Doctor Who - "The Long Game"

WHOSCALE: 8.5 OUT OF 10

My rating of this episode may surprise many of you, but I have to say this episode was not bad for a number of reasons.

At the end of "Dalek," Adam joins the TARDIS crew and follows The Doctor and Rose off to Satellite 5.

I was very pleased with how this episode unfolded; it took on the traditional "Who" format of not always telling the story from the TARDIS crew's point of view. We saw scenes of some of the S5 employees before they had even met the Doctor.

I could find no plotholes in this episode. In fact, my only complaint was the inhabitants of S5 were still wearing 21st century clothing.

Simon Pegg does a fabulous job of portraying The Editor, with some downright sinister dialogue, like when the girl is revealed to be an undercover agent and pulls a gun on him, ranting something like "You can't get away with this." The Editor chuckles and replies, "I love it! Say it again!"

The plot was well-conceived, the episode well-produced, well-scored, and probably the closest we've got to original Doctor Who since "The Unquiet Dead."

The Doctor shows no mercy for companions betraying his trust and abusing their TARDIS priveledge - as the episode ends with Adam getting the boot for attempting to send messages from the future back to his home in the 21st century.