Now this is a story unlike anything they ever tried in the old series. Whilst this new series may be a little frightened to touch on over the top alien vistas or too many links to the shows past, one thing it definitely isn't afraid of is ramping up the emotional implications of travelling through time and space.
In this episode Rose asks the Doctor to take her back in time so that she can see her Dad who died when she was just a baby in a hit and run incident. After seeing him marry her mum she decides that she can't let her Dad die alone and therefore she wants to be with him to hold his hand after the accident. Unfortunately temptation is too much and Rose runs out into the street to push her father out of the way. The Doctor is pretty annoyed by this and starts to wonder whether Rose only started travelling with him so that she change history. I guess having had Adam just let him down he's feeling a little sensitive and ends up referring to Rose as "another stupid ape" which is a little harsh.
They establish in the new series that certain things in history should not be changed and unfortunately the death of Rose's father, Pete, is one of them. As such we soon have some alien creatures coming through the wound in time and killing people off. Rose and the Doctor find themselves taking refuge in an old church with Pete and Jackie and a number of other people.
There are some really emotional moments in this episode. Pete eventually discovers that Rose is his daughter from the future and starts quizzing her on how he turns out. She lies to him, telling him how he was always there for her, taking them for picnic and reading her a bedtime story every night. He listens to all this and then sadly says "that's not me" and so he pretty much knows she is lying to him.
Meanwhile the car that should have killed him is looping round the church in some kind of time loop. Peter realises what he has to do to put things right and he runs out in front of the car, setting history back on track. Rose gets the chance she wanted from the very beginning, to hold her dads hand whilst he slips away. A very sad episode..very emotional indeed.
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