Aliens of London

You know that one awkward moment when you've been traveling through time and space, return home and think you've been gone for twelve hours and it turns out you've been gone twelve months? Well, that's what happened to our poor Rose. Happy to be home after witnessing Earth's death in the year five billion, she runs into her apartment only to find that her mother had believed her to be dead for the last year- with Mickey being the prime suspect in her "murder."
After being thoroughly grilled by her mother, who desperately attempts to find out where Rose was in the year she was gone (and also slaps the Doctor while she's at it- extremely funny), Rose goes to the roof of her building to talk to the Doctor. She confesses how upset she is that she can't ever tell her mom where she really was, and tells the Doctor that he's the only person she can talk to about her experiences- since she's the only person on Earth that knows aliens really exist. A spaceship promptly flies overhead and crashes into Big Ben and is rewarded with an exclamation from Rose: "Oh, that's not fair!" I think it's funny that two seconds before she was bemoaning her fate as the only human to know of aliens, and the instant this happens, she takes it back.
The Doctor sneaks into the hospital that the "alien" body from the crash is being kept, and he realizes that it isn't an alien at all, but an ordinary Earth pig that had had alien technology put in its brain. Aliens faking aliens. The pig in a spacesuit is actually fairly funny until it gets shot. :( That part's sad, especially when the Doctor tells them it was simply terrified, not attacking.
The Doctor heads back to Rose's building and her mom sees the T.A.R.D.I.S. materialize. Armed with the knowledge that he's an alien, she calls an alien hotline. That, in all honesty, I find completely ridiculous. Alien hotline? Really? I'd hate to be one of the people answering that phone- think of all the wackos they'd get.
All aliens experts, including the Doctor and Rose, are taken to 10 Downing Street to be consulted on what to do in the time of emergency. Rose, however, isn't allowed into the meeting along with the Doctor, so she walks around with a woman named Harriet Jones (MP for Flydale North). They discover the discarded skin of the human disguise of an alien and are trapped by one of the aliens.
The Doctor, in the meeting with all the other "alien experts" (one can assume that they really know nothing in comparison to the Doctor's vast knowledge of the universe) uncovers an alien plot. The episode ends with he and the others in the room except for the two aliens being electrocuted. Very big cliffhanger and all, unless you watch the "Next on Doctor Who," which shows the Doctor and Rose alive and well.
Overall, this is a pretty good episode. Introduction of the Slitheen, Harriet Jones, and of course it has its funny parts... satisfying episode, especially considering that it didn't bring up any of my former complaints.

Stay geeky (and nerdy if you're a nerd as well),
-A fellow Whovian