Episode #179 : Fear Her

Dame Kelly Holmes Close resident: [To the Doctor, who is crouched on his lawn] What's your game?

The Doctor:[Turning round quickly] Snakes and Ladders? Quite good at... squash? I'm being facetious, I... There's no call for it.

Episode 179:   Fear Her.
Companions:   10th Doctor and Rose Tyler.
Air Date:         24th June 2006.

In London in 2012, the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler set off to see the Olympics, only to find terror in the most ordinary place.

The Doctor and Rose arrive in London in time for the 2012 Olympics. Landing in an everyday street where children are disappearing they find themselves drawn into a bizarre adventure. A lost alien entity has merged with an imaginative child and draws children into drawings to provide companionship.

Fear Her is a fairly terrible story. The concept is nice but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. I find that I cannot care for the child nor the events shown. Drawings that kidnap children and a scribble monster created from a child's tantrum scribble on a piece of paper are just silly ideas. Unlike the regular threats presented in the show, the Isolus doesn't work. You are supposed to care about what happens but I find that difficult in this case.

There is a scene in this episode where the Doctor lights the Olympic stadium fire with the Olympic torch. When the actual 2012 Olympics took place the organisers really should have had David Tennant as the Doctor light it in the same way.

I don't have a good thing to say about this story. I recommend avoiding it like the plague.