Doctor Who season 1 (the new series 1)

ep 11 - 12 -13 need expanding.

Ok, things are like this. I had never heard of Doctor Who at all until a few years ago, never heard of any of the actors that played it, had absolutely no idea of what it was. Then, one day, wandering on youtube, I saw an English show where the guest was David Tennant, and he was there for 5 minutes top, and he was saying he got the role as the new doctor, and in those five minutes he was so nice and adorable that I thought "I've no idea of what this doctor is, but if he's in it, I'll watch it sooner or later, when I can find it", so basically he's the reason why I started watching Doctor Who.
However, me being who I am, I didn't like the idea of watching a series from the second year, and I bought a box set with the first 4 series together, and started watching from the first.
And it blew my mind, the doctor IS fan-ta-stic ! And I think it tells much about the show-the actor-the character-the whole packet, that at the end of this series, when I knew that David was coming the next season, when it came the moment of his regeneration I still went 'what? no wait, I just met you!'. Of course, I was used to american series, when they do from 20 to 22 episodes a season, so when it ended at episode 13 it really was too early for me, it really felt like I had just started!
Cast:
Doctor: Christopher Eccleston
Rose: Billie Piper
Jackie Tyler: Camille Coduri
Micky Smith: Noel Clarke

1
 - The first episode (Rose) was special for various reasons, for the way they introduced the Doctor, first showing his hand taking hers, then him saying 'run!', which is essentially the Doctor in a nutshell. Running, saving people, and taking people's hands quite easily, which is totally him, not just saving but also feeling close to people, caring.
I loved it. Sure the special effects might not be mind-blowing, but it's not important, the character is. The Doctor is funny, heroic, intense and light at the same time. I like Rose because she's like a normal girl, I mean, pretty but not a top model, she's not rich and she's not a fashion-victim, she's very much like a real person, if you know what I mean.
It goes like this:
Rose's day starts off at 7.30: wake up, kiss mom, take the bus and go to work, lunch break with boyfriend, back to work and...finally home? Not today, she has to stay back, and she's surrounded by moving dummies when 'someone' takes her hand, says 'run' and we meet the ninth doctor :-)
He tells her to go home 'I'm the doctor by the way. What's your name?'-'Rose'-'Nice to meet you Rose. Now run for your life' :lol: I already like this doctor character. Then the department store blows up and she runs away. Following the plastic track he shows up at her house. "You! Inside! Right now!" = yep, I like her too :-) He looks at himself in the mirror and says "it could have been worse... but look at the ears!" or something like that. Is this the first time he sees this incarnation? No time to find a mirror anywhere? Anyway. The plastic arm tries to kill them, then she runs after him wanting to understand what's going on. When he says he's "the Doctor" she replies "Doctor what?" :lol:
He tells her that he's just passing thru, a long way from home, and that they want to destroy humanity (simple as that), "do you believe me?" - "no" - "but you're still listening" :-) Yes, she is, without screaming or crying or whatever. Good. Thank you.
He tells her a bit of him, not much, then he tells her to forget him :-/ as if it was possible. She looks for information on him on the internet. She types 'doctor blue box' and the first site reads "doctor who?" :-) Micky drives her there on a yellow bug :-) (Micky's car?) and she meets Clive, and it was funny, I like how Clive and his wife talk. Well, she only says "she's a she??" but I like a lot how she says that. Clive shows her pictures with Nine's face in 1963,  and with a family that cancelled their trip on the titanic and therefore survived, and again in the 19th century, and tells her stories about this mysterious man. Meanwhile Micky is outside being attacked by a plastic bin and replaced with a copy. He looks so plasticky now. At a diner he/it attacks the doctor, even after he tore its head off. I like that Rose immediately thinks of protecting the people inside and shouts for people to run away, get out. This is when she enters the tardis for the first time. They're running away and he simply enters there. It doesn't look very safe, a simple, little blue box, but once inside she's shocked. To see all that, to learn that the doctor is an alien... but it doesn't take her much to get real again and she thinks of Micky and cries believing that thing killed him. The doctor says he had not thought of that, which sounds a bit odd to me. Doesn't he care? How long has he been alone now?
He explains the plan, they run together holding hands :-) they reach this 'consciousness' and she runs to Micky who is still alive, and now the doctor says 'that was always a possibility' which makes me think that he always thought he was probably alive, and maybe what he didn't expect was the fact that Rose was thinking of Micky being dead while so many wonders were happening to her (plastic attacker, bigger-on-the-inside-box, doctor's an alien and all that).
The doctor tries to reason with this consciousness-blob, but it is not in a good mood and seems to be accusing the doctor of something. The doctor says "I was not attacking you, I'm here to help, I'm not your enemy. That's not true, I should know, I was there, I fought in the war, it wasn't my fault. I couldn't save your world, I couldn't save any of them" whatever all that means, at this point, right?
