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DOCTOR WHO REWATCH: SERIES ONE, EPISODE TWELVE: “BAD WOLF”
It all led up to this.
Doctor Who: 1x12: “Bad Wolf” Written by Russell T. Davies
The Summary:
The Doctor wakes up in a closet, not knowing how he got
there, and a young woman named Lynda helps him by explaining that he’s been
transmatted to a Big Brother house in the distant future (200,100 to be
precise) in which house-mates who are voted out are disintegrated. Rose is also transmatted into a game – The Weakest
Link and Anne Robinson is now the Anne-Droid.
At first, she thinks it’s just a silly game until the Anne-Droid
disintegrates the first contestant deemed The Weakest Link. Jack, too, wakes up in a game show – this time
a makeover type show, which he loves since he keeps getting to be naked on
television. The Doctor figures out that
if he gets evicted from the Big Brother House, he will not be disintegrated because
something or someone very powerful got through the TARDIS defenses to get him
there; meanwhile, Rose is getting more and more terrified that she’ll be
disintegrated next and Jack stops having fun when the androids doing him
makeover decide he would look better without a head. The Doctor escapes, bringing Lynda with him,
and he realizes he’s on Satellite 5, where he, Rose, and Adam had been hundred
years before. Lynda explains that after
the Doctor ditched clean-up duty, all the news shut down and caused total chaos
until the game shows took the news’ place and everyone became complacent. Kinda an awesome commentary on how television
makes us complacent, but a bit unrealistic, since social media had to have
grown exponentially in 198,000 years (of course, Facebook had just been
developed at this point and Tweeting/Tumblring the Revolution was not yet a
thing). Oh yeah, and the whole thing is
being run by… The Bad Wolf Corporation!
Dun dun daaaa! Jack, with a
couple guns, finds the Doctor and Lynda, and together they all go find Rose,
who is about to be disintegrated. They
seem to arrive just in time, but as Rose and the Doctor are running to each
other, Rose is disintegrated. The Doctor
gets a teensy bit upset, and the three go up to Level 500 to take over the Game
Station. There, thanks to well-timed
solar flare interference, the Controller (a woman whose been hooked into the
computer since she was 5 years old) explains that her masters are trying to
destroy the human race and she called him there for help. Her “masters” then disintegrate her. And surprise!
It’s the Daleks! And they’re not
disintegrating people, they’re transmatting them to their ships to convert them
into Daleks. They open communications
with the Doctor and reveal that they are holding Rose Tyler hostage so the
Doctor will not intervene. Instead, the
Doctor tells Rose he’s coming to get her.
The Women:
Rose Tyler, Lynda Moss, Crosbie, Fitch, Colleen
The Conversations:
Five named women and no conversations?!
The Woman to Woman Quote of the Episode:
Oh, bother
The Tally:
Episode 1x12 Total: 0
Series 1 Total: 16.5
9th Doctor Total: 16.5
Rose as Companion Total: 16.5
Russell T Davis Era Total: 16.5
DOCTOR WHO REWATCH: SERIES ONE, EPISODE THIRTEEN: “THE
PARTING OF WAYS”
In which Rose becomes a goddess then has her power stripped
away in a non-literal women-in-refrigerators way.
Doctor Who: 1x13: “The Parting of Ways” Written by Russell
T. Davies
Due to how long this review is, I'm cutting it here. No spoilers for anything beyond Series 1.
