It somehow seems much less objectionable the way they do it canon where we get a plot mixed in with it. Well, except when the Master's, ah, getting a little too excited about talking to the Doctor on the phone. That was laying it on ever so slightly too thick for my tastes. Subtlety, thy name is not Russell T Davies.

Torchwood, of course, is the exception, what with it being utterly terrible and not worth the effort it takes to switch the TV on and select the channel to watch it.