Things required to get the new DW into canon?

[whoiam]

I can remember going through the reviews and episode guides at gallifreyone as the new series came out... from the reviews there, I don't think that everyone shares your opinion of *all* the episodes of the new series being comparatively rubbish.

The episode "Dalek" and the two-parter in WW2 London "something-or-other" and "The Doctor Dances" both got essentially unanimous praise, and "Father's Day" and another whose name escapes me (the third Slitheen episode) got 'generally' good reviews. (in the case of the slitheen one, by 'generally' I mean everyone liked it apart from 5 mins at either end...).

The rest of the series got a kind of good-natured slating, though.