David Tennant!!! Now let's talk about Doctor Who. In this dvds (UK version, lovely black box set) there are lots of specials. Important is the Children In Need special, a few minutes episodes, that fills the empty space there was between end of season 1 and first special episode before series 2. It's a lovely mini-episode, in which we see Rose's first reaction to the new Doctor. He's just adorable.
Then there is the proper introduction of our new Doctor, My Doctor! The first Christmas Special "The Christmas invasion" in an incredible episode, where you see very little of the doctor because he's in bed not feeling well because of all the energy he absorbed to save Rose right before he regenerated; he managed to get back to Earth, and it's a great beginning of the episode: the Tardis crashing in London before Micky and Jackie's eyes, so this time it's her turn. David Tennant steps out of the Tardis in the same clothes that Christopher Eccleston used to wear as the 9th doctor, then he faints and Jackie asks where is the doctor, and Rose replies that the doctor is in front of her, that's The Doctor, and Jackie goes "what do you mean that's the Doctor? Doctor Who??" . I don't know why I like it so much but I like when someone says that! Of course it's right and proper not to overuse it otherwise it would lose its spark, it wouldn't be as special anymore.
It's fantastic, anyway, all of it, poor Rose crying because her Doctor left her, robots dressed as Santa Claus shooting around, a killer Christmas-tree and the doctor that, even in the state he is, will always help Rose in trouble, Harriett Jones that now keeps introducing herself as Prime Minister, and everyone telling her that they know who she is! I laughed when even the aliens were saying yeah, we know who you are...
I loved the moment when Rose and Micky are in the Tardis and think they are in London but instead they are on the alien ship, so she goes out all calm and screams as soon as they get her, and without thinking Micky runs after her, without knowing what's happening, and in seeing him Rose's first thought is to protect the doctor and the tardis and screams to close the door, and Micky does just that, without even thinking. Then in the moment of trouble the Doctor wakes up, and sorts everything out, with a long speech and a sword fight! Still in his pijama! But before the fight, he turns to look at Rose and asks "how do I look?" weeell, I could answer that! She obviously says "different" "good different or bad different" "just different" which is understandable. Absolutely adorable when he starts explaining to the alien how fascinating humans are, and he starts "from the day they arrived on the planet and blinking step into the sun, there's more to see than can ever be seen..." and I thought, I know these words...then he continues " more to do ...no wait ... sorry that's the lion king!" How can you not love the doctor???
First actual episode of series 2 is New Earth , where he takes Rose to New Earth, and New New York, because in its first trip the 9th doctor took her to see the end of Earth, and now the 10th doctor takes her to see New Earth. Nice huh?? We meet again Cassandra, and we see her spirit going back and forth from Rose' body to the doctor's. So funny!!!! There is the Face of Boe again, there are cat-nurses, and there is a sad story that ends well, with "I'm the Doctor and I cured them!!", all happy and smiling! Adorable!!!
2 Tooth and claw is lovely too, where they go to Scotland in Queen Victoria's time to fight a werewolf. I love the beginning, when the guards arrive as soon as they step out of the Tardis and he asks "Are we in Scotland??" my favourite line of the episode. Then he starts talking with a Scottish accent! Funny thing is, he's scottish but somehow it didn't seem to me his normal voice, his normal accent. It really seemed the doctor's making an accent, not David using his own voice, if you know what I mean. There is also the poor lord of the manor, forced to betray to protect his wife that he loves, but as soon as she is safe, he sacrifies his own life to regain his honor and protect his Queen and the doctor. Good character! The Doctor and Rose giggle and joke like teenager throughout the whole episode, to the annoyance of the Queen and the delight of the viewers, and David's face when he sees the werewolf and goes 'he's beautiful'!! Loved the way he rolled his eyes every time Rose tried to make the Queen say 'I'm not amused'.
3 School reunion was just a little bit lost with me because I had no idea first time I saw it that Sarah Jane Smith had been a companion of the doctor in a previous reincarnation, but it was touching anyway, it was all in their faces and in their voices. Sarah Jane and Rose meets, and for the first time Rose realizes she's not the first, and that many others have been important for the doctor and have loved him before she even knew him. She never thought of that "you were this close to her once, and you never even mentioned her!" He's so touching "you can spend your life with me, but I can not spend my life with you", and the way he says that with her was different, that it wouldn't be the same with her... *sigh* there is also K9 and Anthony Head that I'll always remember as Mr. Gyles, here playing the leader of the aliens. Really great when the two of them meet and talk. Really like that cool scene by the swimming pool. I also love the way the Doctor takes Sarah Jane's hand before running. That's totally Doctor-like!
4 The girl in the fireplace just broke my heart. No surprise it is written by Steven Moffat, right?? It was beautiful, with him taking Rose and Micky to a distant spaceship that appears abandoned, and finding portals that lead to different times of the life of the same woman, Reinette Poisson ada Madame de Pompadour. They stay on the ship, and he visits her not knowing each time how long has passed. it was all beautiful, I loved their conversations, it was touching when he tried to read her mind and she was able to read his, and said "so lonely, so very very lonely, how can you bear it?", and the end when he knew that to save her he would have to trap himself in the past, but goes anyway, with a smile. I loved when they all meet "this is my lover, the King of France" "yeah? I'm the Lord Of Time!"
