The best part is when the Doctor is all like, "Oh yeah, I might die, but I'm ninja so you go on with your life," and then he slams the door. After a few seconds a bewildered Rose turns to walk away when he suddenly pops back out, introduces himself, and tells her to run for her life.
And then there's the whole matter of...
"Run!" I think it's great that, after sixteen long years of silence, the first thing the ninth regeneration of the Doctor says is run. This one phrase sets up a whole idea of excitement and danger and, yes, running, for the show. Out of all the lines that could have been his first, I'm glad this is the one that got top spot.
Another funny part is the next morning when Rose hears sounds from the cat flap and when she checks it... the Doctor is peering through. The exchange of wit that follows is one of my favorites. "What're you doing here?" "I live here." "Well what did you go and do that for?"
And it's all of ten seconds later that another one of my favorite exchanges occurs: "I'm in my dressing gown." "Yes, you are." "There's a strange man in my bedroom." "Yes, there is." "Anything could happen." "No."
After that we have the attack of the plastic hand; it's really funny because at first Rose thinks the Doctor is just messing around. "Give a man a plastic hand," she mutters disgustedly. She changes her mind about that when it attacks her as well.
After a long while of Rose bugging him and trying to find out who he is, the Doctor tells her this:
"Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning, and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny world, and if we let go... that's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home."
I love this quote! It sounds so mysterious and impressive and awesome and... alien. The Doctor in a nutshell, I guess. :)
One part that is a little corny is when Mickey is eaten by the trashcan and the peculiar plastic Mickey takes his place. I have no clue how Rose goes for more than a second without realizing that something's wrong, but hey, it leads to her seeing the Doctor again, so I'll let her cluelessness slide. That leads to her going into the T.A.R.D.I.S... and promptly back out to run around it and be bewildered. When she goes back inside, the Doctor asks, "Where'd you want to start?" Rose replies with the sacred, "The inside's bigger than the outside."
Another great part is the Doctor's complete idiocy when he's looking around for a round and massive transmitter... a huge, metal, circular structure... don't mind that giant Ferris Wheel, Doctor, it's not like that's big and round and metal or anything...
Something I don't like about this episode are some of the special effects; the Nestene Consciousness is a giant blob of lava, the manikins twitch and flail long after their controller is destroyed. The T.A.R.D.I.S. special effects, however, are as good as they've ever been. Sounds: awesome. Looks: awesome. Materialization: awesome.
Overall, this is a fantastic episode, chock full of wit and jokes. How could you not like that?
Stay geeky (and nerdy if you're a nerd as well),
-A fellow Whovian
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