Doctor Who: "Parting of the Ways"

I love any time the TARDIS is flying. It's just awesome. A blue police box flying through space? How can you not love that? I was watching an older episode of Doctor Who with Tom Baker in it and they showed the TARDIS flying and you could tell it was just a little ornament hanging from a string and someone was dangling it around. It was so cute.

Daleks: "DO NOT INTERRUPT."
Doctor: "I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk."

I'm never going to understand why so many villains just sit and explain themselves the way the Dalek emperor does here. I think that's probably why I actually loved the Master so much. "Now let me tell you all my plans while you figure out a way to stop me, I DON'T think." I understand that the audience needs this kind of exposition, but I wish there were more situations where the master plan is figured out some other way that doesn't involve the bad guys standing there and telling everyone.

I love Rose's annoyed reaction to Lynda.

Oh... it's so sad when the Doctor acts all excited like he's got it figured out... and he does, but it doesn't make him happy, it makes him fake it so he can save Rose.

The only part of this episode that makes me teary eyed is when the hologram of the Doctor turns to her and says, "Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life." Sigh.

So, every season finale so far has had a massive invasion in it. Two of these invasions involved Daleks. All of these invasions involved monsters created from humans - series one were the Daleks made from the humans that lose on the game shows, series two had the Cybermen, and series three had the humans from the end of the world that came back through the paradox the Master created. Just some observations.

Too bad the Ann Droid didn't stick around longer to kill some more Daleks. Why didn't the people take the lasers out of her head and all the other places to fight them? ...But then I guess that wouldn't work because all that does is teleport the target to the Dalek ship. So that would be pointless. Never mind. Forget I brought it up.

I love when Rose tells Jackie about how she went back in time and was with her dad when he died... "That's how good the Doctor is." I think that's what makes Jackie change her mind about hating the Doctor.

Okay I don't understand why the Daleks didn't just surpass all the people with guns on the other floors and didn't just ride the elevator right up to the top where the Doctor was. That makes no sense.

I love how they play the "I'm Coming to Get You" music again when Rose is prising the TARDIS open. It goes both ways - the Doctor protects her, and Rose protects him. (I recognized the song because I've been listening to the soundtrack on repeat for the last month, and I remember the titles.)

Jack's death scene is so lame. Good thing he gets lots of chances to do it over on Torchwood.

And here's where the Doctor goes past the point of no return with Rose. She comes back and saves him. She does something no one else ever tried to do for him, and it was all for him. Everything changes for him after this - the way he looks at her is so different after this. And he's practically crying because he's pretty sure it's gonna kill her. And then when she says she can see the whole of time and space, he finally finds that sense of equality in someone else that he'd been missing ever since the Time Lords were all destroyed in the Time War. They're perfect for each other because they understand each other.

Okay, I know they explain this later, in the third season, but I still think it's crap how the Doctor left Jack behind like that. Why wouldn't he at least explain it to him? "I can't take you because..."? It's not like they were in a hurry... well, actually. Maybe they were, since he was about to regenerate and all that. Okay, maybe it's a little more excusable now that I think about it.

I don't understand why the Doctor didn't explain to Rose about that whole regeneration thing. I think it's cute how insecure he's acting about it right before it happens though. Like he's afraid Rose won't like him afterwards. "I might have two heads. I might have no head. Imagine me with no head! Don't say that's an improvement."

Okay, I lied. I need to rephrase my previous statement. The first time I watched this episode I only got teary eyed at the hologram part. Now I get teary eyed several times. When Rose tells her mom about when she met her dad, for example. And during Christopher Eccleston's last scene. Even though I absolutely adore David Tennant and he's my favorite Doctor and all of that, I'm still really fond of Christopher Eccleston. I kind of wish he had done another season. And I still hope that he'll come back for a "Two Doctors" kind of episode, because I think the two of them acting off each other would be supremely entertaining. And you know, just for kicks, let's throw Paul McGann in there too. A "Three Doctors" episode. It's really not fair that the only appearance the eighth Doctor had was in that lame movie. He would have been good in a TV show, I think. So he should come back for an episode of the new season. That's what I think. I'll be writing a letter to the producer tomorrow telling them what I think and the episode should be on in, oh, say, series five. Yep. I am that influential.