"It all took place in the future!"

[Oldmankrondas]

Rate the sublimely wonderful "Human Nature"!

I absolutely loved this story, so refreshing to see, especially as I've feared the make-up of the new series is becoming a little predictable. And, I think, the turning point for anyone who has doubted Tennant's abilities. He was absolutely brilliant.

And wasn't it great to finally see reference to past Doctors? McCoy, McGann, Hartnell. Using a cricket ball! The Doctors fictional parents Sidney and Verity were lovely touches as well.

The monsters were genuinely scary, the settings were beautiful and the haunting atmosphere of the oncoming storm (WW1) was just great. Freema was also wonderful, especially her "You had to go and fall in love with a human didn't you? And it wasn't me." bit. Incredible stuff, I'm giving it a 9 because I never like to give 10s, but I think it was absolutely faultless, fresh and new but retaining the feel of the original series, exactly the sort of thing the new series should be doing!

[chancellorvalium]

Top of the class. The only real downers I can think of are that some of the accents weren't quite clipped and over-enunciated enough, and that there were still some regional traces in one or two voices (Tennant and the Matron's particularly), the scarecrows just weren't scary, and I'm not sure that the music at the dance was quite right for the time (still, at least they didn't have them doing the Tango!).

Other than that, I felt the story was a very faithful adaptation from the book, and while I miss some elements from the novel, you couldn't have got everything in it into 90 minutes...

9/10. RTD wasn't ill when this one was produced, was he?

[John Darnacan]

Excellent work, so I give a rare ten!