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Sunday 10 April 2011

Who: The Eleventh Hour Retrospective (R: 4.5/5)

One year on from its première, The Eleventh Hour is still a bold, inventive and for the most part captivating reinvention of how Doctor Who works in modern day, introducing Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor with a bang. Picking up where The End Of Time left off, the episode takes the burning TARDIS down to the garden of Amelia Pond, and from there things take a turn for the bonkers as Matt dives his way through baked beans, bread and butter and ultimately fish fingers dipped in custard before examining a crack in Amelia's wall- not that the crack will have any significance on the rest of the season, of course!- and then accidentally leaving Ms. Pond for twelve years and meeting her again as a kissogram (her, not him thankfully). The extended 60 minute length is certainly there to allow for a reintroduction to the 900 year old character, but that works fine anyway, even if elements like the naff CGI used for Prisoner Zero and the somewhat pointless use of a hospital setting do detract from the experience somewhat. All in all, though, The Eleventh Hour is a great start for Matt's Doctor, and a sign of the brilliance that was to come in the rest of Series 5!

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