Doctor Who is a long-running, award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as “the Doctor” who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which appears from the exterior to be a blue police phone box. With his companions, he explores time and space, solving problems and righting wrongs.
The show’s lead character is currently portrayed by David Tennant. A Christmas special co-starring Kylie Minogue aired in December 2007, and the fourth series started on 5 April 2008. For that series, Catherine Tate will reprise her role of Donna Noble, from the 2006 Christmas special, as the Doctor’s latest companion. Midway through the series, Freema Agyeman will also return to her role of Martha Jones, following a multi-episode guest appearance in the Doctor Who spin-off series, Torchwood. John Barrowman will continue his role as Captain Jack Harkness, and Billie Piper will return as Rose Tyler for three episodes. Elisabeth Sladen is also set to return as Sarah Jane Smith in a cameo role.
After a 2008 Christmas special and three further specials starring David Tennant, scheduled to air in 2009, Doctor Who is planned to return in 2010 for a fifth full length series.
From the Doctor Who entry at Wikipedia.
The Doctor is a long lived alien from the planet Gallifrey. He’s a Time Lord and travels through time thanks to his aging time capsule the Tardis. David Tennant is the tenth Doctor. My favorite has always been Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor. The Doctor periodically regenerates. When he does so, he changes outward appearance which let the producers change actors easily. All Time Lords regenerate 13 times. The Doctor’s nemesis is the Master, a renegade Time Lord who found a way around this limit. Other enemies include the Black Guardian, the Daleks and the Cybermen.
During the previous serials, before 2005, Gallifrey was alive and well. It appears that for the new series, the Doctor is the only survivor of the last great Time War between the Dalek Empire and the Time Lords.
The Doctor, Donna Noble and Martha arrive on Messaline and are immediately separated. A war has been going on for generations on Messaline between the humans and the Hath. They are colonists that have been feuding.
The humans immediately process the Doctor and his daughter-clone appears. Donna calls her Jenny. It takes a while for the Doctor to warm to Jenny. He does so thanks to Donna. They become close and Donna is surprised to learn that the Doctor was a father long ago. He tries to teach his daughter the reason why he doesn’t condone killing or violence. She appears to understand the lesson.
The Doctor is finally able to solve the problem on Messaline and to stop the war. He thinks that Jenny has died, but she was revived thanks to the terraforming gases. She’s off into the world on her own.
This was another great episode. We are finding out a bit more about the Doctor’s past. During the other serials, the Timelords were alive and well. The Daleks and the Time Lors annihilated themselves during the last great Time War. The Doctor fought in this war and is the only survivor of his race.
Rose Tyler was actually seen at the end of the first episode of this season. Rose was the new Doctor’s first companion back in 2005. She stayed for two seasons before being sucked into another universe. She was seen once again in this episode, on the screen of the TARDIS when Donna was looking at the Doctor’s message to the Sontarans.
There, she finds herself trapped on the parallel Earth albeit reunited with Jackie, Mickey and the alternate Pete Tyler. Later, the Doctor manages to project his image through the last crack between the universes, sharing a tearful farewell with her. He informs Rose that she is presumed dead in the aftermath of the invasion, thus verifying Rose’s soliloquy at the start of the episode “This is the story of how I died”. Rose in turn mentions working with that parallel Earth’s (non secret) version of the Torchwood Institute due to her experience with aliens. Finally, Rose tells him she loves him, even though they denied it many times during the course of their time together. The Doctor begins to reply, getting as far as “If it’s my last chance to say it…Rose Tyler–” before the connection fails.
Rose is back for three episodes this season.
It’s incredible how entertaining these new Doctor Who episodes. Torchwood isn’t anywhere near as entertaining. David Tennant really knows how to portray his character well.
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
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The TARDIS brought the team to some underground tunnels. They push the Doctor to a machine. It takes a sample and clones his daughter.
Some strange aliens arrive and shooting starts. The aliens kidnap Martha. The Doctor’s daughter blows the tunnel. Donna and the Doctor are separated from Martha.
Martha makes friends when he helps one of the fish men mend his dislocated shoulder. Donna gives the Doctor’s daughter the name Jenny.
The Doctor meets the General. They are at war with the Hath. The Hath and the humans spontaneously create clones to fight themselves. The war has gone on many generations. All they know is how to fight and how to die. They want to find the Source. The Breath of Life. It was lost in the beginning of the war. The Doctor shows them another layer to the map. At the same time, Martha does the same thing.
The Source will annihilate all of the Hat. They put the Doctor, Jenny and Donna in a cell. The Doctor doesn’t want any part of the genocide. The Doctor surmises that there might be some kind of truth to the myth. The Doctor rigs Donna’s phone to talk with Martha. He learns that the Hath are marching to the same location. It will be a bloodbath.
The Doctor wants to leave Jenny, but Donna makes him realize that Jenny is a Timelord. She’s got twin hearts. The Doctor tells Jenny about the Timewar that wiped out the Timelords.
Martha plans on heading to the temple via the surface. The Hath she saved comes with her.
Jenny gets them out of their cell. She’s very resourceful. Donna notices that the numbers are counting down. The original builders must have left them.
Jenny tries to distract the human soldiers. The Doctor tells her that once she starts killing, it will infect her. She thinks about this. She doesn’t kill anyone. They make their way out of harm’s way. The Doctor is glad that she didn’t kill anyone. Jenny makes a few backflips through a laser field. It’s incredible.
On the surface, Martha is caught in a sinking pit. The Hath jumps in to save her and dies in the process.
Jenny is happy when she learns that they are taking her with them. The Doctor looks emotional. He tells her that he has been a father before, a long time ago. When he looks at Jenny, he can see his dead family. Donna says that she and Jenny will help him with that. It won’t always be like that. The Doctor tells her that part died a long time ago, with his family. Donna thinks he’s wrong.
It turns out that the temple contains the engines of the fusion powered spaceship. The Doctor finds out that the leader died. There was a power vacuum. The Hath and the humans started fighting.
Donna figures out that the codes are dates. It turns out that the war broke out a week ago. The Doctor runs into Martha. Martha smells flowers. They go after the scent and find a garden. There is a 3rd generation terraforming device in the grove. The soldiers all converge on the same place. The Doctor releases the gases and triggers the terraforming of the planet Messaline.
General Cobb shoots Jenny while trying to get the Doctor. She dies. She doesn’t regenerate. The Doctor takes a gun and points it at the General. He tells him that he would never do this. The Doctor doesn’t fire.
Jenny was the reason why they arrived here.
They drop Martha off on Earth.
On Messaline, the gases gave life back to Jenny. Jenny takes a shuttle off Messaline.
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