The Parting of the Ways
- Episode aired Jun 9, 2006
- TV-PG
- 45m
As the Dalek fleet begin their attack on the Earth, the Doctor and his allies make one final stand.As the Dalek fleet begin their attack on the Earth, the Doctor and his allies make one final stand.As the Dalek fleet begin their attack on the Earth, the Doctor and his allies make one final stand.
- Anne Droid
- (voice)
- Daleks
- (voice)
- Dalek
- (uncredited)
- Floor Zero Crew
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Russell T. Davies(showrunner)
- Terry Nation
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe street corner at which the TARDIS reappears after being sent back to 2006 is the same street corner where Rose's father was originally struck by a car and killed in the opening of Father's Day (2005) prior to Rose altering the circumstances of his death.
- GoofsWhen the TARDIS is opened, the chain that opens it gets completely out of the TARDIS and falls on the ground outside. In the next shot, part of the chain is seen on the floor inside the TARDIS. On the following shot the chain is again outside.
- Quotes
The Doctor: What have you done?
Rose Tyler: I looked into the TARDIS and the TARDIS looked into me.
The Doctor: You looked into the time vortex, Rose, nobody is supposed to see that!
Emperor Dalek: This is the abomination!
Dalek: Exterminate!
[Dalek shoots at her with its laser, but Rose lifts up her hand and stops it, reversing it back into the Dalek, the Doctor looks on in surprise]
Rose Tyler: I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words...
[Rose lifts her hand and takes the words from the Bad Wolf Corporation sign]
Rose Tyler: ...I scatter them, in time and space.
[the words float off away from them]
Rose Tyler: A message, to lead myself here.
The Doctor: Rose, you've got to stop this, you've got to stop this now! You've got the entire vortex running through your head! You're gonna burn!
Rose Tyler: I want you safe, my Doctor. Protected from the false God.
Emperor Dalek: You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.
Rose Tyler: You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence, and I divide them.
[Rose lifts her hand again, the Dalek that tried to shoot her disappears in an explosion of golden dust]
Rose Tyler: Everything must come to dust. All things, everything dies.
- Crazy creditsCredit at the end of "The Parting of the Ways": "Doctor Who will return in The Christmas Invasion".
- ConnectionsEdited into Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
- SoundtracksDoctor Who Theme
(uncredited)
Written by Ron Grainer
Arranged by Murray Gold
Performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales
With the Dalek Armada heading for Earth, The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and those remaining on Satellite 5, prepare to mount a last ditch defence to try and buy him enough time for a last gasp plan to come to fruition. Knowing that his plan is likely to be suicide, The Doctor tricks Rose (Billie Piper) into the Tardis and sends her home, but after all she's seen and experienced, she can't leave him to fight alone.
With regards the specifics of this episode, I thought it was alright, but not that amazing. The ending is a bit of a deus ex machina, particularly as it's not the effect that we've seen other people have from looking into the heart of the Tardis. Eccleston is again great and though I did get a little buzz from seeing a super young looking David Tennant at the end, in many ways I'm sorry that we didn't get to see more of the 9th Doctor. (I always wonder why they don't go back now and make more one- off adventures with Eccleston from the time before his Doctor met Rose, now that time and changes in personnel seem to have healed some of those wounds.) I'd also say that there are a few aspects of this episode that drift away to not much, particularly the idea of tension between Rose and Lynda - in fact Lynda is rather short changed by the episode as a whole.
But what of the first season of rebooted who? Generally I think it's a really good start, with some great individual episodes and one excellent two-part story. The effects aren't quite what they would become, but as the show is a hit, it's allowed to invest more and more in that aspect. It's going to get interesting reviewing the show from here on out, as my memory is probably not going to be quite as sharp for the episodes as it has been with this first run. But my recollection is that the show is going to really hit its stride in the Tennant years and I'm looking forward to reliving it.
- southdavid
- Jun 16, 2020
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- Runtime45 minutes
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