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So in 2005 Doctor Who returned to our screens for the first time since the 1996 TV Movie and when the show was originally cancelled in 1989.

inheriting the TARDIS keys was actor Christopher Eccleston and he was joined by young actress Billie Piper.

in a new format for the new millennium we have 13 episodes generally 40 minutes long.

we begin with the episode Rose which introduces the audiences to both title characters, the shows title character "The Doctor" and the episodes title character "Rose Tyler" like in Jon Pertwee's first episode we get a story featuring the Auton and an attempt invasion of earth. During the first episode we here about some war involving the doctor. By the end of the episode Rose had proven her usefulness and leaves boyfriend Mickey for adventures with this mysterious time traveller.

The following episodes The End of the World and The Unquiet dead take the two into the distant future for the end of the world and then back to Victorian England. Both episodes touch further on the "Time War arc" and "Bad Wolf arc".

I'll get to the two arc's at the end of the review and my thoughts on them.

Next up we get a two parter featuring The Slitheen who are plotting to takeover the British government, whilst this two parter has its moments its ultimately not the greatest of two-parters and the Slitheen are frankly neither frightening or intimidating.

Now we get to one of the series highlights. Dalek. An episode featuring the return of a Dalek for the first time since Sylvester McCoy's "Remembrance of the Daleks". The episode was really well handled showing the fear The Doctor has towards the Daleks especially finding that one had survived the time war.

The next two episodes The Long Game and Fathers Day are really more fillers of the series, The long game introduces the News station cooperation which would later be brought up in the series finale. While Fathers Day gives Rose a chance to see her now dead father one last time and leaves us with a few emotional moments.

The two parter "The Empty child and Doctor Dances" penned by Steven Moffatt are two strong episodes and introduce us to Captain Jack Harkness played by John Barrowman who would remain a part of the TARDIS crew until the end of series. The episodes set in Blitz hit London where a gas-masked child is searching for his mummy "Are you my mummy?" an instant classic line.

Boom Town brings back a slitheen left on earth and adds to concept of opening the TARDIS console but other than that we don't have anything special going on and is quite a let down compared to the two episodes before and after.

So here we are the two part finale. "Bad Wolf and Parting of the Ways" a two part epic finale dealing with the now Game cooperation seemingly "killing" contests in games but in reality they would become Daleks serving the Emperor Dalek who'd too survived the time war. The Daleks invade and The Doctor tries to stop them but when his plan leaves him with a choice exterminate every life form on the station and earth but human and dalek alike or let them win... Rose absorbs the Time vortex resurrecting the previously exterminated Captain Jack and then destroying every single Dalek. The Doctor has to save Rose and takes the vortex from her but causes him to burn up inside and need to regenerate... into the fresh faced. David Tennant.


Episodes Score

1. Rose 7/10
2. The End of the World 6/10
3. Unquiet Dead 6/10
4. Aliens of London 5/10
5. World War Three 4/10
6. Dalek 8/10
7. The Long game 6/10
8. Father's Day 7/10
9. The Empty Child 8/10
10. The Doctor Dances 8/10
11. Boom Town 5/10
12. Bad Wolf 7/10
13. Parting of the Ways 8/10

Average Score: 6.5

Doctor for Series 1: 7/10
Rose for Series 1: 8/10

Story Arc's.

Time War: The first of the two Story arc's of series 1 is The Time War between the Doctor's people The Time Lords and Daleks. Now the idea behind this was for RTD to prevent any continuity errors between "Classic/Old Who" and "New Who" it allowed the removal of the time lords and develop the doctor into this mighty warrior and god like figure... whilst it's debatable if this was a good strategy it initially works for the next few years and leaves audiences desperate to hear more about this Time War.

Bad Wolf: a sort of buzzword that was repeated several times throughout the series, leaving fans curious as to what Bad Wolf was. Of course its revealed to be Rose leaving a message to herself through time leading her to the events at the game station... though why she felt the need to do so in the first place is confusing.

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Tae

Sorry, I posted in the wrong thread by accident :P
Edited by Tae, Sep 18 2012, 08:44 AM.
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