This episode won an award or two...it's probably the best they've done alone with Girl in the Fireplace.

David Tennant gives a fucking transcendent performance in this one, too. Really worth seeing, even if you have no other interest in Doctor Who.

And yes, it's nice to have a Doctor who isn't all hugs and bunnies again. People forget that despite his quirky space drifter persona, he's basically a fucking god, and gods get wrathful sometimes.

FINE I'LL WATCH IT GET OFF MY BACK

To back up ROUS's awards claim I know that the two halves that make up this episode were nominated for the Hugo this year for "best science fiction TV show" or whatever the category actually is. The episode that won was another Doctor Who episode "Blink" which is just amazing.

Blink was pretty cool as well, though my heart belongs to that lady who had so much plastic surgery she was just a stretched flap of skin on a metal frame.

This show is wonderful for redeeming its villains from time to time. My heart went out to her in the last episode she was in.

The first clause in your sentence has nothing to do with the second one.