Then a signal goes out and all the dummies start moving and attacking people, and Clive gets killed. Sorry. Rose says "the end of the world" as if it was something strange, she'll get used to it. :-p
The Doctor is being held still by plastic things, and I like that Rose instead of panicking, looks around her, studying the situation, to see if there is something she can do. Micky is yelling for her to leave, that there's nothing she can do, but she goes sure she can, indeed. She helps the Doctor alright, and he takes them to safety in the Tardis. Once out, Micky is still in shock, while Rose calls her mom to see if she's ok. I liked this. The Doctor asks her to go with him, she says "I can't", he goes away but comes back "did I mention it also travels in time?" and she kisses Micky "thanks- for what? - exactly" :-) and then runs happily to the Tardis. I learn from the ending titles that those things are called Autons, they were probably present in some old episodes, but I had never heard of DW before this series, so I haven't seen any of them. Yet.
Can I say how much I liked the fact that Rose here was just a common girl with a common accent and common clothes on, and not some kind of top model who would have looked more alien than the Doctor? What I like about Rose is all here: her being normal, with curves and sweatpants on, her caring about people, her never panicking, her running happily, so young and fresh.

2
The second episode (the end of the world) was so-and-so, wasn't crazy about it and still am not, but I like the tree-lady, it makes me so sad when she dies. Funny thing is, this was the one time the Doctor didn't actually stop the end of the world, but had simply gone to watch it; he'll just have to stop a murderer.
It starts exactly where we left off. The Doctor asks Rose where she wants to go, she says "forward" and he takes her 5 billion years in the future, to the day the sun expands and the Earth dies, literally the end of the world.
Earth is empty now, of course, they are all gone. He shows his psychic paper as his invitation, then the trees come. I really like the trees. We also see the face of Boe for the first time, and Lady Cassandra the last human. Rose talks to a repairing woman, who was very nice, but she probably gets killed by these strange metal things. I liked her, sorry I won't see her again: Rufello or something. The Doctor explains how the Tardis gets into people's brain changing something, thus giving her the ability to understand other species' languages. She insists on knowing about him, but he doesn't want to talk about it. It's a bit of a fight, he turns his back to her and they are silent for a few seconds then Rose says "as my mate says, don't argue with the designated driver" making him smile (I like this scene and that smile-smirk he does). She seems a bit down thinking of the end of the world and he puts something in her phone so she can call home :
" a little bit of jiggery-pokery" - "is that a technical term, jiggery-pokery?" - "yes, I came first in jiggery-pokery" :lol:  and she calls her mum :-)
Those metal things deactivate the solar fields, and I was really sorry to see the tree lady die, she was very nice, beautiful and beautifully dressed, and a descendant of Earth's tropical forest too!!
She tries to help him, and also she says she knows who he is, and hells him "how sorry I am". So nice. She sacrifices herself to help the Timelord, he should have gone faster!! At the very last second he raises the shields again, saving all.  We have a taste of DoctorWho's irony with the juke-box and Cassandra's idea of a traditional Earth ballad: "Toxic"-Britney Spears ....
The Doctor finds out that Cassandra is responsible for the whole mess. "What are you going to do, moisturize me?"- "with acid" :lol: She teleports away, but he reversed the teleport taking her back, and lets her crack. Rose told him to help her but he didn't. He gave the consciousness a chance, but Cassandra had killed people. The consciousness had killed too, yes, Wilson and Clive and who knows, maybe more, but let's say as it is, it's easier to forgive when it's someone you don't know, when you didn't actually witness it. Here, Rose was almost killed, and the Doctor saw the tree lady burst into fire and die.
The Doctor tells Rose of his planet, now dead "there was a war, and we lost". "I'm the last of the Time Lords" and "I've been traveling on my own 'cause there's no one else" - "There's me"=sweet Rose.  It ends with him telling her that now she's seen how dangerous it is, does she want to go home? "I don't know"=very honest, sometimes you need to clear your head first, right? "I want chips" :-) lovely :-)
The credits say: Raffalo:Beccy Armory ; Cassandra: Zoe Wanamaker ;

3
The third episode (the unquiet dead) was the one with Dickens and the Gelth!! They go back to 1869 and she dresses up for the occasion, because apparently there's all sorts of dresses in the tardis wardrobe, and he looked at her already falling for her, you could already tell. This was written by Mark Gatiss.
