This episode appears to be a bit of a disappointment, firstly because of the title we were expecting some sort of historical who plotting taking place, however the Daughter of the title is just some sort of DNA clone – huh! 

Then we get to the episode itself, actually this is was a very familiar place, harking back to the Tom Baker era of Doc Who, where some civil war has broken on a planet, just made up of corridors that happen to look identical to one another. This really has to be the weakest episode of the forth series so far, however David Tennant and Catherine Tate manage to still entertain and keep the episode afloat, if not really engaging us in any sort of way. 

David Tennant again proves to be the best Doctor (ok, in my opinion only) so far, he will be missed when he decides to leave the show, his depiction of despair at the end of the episode, at one moment appearing to lose control only to show the inhabitants of the planet what they should really be doing, and not waging war. However this also brings us to another point about the episode, it was another preachy episode where War is bad, love is good type instalment, which is all well and good but this seems to have creeped in around the throughout the run of the forth series so far, less preach-iness and more story I say. 

The plot itself, also made no sense, had the war been raging for 7 days, surely there were some survivors, you can’t really see every single person only living for only a day? Also why would the builders put a time stamp on each section built, and why? Oh why? Would Donna decide to right them down, apart from revealing the ‘plot twist’ at the end? Oh dear. 

Now we get to the Doctors Daughter herself, to be honest the episode is not long enough for us to care about the character, and her sudden shift from Warrior to Pacifist is a little unreasonable to accept, however coming across as a young Buffy she did a good job, perhaps being Peter Davidson real-life daughter owes more of tendency to forgive from the Who fans than she probably deserves, however her appearance in such a .. Average WHO episode doesn’t really endear us to the character and I’m sure if she appears in a future episode she’ll have more to work with. Which to be honest seems to be some sort of gamelan, if the ending is anything to go by. 

Martha again appears to be much silted in this episode; she really needs a personality transplant or something? Who would ever have thought that Catherine Tate would actually appear to be a better companion than her?

Hopefully though, next time we go to an alien planet, it will involve less corridors and more plot?

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