As first dates go, taking your girl to witness the death of her planet could be deemed to be a little insensitive but when Rose requests to see the future for her first journey in the TARDIS then the Doctor does his best to go along with that request.
Luckily the Earth has long since been abandoned and the Doctor and Rose find themselves on a space station positioned to watch the sun explode and destroy the planet. Lovely.
After a fairly timid first episode we are now in full Doctor Who mode with loads of techno babble and alien races galore! The "last human" Lady Cassandra shows what could happen to us if cosmetic surgery goes crazy when we see that she is literally just a piece of stretched skin with eyeballs and a mouth with her brain enclosed in a jar underneath her frame.
It soon becomes clear in this episode that the Doctor is hiding a great secret. This is made especially evident when one alien delegate (evolved from trees on planet Earth, a pretty imaginative creature if you ask me) identifies the Doctor as a Time Lord and during a fairly emotional and sensitive exchange she quietly admits:
Jabe:- "I know where you're from. Forgive me for intruding but it's remarkable that you even exist. I just want you to know...how sorry I am"
Of course it's not long before an unknown foe is attempting to sabotage the space station in order that all the wealthy delegates will be burnt up with the explosion of the sun.
After surviving the events of the episodes Rose is upset that the Earth was destroyed and that everyone was too busy saving themselves that no one actually saw it die. That is quite sad actually. It's now that the Doctor admits to her that his planet has gone, along with all his people. Destroyed in a great war.
So there we have it, a new series and already we have had the extermination (there's a clue for you!) of the Time Lords and the destruction of Gallifrey. Things are looking a little bleak.
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