say it wasn't the latter. But when the episode started a year later with the Earth a mess, it was obvious they were going to have to press a reset button at some point. Once it was revealed what the spheres were and what the Paradox Machine was, it was obvious how time would be reset.

And that's what really annoyed me. That big red reset button? Leave it alone! It is not to be pressed. It has a notice next to it saying 'Please do not press this button'. All (science-fiction) writers should know this. Pressing it only brings bad things. As in it annoys people. There is always a better way.

I also hated the little Doctor. Until Confidential I couldn't understand why they made him so small. I didn't understand then either, but I at least knew how they were thinking. Well, except when they said he looked so old because he was 900 - er, hang on, he already is! That little Doctor just did not work for me, at all. I just laughed every time I saw it, which does rather destroy the mood somewhat.

When the Master died, I did think Russell T Davis had completely lost it because you can't kill the Master. He keeps coming back, that's the whole point. But there's this hint at the end with the ring, so then I was happy.

But what I did like was that it got so hopeless before it got better. The Master saying 'What are you going to do, keep me?' which was exactly the line I thought he was going to say. Martha and Jack leaving, which seemed so right for their characters. Although I was thinking it would be nice to go into a new series with the same Doctor and Companion. Can we have a historical one next, please?

I loved the idea that one person can save the world. It's the sort of thing that brings hope when you're toiling away, trying to improve things for just a few people because that's all you can do, that it's not all for nothing. And you shouldn't stop trying to make things better just because it seems hopeless.

I laughed at the ending with the Titanic, even as I groaned, since it was the same ending they had last year. Can't we have something different? The only good thing this time was the ending of the episode didn't involve me spending ten minutes throwing up at the sickly sweetness of it all. I liked Rose, but that was OTT.

It occurred to me - that year that didn't happen? I wonder what Sarah was doing, since that was pre-Luke...

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