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Following Christopher's regeneration at the end of the parting of ways he was replaced by David Tennant.

David's first run as the 10th Doctor comes in the CNN special which bridges the gap to the Christmas invasion, this serves as extra introduction to the concept of regeneration, mainly through the eyes of Rose.

The Christmas Invasion see's the new Doctor spend most the episode in bed, this allows for good character development between Mickey, Jackie and Rose and dealing with the monster of the week, The Sycorax. Eventually with the help of some tea The Doctor recovers and immediately quotes the lion king. He finds himself in a sword fight where he loses his hand but still manages to defeat the leader and even a flicker of darkness when he says "No second chances...I'm that kind of a man"

So now onto Series 2, first up we get New Earth and Tooth and Claw. Like with Series 1's Ep's 2 and 3 one is set in the distant future and the other in Victorian England. New Earth isn't the greatest first episodes but it has a few funny moments though would rather Cassandra wasn't included. While Tooth and Claw touches on the Torchwood Institute which was first mentioned in Bad Wolf and then again in Christmas Invasion when the Sycorax ship is destroyed.

The School reunion sees the return of popular 70's companion Sarah Jane Smith played by the late Elisabeth Sladen, while Rose isn't too impressed at first that she isn't the only companion of the doctor she eventually gets on with Sarah. Anthony Head as the lead Krillitane was a great casting appointment and his face off with The Doctor in the swimming pool area is fantastic too see. By the episodes end Sarah declines an invite to stay on but Mickey does join in much to Rose's dissapointment.

The Girl in the fireplace another episode by Steven Moffatt is an absolute highlight of the series. The chemistry between Madamme de Pompedeour and The Doctor is great the Clockwork Robots typically menacing and the few funny moments such as "your not keeping the horse" "i let you keep mickey" brilliant. The ending is so heart wrenching.

Next up the two parter Rise of the Cybermen and Age of Steel. Set in a parallel universe we get a new origin story for the cybermen. Whilst both episodes have some good moments it could have been that much better and i really dislike the clunky redesigned cybermen and by the end of the two parter Mickey decides to stay behind as sealed away. (Seemingly forever... ha!)

The idiots lantern set during Queen Elizabeth II's coronation is one of those episodes that sit right in the middle of averageness. It has some decent moments but a lot of it seems rather forgettable and seems to further push the doctor and rose "romance"

The second two parter is The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit. On rewatch does seem a much better set of episodes and a good introduction to the Ood and we even get Satan who The Doctor has to come face to face with.

I'm now at a point where i could either completely rant or just write nothing but i'll do my best to get through it. We now have Love and Monsters followed by Fear Her. Ugh. Anyway Love and Monsters is the first Doctor lite episode and seems so out of place a group of people trying to find him and we get Peter Kay as a monster of the week, Kay doesn't really suit the bad guy role! Whilst Fear Her doesn't really do anything for the series and again is just very poor. I wish i could be more constructive with my arguments here but i'm really likely just to rant. Trust me i'll give a more compelling argument against certain episodes in the next couple of series.

the series finale Army of Ghosts and Doomsday starts with Rose telling us this is the story of how she dies (Oh no!) the episodes deal with the Cyber-Men escaping the parallel universe into our universe only for them to find a Dalek sphere with the Cult of Skaro and Genesis Ark, Mickey returns and Rose's dad from the parallel universe. The episode ends with Rose getting trapped in the parallel universe but her mum and dad have reunited and she has Mickey too she evens gets a tearful goodbye... a strong ending for Rose's character and a good way to round off her story arc trapped in a universe that nobody can access forever. (hmmm...)

Episodes Score

- Christmas Invasion 7/10

1) New Earth 6/10
2) Tooth and Claw 6/10
3) School Reunion 8/10
4) Girl in the fireplace 9/10
5) Rise of the cybermen 7/10
6) Age of steel 6/10
7) Idiots Lantern 6/10
8) The Impossible Planet 7/10
9) Satan's Pit 7/10
10) Love and Monsters 2/10
11) Fear Her 1/10
12) Army of Ghosts 6/10
13) Doomsday 7/10

Average Score: 6

Doctor for Series 2: 6/10
Rose for Series 2: 5/10

Story Arc's

1) Torchwood: So mentioned several times and a few more than Bad Wolf. It turns out is just an organisation that deals with Alien technology that comes to earth... bit like UNIT. Though it serves more of a device to introduce the audience to the idea before new spinoff series Torchwood starts.

2) Rose death: Again something mentioned throughout the series including Rose wanting to stay with The Doctor forever she even admits she dies in her narration but yet she doesn't die. Well it's claimed she died in the torchwood attack but really she lives happily in her own universe... we'll get two more similar death arc's later and each get worse
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