An old dead woman in a funeral home kills a man and walks out. The owner says "the stiffs are getting lively again"... The doctor thinks they are in Naples, December 24, 1860.. but they're not. As she walked out and I saw the snow I thought it was wrong: it's actually 1869 and they are in Cardiff... the dead grandma has gone to listen to Dickens, and when the man and his servant take her body away Rose follows them so he abducts her. The Doctor follows with Dickens. They locked her inside a room with walking-dead grandma and grandson but the Doctor saves her. The servant Gwyneth or something (the actress who plays Gwen in Torchwood) has a special power, can sense the spirits and knows how the Doctor likes his tea (two sugars); there's a rift, a sort of weak point in time and space, and something is passing through. Gwyneth reads in Rose's mind about a different London and her dead father, but gets scared mentioning the BigBadWolf... and the Doctor uses her as a medium; she channels the spirits: they say they are the Gelth "we are so very few, the last of our kind, we face extinction" and say that the Time War destroyed their bodies and they're now asking for the dead bodies to live again "we're dying, help us". The Doctor thinks 'why not?' , nobody's using the dead bodies, and they could help them survive. Rose tries to talk to Gwyneth, she wants to help her but to Gwyneth it's more patronizing then helping. Rose says "you don't understand what's going on" and she says that it's "very clear inside your head that you think I'm stupid" and "things might be very different where you're from but here and now I know my own mind, and the angels need me". She wants to help them, and they beg to hurry up "pity the Gelth"... so she does it. There's a lot more than they thought, and the dead bodies in the funeral home are not enough, and they intend to kill the humans to take their bodies: they are not angels at all. The Doctor is angry because he tried to help, he pitied them, but now they are like "we don't want your pity, we want this world". Dickens runs away but once outside he understands that they need gas so he runs back inside. The Doctor apologizes to Rose because they're about to die. Dickens turns all the lights out and fills the place with gas so the Gelth are sucked out of the body into the gas. Dickens takes Rose out, Gwyneth says she can't send them back but she can hold them there while she blows up the place with matches. The Doctor is reluctant to let her do it, at first, but then he understands that she's already dead and goes out. When the place blows up, Rose looks at him in a you-let-her-die kind of look, but he explains that she closed the rift but was already dead. Rose says "she saved the world, a servant girl, and no one will ever know". They go away. Dickens asks him if his books will last :p and the Doctor says Yes! Forever! :)
Gwyneth: Eve Miles ; Dickens: Simon Callow
Episodes four and five are linked, same story, with a spaceship crashing in the Thames, with the Slitheen occupying Downing Street, and with the first introduction of Harriett Jones.

4
They are: 'aliens of London' : details: The Doctor takes Rose home, telling her it's only been twelve hours since she left so she goes back to her mother all happy, planning on telling her she spent the night at her friend's place, but there are fliers around with her face on it: she was actually gone twelve months, and as he sees them the Doctor runs to tell her "you've been gone a whole year, sorry" ...
A child writes BadWolf on the Tardis. I like Jackie and Rose, they're so real (so Jackie thinks she's 20 now :-p )
It's difficult to explain to Jackie where she's been and why she didn't call, twelve long months... of course Jackie is also mad at the Doctor: "what, you found her on the internet? did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?" - "I am a doctor" - "prove it, stitch this mate" and she slaps his face quite loudly :-p He says later to Rose: "900 years of time and space and I've never been slapped by someone's mother" so she learns his age and says "my mum was right, that is one hell of an age gap"... then Rose complains that she can't talk to anyone about all she has seen, saying she's the only one on Earth knowing all that exists out there (she's not, but she still doesn't know about the other companions) when a spaceship flies very low over London, crashing the Big Ben and ending in the river. It's obviously all over the news: "Big Ben destroyed as UFO crash land in central London". There are emergency meetings of course, the prime minister seems to have disappeared. Harriett Jones appears for the first time "but I did have an appointment at 3.15" - "yes, and then a spaceship crashed in the middle of London. Your schedule might have changed". I liked that man, it bothers me that I never manage to get his name :-/
Two men and a woman meet to talk about the emergency since the prime minister disappeared, and they laugh as soon as they are alone... Rose is worried the Doctor might disappear on her and to reassure her he gives her the key to the Tardis.
Harriett tries again to speak to them about her village hospital matter, and then she goes in when they don't see her, meaning to leave it in their suitcase, and she sees the emergency protocols..
The Doctor wanted to go and see the dead alien body: it's actually alive now, a pig running around on two legs until a soldier shoots him dead. The Doctor is angry: "what did you do that for? It was scared!". He says that that was an ordinary pig that someone changed, and then make it crash on purpose. After seeing the Doctor from his window, Mickie runs to Rose's home and sees her there! Nobody told him she was back! Poor Micky, they treated him very badly. He's upset, he couldn't tell them the truth about where she'd gone, and he was questioned five times by the police and strongly accused by Jackie, he'd been a murder-suspect for months.... When he tells Rose that the Doctor's gone, they go see and Jackie sees the Tardis reappearing: one look inside and she runs home and phones the emergency line; she speaks the words 'doctor' and 'blue box' and even 'tardis' and a red alert flashes on Downing Street computers. Rose asks Micky (the Doctor keeps calling him Ricky) if he's seeing anyone else, since she was away for so long, and he says "no, mainly because everyone thinks I murdered you" - "right". Again, poor Micky.
Harriett hides in the room and she sees when the new prime minister and the other two take off their disguise and kill the general.
