Rose (TV story)

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"Nice to meet you Rose, run for your life!"

Synopsis

Rose Tyler is an ordinary girl who leads an ordinary life. She lives with her mother in a London flat, has a boyfriend and works as a shop assistant in a department store. Her life changes forever, though, when she meets the Doctor.

While in the basement of the shop in which she works, Rose is attacked by Autons but is rescued by the Doctor. This is to be the first of several encounters with the Doctor. Ultimately, she helps him to prevent the Auton invasion by destroying the Nestene Consciousness' presence on Earth with the use of anti-plastic. Following their adventure, Rose agrees to leave her friends and family and go exploring time and space with the Doctor.

Plot

to be added

Cast

Crew

References

  • The sonic screwdriver makes an appearance and is once again a major all-purpose tool.
  • Clive suggests that the title "Doctor" is passed down from father to son, and points to his website saying to Rose "that's your Doctor there, isnt it". This would seem to suggest he has information on the Doctor's other incarnations.


Story Notes

  • This is the first story in the new series of Doctor Who.
  • This is the first story featuring the new TARDIS console room which has a far more organic appearance than its predecessors.
  • A copy of this story was available to download on the Internet on various p2p networks several weeks before it was released. The preview version was essentially the broadcast version; however it did not contain the new credits and had the original series theme music as opposed to the new version.
  • The word Auton is not used in the dialogue of the story but is used in the episode credits.
  • The surname Finch was used for Clive and his wife in the production notes but not in the on-screen version.
  • The story, like the 1996 Doctor Who: The TV Movie, breaks with what had become the tradition of including the Doctor's image in the title sequence.
  • For this the first episode the opening credits follow the UK standard of; title sequence then program, the rest of the season (other than the first episode would include a 'teaser' before the main title sequence.
  • There were problems during the first broadcast of this story in the UK which meant that sound from a BBC 3 program, Strictly Dance Fever hosted by Graham Norton, was heard over the scene in which Rose first encounters the Autons.
  • When searching for the Doctor on the Internet Rose uses search-wise. This is an actual web page with the same logo as on the show, but it is not actually a search engine: instead, it is a web page created by a company called Compuhire, designed for use in television and film when a search engine is required to be seen on-screen. (See their disclaimer.)
  • The Reference to the Doctor having a Northern accent relates to the media attention that has been generated around Christopher Eccleston not conforming to people's perception of what the Doctor should be like.

Ratings

  • 9.94 million (43.2% audience share)
  • Repeat - 0.48 million (3.5% audience share)

Myths

to be added

Location Filming

Mostly filmed in Cardiff, but with some location filming in London:

  • The scene in which Rose agrees to go travelling with the Doctor was filmed in Cardiff's outdoor market.

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • When Mickey opens the wheelie bin it is empty. Why would a person put an empty bin out for collection? (Perhaps the bin ate the rubbish? Or perhaps cit moved itself (it was Nestene-animated)? Perhaps it had been emptied and hadn't been put back yet?)
  • There has been an tendancy by some Doctor Who fans to see the fact that Clive has photos of the Doctor as being an error. The argument goes that if the Doctor has just regenerated, how has he been photographed through out history? However the Doctor is a time traveller and there is no reason why there can not be photographs of events which from his perspective have not yet happened. However, since Rose has travelled with the Doctor for the duration of this regeneration, and she has not seen these events, how could this Doctor have been there? This seems however to be a contentious issue among fans. (It is possible the Doctor went to these events at the end of the episode when the TARDIS disappeared and came back a few seconds later.)
  • The shop where Rose works has two different spellings in the episode; it is spelled Henrik's on its sale banners, but Henricks on the BBC News 24 report.

Continuity

DVD and Other Releases

to be added

See Also

External Links

Television

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