Press tour is preventing me from giving the latest "Doctor Who" the proper review treatment, but very brief thoughts coming up just as soon as I pre-order the final Harry Potter book...I'm usually less fond of episodes where The Doctor travels far back in the history of Earth, like "The Unquiet Dead" and "Tooth and Claw," but "The Shakespeare Code" was a fun little ride. "Shakespeare in Love" covered a lot of this material already -- the meta-Shakespeare humor, not the ancient witches plot -- but the Shakespeare canon provides plenty of fodder for that kind of gag, and the notion of aliens whose power lies entirely in words was a cool one that deserved to involve the Bard.
I continue to enjoy the interplay between Tennant and Freema, and the banter about Harry Potter led to the Expelliarmus punchline at the climax. Not my favorite episode, but not bad. If I have time tomorrow, I may expand on my thoughts in the comments, but in the meantime, have at it. What did everybody else think?
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