Soldiers go to get the Doctor and Rose and they are escorted to Downing Street; he gets his own badge but she can't go in, and Harriett takes care of her. The Doctor realizes, maybe just a tiny bit late, that "it's not a diversion, it's a trap" because all the experts on aliens are reunited there; here are also the famous words "excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" :-p
Harrett tells Rose everything and they find the corpse of the prime minister, and all of them see the alien taking off the human-disguise and show their real form "we are Slytheen".
All experts are killed through their badges. One alien unfortunately kills the guy I liked (sorry man, that happens often) and one alien is at Jackie's home about to kill her disguised as a policeman. The doctor is being electrocuted too, since he's also wearing his badge...

5
 and 'world war three'.
Details: The Doctor rises, takes his ID card and stuck it to one of the aliens saying "deadly to humans maybe". All aliens start being electrocuted, so the Doctor runs, Harriet and Rose too, and Micky comes to save a shocked Jackie. The Doctor calls the soldiers but in the meantime the Slytheen had taken off the badge and disguised themselves again as humans, so the 'prime minister' can blame it all on the Doctor. The Slytheen find Rose and Harriet comes out of hiding yelling "Noooo take me first!" but then the Doctor comes in with a fire extinguisher... "who the hell are you?" - "Harriet Jones MP for Flydale North" - "nice to meet you" - "likewise" then later she asks "he's not human? but he's got a northern accent!" :lol: lots of planets have a north...
Slytheen is not their race, it's their family surname. The three of them are safe now in there, the cabinet room can be sealed with steel walls. The Slytheen reunite the family, there are at least six there, the 'policeman' is still out. The Doctor says he knows the name Harriet Jones, she studies the emergency protocols and Rose wonders if they have access to weapon codes because they could "launch a nuclear bomb at them" - "you're a very violent young woman" but they can't because the UN has the codes. The Doctor needs Micky's help, so they talk in speakerphone and Micky gains access to UNIT website with the passwords the Doctor gives him. Jackie asks him "is my daughter safe? Is she safe? Will she always be safe? Can you promise me that?" but the policeman shows up at Micky's door. The Doctor works out they are from Raxacoricofallapatorius but Micky's not impressed "yeah great we could write 'em a letter". The Doctor tells him to use vinegar so Jackie throws a lot at the alien and it explodes. The 'prime minister' announces that 'aliens' have killed all the experts, that they are dangerous and therefore 'we' as Earth should strike first, and he asks the UN to give him the codes. There's nothing up there to destroy, though, they'd use the weapons against other countries to start world war three, they want to sell the radioactive remains of Earth...
The Doctor gives them an ultimatum, to stop it or he'll stop them, and they laugh in his face. The Doctor always knew a way out but "I can't guarantee your daughter will be safe" - Jackie:"don't you dare!" - "if I don't dare everyone dies" and Rose:"do it" - "you don't even know what it is, you just let me?" - "yeah", and it's a beautiful scene; he explains that that's his life, making decisions that nobody else will, and he tells Rose "I could save the world but lose you" and they look intensely at each other until Harriet speaks "except it's not your decision Doctor, it's mine" because she's "the only elected representative in this room chosen by the people for the people and on behalf of the people I command you: do it" so he has Micky launch a common missile towards them, and Rose hides in a small cupboard with Harriet (it's not clear how they aimed the missile, there was already one pointed towards Downing Street? well, let's not complicate things...)
It hits destroying everything but the three of them come out safe, and the Doctor says he knew her name because Harriet will be the new prime minister "elected for three successive terms, the architect of Britain's golden age". Rose goes home to her mother, the Doctor goes to his Tardis. Jackie plans to cook shepherd's pie for him but when he phones Rose he's like "I've got better things to do" and gives her the choice: stay there for tea or go away with him, and she immediately packs a bag. Jackie begs her not to go but she goes anyway. Micky is surprised that the papers could write "alien hoax?" and the Doctor says "you're just not ready, you're happy to believe in something that's invisible but if it's staring you in the face: nope!" and "there's a scientific explanation for that, you're thick!" and Micky smiles "we're just idiots" - "well, not all of you". The Doctor gives him a virus to put online that will "destroy every mention of me" saying it's "because you're right, I'm dangerous and I don't want anybody following me" - "how can you say that and take her with you?" - "you could look after her, come with us" but Micky says that he can't, that life is too much for him, but "don't tell her I said that", so when Rose arrives and says "come with us" the Doctor refuses to have him on board, and declares "my decision is final" even after she remarked that he saved them :-)
Jackie keeps trying to keep her home but Rose tells her that it's also a time machine and she'll be back and only ten seconds will have passed (yeah right, remember the twelve hours that became twelve months?.....) so after the Tardis vanishes Jackie waits for ten seconds then sighs and goes home...
I liked the bits with the news reporters.
I liked the ending, and it was touching when Jackie waited the 10 seconds after watching the tarddis disappear.

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Episode six is called Dalek and is great, (EDIT  even if the first time I watched it, the sight of a Dalek said nothing  to me because I had never seen one, this was a good introduction).
