Guide:Plot summary for New Who: Difference between revisions

The new series begins with a girl from modern day London, 2005, [[Rose Tyler]], played by [[Billie Piper]], encountering a mysterious man who insists on calling himself [[the Doctor]] during strange events taking place around her work. This man, portrayed by [[Christopher Eccleston]], at first refuses to talk to her, but she insists on becoming involved, and ends up being helpful. As such, he offers her the trip of a lifetime, all of time and space. His ship, the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] is a blue police box that's larger on the inside than the outside, and takes them back to Victorian London and to the destruction of the Earth. As they travel, Rose finds out that the Doctor is a survivor of [[Last Great Time War|a massive war]], the last of his race, the [[Time Lord]]s. Eventually they come to confront a surviving remnant of the other party in the war - a lone [[Dalek]], a race of xenocidal mutants in miniature tanks, imprisoned by a mad businessman in 2012. The Dalek manages to stir out of its complacency upon meeting its mortal foe once more, before ultimately self destructing, after becoming tainted by some of Rose's DNA. All of this is ultimately a prelude, however, to a reborn empire of Daleks that the pair stumble upon in the far future, manipulating the development of the human race. The Doctor, fearing for Rose, sends her and the TARDIS back to modern London as he rigs up a system to wipe out all life in the solar system. Rose refuses to accept this, and tries again and again to figure out a way back, before ultimately gazing deep into the inner workings of the TARDIS. Time energy flows through her, and she returns, disintegrating all of the Daleks with a thought. The Doctor, however, knows that she'll burn herself out, and draws the power out of her with a kiss. He says his goodbyes, energy flows from him, and in his place stands a [[Tenth Doctor|new man]], played by [[David Tennant]], who identifies himself as the Doctor.

Rose and this new Doctor crash back on modern day Earth on Christmas, as an invasion happens. Rose wrestles with the idea that this is the Doctor, and as the Doctor is recuperating from [[Regeneration|the change]], he isn't able to help her through the transition. Ultimately, however, he manages to come to in the brink of time, and challenges the leader of the aliens to single combat, ultimately winning, though getting his hand chopped off and regrowing it in the process.

The Doctor and Rose fall back into a familiar pattern adventuring at first, but when Rose discovers that she's not the first companion that the Doctor has had, there begins to be some tension. The Doctor and Rose wind up in another universe at the advent of a technological menace - the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]. But this universe happens to be one where Rose's father is still alive. Ultimately, however, she resolves to continue adventuring with the Doctor, and they return to their own universe. Not long after, they find themselves caught in the crossfire between two warring enemies. The Cybermen have followed them through the void between worlds, and a small group of Daleks hid themselves and a Dalek prison ship in that same void, opening cracks just enough for the Cybermen to get through. The Doctor and Rose, with help from the resistance movement from the other universe, devise a plan to force all of the combatants back to the void. But because Rose and the Doctor have traveled through it, they too are at risk, and need to be in a safe location. Ultimately, Rose slips, but is saved by her father from the other world before the opening between the two universes is closed permanently.

As the Doctor mourns the loss of his companion Rose, a [[Donna Noble|random bride]] appears in his TARDIS. She's not at all sure why, and demands to be returned to her wedding. In the end, however, it ends up that her husband to be was intending her to be food for an alien. The issue ends up resolved, and the two part ways. The Doctor then finds himself in a hospital as it's transported to the moon by a group of [[Judoon|alien rhino policemen]] looking for a fugitive. While in this situation he finds himself impressed by the quick thinking of a young Doctor, [[Martha Jones]], played by [[Freema Agyeman]], and as thanks invites her on a single trip in his TARDIS. The single trip balloons into more, and eventually he accepts her continuing along on his journeys, even going so far as to trust her to watch over him as he wiped his memories and scrambled his DNA, hiding as a human to flee from an adversary. The pair come to find themselves in the far future, near the end of the universe, as all the stars are dying, and humankind is trying to figure out the last refuges they can turn to. There they find a brilliant scientist working on the problem, but ultimately, through his interactions with the Doctor, his memories return. He too is a Time Lord, [[Saxon Master|the Master]], and an old foe of the Doctor's. The Master steals The TARDIS and travels back to Earth, though the Doctor and Martha manage to cobble together a way to follow him, though they arrive months later. In this time, the Master has placed himself in power as Prime Minster by a worldwide wireless network establishing low level hypnosis over the entire human race. Now in power, he welcomes in a hoard of invading aliens called the [[Toclafane]], captures the Doctor, and establishes himself as ruler of Earth. Over the next year, Martha travels the world, telling stories about the Doctor, as the Master's grip tightens, the Toclafane, who are revealed to be the remnants of humanity from the end of the universe, able to be sustained through an invention of the Master's to compensate for the paradoxes, preparing for war with the rest of the universe. Martha ultimately allows herself to be captured, and returns to the Master and the Doctor, with everyone around the world hoping for the Doctor at a pre-specified time. The Doctor frees himself using this psychic energy, and manages to destroy the machine, erasing the entire past year. the Master is shot by one of the few bystanders who remembers, and refuses to stay alive, to regenerate, leaving the Doctor alone. Martha ultimately decides to leave, realizing that their relationship isn't healthy, and that being with her family will be better for her.

