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He's gathered a bit of a crew. Nefertiti, Riddell to name two. For a spaceship safari. To change trajectory. Avoiding a hullaballoo.

There's no one aboard they can find. It's missing the original kind. Except for a codger. Despicable dodger. He has several axes to grind.

But with Brian (Rory's dad) and Amy and Rory. They capture the vessel's history. Avoid cataclysm. Fulfilling their mission. While saving the ship and it's quarry.

The Doctor, Nefertiti, Riddell Amy, Rory and his dad travel on to a spaceship which is on course to crash into the Earth in approximately 6 hours time.

Moffat has pretty much avoided the family thing, so it's nice that we get to see Rory's dad, Brian's a good character, Mark Williams always brings fun.

At the start I honestly thought I was watching a Carry on Film, lots of slapstick humour. I love the idea of the Doctor travelling with Nefertiti. She was lots of fun. Brian and his balls was too much. Riddell and his large weapon, c'mon!!

CGI work on the dinosaurs was pretty good, at least they weren't rubber. The Pterodactyls look really impressive as does the Silurian ship.

I like the originality of the Doctor having essentially 5 companions, very novel, if you thought the TARDIS was crowded with Adric, Nyssa and Tegan forget it!!

The Mitchell and Webb robots are rather horrendous, they feel a little silly. David Bradley is an excellent villain, he is so vile in it, his treatment of Nefertiti is gross.

I am getting weary of the Doctor picking up and dropping off Rory and Amy every week, it's getting tiring, and it's always months later.

It's a nice fun episode for the family, not a great deal for the die hards. More good then bad. 6/10

Any Doctor Who fan who's ever had to explain what this show is about to someone who's never heard of it, will know that is nearly impossible to do so. Because, really, how does one describe a 50 year old children's TV show about a time-travelling alien in a 1950's police box without sounding completely ridiculous? Well, one doesn't. And that's a good thing, because you need to have a bit of ridiculousness to have an episode simply called "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" on your show.

To me, this episode has all the things I love about Doctor Who. It starts off with the basic principle of "Something's wrong. Let's go poke it with a stick!". What follows is 45 minutes of an action and adventure-stuffed plots, lots and lots of goofiness, brilliant acting, colourful characters and wonderful character development, kissing, tiny heartbreaking and very well done emotional moments, a lot of bad-ass companions, some delightful feminism, sexual innuendo, a villain, a hint of other classic Doctor Who aliens, pterodactyls, and an incredible amount of fun!

Doctor Who can be a very dark and complicated show. It can be a heartbreaking drama and an epic disaster story. But to me, this show (including those dramatic moments and the epicness) works best when it's not taking itself too seriously, and just having loads of fun. So what else can I say? There's dinosaurs... on a spaceship!

Seriously, if you rate this episode less than a 10, you're a bloody moron. This is a gloriously ridiculously fun episode.

I gave it a 3 because I'm being nice. It actually deserves a 2. It wasn't good at all! I was so looking forward to this episode and at the end of it, I was thinking 'Oh My God, did they actually just air that episode', because I was expecting it to be amazing. PLEASE don't do any more episodes like this! There was no plot whatsoever. I've seen a lot of comments and reviews that have said that it was amazing, and I can't see what was amazing about it. I can't even see what was GOOD about it! I only liked the first 5 minutes and the last 10 minutes, so that's 15 minutes out of 45 minutes. I'm sure next week's episode will be 10 times better...I HOPE!

It's ridiculous, it makes little sense, but it's fun. This is probably contradictory coming off complaining about all of the main stories in series 6 but the problem with those is that they try really hard to seem more than they are. This knows that it is. It's dinosaurs on a spaceship. You won't be bored.

The title of this episode sounds rather silly and the story itself is indeed rather silly in many ways but it is preferable for me compared to some of the big epics of this era because the plot is nicely simple so it isn't overstretched.

This episode contains a contrivance in that it has Egyptian Queen Nefertiti and an early Twentieth Century big game hunter John Riddell inexplicably joining the Doctor on the adventure for sheer effect. It also contrives circumstances in order to explain having dinosaurs on a spaceship. However, there is nothing particularly problematic and the plot basically makes sense in the world of Doctor Who. While a bit silly it is also pretty fun and has some good humour.

Amy, Rory and Rory's father Brian are also with the Doctor and Brian (Mark Williams), who has been inadvertently brought along, is both engaging and funny. He is a really great character who adds enjoyment and depth. Rory (Arthur Darvill) is always great and his interaction and banter with his father brings a new dimension.

The wonderful David Bradley appears here as the villainous Solomon. Bradley would later play the First Doctor, replacing the long since departed William Hartnell in TV Specials Twice Upon a Time and The Power of the Doctor as well as in a series of audio adventures. He also played Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time prior to that. He is a great actor and adds real quality as the bad guy in this episode. Robots played by comedians Mitchell and Webb are amusing, if a bit daft, and the dinosaurs themselves are very well done visually. The whole episode looks good.

This is not a great episode, it is more of a comedic filler but future Showrunner Chris Chibnall has written a quite enjoyable little story and the cast and production give it quality.

My Rating: 6.5/10.

This episode was not up to the quality of previous episodes particularly after following an episode of such higher quality.

But there is also nothing exiting going on either. They seem to have also realized this episode was going to be boring and so filled it with characters, like a poacher or something, Queen Nefertiti of Egypt and also Rory's dad; to help distract you from noting going on most of the episode...and you know what it kinda works but yes only kinda.

This would have worked better as an older style Doctor Who. If they got rid of the over numbered cast, and got rid of the stupid robots that were suppose to be funny (much like the robot from The Waters of Mars, but these were much worse). If they actually spent the episode studying what was going on (Que William Hartnell's Doctor using his magnifying glass) it would have actually made a better episode in my opinion, less explosions making it boring for the younger viewers i suspect but I would have found it more "fascinating" than this story.

One thing that also helps this up to a 5/10 is the amazing CGI works on the dinosaurs, very well done.

Brian. I love his character and everything about him. Unfortunately, everything else in this episode was absolutely horrible. There wasn't a single thing I enjoyed and I think this could easily be the worst episode of Matt Smith's run. I would have given the episode a zero if possible, but Brian bumps it up a couple of notches.