I like how Rose is all "I'm a traveller through space and time and I know how to handle aliens alone without the Doctor", so out of pity she touches it and she revives it...
Don't go around touching aliens, you silly girl!!! And this is the episode where she changes him, he was all anger, he was a warrior, but she changed him, made him put down his weapon, and I think this is very important.
Details: Some kind of signal has drawn the Tardis to 2012  Utah, 1 1/2 mile underground, Rose says she should be 26 - since she's 19 in 2005 - and they find a museum of alien stuff, exhibits. She says "if someone's collecting aliens that makes you exhibit A", smart girl she got it right.
 They meet the richest man on Earth, who can replace US Presidents at will, a tech genius who owns the internet and is obviously arrogant and obnoxious and rather stupid, as you'd expect.
Rose of course doesn't like him "she's gonna smack you if you keep calling her 'she' ".
It's the "biggest museum of extraterrestrial artifacts" in the world, and he's the most powerful man on Earth, so he can do anything...
The man shows the Doctor his rarest specimen, his "pet" in "the cage". The Doctor is locked inside its room, and he wants to help the yet unknown alien, but then the lights are turned on and he's all "impossible!" when he sees who that is, and since at first he introduced himself, saying he could help, now the alien knows it and goes "Doctor? THE Doctor? Exterminate!" and he starts shouting "Let me out!" , he thinks he's gonna die but the Dalek doesn't work. He says "the entire Dalek race wiped out in one second" and "I watched it happen, I made it happen" -  "you destroyed us" - "I had no choice" and then he adds that the Time Lords are gone too and they're both alone in the world... not the smartest move, all considering, so now he's kept prisoner too.
Rose didn't witness this, and when she sees the Dalek she feels pity because it's being tortured, and she touches it, giving it energy somehow, what with her being now a time traveller, so the Doctor says "release me if you want to live".
The Dalek kills his torturer, then he absorbs energy and informations, gets out and kills all the soldiers on its way. Rose thinks that stairs will stop it but "Elevate!" :-p
The Doctor really hates it and tells him to "rid the universe of your filth, why don't you just die!" - "you would make a good Dalek". They seal the bunker, hoping to block it down there, but she gets stuck too: "Rose, did you make it?" - "Sorry I was a bit slow" and she also says "it wasn't your fault, remember that, I wouldn't have missed it for the world".
The rich guy says he just wanted to touch the sky, but the Doctor replies that what he did was drag them down into the earth, label them, and he was "about as far from the stars as you can get".
Still, Rose is not killed by the Dalek because when she touched it she sort of contaminated it with her DNA. Rose also stops him from killing the rich guy; when the Doctor comes with a big alien weapon in his hands, he screams for her to get away because he clearly wants to shoot it. The Dalek came there with Rose, it opened its armor and wanted to feel the sunlight.The Doctor says "Rose did more than regenerate you, you absorbed her DNA" and it kills itself. Rose stopped the Doctor from killing it. The people on the base rebel against the rich guy and they'll now wipe his memory and leave it somewhere: 200 people are dead because of him, and he didn't care one bit. They're closing down the base, and Rose invites the cute British guy Adam to go with them.

7-The long game, shows that not everyone would be suited or accepted as a companion, when a guy joins them on a trip to the future but tries to take advantage of his position to make himself rich, to steal knowledge, and will be bluntly left alone with his regrets. It's the episode on Satellite 5.
Details: Rose plays expert to impress Adam, and when he faints the Doctor says "he's your boyfriend" - "not anymore"... They are on a space station in the year 200.000, I think, but it's not exactly how the Doctor described it, for a start there are on aliens around. The Doctor tells Adam to go explore after giving him some money, credits to spend, and he tells him that "time travel is live visiting Paris" meaning "eat the food, use the wrong verbs" and "kiss a complete stranger, or is that just me?" :lol: but I guess he simply wanted him out of the way, not really thrilled to have him on board. Rose goes with Adam so the Doctor is free to investigate. He stops two girls and asks them where he is: floor 139 of Satellite 5. "How could you get on board without knowing were you are?" - "look at me, I'm stupid" :lol: Then he uses his psychic paper to make it look like it's a test, because they'd do anything to get to floor 500, where "the walls are made of gold", Cathica says this as if it was reason enough while it actually means nothing and doesn't make sense, I mean, it's not like you can grab a wall and take it home or anything :-/. They broadcast news (the face of Boe is pregnant? really? how does that work?), there are 600 channels broadcasting everywhere...
Rose gives Adam her super-phone so he can call home but when an alarm goes off he puts the phone in his pocket instead of returning it. They see how Cathica works, connecting the computer to her forehead which opens up when she snaps her fingers so that her brain becomes the computer. When they are connected, the boss finds out that her friend Suki faked her information details and gives her a promotion to get her to floor 500.
