Tonight begins premiere week (for us, anyway) with a big budget S-F show that will be compared to another extremely successful ABC show. How was it? How does it compare? And why is there a kangaroo?
Tons of spoilers after the jump

In 1984, I wandered (or was pushed) into a comic book store in Dallas, Texas. Among the bric-a-brac there were several bits of memorabilia that featured a bug-eyed man with a big grin, big hat and ridiculously long scarf. "That", someone explained to me, "Is. The. Doctor." In the next breath it was explained to me that although the name of the show is 'Doctor Who' , that is not the character's name, but an in-joke.

A show that had an obscure in-joke as it's name was too nifty an idea to pass up, so I started watching on the local PBS station- and was hooked.

Six Doctors later, I still am. So the prospect of a 'Next Doctor' intrigued me, so I watched the latest incarnation of the Doctor in this years Christmas special.
I'll try to keep this SPOILER free (or at least Spoiler light...)

Tonight, we get Ace the Bathound and Batmite- are the producers running out of characters in the DC Universe that Warners will actually let them use?

Let's find out!

Tonight's review is going to be brief... partly because there's not a lot to comment directly on, but also because I got some Republi-bifocals this evening and am having a hard time seeing to work. So...

I'm jumping straight to observations... go watch the ep on Hulu or something, it's worth it.

Observations: Richard really doesn't age, and doesn't have nearly the clue that you'd think he'd have. So his remarkable presence of mind seems to be the result of Locke telling him what to do...