Doctor Who: ****^Season One
About
every year or so I go thought the Doctor Who series on Netflix. I have
started with season one this week. There are six seasons available on
Netflix; however they lack some of the Christmas specials and episodes
outside of the regular season.
Season One
introduces us first to Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and then to Doctor
Who (Christopher Eccleston.) In the first episode they take on a plastic monster,
determined to make plastic come alive and take over the world. After
giving the monster a chance to leave people alone and the monster goes
ahead with his plans and activates plastic monsters everywhere, the anti
plastic is delivered and the monster destroyed. Rose’s boyfriend is
drawn into the plat, and her mother is a victim of the plastic men.
The
Season continues through several other romps: We see the explosion of
our sun and the end of Earth. The family who takes over British
government determined to create nuclear holocaust so they can sale the
remaining slag heap that was Earth. We meet Charles Dickens, as he gets
inspiration for his ghost stories.
My
favorite is a two part episode on the bombing of London during WWII. A
rocket has landed on earth, with medical nanobots escaping. They do not
know of human DNA and repair a child incorrectly, which causes a
disease of their making others in the image of the repaired child, with a
gas mask as part of his anatomy. The child, as well as the other
people infected, if they touch you will give you the same result. They
go around looking for “my mummy.” It isn’t until he finds his mummy
that the nanobots realize their mistake, and are able to correct it.
This
run goes through two future Earth worlds, where things have gotten out
of where they actually should have been, because of third-party
manipulation. We are introduced to “Bad Wolf” and the evil the Doctor
must confront.
I enjoyed this romp, and come back to it on a somewhat regular basis.