Adam tells Rose that he'd like some time alone, so Rose gives him the Tardis key and goes with the Doctor. Cathica tells them they'll never see Suki again because £when you go to floor 500 you never come back". We see that up there everything is frozen and dark, and people are dead... The Editor knows she lied, and it's revealed that she's part of Freedom 15, an anarchist group, and she pulls a gun on him saying the facts are being manipulated, when she's confronted with the real boss there, a huge alien hanging on the ceiling; she tries to shoot it but it's killed like the others. The Doctor says that "humanity has been set back about 90 years" and Satellite 5 started broadcasting 91 years ago.. The Doctor and Rose go to floor 500 to investigate and see that Suki's dead, but since she's got a chip in her head like the others, those keep working.. The alien boss on the ceiling is in charge not only of Satellite 5 but of the human race, has been for almost a century, Editor Max tells us. They are chained. Cathica can't resist the curiosity and goes up too and the Editor doesn't notice because he's busy with them.
Adam goes looking for access to that technology. He records on his parents' answering machine about future technology and goes to floor 16 pretending to be a student from the Martian colony and has them install a chip in his head so he can have full access. He pays with the credits given to him by the Doctor, it turns out he has "unlimited credit"... he's not sure at first but then he does it, and by snapping his fingers his forehead opens up now. When he connects his brain to their computer, the Editor immediately learns everything Adam knows about the Doctor: the last of the Time Lords.. they see Adam on a screen and Cathica listens to how they're reading his mind; now they have access to the Tardis key too... Cathica also listens to how she was a slave and didn't even realize it. She connects to a computer after disengaging the safety protocols and she messes with the pipes and the controls heating up the rooms, so the alien suffers.. (it needs cold, so the heating was all directed to the other floors below and now she's reversing it). The station is in alarm, the alien is about to explode, Rose and the Doctor escape taking Cathica along. The Editor is held back by Suki :)
The Doctor is angry and he takes Adam home, deletes his messages - actually he destroys the answering machine. Adam will now have to stay quiet and unseen because nobody can find out about his head or they'll probably 'dissect him' :p "but I wanna come with you" - "I only take the best, I've got Rose" :-) Adam's mom comes home, happy to see him there; she says "time goes by like that" and snaps her fingers :lol:
Cathica=Christine Adams - Suki= Anna Maxwell-Martin - The Editor=Simon Pegg - Adam=Bruno Langley

8-Father's day is a great episode, when Rose wants to go back to the day her father died alone in the street, but she can't resist the impulse of saving him, creating a biiiiiig big problem that the doctor will have to sort out. It's very touching, and the doctor is great, I love him when he says to the couple that they are important, he believes that, he thinks everyone is important, I loved that, and was kind of sad that in the end they won't remember that because it's all been erased from their memories...
Details: Rose tells the Doctor about her father, born 15-9-1954 and died 7-9-1987, and about how he died when she was but a baby and what her mother had told her about him, and she asks him if they can go back so that she can see him alive: "your wish is my command, but be careful what you wish for". They go and they see their wedding (Peter Allan Tyler and Jacklyn Andrea Suzette Prentiss), when he couldn't remember all her names and she was like "Just carry on, that's good enough for me" with her eyes rolling. Then they go to see him die. They stand at the side of the road, holding hands, and she watches him die when a car hits him, and he tells her to go to him quickly, but she stormes off and cries and he follows her of course, and she says "he can't die on his own, can I try again?" and they go back, staying behind the wall watching themselves at the side of the road. The Doctor warns her to wait until 'they' go away, but she doesn't, she runs in front of her other self and saves her dad's life. The Doctor's upset, he stares at her and then says "when we met I said 'travel with me in space' you said no, then I said time-machine..." but she denies that it was all a big plan; he says "I did it again, I picked another stupid ape" (another? did he have stupid companions he didn't like in the past?) and "I should have known, it's not about showing you the universe, it never is, it's about the universe doing something for you" and "the whole world's different because he's alive" also telling her that if it could be done he would have gone back to save his people, then he asks for the key back and goes away. He tries to get in the Tardis but it's now a simple empty box.
Rose thought that her mom and dad had perfect happiness but she sees now that they always fight and are near divorcing. People are disappearing though, and when the Doctor comes running Rose smiles thinking that he couldn't go away without her, but he screams to get inside the church (they were all gathered for a marriage) and then flying monsters appear. He says "time has been damaged and they've come to sterilize the wound" staring at Rose. "Is this because... is this my fault?" but he doesn't answer, no need to. Of course it is.
Her father puts things together, the fact that he immediately trusted her, that she called him dad once, that the Doctor said a 'wound in time', and that she has his eyes and Jackie's attitude, and he understands that she's his Rose grown up and they hug. They talk, and she says nothing when he asks if he's gone grey in her time.
The bride asks the Doctor if he can save them, and she says "I know we're not important" and he goes "who said you're not important?" and "I've never had a life like that" talking about when they first met. It made them feel good.
