"Stare into the face of death!" It's only a bloody Sontaran! Last on our screens way back in 1985 they finally make a grand reappearance to the series!
They're not the only ones back as Martha Jones is also back. To be fair she had only been gone a year and had cropped in Torchwood between then and now so her reappearance perhaps isn't as exciting. Although seeing her interactions with Donna are quite funny. The Doctor expects Martha to be a little put out that he has moved on with his life so quickly and got a new companion but actually she couldn't care less and keeps banging on about the handsome fiance she has. That gets a little annoying after a while but then I think I'm just a bitter and lonely man who is driven to distraction by other people's happiness....Anyway!..Moving on..
The Sontarans are busy with their scheme of pumping *sniggers* our atmosphere full of a terrible gas which not only kills people but makes the Earth a fully prepared breeding ground for the Sontarans clone themselves. I'm glad that in their return they have again become the short arses that they used to be. It makes them even more unique as a villain and the later ones from the old series seems to have forgotten this and just had any old person play them.
Donna has an emotional heart to heart with her grandfather, Wilf. They wisely decide to keep the truth of Donna's adventures with the Doctor away from her mother which I think was a wise move as her mother isn't exactly pleased to see the Doctor after the disaster that was Donna's wedding just over a year ago.
UNIT also makes a full return to the series. They had been seen briefly before in stories like Aliens Of London and The Christmas Invasion but here they are back properly for the full two episodes. We even get a nice mention of the Brigadier and a joke about the UNIT dating controversy. Basically there was some continuity issues in the old series as to when the stories with UNIT in it were set. Therefore when the Doctor is remembering back to his days of working for the organisation he makes the comment "back in the 70s..or was it the 80s". Yay! I'm a fan and I'm being pandered to! I very much approve! However one thing I do NOT approve of is that UNIT no longer stands for the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce but Unified Intelligence Taskforce. Not sure why this is but I'm guessing it was some silly rule!
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