101 - Rose:
What did the Doctor blow up the building Rose worked in for, exactly? The Nestene Consciousness that controlled all the plastic wasn't actually located there, and the Doctor knew this. And there was no reason to to it to get rid of the dummies, since there's plastic all over the city.
How much time has passed since the Time War in this episode? I
wonder what the Doctor is feeling or thinking here. It can't have been long since he regenerated from the eighth Doctor, since he checks his appearance out in the mirror in the appartment and comments on his ears. Maybe the "aloof" attitude is just his way of coping, who knows.
It annoys me that when Rose finally enters the TARDIS, she just runs in without closing the doors! There's a monster out there about to kill her! She might not bother with it because they're just wooden doors to her, but... I guess it's just bad directing. It's just not apparent enough to the viewer that they close by themselves. You see a moment after that the doors are indeed closed, but... I just had a bit too much time to be annoyed before I saw that — huh — they closed by themselves.
104 - Aliens of London and 105 - World War Three:
"I'm the only person on planet earth who knows they [aliens] exist." Oh Rose,
typical self-centered Rose. Noo, of course the Doctor hasn't told anyone else about aliens over the course of his long life. No, she's the only one on earth. Starting to dive into the pool of "things that annoy me about Rose Tyler" right here.
Not actually Who-related, but: When a camera stays too long on a person that is talking to another person off screen, you can just bet that the other person is nowhere to be seen when the camera moves. Because if you watch a lot of TV, you know that in a normal scene, the angle always shifts between the speaker and the one that listens, even though the second part doesn't say anything. So when you are supposed to be suprised that the other person is gone, well, I ain't! So there!
"[The Doctor is] not my boyfriend, he's better than that, he's much more important—" Oh God, Rose, re
ally? Right in front of your actual boyfriend? How do you say something like that to a person? I just can't understand why so many people loved Rose when she constantly spews out stuff like that to people she's supposed to care about.
The Doctor's "plan out": Rose tells him to "do it", even though she doesn't know what it actually is. Of course the plan involves that all of them have to die to save the rest of London. And Rose should guess that too, from how the Doctor talks about the plan. And then he gets this look in his face while he looks at her... And she keeps on telling him to do it, still without knowing what it is. Really, is anyone like that? 19 years old, life in front of her. "Please just kill all of us, Doctor."
"I could save the world and lose you." Ugh, the look that passes between them. This feels like the very first moment where the Doctor/Rose-romance starts. And Rose actually smiles. And I don't like the way she smiles, it's kind of like a smirk. I have two big problems with the Doctor/Rose pairing:
One: Rose seems to only care about herself when it comes to relationships. Two: The Doctor is friggin' 900 years old! He has seen the turn of the universe, and has travelled with so many people before her. She's nineteen! What would he ever see in her? She practically a baby!
Okaaay, okay, I get that he likes her, he's that kind of person. But I just can't take their relationship seriously. Especially when he almost considers risking the entire world for her, a girl he's sort of just met. And when sh
e treats her mother and boyfriend like crap because she is sooo special and has to go travelling, you don't understaaaaand, mum. And then she never gives a good explanation for anything, she just 'has to'. If I was her mother I would be really pissed. It's okay that she has fun elsewhere, but you could at least be a little grateful for your poor old mum. 'Oh, nevermind me, I'll just sit here and wonder if you'll ever come back'.
And then Harriet Jones commands him to "do it" as well. And now he grins? So now it's suddenly really fun to maybe lose Rose?
Oh, and at the end of the episode, she just leaves again
. Sigh. It's just the way the mood of this scene is done that puts me off. Jackie and Mickey is just standing there looking sad when the TARDIS leaves. How am I supposed to feel happy for Rose's fun-ride when she leaves everyone behind sad?
107 - The Long Game:
I wonder why people always call the ninth Doctor "the moody, serious one". He might have been a bit angry and desperate in "Dalek", but who wouldn't when you are face to face with an enemy you thought you sacrificed your entire race to destroy. In most of the other episodes, he's usually quite cheerful.
108 - Father's Day:
— "My entire planet died, my whole family, do you thin
k it never occured to me to go back and save them?" — "But it's not like I changed history!"
Wow, Rose. Way to be sensitive there. That wasn't a good enough reason for you to listen to him? His entire RACE gone, and he can't go back to save them? ......all right, I get it, she's only human, and I guess it's probably hard to imagine something on that scale when you've just saved your father. I'll give her that one.
Aww, the hug when Pete realizes who Rose is. ^^
Little Mickey runs in and hugs Rose, and she says "You have to let go of me, sweetheart." ...should have told the older version the same thing.
And this is where the paradox-th
ing is first explained in the new series I think, that two versions of the same person can't touch. It seems like they have completly disregarded this from series 5 and onwards.
"This is my fault." "No love, this is my fault. I'm your dad, it's my job for it to be my fault." Aww, Pete. :)
111 - Boom Town:
Jack naturally assumes leadership when they find out about the Slitheen. And The Doctor just stands there looking at him. And I soo can see Eleven reacting the same way! And also, I just love how this part unfolds. It's so typical that two male characters start bickering over who's in charge, and it's a bit overused. So I loove the way the Doctor reacts here. First, "Oi, who's in charge?" and then just "What he said, nice plan!" In that way he gets the point accross that he's the leader, but still acnowledges that Jack did a good job. Well done! Makes for more interesting characters, and better TV.
Oh God, and Rose is mad at Mickey for dating a new girl. How CAN you be so selfish and deluded? You leave with another man, and expect your boyfriend to be fine with this and just sit and wait? I think not? ...and everything Mickey says to her after this is so true.
113 - The parting of the ways:
Another Rose-tantrum when she's sent home by the Doctor. I can understand her at first actually, of course she's sad and angry that she can't help the Doctor, and that he's dying many years away from her. But then it just turns into whining about how she can never go back to a regular life again after this, that it was a "better life" etc. Now it's suddenly all about her again! It's like she's addicted to a drug or something! At least, that's what it must look like to her mother. (...I have no idea why I keep seeing this through Jackies eyes.)
OH GOD, and then, after she finds out that she can open the TARDIS to tell her to go back, she tells Mickey that there's absolutly nothing left for her at home. I'm sorry, what? And she actually says this right to his face. "Yup, what we had was worth nothing to me. Who, my mother? Nah, not her either." I GET that she wants to go back to save the Doctor, but to say something like that? To actually insult him like that? Good lord, how this girl has any fans is way beyond me.
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