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After taking Margaret back to her home planet and a trip to Kyoto, the Doctor, Rose and Jack are Trans-matted out of the TARDIS into the 'Games Station'.
One-hundred years have past since they saved humanity by killing 'Max' on 'Satellite Five', which has now been renamed as the 'Games Station'.
The Doctor ends up in one of the sixty 'Big Brother' houses, Rose appears on 'The Weakest Link' and Jack appears on 'What Not To Wear'. Losing these games means certain death for the contestants! The Doctor and Jack break out and try to save Rose, but she is seemingly killed until they approach floor 500 and find that she has been taken to a Dalek ship! The Daleks plan to invade Earth. In the second part, the Doctor and Jack arrive on the Dalek's lead ship and confront the Dalek emperor. In doing so, they save Rose and prepare the 'Games Station' and the Earth for the battle for survival. Unfortunately, this plan has an Achilles heel: the creation of a 'Delta wave' means that anyone on the station, on the Earth or in the advancing Dalek fleet is going to die. In light of this, he sends Rose home using the TARDIS. The Daleks invade and are about to kill the Doctor when Rose comes back by looking into the 'Heart of the TARDIS'. She destroys the Daleks, saves Jack and then starts to die. The Doctor then takes all of the energy away from her and begins his regeneration... |
| Memorable Quotes |
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Rodrick: Don't try to escape; it's play or die!
Trinny: But that's a compact lazer deluxe
Rose: That makes them half-human
Emperor Dalek: Hail the Doctor: the great exterminator Doctor Ten: Now where was I? Oh, that's right! Barcelona |
| Editor's Review |
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Bad Wolf was quite a good episode. There was lots of action, no complicated Sci-Fi language and it showed once again that the Doctor's actions have consequence.
The giant killer Playmobil dolls that were the hosts of the relevant shows were quite good and well realised (if not really uncomfortable for the actors to work in!)
and there were some good characterisations.
The Daleks are back and they want the Earth. Hasn't this happened several times before?!! Parting of the Ways was a nice ending to the series. It did feel a tad overloaded with concepts, but it was an action packed and thrilling episode. The ending was a weak point in my opinion because the Daleks were very easily dealt with by another unbelievable sci-fi invention. It did, however give the Doctor a catalyst for regeneration. The regeneration itself was original: the Doctor was standing up for once and we saw his whole body seemingly on fire before the process of change was complete. David Tennant looks promising and from his first words, slightly comic. Roll on Christmas! (Dan Ludlow) |