The Racnoss was a strange creature and talked in a tone that was quite hard to understand... But apart from that a giant alien spider tied in well with the Christmas Star (or web) and the whole idea of it being around from the start of the Earth and how it was the centre of the Earth, was highly well thought out. 3/5
The introduction of a space police organization was a great idea and I loved the Judoon apart from the fact, why would alien police look like Earth rhinos? Not quite working for me... Loved the language and formality of them though. 4/5
Carrionites - The Shakespeare Code
Witches, like the werewolf of Series 2, was a little too much fairytale for me so the Carrionites weren't one of my favourite's, however they're story was quite interesting but the idea of them being defeated by words was rubbish! Doctor Who is sci-fi not fairytale! 2/5
Macra - Gridlock
A monster-lite episode, saw the return of a classic monster? Why? If you're going to re-introduce something, be sure to give it an episode which actually about it and not just a few seconds on screen. Very disappointed with this decision. 1/5
The return of the Cult of Skaro saw the worst Dalek two-parter ever written. The Daleks evolving into human-like creatures?! I was totally behind Cann, Thay and Jast by the end as they over through their leader, but of course they got defeated... 3/5
Lazarus - The Lazarus Experiment
Professor Lazarus creature thing, was a pretty bad monster. As I explained in my recent article saying how bad The Lazarus Experiment was, the Lazarus creature was very unbelievable and the questiuon remains, why would Lazarus turn evil and try to kill innocent people? 1/5
The Sun - 42
The whole sun being alive thing was OK but nothing great. Even today, I am still making my mind up on whether it was a little bit too far creating a sun that was alive. Good story but once again we had no alien threatening presence. 3/5
Family of Blood - Human Nature/The Family of Blood
The Family of Blood were grear villains and very memorable. A fantastically written story and an enemy that has so many good factors, I simply can't detail them all in this article. What I will say though is, the Family of Blood saved the monster factor of Series 3, as so far it was very bad. 5/5
The introduction of the stone statues was by far one of the best Doctor Who episodes ever. The Weeping Angels were introduced shrouded in mystery and I loved how they had actually caught the Doctor! Their appearance is fantastic as they could turn from looking like innocent statues one minute, to claws out, sharp teeth, angry look, the next! 5/5
Futurekind - Utopia
The idea of the futurekind I feel was just to put a monster in to an episode which wasn't really about aliens at all, just the backstory to the series finale. However, the futurekind were not good monsters and how they could be humans is weird, as why on earth would humans in the future turn stupid, rabid and tribal all of a sudden? 1/5
The re-introduction of THE classic villain was absolutely mind blowing! For one, he actually won... for a year, anyway! Two, he's mental and will stop at nothing to achieve universal domination. And three, he's a genius but his biggest fear is something that it shouldn't be... The Doctor! A friend, even after the hell The Master puts him through for 'the year that never was', all the way to their deaths. 5/5
And my favourite is...
Weeping Angels or The Master
It's an impossible decision as both really turned Series 3 around in the monster way of things and both had two of the most fantastic Doctor Who stories ever!
And my least favourite is...
Futurekind
Although I really dislike Lazarus, at least his episode was actually about him whereas the Futurekind, in my opinion, were not really needed and I feel the episode would have been just as good, albeit slighly altered, without them.
In Conclusion...
A series which started off average and then by episode 6/7, was pretty shocking in the monster factor. But as of episode 8 (except episode 11) the series featured some timeless classics which will remain with us Whovians, forever.
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