So following the departure of Christopher Eccleston from the role of The Doctor the ole went to David Tennant, who brought a very different take to the role. Also Billie Piper continued on as Rose, much to my annoyance.
To start Tennant's time as The Doctor there was a short filmed specially for Children in Need where The Doctor became accustomed to his new body then sent the TARDIS crashing towards earth, where The Christmas Invasion takes off and the earth is invaded by an alien race called the Sicorax, The Doctor sleeps for the majority of it then fights a guy in a sword fight and loses a hand, which he grows back because he was still full of regeneration energy. Then he and Rose went to New Earth to discover that Cassandra is still alive and it kinda sucks, they move onto Victorian Scotland in Tooth and Claw where they meet Queen Victoria and a werewolf, upon their defeat of the monster and leaving Queen Victoria sets up the Torchwood Institute. The Doctor is then reunited with Sarah-Jane Smith in School Reunion where they defeat Anthony Head and his army of bat creatures and Mickey begins travelling with them as they set off to revolutionary France... on a futuristic spaceship in The Girl In The Fireplace. Then they crash on a parallel earth and witness the creation of a parallel version of the Cybermen (which I refer to as Cybusmen given their creator) in Rise Of The Cybermen/The Age Of Steel and at the end of the story Mickey takes the place of his alternate world counterpart, finally doing the sensible thing and leaving Rose. The Doctor and Rose then go to 1953 in The Idiot's Lantern and stop an entity living in T.V.s... anyway they then go to a planet orbiting a black hole in The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit and come up against The Devil... as you do. Following this is the first Doctor-lite episode Love and Monsters which sucks... bad. Then the Doctor and Rose come to 2012 in Fear Her to see the Olympic Torch and save a little girl from an alien with the power of love. Then in the series finale Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday The Daleks and the Cybusmen meet in the middle of Torchwood and fight, The Doctor saves the day, but in the process Rose is sucked into the parallel world never to return... and there was much rejoicing.
David Tennant as The Doctor was a good choice, he gave the role a lot of dignity, but still made him fun. That said I think he's a step down after Eccleston, the main strength of his Doctor is his ability to snap from silly to serious at a moment's notice giving The Doctor occasional menace.
Billie Piper as Rose... I hate this character, she is so selfish and doesn't care about anyone but herself at all, its just awful. I'm glad she left the show.
Overall I'd say this series is quite strong, the return of Sarah-Jane was an inspired touch and Stephen Moffat delivered his usual belter of an episode, but my favourite adventure this series is The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit for the sheer guts it took to do a story with the Devil in it, an actually interesting take on where the idea of the Devil came from, also the introduction of the Ood, one of the most commonly recurring elements of the revived show.
My least favourite adventure this series is Love and Monsters. Designed as a showcase for the winner of a design a monster competition for Blue Peter this episode saw Marc Warren as a blogger talking about experiences with the Doctor, in itself not a terrible idea, but it is awful. There is nothing good in it at all.
To sum up, this is a pretty good series and the Start of David Tennant as The Doctor, but also a step further into Russel T. Davies induced mediocrity...
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