Doctor Who: Full Review

Then it's war! Thousands of Daleks streaming out into space to attack the space station. It never occured to me that Daleks wouldn't need small spaceships or suits, they are the Daleks, they can fly in space. Awesome. And they head down to Earth and attack, and bomb and invade (but it's left to our imagination).

So the Doctor tries to rig up some deus ex machina delta wave nonsense, which would have been rubbish and Star-Treky if it were not for the fact that it would not only kill the Daleks but kill all humans to. So the Doctor has a dilemma. Another great character revealing moment, does the Doctor become an exterminator, or die but retain his principals. Nicely engineered story point.

Meanwhile Rose got sent home in the TARDIS. And struggles to get back to the Doctor. Finally she looks into the heart of the TARDIS and gets back to the Doctor in the nick of time.

Rose, channelling the TARDIS's time vortex. What?! Lots of what?! moments this episode, but the pace and style and sheer entertainment value means that I just don't care about the crazy plot moments. So Rose magics away the Daleks and spreads Bad Wolf throughout time as a message to herself, a message to not give up on the Doctor. Rose's speech about living an ordinary life I really enjoyed. Something like "I get up, got to work, come home and eat chips. Is that it?" I reckon that will ring true for a whole generation.

Oh yeah and Captain Jack gets killed and Rose brings him back. Oh and the Daleks wipe out an entire crowd of innocent people on the space station (they're very nasty those Daleks).

So after all that, which lets face it is a lot for one episode, that must be it right? Wrong. Because the Doctor sucks the time vortex out of Rose and starts dying. And you know what the Doctor dying means? Regeneration! So right there at the end of the episode he regenerates into David Tennant. Brilliant! And Mr. Tennant doesn't use his native Scottish accent, he uses his Casanova accent, which is fine with me.