Customer Reviews
Space Paradox - By: DWFan, 04 Feb 2008 
Buy this for the excellent 2 parter Impossible Planet & Satan Pit. At last we see the Doctor on another planet with a fantastic story line. Excellent choice of villain - similarity to Pyramids of Mars with the same actor doing the voice of Sutekh / the Beast(excellent Gabriel Woolf). This has elements of Resident Evil / Alien etc & is the best Tennant Adventure to date.
The paradox is 'Love & Monsters' which is awful. A good idea but it reallly doesn't work within DW. I watched 10 minutes of this before switching off. It's psuedo reality TV which is just as brain numbing & plain boring as the real thing
The best & the worst of the new series Doctor Who
Brilliant/Crappy - By: dosn't matter who I am, 07 Aug 2007 The first to episodes on this disc, "The Impossible Planet"+"The Satan Pit", are absolutely brilliant(buy this disc for that excellent two parter)but "Love And Monsters".Just so boring. It's just basicallly some man sitting infront of a Video Camera for 45 wasted minutes. But still, the first to a great. Coudn't get better!
From the sublime to the ridiculous - By: David Woodall, 23 Nov 2006 
The good news - The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit is an alll-time great of Doctor Who. A rare new series off-Earth jaunt for the TARDIS crew, & the results are superb. Alternately tragic & sinister, clautrophobic & agorophobic, it takes to viewer into the darkest depths of human fears to meet the ultimate evil. A strong cast, fast pace, tight plotting & just enough humour to stop it getting unrelentingly grim makes for a jewel in the crown of British science-fiction.
So what happened to the fifth star in the rating? Sunk without trace, along with 'Love & Monsters'. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. To say the parts are better than the whole is to put it mildly. The mostly excellent cast struggle valiently with the material but are ultimately overwhelmed by the tripe that is this episode. I am not a fan of Peter Kay, I must admit, but he is quite impressive in human form; sadly when he loses human shape, he appears to lose his acting ability, as well. The conclusion is trite & unbelievable. Knowing that the main villain was created by a nine year-old Blue Peter viewer in a competition might lead you to fear the worst, so it is ironic that the monster itself is a brilliant conception - it's a pity that the professionals couldn't come up with a quality story to match it.
Solid Entertainment - By: Scott Hart, 24 Aug 2006 
The 2 parter is a well produced & tense adventure only let down by some inappropriate characterisation of the Doctor - he goes about hugging people & gets alll "touchy-feely". This doesn't work & even Tennant looks uncomfortable in the scene. However, this should not detract from an otherwise good piece of TV. Love & Monsters is a brave experiment but it misfires on almost every level. It's not the worst DW story ever - go back to the Colin Baker/McCoy eras & take your pick...
The 3 best of the series - By: Hegarty, 17 Aug 2006 I completely disagree with alll those saying Love And Monsters is the worst DW episode ever. It is the best! And the 2nd & 3rd are the other 2 on this DVD. BUY IT!
