Doctor Who
The recaps were long, and the episodes were...ever so variable. Harriet Jones, PM, got a vote of no confidence on Christmas after the Doctor was replaced with a newer, yippier version. Rose was confused about the body-switching thing at first, but after she and the Doctor were both possessed by a bitchy talking trampoline, she learned to go with it. Later, Queen Victoria was turned into a werewolf. (Allegedly!) She also knighted the Doctor and Rose, then banished them from Britain immediately thereafter, and created a secret organization known as Torchwood. This would have dire consequences, both for Rose and the Doctor personally, and for everybody who suffered through the TV show Torchwood as a result. up, Rose was forced to deal with her jealousy and growing attachment to the Doctor, after meeting first a lovely castoff companion who seemed stuck in a rut without her Doctor, and the beautiful and talented Reinette, the girl who was also a spaceship. Both of them eventually won her over, but that didn't mean she was going to listen to the obvious bells tolling for them all, even when she saw her parallel-world mother murdered and weaponized, and then her erstwhile boyfriend abandoned in the same world, with her parallel-world dad.
Back to Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, where evil television spirits sucked people's faces off and were awesome. Then the actual literal Devil showed up, begged Rose to please pay attention, and told her she was screwed. Nobody really listened that time either, even though an obvious pattern was developing. Back on Earth, Jackie was dealing with the intermittent loss of her daughter and almost fell prey to a sexy dork from the local Who fan club, but eventually she gave a heartwarming speech that saved it from being the worst episode of the season. came: the worst episode of the season. The Olympics, haunted crayons, those little bastard robots from *batteries not included...oh, it was a mess. Luckily things got awesome back in the present, when Torchwood managed to facilitate an invasion not only starring the Steel Cybermen from the parallel world, but also the Daleks, who have now been genocided by both Rose and the Doctor, and lived to tell about it. In contrast to their bad-assery, Rose managed to get herself and her mom sealed up on the parallel-world side of the wall, a year too early for Golden Compass comparisons, and the Doctor was very sad. They said goodbye one last time, and then everybody was very sad. Well, the same story told fourteen different ways can really only end one way, if it's a story about ending. So it did. -- Jacob
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By The TWoP Staff
Doctor Who
The recaps were long, and the episodes were...ever so variable. Harriet Jones, PM, got a vote of no confidence on Christmas after the Doctor was replaced with a newer, yippier version. Rose was confused about the body-switching thing at first, but after she and the Doctor were both possessed by a bitchy talking trampoline, she learned to go with it. Later, Queen Victoria was turned into a werewolf. (Allegedly!) She also knighted the Doctor and Rose, then banished them from Britain immediately thereafter, and created a secret organization known as Torchwood. This would have dire consequences, both for Rose and the Doctor personally, and for everybody who suffered through the TV show Torchwood as a result. up, Rose was forced to deal with her jealousy and growing attachment to the Doctor, after meeting first a lovely castoff companion who seemed stuck in a rut without her Doctor, and the beautiful and talented Reinette, the girl who was also a spaceship. Both of them eventually won her over, but that didn't mean she was going to listen to the obvious bells tolling for them all, even when she saw her parallel-world mother murdered and weaponized, and then her erstwhile boyfriend abandoned in the same world, with her parallel-world dad.
Back to Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, where evil television spirits sucked people's faces off and were awesome. Then the actual literal Devil showed up, begged Rose to please pay attention, and told her she was screwed. Nobody really listened that time either, even though an obvious pattern was developing. Back on Earth, Jackie was dealing with the intermittent loss of her daughter and almost fell prey to a sexy dork from the local Who fan club, but eventually she gave a heartwarming speech that saved it from being the worst episode of the season. came: the worst episode of the season. The Olympics, haunted crayons, those little bastard robots from *batteries not included...oh, it was a mess. Luckily things got awesome back in the present, when Torchwood managed to facilitate an invasion not only starring the Steel Cybermen from the parallel world, but also the Daleks, who have now been genocided by both Rose and the Doctor, and lived to tell about it. In contrast to their bad-assery, Rose managed to get herself and her mom sealed up on the parallel-world side of the wall, a year too early for Golden Compass comparisons, and the Doctor was very sad. They said goodbye one last time, and then everybody was very sad. Well, the same story told fourteen different ways can really only end one way, if it's a story about ending. So it did. -- Jacob
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