It seems to be a fairly common event recently that I'm bidding farewell to another Doctor and as such it's time to say goodbye to yet another one with this being the swan song of Christopher Eccleston,
It's actually a really good two part story but the way it starts makes you think that you could be in for a right crap one. I may as well go into the rubbish bits first.
The gameshows of the future...oh God this is awful. The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack find themselves transported inside a "game station" where there is a separate gameshow behind each door. This would be a cheesy enough story in of itself but what makes it worse is the fact that this is set in the year 200100 but the gameshows are all based on ones from the early 21st century i.e Big Brother, The Weakest Link, even Ground Force gets a mention! I don't think The Weakest Link is still on air even now so what are the chances that these shows would last another 198,000 years!
Seeing Christopher Eccleston in the Big Brother house is pretty funny though. I think I can safely say that you will never really see Eccleston in any celebrity reality television shows. If he won't come back for the 50th anniversary then I doubt he's going to turn up on Strictly Come Dancing!
These gameshows have a sadistic twist however as the people that lose them are apparantly vapurised and unfortunately for Rose she is not a very good contestant in The Weakest Link. Although saying that she does make it all the way through to the final. That seems a little unbelievalbe as her knowledge has a 198,000 year gap in it!
The Doctor escapes from the Big Brother house to discover this is all taking place on Satelite 5 (the setting of one of the previous episodes, The Long Game). The Doctor's meddling 100 years ago has created this terrible future. Even worse the corportation running the station is known as the Bad Wolf Corporation!
Jack soon discovers some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Rose has not really been vapourised but transported through space. The bad news is that she has been transported right into the middle of a massive Dalek fleet who have secretly been converting human beings into Daleks for hundreds of years and now they are ready to invade the Earth!
As Jack goes off to defend the station he bids goodbye to his friends who he realised he may never see again. It's a short scene but it has to be noted due to the fact Jack kisses the Doctor! He kisses Rose too of course but even so. I mean I think it's great because it shows how in the future these sort of issues won't be a problem which is fantastic but it does make me laugh how fans were up in arms at the Doctor kissing his companion Grace back in 1996 and now he's kissing guys too!
The Doctor can stop them by sending a huge delta wave their way to fry their brains. Unfortunately he does not have time to refine the wave meaning that it will kill all humans on Earth along with the Daleks! This is where the emotional twist comes into play. Knowing that they are all about to die, the Doctor tricks Rose into going inside the TARDIS and then sends her home. As Rose stands inside the TARDIS a holographic image of the Doctor appears to her to say goodbye. I got a little choked up I must admit.
Back on Earth, Rose continues to see the words Bad Wolf everywhere and she realises that this is some kind of link to the Doctor telling her that she can get back. I don't think the whole Bad Wolf thing is explained very well which is a shame considering that this has been the running theme throughout the whole series.
As she desparatly tries to open up the TARDIS console so that she can telepathically tell the machine where to take her, we get another fantastically emotional scene with her mum. In order to get her mum understand how good the Doctor is she tells her all about how he took her back in time to meet her Dad and Jackie realises that the blonde girl she saw from a distance as Pete dies was Rose herself! It's true to say that Jackie and the Doctor have had a pretty poor relationship throughout this series and so this scene was needed to show Jackie just how good the Doctor can actually be.
Soon she manages to open the console with the help of Micky and a fairly hefty chain attached to a lorry and after abosrbing a load of energy from the time vortex itself she is soon racing back to the future in time to save the Doctor by using her new God-like powers to divide all the atoms in the Daleks and bring Captain Jack back from the dead. Realising that the power will soon consume her, the Doctor draws the energy out of her. By kissing her of course. Good grief! The Doctor is snogging everyone in this story!
The Doctor can stop them by sending a huge delta wave their way to fry their brains. Unfortunately he does not have time to refine the wave meaning that it will kill all humans on Earth along with the Daleks! This is where the emotional twist comes into play. Knowing that they are all about to die, the Doctor tricks Rose into going inside the TARDIS and then sends her home. As Rose stands inside the TARDIS a holographic image of the Doctor appears to her to say goodbye. I got a little choked up I must admit.
Back on Earth, Rose continues to see the words Bad Wolf everywhere and she realises that this is some kind of link to the Doctor telling her that she can get back. I don't think the whole Bad Wolf thing is explained very well which is a shame considering that this has been the running theme throughout the whole series.
As she desparatly tries to open up the TARDIS console so that she can telepathically tell the machine where to take her, we get another fantastically emotional scene with her mum. In order to get her mum understand how good the Doctor is she tells her all about how he took her back in time to meet her Dad and Jackie realises that the blonde girl she saw from a distance as Pete dies was Rose herself! It's true to say that Jackie and the Doctor have had a pretty poor relationship throughout this series and so this scene was needed to show Jackie just how good the Doctor can actually be.
Soon she manages to open the console with the help of Micky and a fairly hefty chain attached to a lorry and after abosrbing a load of energy from the time vortex itself she is soon racing back to the future in time to save the Doctor by using her new God-like powers to divide all the atoms in the Daleks and bring Captain Jack back from the dead. Realising that the power will soon consume her, the Doctor draws the energy out of her. By kissing her of course. Good grief! The Doctor is snogging everyone in this story!
So this leads us on to the regeneration into the tenth Doctor. Having absorbed the lethal energy out of Rose it proves to much for him and he begins to regenerate. What's cool about the regeneration here that sets its apart from all previous ones is the way the Doctor regenerates standing up. Previously all
Doctors had been lying down. Standing up with the regeneration energy flaring out of the arms is just so much cooler!
Doctors had been lying down. Standing up with the regeneration energy flaring out of the arms is just so much cooler!
And so here I am, another chapter complete and the birth of the tenth Doctor, stumbling into the world, shocked at the weird sensation of having new teeth!
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