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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Rose”

Narrator: Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Rose Tyler show featuring special guest Christopher Eccleston as Doctor Who. Yaay!

* Cue overture. *

Okay, the first episode of the new Doctor Who series doesn't exactly start like that, but one got the feeling at times that it should have.

And yet I found myself liking the show despite myself. (Of course, this episode wasn't my favorite of the first season, but it was still okay.)

Things I liked:

The way it established Rose Tyler as being a likely candidate for accompanying the Doctor by showing how open she is to new things. She is shown having no fear about crossing lines of either race (though she is white, she has a black boyfriend) or class (though she is from the working class, she has no problems working in a “posh” -- i.e., high-class -- department store).

Things I didn't like:

The way the Doctor was presented as being a supporting character in his own show.

The rather arbitrary way the show's “monster of the week” was first introduced and then destroyed.

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Oh, well. The show does get better.

Thank God!