What happened: Ooh, this is hard to sum up. It's another two-parter. The Doctor
and Rose follow an alien ship or something to London in 1941 during the German
Blitz. The Doctor and Rose are separated, and Rose meets Captain Jack Harkness,
a con man who can also travel through time and saves Rose’s life. Rose gets
quit the little crush on him, but his main intention is to sell them what’s
left of the ship that crash landed in the area. Jack and Rose (tee hee) have a
date. The Doctor finds a woman named Nancy who cares for and feeds orphans. He
also sees a child wearing a gas mask who keeps asking, “Are you my mummy?” But
the Doctor is warned by Nancy not to touch him, because that would make the
Doctor “empty,” like the child. The child has touched many people.
Nancy sends the Doctor to Albion Hospital where he finds
Doctor Constantine, who tells the Doctor that the child is Nancy’s little
brother, Jamie, who died after bombings. Jack and Rose go to the hospital as
well, and all of the patients wake up (with their scary gas masks) and start
walking toward the Doctor, Rose, and Jack. Doctor Constantine has touched the
victims, so he is turned as well. Meanwhile, Jamie is walking toward Nancy, arm
outstretched. The Doctor yells at them all to go to their rooms, and they back
off. Then they all run around the hospital from the gas maskers for a while. We
find out that Jack used to be a Time Agent, but he had two years erased from
his memory. Nancy goes to check out the alien wreckage that’s being guarded by
British soldiers, but she’s caught and arrested. Doctor, Rose, and Jack come
and free her.
They find the space thingy. Two things: 1) It’s an
ambulance and it heals people with things called Nanogenes, 2) It tried to heal
Jamie after Jamie was blown up, because Jack sparked it, but instead it turned
Jamie into the first Gas Masker, and 3) the Gas Maskers will tear the world
apart looking for Jamie’s “mummy.” The Doctor deduces that Nancy is Jamie’s
real mother, hiding it because she didn’t want to be a single mom in the 40s.
The Doctor tells Nancy to come clean with zombie, empty, half-healed Jamie. She
does and the Nanogenes fully heal him…and everyone else infected. Then Jack
sacrifices himself to get a bomb into space and out of London, but the Doctor
and Rose invite him onto the TARDIS, saving him. Also, the Doctor dances.
What we thought: Even though this show retains its humor and
the Doctor is still happy all the time, the camp has been replaced by genuine creepiness.
We’re so happy about this. Nancy was remarkably awesome. We loved when she made
fun of the size of the Doctor’s ears and nose. Jack wasn’t our type. He was like
a mix of Harry Connick, Jr. and Tom Cruise, looks-wise. He’s better looking than
the Doctor though. Gas masks are inherently frightening. Why didn’t the Doctor KEEP
yelling at the nasties and tell them to go to bed? They just started running from
them.
We’re starting to think the Doctor’s crush on Rose is cute.
Rose seems a lot older than 19. It was so sweet when she told Nancy the Germans
don’t win. It was also sweet when cute Jamie was okay. “Come on. Give me a day like
this.”This show did the thing again where it touches us in the feels. (Damn you
tumblr, for making us think and talk like that.) We laughed at the lady whose leg
grew back. We thought Jack was really going to die. He would have gone out well.
We don’t know that we like him as a new companion, but we’re going to trust the
show. Love triangle? Best episodes so far.
Grades for both episodes: B
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