Doctor Who:
Rose
By Russell T. Davies
“Run!”
Rose is wandering in the
cellar of the shop she works at to give Wilson the lottery money. She is having a hard time finding him and she
seems to be seeing movement in the corner of her eye. It appears that the shop dummies have come
to life and have proceeded to chase her.
Rose thinking it is a college prank yells at them to stop it. It appears that the shop dummies are Autons
and have every intention of killing her.
When out of nowhere a stranger grabs her hand and tells her to run.
The stranger is the newly
regenerated Doctor and he is searching for the Autons and along the way he
blows up the shop that Rose was working at.
During his search he meets up with Rose again at her apartment and gets
attacked by the Auton arm Rose had from the night before. The Doctor saves her and decides to go on his
way still searching for the signal that the Nestene Intelligence is
sending. After saving Rose again from
the Autons who was disguised as her boyfriend Mickey The Doctor takes Rose with
him to track down the signal using the Mickey Autons head. After finding the base it is up to The Doctor
and Rose to convince or prevent the Nestene Intelligence from invading Earth.
Rose has the historical
aspect of being the first episodes of the new Doctor Who series relaunch back
in 2005. Yes we had the McGann movie but
this was the return of Doctor Who proper with a new 13 episode series. We got an new companion in Rose played by
Billie Piper and a new Doctor the 9th in Christopher Eccleston and a
new format in 45 minute self-contained stories with a couple of two part
stories to make sure the cliffhanger stayed a part of the show.
There was a lot of
excitement when Rose first aired as lots of people had high expectations and
the fans of the classic series were anxious to see the new Doctor and see what
the new series would be like. I’m pretty sure most of us liked it as we are now
going on to series 8 and the 50th plus another Doctor will be making
it’s debut this Christmas the fourth one that has been spawned by the new
series.
Rose was a pretty good
story to restart the series of Doctor Who as it wasn’t a complicated story and
it did a good job of reintroducing everyone to Doctor Who. By not having a complex story Rose was able
to ease the new fans into the show and with the Autons included it satisfied
the old guard also. The story also
helped established the Doctor and companion relationship and why it was
important for him to have someone traveling with him which will be explored
more in depth later on in the series.
Rose the story was well
mediocre. It is fun seeing the Autons
making a comeback but it sort of falls short.
You have the silliness of the garbage bin belching after it swallowed up
Mickey ruining a pretty decent tense scene.
Why would it belch seemed rather stupid to me. The first moments of The Doctor gave you the
impression that he is a rude Doctor who seemed silly but thankfully that wasn’t
the case as the series went on. The best
thing about Rose is that it gave us some mystery to ponder about what happened
to The Doctor and what was this war he fought in lots of questions that would
eventually get answered later on.
Rose is a pretty decent
start for the return of Doctor Who even though the story wasn’t all that
spectacular. It was a resounding success
as it brought back our favorite Time Lord and the show was finally back on TV
after 16 years off the air. We all know
the importance of Rose because if it had failed then Peter Capaldi would not be
making his debut this Christmas.
Grade C +
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