Doctor Who 2008 episode 1

I dreaded watching this a little bit, since Russel T. Davies' scripts tend to be less than tolerable at best, while his scripts for season opening episodes tend to be atrocious. But to my surprise this was actually quite decent.
Of course, Davies humor is still very much hit or miss, but at least half of the jokes were funny (obviously the ones where he is not trying so terribly hard to be funny - worst offender would be the Doctor and new companion Donna just barely not meeting half a dozen times). The more sentimental scenes were not very original, though still effective enough to make Donna actively interesting, especially through the relationship to her grandfather.
And the Adipodes are probably the cutest and most absurd little monsters in the history of the show. I want one just like that as a pet.
I can't even complain about the plotting. It was deeply silly in a good natured way and featured surprisingly little amounts of one of Davies' most annoying tics - the seemingly deep seated conviction that watching people run really really fast while bad music is playing in the background is incredibly exciting.