The Doctor is alone yet again, and finds himself somewhat lonely. In a series of coincidences, he bumps into the bride from before, [[Donna Noble]], played by [[Catherine Tate]]. He invites her to come with him, to see the stars. She readily accepts, having only temporary jobs and her marriage falling through. One notable adventure places the two of them in a library spanning an entire planet, where the Doctor meets a mysterious woman, [[River Song]], who seems to know him in great detail, even though he's never met her before. Ultimately, she sacrifices herself in order to save his life, and the life of everyone else on the planet. Not too long after, the pair return to where Earth should be, but find that it has vanished, along with 26 other planets. They attempt to track it down, but are unable to do so. Meanwhile, on Earth, many of the people that have been impacted by the Doctor, including Martha and Rose, who has managed to find her way back from the other universe, are organizing to resist the Daleks, who are the ones who have abducted the Earth. Ultimately they manage to get a signal out to the Doctor and he manages to land on Earth. When he arrives, he sees Rose, and due to his distraction a Dalek shoots him. He begins to regenerate, but he forces the regeneration energy into his hand that was cut off years ago, halting the process. The Daleks abduct the TARDIS with the Doctor and his friends inside, taking them to a space station where they're monitoring everything. the Doctor and company, sans Donna, leave the TARDIS, and learn that the plan is to use these planets to power a machine to wipe out all of reality. The Daleks shunt off the TARDIS to be destroyed, and Donna manages to trigger the latent regeneration energy in the hand, causing a human version of [[Meta-Crisis Doctor|the Doctor]] to grow from it. The pair escape from destruction, and manage to return to the space station. The Daleks manage to stop this new Doctor as well, but don't account for the fact that Donna has gained some of the Doctor's memories as well, and she manages to halt the detonation, sending all the planets back to their proper place. However, the human Doctor causes all of the Daleks to self destruct, disappointing the Doctor, and causing him to place both his human clone and Rose back in the parallel universe. Donna's brain, ultimately, buckles under the strain from having part of the Doctor's mind imprinted on it, and the Doctor decides to wipe her memory, leaving him alone yet again. Not long after he will sacrifice himself to save Donna's grandfather from dying from radiation poisoning.

[[File:The Master Doctor.jpg|left|thumb|360px|[[Spy Master|The Master]], played by [[Sacha Dhawan]], highjacks the Doctor's body and identity.]]Trying to relax for [[New Year's Day]] after all these adventures, Doctor, Yaz and Dan soon encounter consequences of the Flux as the Daleks blame the Doctor for the destruction of their fleet by the Sontarans. They send a squad of [[Dalek Executioner]]s to kill the Doctor and her companions, but after they all become trapped in [[ELF Storage|a storage building]] with the building's owner, the TARDIS puts them all in a [[time loop]] until they figure out a way to stop the Daleks without dying. During this stressful looping event, Dan reveals to the Doctor that Yaz has fallen in love with her, something Yaz had not admitted even to herself. The Doctor is unwilling to reciprocate or even acknowledge these feelings, however, still mindful of her own impending [[death]]. The two finally talk about it during the course of another adventure involving the [[Sea Devil]]s, underwater counterparts of the reptilian [[Silurian]]s, tangling with [[China|Chinese]] [[pirate]]s: though the Doctor admits that she would happily enter a relationship with Yaz if she were willing to consider romance at ''all'', she is refusing to take that risk in the knowledge that "eventually, it'll hurt". The long-predicted crisis finally arrives when the Master returns, posing as [[Grigori Rasputin]] in a complex time-bending scheme where he has allied with the [[Dalek]]s and [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], shortly after Dan decides to leave the TARDIS. After capturing the Doctor, he uses the power of [[Qurunx (The Power of the Doctor)|a starry entity]] to highjack her body and force it to [[regeneration|regenerate]] into a copy of his own, asserting that ''he'' is "the Doctor" now. [[UNIT]] get involved, as do the Doctor's former companions [[Ace]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], and [[Graham O'Brien|Graham]]. With their help as well as that of a returning Vinder, plus a [[Holo-Doctor|hologram duplicate of the Doctor]], the Master's scheme is foiled and the artificial regeneration is reversed, temporarily restoring the Thirteenth Doctor. However, as she tries to free the powerful star-entity, the Doctor is fatally wounded by the Master, who is  back in his own body but promptly dies — seemingly without regenerating — due to the strain the body-hopping put on his physical form. Yaz carries the unconscious Doctor back to the TARDIS before the planetoid they're all standing on explodes, but it's too late to prevent her regeneration. After holding it off for one melancholy [[ice cream]] date with Yaz, the Doctor admits that she would rather face her next rebirth "alone", and drops Yaz off on Earth again, where she is greeted by Dan and Graham, who introduce her to a [[companion support group|support group]] full of other past companions. [[Kate Stewart]] of UNIT is also at the meeting, noting that she may soon recruit some of them for "some work". Meanwhile, the Doctor steps out onto a [[Cliff (The Power of the Doctor)|lonely cliff]] and, wishing the best to her successor, allows the regeneration to start, transforming into the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]. Feeling his face, the newly-regenerated Doctor is baffled to realise he looks (almost) exactly like the [[Tenth Doctor]].