Revival Series 1, Episode 2-The End of the World
And I’m back with the second episode of the series!
We start with Rose and The Doctor talking in the TARDIS,
with Rose wanting to know what that sucker can do.
She first asks to go 100 years into the future, but that is
small potatoes for The Doctor, so he brings them 10,000 years forward. Rose lays the smackdown, and tries to knock
some of that cockiness out of him, so The Doctor takes them 5 billion years
into the future.
Rose is wondering why they went there, and The Doctor
informs her that the earth is ending.
Sucks for humans, I guess. We see
a menagerie of different alien species, all aboard the observation station to
watch the destruction of a planet.
There are standard meet and greets, until the last human
comes on board, and boy, is she ugly. As
Rose would later describe her, she looks like a giant trampoline with a
mouth.
It’s soon after, and we have our conflict for the
evening: spider-bots are attempting to
sabotage the observation ship. First, it
get really hot, then the sun filters go up, and finally, the solar shields go
down, threatening the entire ship, and all it’s passengers.
The Doctor manages to figure everything out on his own with
no assist from Rose tonight, though he did have help from a sentient tree named
Jabe. Unfortunately, the spider-bots
were not the culprit, only the executioner.
When The Doctor goes to find out who was really in charge of
the takeover, he find it out to the Cassandra, the last human, and it was all
for the money. Of course. She teleports away, and The Doctor and Jabe
go to fix the mainframe before Earth is destroyed, destroying the ship with it.
They together manage to find the manual override, but in
doing so, Jabe, who is composed fully of wood, gets blasted with extreme heat,
and burns completely away. This leaves
us with a PO’d Doctor.
He returns to the rest of the guests, and knows exactly what
to do. He finds the transmitter, and
recalls Cassandra back, without her precious team of moisturizers, and without
whom she dries out and disintegrates in a matter of a couple of minutes.
Danger completely taken care of, The Doctor discusses, and
Rose laments, the fact that the earth is gone, and no one was watching. He brings her back to present time, giving her
the option to stay there, but Rose puts on a cheeky grin, and says she’ll stay,
if The Doctor will get her some chips.
I liked this episode.
The action was fast paced, but spread through the entire show, The
various aliens had many different forms, though most did stick with the
standard bipedal hominid, and I’m beginning to see the dynamic I’m assuming the
show will go with for The Doctor and his companion.
Rose will be our conduit, our way into this world that we
have no way of knowing. Kind of like
Harry in Harry Potter, or Arthur in Hithchiker’s Guide. If we don’t have a person that can ask our
questions for us, the completely foreign world would be utterly inaccessible,
so we get Rose. But that’s not her only
function. She also exists to humanize
The Doctor, who would be completely sterile, and subjective in his view if it
weren’t for her. She has already had to
call him out several times in terms of him not thinking about the consequence
of various actions on her, or those close to her. I’m hoping/assuming she will continue to do
that, and that he will start to get there on his own as well.
The Doctor, on the other hand, is our guide through the
galaxy and through time, and with him, Rose, and in extension, we, will learn
various things about herself and the universe.
I really enjoyed the campiness of the show as well. It’s clear they have a budget, but it also
seems like something a person could almost do on their own, with enough time an
effort. An example would be the slide
through time mechanism: a spinner set
into the dashboard. Simple, elegant, and
awesome for the possibilities it gives to fans to play, cos or otherwise.
As always, feel free to comment below, but please avoid
spoilers, thanks!
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