TV Review: Doctor Who Series 1 Episode 10 "The Doctor Dances" [Emz]

So... sorry for a slight absence. but here we are with Part 2 of  The Empty Child. 

This episode is called The Doctor Dances. It first aired on the 28th May 2005 on BBC One.

Here is the synopsis:

The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march. The Ninth Doctor and Rose form an alliance with intergalactic con man Captain Jack, but find themselves trapped in the abandoned hospital. They head to the crash site of Jack's supposed space junk and discover the ground zero for the mysterious plague.

Review:

So last time we saw the Doctor, Rose and Jack they were stuck in the Hospital surrounded by the people who had become Gas mask zombies... for the lack of a better word.

So as this episode begins, the Doctor shouts for them to go to their rooms. Of course not thinking they get trapped in the the the little boy with the Gas Mask's 'Room.' 

The Doctor and Rose work out that Jack is the reason that that people are turning into Gas Mask Zombies as the empty 'ambulance' was what The Doctor and Rose followed into the Blitz and Jack released it.

The nano-genes which healed rose in the last episode are what was in the Ambulance and it didn't know what the difference was between the mask and his skin.

The Doctor Realises that Nancy is the boys mother and not his sister and the Nano genes fix the problems that couldn't be fixed before. 

The doctor sends the Nano genes to heal all the other people affected, with some interesting side effects (a woman's leg grows back)

A the episode ends, The Doctor and Rose save Jack from sacrificing himself to save everyone from the bomb and they head off on adventures unknown.

This epiosde was the second half of the creepy episode and this one creeped me out just as much but I was glad there was a happy ending.

I loved the quote about a woman's leg growing back and Richard Wilson's character says "There is a war on, is it possible you miscounted?"

I love Doctor Who and would watch many episodes in a heart beat but this episode and The Empty Child are ones I wouldn't watch in a hurry, but never say never.

Thats all for now

Till next time

Emz x

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TV Review: Doctor Who Series 1 Episode 2 "The End Of The World" [Emz]

Here we go again. Episode 2 The End Of The World. The Episode was originally released  on 2nd April 2005.

I can't help myself when it comes to Doctor Who.

Here is the Plot for Episode 2:

The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time, to the year five billion.

Review:

So this was Rose's first voyage in the TARDIS. I liked the way The Doctor gave Rose the chance to pick where to go and each time he tried to sound impressive she just laughed at him.

So the year five billion, witnessing the end of the Earth on Platform One. This is where we first meet the Face of Boe and Cassandra - the last human or as Rose likes to call her a Bitchy Trampoline. It was great that they put the emotion of Rose in there looking down of the earth knowing that even though no one was living there any more, that's where she came from and she thought about all the people who had lived there. Of course this is where the phrase "Jiggery Pokery" came about in Doctor Who and the first use of reversing Teleportation (we see this again in "Boom Town.")

The way the audience is led to believe for a split second that we have found the culprit behind the sabotage until we are informed that they were planted by the real culprit. I felt like I was wattching a Alien crime drama, which is quite cool.

I never get tired of watching Doctor Who.

I will review episode 3 soon.

Till next time 

Emz x

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TV Review: Doctor Who Series 1 Episode 1 "Rose" [Emz]

Being a big Doctor Who fan i'm surprised it's taken me this long to review anything Doctor who related.

This is the episode that started it all for me, prior to this I was either too young (1998 movie) or wasn't born (classic series.)

The episode first premiered on BBC One on the 26th March 2005.

Here is the Premise to the episode: 

When Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, her life will never be the same again. Soon she realises that the whole of planet Earth is in danger.

Review:

As I stated above this is the episode that got me hooked on Doctor Who. I was 14 years old when it was first released... 

The way we meet Rose before the Doctor feels like we are seeing things from her point of view, also as a new viewer you are going through the motions with her, like who is this man and what is he doing.

The whole living plastic/ nestine consciousness thing was quite cool. Special effects were still developing in 2004/ 2005 but it was still effective. 

Anyway thats all for now.

Till next time

Emz x

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