Vincent and the Doctor. A vase of sunflowers.

A couple more very positive reviews for episode 10.

Kate Griffiths: I rather enjoyed that, it was a very small cast of characters, only the Doctor, Amy and Vincent really. But you wouldn't have known it, I quite like some of the more gently paced stories. It had a good blend of humour and seriousness, for example the bow tie admiration exchange between the Doctor and the Curator, and when Amy made the Doctor jump, to Vincent's depression. It had a mixed ending too half happy half, sad. The fact that Vincent had painted the Sunflowers and dedicated it to Amy was touching - the ultimate ginger - to the fact that he had commited suicide anyway.

The BBC even felt it needed to offer it's advice line for people who may have been affected by the issues raised. I loved it when they took Vincent to show him how popular his work is, it was a nice moment. It's also good that Doctor Who is not afraid to show how depression can affect people and it's not always a happy ending.

Steve Murphy: A beautiful story, with much of what can be great about Doctor Who at its heart. The Doctor's friendship and guilt over Rory compelling him to give Amy lovely trips; the humour of the gallery sequences; nice performances all round; resonances of Frankenstein, with the blind monster being destroyed instead of understood and helped, and the fabulous reactions of Van Goch on hearing what modernity said about him. Some would say sentimental, but I say perhaps, but earned. Science fiction, if you like, grafted lovingly onto a morality tale. A starry, starry story indeed.