The Doctor tells Rose that he has no plan, no idea, there's nothing he can do, humanity is being wiped out and "there used to be laws stopping this kind of things from happening, my people would have stopped this, but they're all gone, and now I'm going the same way" and "just tell me you're sorry" and they make peace. The Tardis key is still 'active' so he thinks there's hope to revive the Tardis and get out of there.
Pete asks Rose about the future, if he's still with Jackie, if Rose still lives with them, if he's a good dad... and she starts making up stuff about him reading her bedtime stories, never missing a night, taking them out every saturday, never letting them down... "someone I could really rely on"... he looks intensely at her and says "that's not me"... he doesn't fully realize why but he knows she's lying.
He already noticed the car in a loop, keeping coming around, and thought about it and said to the Doctor "It's my fault all of this is happening" and "I'm so useless I couldn't even die properly" and when he tries to explain who she is to Jackie, he gives Rose the baby but when she touches baby Rose damaging time even more the creatures get inside the church. The Doctor's caught too, dead, vanished, the Tardis key falling to the floor, and yes it's all her fault. Pete tells Rose that the Doctor really cared about her and didn't want her to go through it again, but he knew there was only one thing to do (wait, so to spare her a bit of pain he was prepared to allow humanity to be destroyed? What if Pete hadn't been smart enough? or decent enough?).  Rose says "what are you talking about?" - "the car that should have killed me love" and he tells her that the Doctor knew and he knows it too, so he can be a dad now and do this for them. They hug and then he runs outside, running in front of that car and getting killed. The Doctor reappears, telling her "go to him, quick" and she holds his hand. None of them will remember those creatures or what happened, and only a bit of past has been changed. Jackie will tell little Rose about some stranger who kindly held his hand so he didn't die alone.
Pete=Shaun Dingwall

9-the empty child  Details: The Tardis follows an object through space and time, some kind of universal red alert or something that of course ends up in London. Rose hears 'mummyy' and sees a child wearing a gas mask on a roof, so he goes to him. The Doctor goes asking around but it's wartime, so not the best time to go asking if something fell from the sky making a big boom.
When he sees that Rose's gone he picks up a cat and says "one day, just one day maybe, I'm gonna meet somebody who gets the whole don't-wander-off-thing", and then the Tardis telephone starts ringing. He's surprised: "how can you be ringing?" and a girl appears saying not to answer it, that it's not for him. The Doctor says that it's not even a real phone, it's not connected. When he answers he hears the same voice Rose heard saying "mummy? are you my mummy?". He follows the girl and sees that she steals food for homeless children, eating in houses left vacant during the raids, and the Doctor asks them "I wanna find a blonde in a union jack, I mean a specific one, I didn't just wake up this morning with a crave", but then that child in a mask comes knocking and Nancy closes all the doors. Doctor"it's never easy being the only child left out in the cold you know" - "I suppose you'd know?" - "I do actually, yes" and then she says "it's not exactly a child" and she says that he's 'empty' and he can make phones ring. Nancy and the children run away so when the Doctor opens the door there's nobody there. This whole thing started a month ago, when that thing fell from the sky, so she tells him that he needs to talk to the doctor first. In Albion hospital there's one doctor and hundreds of patients lying in bed with masks fused to the flesh. All patients are the same, with the same scar on the back of their right hand, like the empty child, like this doctor. Everyone who touched the first patient fell victim of the same plague, but they're not dead. Nancy's little brother Jamie was the first patient. In front of the Doctor's eyes, the doctor starts saying "mummy? are you my mummy?" and a masks appears on his face.
Rose is now hanging from a rope during a bomb attack, when she falls and she's saved with a light field, a tractor beam, by captain Jack Harkness. He tries to fool her with a psychic paper but she knows all about that trick already :) He has an invisible spaceship  and he thinks now that she's a time-agent. They have champagne and dance in front of Big Ben's clock.. Rose and Jack go looking for the Doctor, and Jack calls him Mr Spock :p Rose:"what was I supposed to say? You don't have a name. Don't you ever get tired of Doctor? Doctor Who?" :lol: Jack says that he found that thing, it was empty, a space-ambulance, and he lured them there to try and sell it to them because he's a con-man. The Doctor says that human DNA is being rewritten.
The empty child locks Nancy in a room with him and at that moment all patients in the hospital stand up and move towards them...

10-the doctor dances The Doctor shouts "go to your room" and they all hear and they all go back, the patients returning to their beds, and the empty child walks out. The Doctor says "I'm really glad that worked, those would have been terrible last words" :lol:
so, Jack brought that piece of 'space junk' here so he could sell it? Planning to destroy it, blaming it on the bombs...
Jack has a sonic blaster, 51st century, and the Doctor says he's been to those factories once, basically he destroyed it and now there are banana factories instead "I like bananas, bananas are good".
Nancy's caught by the family but she knows some secrets so they let her go.
