tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel

Tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel movie#

Some old school “Doctor Who” fans didn’t much care for the second series, insisting that the growth of a relationship between Rose and the Doctor violated the integrity of companions not being involved with the Doctor. They deliriously gallivant through several episodes, feeling out bit by bit what their relationship is and how much of what had been built still remains. Rose’s uncertainty with this new and old man mirrors the uncertainty of the audience with the new actor, allowing a connection between audience and story. He is manic, a geek bouncing off of walls at times, where Eccleston brooded.

Tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel movie#

Of course he promptly passes out and remains unconscious for most of the double length television movie that forms the bridge between series one and series two.ĭavid Tennant excels as the Doctor, bringing a wholly different characterization than Christopher Eccleston. She has traveled to the ends of space and time with a man who died in her arms and now lives again with a different face.

We begin the second series as the first left off, with Rose face to face with a new incarnation of the Doctor, baffled and confused. That idea also allowed Russell T Davies to snare Christopher Eccleston, who had no desire to work in television indefinitely on a show, for a single season to anchor the re-launch of the show. The series revolved around one character, even if he wore eight different faces over those years. That bright idea is almost single handedly responsible for the decades-long run of the original incarnation, because it lent a continuity to the entire show. Pretty standard soap opera fare at face value, but their genius was in deciding that the change in appearance would be written into the character of the Doctor, that he could die and be reborn with a different appearance. Given that the Doctor was an alien and the show science fiction, the writers had the brilliant idea of killing the Hartnell version of the Doctor and replacing him with a younger actor. Three years into the original run of “Doctor Who,” William Hartnell, the first actor to portray the Doctor, was in declining health leading to difficulties in the show’s production. It’s like a whole other country over there. Not that it makes much of a difference if you’re watching the DVDs, but knowing random trivia about British television makes you cool. So after the first series ended in June of 2005, the show picked up again with “The Christmas Invasion” on Christmas Day 2005, but was not seen again until April of 2006.

Also, “Doctor Who” has made a curious habit over the years of running an extra long episode on Christmas Day several months removed from the surrounding series. Ten percent of the episode is an awful lot to get cut, and at times critical scenes are simply dropped (for example, in the finale, a character is about to be killed and is next seen safely elsewhere, the scene of her escape completely excised for time). The “Doctor Who” episodes broadcast in Britain have a runtime of about 45 minutes, whereas American cable generally has a runtime of about 3 to 4 minutes less than that.

If you happened to watch the episodes on the SciFi channel, you might still want to catch the DVDs because European television can be as incompatible with America as those weird European electrical outlets. “One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”- Reinette Poissonįirst, a couple of miscellaneous notes on “Doctor Who,” series two.