No problem about spoilers. I'm all caught up as well.

I agree about the performance when the Doctor first sees the Dalek: Fantastic!

I had noticed the callback joke of the "lots of planets have a north". Just overall good stuff.

The Doctor and Rose really do have a chemistry. I wonder how that will go with the next Doctor. Also, they have fooled me a couple of times with the Boyfriend and the Smart Kid from the Dalek episode where I thought we were going to have a second sidekick.

I've caught myself dorpping a few copies "fantastic" into my daily conversation as well. When my wife is around she just rolls her eyes. She tolerates (and even quietly enjoys) my Dr. Who fandom (I've got about 20gigs of empeg dedicated to Dr. Who audio dramas and well over 100 videos from the original series), but she just can't resis giving me a hard time when some of it comes out in public. My fav is my "Hard Rock Cafe Gallifrey" t-shirt. One good thing is that I get a new video or two for each Birthday/Christmas, etc.

Not that I know anything about this "downloading" you speak of... but WOW the quality of those things (that I saw on some machine in an internet-cafe one day while passing by) IS really great. Whoever is "ripping" those things down must be directly recording the digital stream. I agree that the quality is better than what we would get over a local broadcast.

--Steve