Jack's back

Spoiler alert - just in case you're waiting for the repeat on Friday

Yes, Captain Jack has finally found the right kind of Doctor, and what we never realised was that he’s been looking for him a lot longer than we thought. Nearly 150 years in fact, having arrived back on earth in the 1860’s. It was lovely to see the banter between him and DT’s Doctor, and to explore just why he had been left behind. It was also the Jack from Season 1, rather than the more moody Jack from Torchwood, flirting with everyone, and everything he met.

I haven’t said much about Doctor Who recently, and I have to admit that some episodes this series have been a bit disappointing (the Daleks in Manhattan two-parter, and 42), but recently we’ve been on a roll of good episodes. I loved the Human Nature two-parter. Oh how I cried for John Smith and the life that he could never have, and what a fantastic performance it was from DT. I could have written a great deal about that one, given the time. Blink was as good as I expected from Steven Moffat, who wrote the brilliant The Girl in the Fireplace last season.

And so we moved on to Utopia, and what a red herring that turned out to be. It’s been probably the worst kept secret that the Master in the shape of John Simm was returning at the end of the series, and we’ve had trails all through for the mysterious Mr Saxon. What I wasn’t expecting was that The Professor (oh, how clever that was) had also used the chameleon arch to hide his Time Lord identity, and that he would then, as the Master, regenerate into John Simm and steal the Tardis. So the two-part ending is really a three-parter, and I can’t wait to see where this ride takes us, as we now have three brilliant actors* in the show.

*which is not to diss Derek Jacobi at all, who is also brilliant. I loved DT commenting on Confidential that he'd gone to the stage door to get his autograph when he was at drama school. We have so much in common!