The Hungry Earth - Gaz

It's the compulsory Welsh episode this week, so it's timely as the newly elected Tory Government make themselves comfy there is a former mine involved, even if it's now scientific and drilling a bloody deep hole, based on the sole reason that the grass in the graveyard is blue. I thought coal would have been a better reason, but hey, I dropped out of my geology degree at University, so what do I know!

Meanwhile, people in the village are going missing... but oddly it's the dead ones that seem to be of concern, as "the wife" expects the Police to deal with this and the fact "the husband" has not returned from home is not even on her radar. Meanwhile "the kid" is just a bit creepy, first with Rory and then The Doctor and oddly... well I'll get back to oddly in a moment.

So the mighty drill has awoken a "lost" tribe of Eocene homo-reptillians, or Silurians in Doctor Who lore, after 300,000,000 years of peaceful village life 20 odd miles beneath the surface, and like all villages cut off from eveyone else, their first reaction is to kidnap a couple of people and cut them open... whilst they are alive and awake... ewww. But I did notice that oddly "the kid" is not with "the husband" and Amy, so maybe the Silurians find him more than a bit creepy too?

I liked the episode, it was a nice to visit the spirit of John Pertwee and Tom Baker episodes I first watched, there are echoes of many classic episodes, not only those featuring the Silurians and The Sea Devils, but also the classic alternate reality episode The Inferno. The episode even felt paced to the traditional 30 minute per week format. I also liked the Silurians, the new look is sleek and attitude is nice and menacing, I expect The Doctors offer to act as a mediator is not going to go well, these Silurians seem more fierce in attitude and dogma than before.

I liked:

The new look Silurians

Rory finding his feet when Amy is not around

The pacing of the episode

I disliked:

The resident family, "the kid" is creepy, "the wife" is annoying, and "the grandfather, who is a geologist" is clearly too stupid to live.... I've been tongue lashed by a lizard women and now I'm turning green, but I'll not let on

The Silurian city... c'mon if they'd recovered that much in the 300,000,000 years since they had fled underground they have surfaced by now and kicked our naked ape asses

I need to be convinced:

That Amy will be dissected by Dr Frankenlizard.... I'm not sure why??

So next week, who will kill the Silurian prisoner, or will she be wrong? Will Amy be dissected? Will The Doctor sacrifice another species to save some humans and their dodgy morals?