Review Rose (2005)

[Doctor Omega]

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With the first ever broadcast story:

ROSE (2005)


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Your thoughts on this story....

Rose Tyler is just an ordinary shop worker living an ordinary life in 21st century Britain. But that life is turned upside down when a strange man calling himself The Doctor drags her into an alien invasion attempt!

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THE END OF THE WORLD

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-end-of-the-world-2005.1609/


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DOCTOR WHO: THE MOVIE (1996)

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Spoiler: THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR (DETOUR)

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THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR.....

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Spoiler: SCREAM OF THE SHALKA DETOUR......

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SCREAM OF THE SHALKA (2003)......

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TENNANT

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-christmas-invasion-2005.5351/


MATT SMITH

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CAPALDI

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/deep-breath-2014.5321/


WHITTAKER

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-woman-who-fell-to-earth-2018.3700/




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AN UNEARTHLY CHILD...

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/an-unearthly-child-1963.1604/

 

[chainsaw_metal1]

I still really dig it. However, it brings up so many things that I don't care for as much in Nu-WHO. First, the companions in the classic series all went out and traveled with The Doctor without worrying about their day-to-day lives, and there wasn't a real worry from anyone else as to where they went. Here, Rose leaves her mom and boyfriend, and when she comes back, we find out there was a murder investigation with Mickey as the prime suspect. We have an episode where she has to deal with how her traveling affects everyone else. This seems to be a continuing theme with the modern companions, where they have to constantly come back home and check in on the old home life. I'm certain this is one of those questions that many fans had in the past (like who pays for repairs when superheroes and villains destroy a city), but it makes it too domestic.

Second, everything is fast paced and quick cut. Sure, one can argue that in classic WHO we get too many scenes of corridor running that just pad the running time of episodes to fill a serial, but every now and then,it's okay to take a breath. Really.

And yet, so help me, I still love the show. Probably because it's better than the majority of what's on TV these days. But I am now, and always shall be, a fan.

 

[Gavin]

I had a mixed reaction on first viewing, but in hindsight its a pretty good episode to appeal to both classic series fans and introduce the concepts to new fans. It's a bit cheesy in places and it feels like they were all still finding their feet in terms of what they wanted the series to be. It's definitely rushed in places, especially compared with the classic series. But that's not necessarily a bad thing (way too much padding in many classic episodes).

 

[Carol]

Never fails to amaze me that Eccleston had such a miserable time on the show - here he hit the ground running with a tailor-made script and had me from "Run". Besides, he's Northern - what could possibly be wrong?

 

[The Seeker]

Yeah, lots of planets have a north!

I liked this one. Rose, apart from leaving everyone behind (but she didn't know the Doctor would return her a yeat later) was pretty sympathetic at this point.

 

[Carol]

at this point

Sound like you might have gone off her a bit later?

Yeah- I don't have any problem with taking off in a time-machine that (in theory) can bring you back at the same time you left, so no one has time to worry that you've gone. Fascinating that they dug into that from the off - and did any companion ever have a Mother with Such Attitude before? Brilliant comedy.
The shop dummy- monsters terrified me as a kid too, so that was whatever the gibbering opposite of nostalgia is - in colour, I'm all grown up but shop dummies are still creepy thanks to childhood Who-ing!

 

[The Seeker]

Oh, when she and the tenth Doctor started making googly eyes at each other, and then he behaved like he lost the best thing he ever had after they got separated (and poor Martha got pretty much shafted by him and the stupid writers who had to make her fall in love with the Doctor) it soured me on both of them.

 

[Carol]

@The Seeker

Oh. That. Well, Rose was flirty from the start and not over-considerate of her actual boyfriend. But I don't think I ever saw a Doctor smitten before, so for me, novelty value.
(I like "googly eyes" though - not the sort you get from too much time googling - I don't think the EVER "googled"...

 

[Doctor Omega]

Out on April 5th....




Meet the new Doctor Who classics.
“Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!”
In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move – and kill – are taking up key positions, ready to strike.
Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life. She’s about to meet the only man who understands the true nature of the threat facing Earth, a stranger who will open her eyes to all the wonder and terror of the universe – a traveller in time and space known as the Doctor.

 

[Gavin]

Out on April 5th....

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Meet the new Doctor Who classics.
“Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!”
In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move – and kill – are taking up key positions, ready to strike.
Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life. She’s about to meet the only man who understands the true nature of the threat facing Earth, a stranger who will open her eyes to all the wonder and terror of the universe – a traveller in time and space known as the Doctor.

Already on preorder along with the other three from the new series. Got to keep my collection as complete as possible.

 

[ant-mac]

Already on preorder along with the other three from the new series. Got to keep my collection as complete as possible.

Have you got all the ones from the original TV series?

 

[Gavin]

Have you got all the ones from the original TV series?

Every single one. The only ones (that I am aware of) that have yet to be published are Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks and for those I've got the NZ fan club's unauthorised novelisation versions. I'm currently working through re-reading them in televised order and am just about to start the last First Doctor story Doctor Who and the Cybermen (The Tenth Planet).

 

[ant-mac]

Every single one. The only ones (that I am aware of) that have yet to be published are Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks and for those I've got the NZ fan club's unauthorised novelisation versions. I'm currently working through re-reading them in televised order and am just about to start the last First Doctor story Doctor Who and the Cybermen (The Tenth Planet).

The last time I read THE TENTH PLANET was around late 1979 or early 1980.

 

[Gavin]

I'm pretty sure I've read the books more than I've actually seen the episodes. In fact I'm often surprised when watching an episode that something I thought was in the story was actually an addition or change for the novelisation. That's especially true of the later publications where the writers often took the opportunity to include bits that had to be cut for time or budget reasons or to fix plot holes that became apparent after filming. And the newest releases which are hugely expanded novelisations add in significantly more, referencing continuity from both the classic series and the new series.

 

[ant-mac]

I'm pretty sure I've read the books more than I've actually seen the episodes. In fact I'm often surprised when watching an episode that something I thought was in the story was actually an addition or change for the novelisation. That's especially true of the later publications where the writers often took the opportunity to include bits that had to be cut for time or budget reasons or to fix plot holes that became apparent after filming. And the newest releases which are hugely expanded novelisations add in significantly more, referencing continuity from both the classic series and the new series.

I'm still waiting to see Ian light up a cigarette while he's waiting to warn the Thal people of the trap that awaits them in the Dalek city in the novelization of THE DEAD PLANET. Also, I look forward to the scene where they battle the monster while crossing the lake on a raft.

 

[Doctor Omega]

The covers of the novelisations often added a whole new dimension to the stories that set up a viewer for disappointment.

I mean, where the heck was this thing in the televised product....?





I liked that added dimension to the stories though, although -after a couple of disappointed hits - I did learn not be so expectant, as the stories were gradually released from the archives.

The Slyther was terrifying in the DIOE novelisation, unlike the walking beanbag tree thing we got in the creaky, murky black and white first release on vhs.

 

[Gavin]

I think a lot of the authors took advantage of the novelisation form to really enhance the stories beyond what was seen on screen, especially in the era before video releases. I remember reading reviews of some of the episodes and wondering why people seem to hate some of the best stories that I only knew from the novelisations. Then I saw the actual episodes and understood.

 

[Doctor Omega]

I remember being disappointed at the time by the Nestene Consciousness being just a swimming pool full of jelly.

Those Target book covers were haunting me still.....

 

[Doctor Omega]

Rose meets the TARDIS