"Smile" Guest Review by Brice Baker

We should be excited any time we have a brand new monster introduced. I am very happy when we get a break from Daleks, Cybermen and Angels (oh my). Add to that a perplexing oxymoron of a cute smiling happy robot that is apparently scary and I am ready to go. 

Now to the reality. "Smile" was more disappointing to me than "Pilot". I can excuse the first episode since it was basically an (unnecessary) origin story. Origin stories are always full of prose and relatively slow. I was hoping smile would pick up with the twists and excitement. 

I was sorely disappointed again. First thing they did was dispose of the comic genius of Matt Lucas, making 3 part banter impossible. Next we see the tiny bots ala Big Hero Six and the white emoji bot that strongly resembles the robot from Hitchhiker's Guide. 

Review "The Pilot"

 Welcome back Doctor and welcome back East Coast Who fans. Season 10 is finally here with the episode "The Pilot" and I was psyched for it. Then once the episode was over, I said to myself, "I hope it gets better". It wasn't that the episode was bad, it just wasn't memorable. No one is going to look back and say "The Pilot" was my favorite Dr Who episode this season".  It was just bland. I know not all Dr Who episodes have to be memorable, but I honestly forgot what happened the following day and had to re-watch it. Also, some of you are going to say that I need to look at the episode has a part of a bigger story. I believe that you need to view each episode as a whole and not part of a bigger story. Some of the best episode of the new series have been stand alone stories like, Blink & Time Heist.