The Doctor senses something when neither Jack or Rose do, and he says "funny little human brains, how do you get around in those things?" - Rose:"when he's stressed he likes to insult species" :-p
Being sent to his room, the empty child came back to the hospital and now like him all the patients are after them. Jack asks about the Doctor's weapons and he's reluctant to say that he's only got a screwdriver... it was supposed to be a funny scene but I didn't find it funny, only a bit embarrassing and rather disrespectful, that screwdriver helped him a lot! All of a sudden Jack disappears and Rose says "why is it always the great looking ones who do that?" - Doctor"I'm making an effort not to be insulted" :lol: but Jack contacts them, he teleported to his ship and tries to help. He teleports them too when they were about to dance together...
Jack was a time agent, but they stole two years of his memories.
Nancy is locked with a contaminated soldier, and when he changes she sings to make him fall asleep until the Doctor frees her. When Jack touches the space-ambulance, all the empty people are drawn there. When Jack opened it he saw it empty but it wasn't, there were lots and lots of nanogenes ready to heal everything, and first thing they found was a dead child, Nancy's Jamie, wearing a gas mask and they revived him but they had no idea what humans look like still they followed their programming and kept doing it, kept 'healing' everybody making them all like the child.
Nancy is Jamie's mum, she kept it a secret because she was just a teenager when she had him, and now the Doctor encourages her to tell Jamie the truth. She tells him and she hugs him and the nanogenes surround them both, and the Doctor starts hoping: "come on, give me a day like this, give me this one": the nanogenes recognized "the superior information, the parent DNA" and instead of changing Nancy they changed Jamie back. The Doctor sends nanogenes to the other 'infected', saying "everybody lives Rose, just this once everybody lives". I liked that doctor a lot, and the scene when a woman went to him saying that her leg grew back "I had one leg" - "there is a war on, is it possible you miscounted?" :lol:
Jack took the bomb that was supposed to explode there away with his ship but now he can't move it, it'll explode in three minutes. When he asks "exactly, out of 100, how dead am I?", the computer says "termination of captain Jack Harkness in under two minutes, 100% probability". Jack was sentenced to death once, but instead he woke up in bed with two of his executioners... but of course now the Tardis appears to save him. It ends with the Doctor and Rose dancing. The 'I can dance' is my least favorite scene, rather incredibly since I love dancing :-/

These are two parts of the same story written by Steven Moffat. It's the story during the war, with the homeless children, and the one with the mask going around asking "are you my mummy?", and of course is also the episode that introduces Captain Jack Harkness, and we see right away he likes to flirt with anything that breaths, basically. It's funny to see the Doctor jealous of how Rose seems to see him as a sort of hero, and is also lovely to have her saying 'but Doctor Who?'.
The only thing I didn't like was that sort of dance, it seemed almost unnatural, I can't explain why it seemed to me out of place and character. I understand why he was happy, finally one episode where he gets to save them all! And in a Moffat episode too!! Maybe that's why he decided 'from now on I'll kill as many as I can'=to compensate!

11-boom town, is a strange one. It starts out so nicely, with the Doctor and Rose travelling back to Earth with Jack and meeting Micky, eating together and chatting, when they find that one of the Slitheen they thought were all dead is still alive and has a terrible plan in mind. The Doctor sort of arrests her and plans to bring her back to her home-planet, but has to deal with the fact that he would be bringing her to her death. There are long chats between them about this. It shows that the doctor's changed, now he's not so quick on killing the enemies, and this change will bring him to find a new solution to the problem, a merciful solution much more doctor-like. I liked this episode, it was slower than the others, more philosophical, but well done.
12-13 are Bad wolf and Parting of the ways. The last two episodes of this series. The three of them, being Jack part of the team now, travel to the future, to find it in trouble. Daleks are everywhere, lots and lots of them! The Doctor can't believe it, he thought they were extinct, but he can only go on fighting, even if it means he'll have to sacrifice himself to destroy them. They all fight together, Jack is apparently killed, and the Doctor knowing how it will end tricks Rose and sends her back home , but she won't accept it. Her mother understands why he did it and is grateful, but she's not going to leave the Doctor alone, she's not letting it go, and is so desperate to help him that Micky will help her open up the Tardis so she can look inside and absorb that energy that will allow her to go back to the future ( :-p)
It shows what good character is Micky, even if sometimes is annoying I never thought he was an idiot or a coward, he is good and brave. I remember at the start when he said he wasn't going with them because it was too much for him, and I thought that even if it could seem the coward thing to do it actually was a brave thing to say to the man that is stealing away the girl he still loves so much.
Anyway, Micky helps her, and she goes back to the Doctor and saves the day. I like her voice when she kills the daleks. It couldn't be helped that the doctor helped her, taking all the energy she had absorbed in him with a kiss, so she's saved. There was no other solution, otherwise later on we would have said, why don't you use the Tardis' energy??? Well, because it's not meant to be used like that, and it kills you. In this case, it killed the Doctor. I was sorry to see him go, even if I started watching it waiting for him to go, it was because I didn't know the character yet.
But then David Tennant appeared, so handsome, and then he smiled. And I even forgot who I was.