It was really touching, when she saw the melancholy in his face and decided to help him. He was all happy to be able to go back to his time and his Tardis (and also Rose, but at this moment I'm sure he missed the Tardis more), and said Wish me luck! and as he is going she says No. And I could see the pain on both their faces, she really touched my heart because I could so understand her; she loved him, but understood that to be happy he needed to go back and she let him go, because she loved him. And I knew it, I knew it! as soon as he said go looking at the stars and I'll be back, I was like NO!!!! You know what happens, it happened already, you thought you had been away a minute, and it was months!!! Don't do it! But he did it, and didn't arrive in time, when he came back she was already dead. I cried. The doctor went back in the tardis with her letter, and Rose didn't know what to say or do "are you alright?" "I'm always alright" which is exactly the doctor's philosophy. He's never really alright, but he must go on, so says to everybody and to himself that 'he's always alright'. Fortunately there was Micky there who understood better the right thing to do and took Rose away, leaving him alone with his letter. It was so sad! Aaaargh - the evil Moff!
5-6 Rise of the cybermen - the age of steel are the two parts of the episode set in an alternative universe, a parallel Earth, where everything and everyone is the same but different, so Rose was never born, her dad and Micky's Granma are still alive, things like that. There is also the return of the cybermen, that the doctor obviously knows very well. It was a good story, but too much fighting and death. I liked the way Micky saves the situation finding the computer code, and of course was touched by the end, when Rose realises how very important Micky is and will always be for her.
7 The idiot's lantern this one is complicated, because in a certain way is kind of boring, but there are scenes that are so great, when the two of them go into the house of that family "HI!" and "I am talking!" "And I am NOT listening!!" . and the scene between the doctor and the policemen, that starts with the policeman standing in front of the doctor sitting down asking 'tell me everything you know' but at the end the roles are the other way around, and it's the doctor the one standing up asking 'everything you know'... great. Written by Mark Gatiss, did I say that??
8-9 The impossible planet - the satan pit are the two parts of the episode where we know the Oods. I liked it, I liked the other characters, like the captain and Toby and Ida, and it broke my heart when he said "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" after the girl died, even if he had nothing to do with it, it felt like he was personally responsible... but personally I don't particularly like when they are in that orange spacesuit, you can see nothing of their faces and you can barely hear them. I'm not saying that they did it wrong, I'm say that it's the spacesuit, of course you see and hear very little!
10 Love and monsters I loved the first part of this episode, then they started dying. In the whole episode there will be like 5 minutes of the doctor. 5 great minutes though, with Rose angry that he hurt her mum, and the doctor funny and touching at the same time. Didn't like the monster and didn't like the end, though.
11 Fear her this was a great episode, fantastic, brilliant. An alien, a sort of little flower, went inside young Chloe Webber because she felt lonely like it, and now when she draws someone they are trapped in the drawing. There is also one of my favourite doctor moments, when everyone is shouting and suspecting everyone else, and the Doctor shouts "Fingers on lips" and anyone obeys. I love it so much. I have a picture of that moment. Funny thing is that it was 2006 and the episode was set in 2012, at the London Olympics. This is the episode when he revealed to Rose that he was a father once, but didn't say anything more.
I also like the scene when he understands that the thing that attacked Rose is made of pencil, and of course his conversation with Chloe-alien, how easily he understands the child attitude, and the loneliness both hers and of the alien.
12-13 Army of ghosts - Doomsday two parts episode finale. Back in London, the two of them finds it full of ghosts, and people quite happy to have them around. The Doctor comes out singing "I'm afraid of no ghost! Who you gonna call??" of course Rose knows the answer. Two kids, really!!
They go inside Torchwood, to find that the cybermen have taken over the world disguising themselves as ghosts, and that the sphere so misterious opens up to reveal Daleks!! What a finale. Daleks and cybermen together. Identify yourselves! - No, you will identify first! - state your identity! - you will identify first - Daleks do not take orders! - you have identified as Daleks ( sigh :-p ) of course they can not be allies, because to Daleks everyone else is inferior; there is only one thing "you are better at dying!" :-p
They have some help from the torchwood of the parallel Earth, so we meet again Micky and Rose' father. At the end, the doctor is forced to send and leave her with them there, to save her life. He gets rid of all Daleks and Cybermen, but is alone now. He can only say goodbye "I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye", and they drove to Norway so she could say goodbye to him. She can't stop crying, and a lot of viewers with her. She says I love you, he says Quite right, and he has that melanchonic smile... then he starts saying something, presumably that he loves her too, but he never say it, because the communication is interrupted, maybe by chance maybe by him that can't bring himself to say the words, it would be even more painful in a way.
The episode ends with the doctor crying when she can't see him anymore, and all of a sudden a bride in her white dress in in his Tardis, shouting to his face. WHAT? :-p
Russell T. Davies wrote the special and episodes 1, 2, 10, 12, 13.
Rose is still Billie Piper. Micky is Noel Clarke, Jackie is Camille Coduri.
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