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Friday Doctor Who blogging:
Labrateers who know what's what and who's who will be watching these pretty kittys on teevee tonight.
SciFi will be showing two episodes this eve (packaged as a two-hour special) - the premeire, 'Rose,' and 'The End of The World.'
Reviews, you ask? Okay, so, like most brand-new-Doc episodes in series history, 'Rose' is mostly just solid; as advertised, it's more of an introduction to Rose Tyler and her world and how the Doctor changes all that than to Christopher Eccleston's incarnation. Series head scribe and executive producer Russell Davies wrote Billie Piper's character like one of the top-tier stars off of Buffy: a very pretty but otherwise very normal girl, who, we'll come to learn, just so happens to have possess everything a 950-year-old alien would need to help him save mankind. After all, he says, he "only takes the best." And we learn, and Rose learns, that she is the best. It only took a man with a time machine to show her that.
'End of the World' is more of Eccleston's show, our first real look at the new Doc, and I'm really glad SciFi decided not to wait to follow 'Rose' up with this - like I said, first episodes featuring a new Doc have generally been shaky ones (Castrovalva, I think, being the exception), and in 'Rose,' Piper and Eccleston are so right together, the rest of the hour seems wanting when they're not in each other's presence.
Anyway, in 'EOTW', not only do we learn more about this new Doctor - by turns glib, darkly intense, compassionate, heroic, even sexy - we learn, along with Rose, that the Doctor's world , as thrilling and wonderful as it may be, is not only a dangerous one (and yes, the world really does end), but truly alien, even repulsive.
Pics for each via the Beeb.
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