Am beginning from the beginning here, with the Gallifrey expatriate, Doctor Who, (so does that make the Master, Master Who?) and so on, beginning here with the Ninth Doctor, (played by Christopher Eccleston), some thoughts...
The End of the World - (Location: Earth's space, 5 billion years in the future) speaking of pop culture, try Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" and, oh so worse, a Britney Spears dance hit being played in a classic "relic"- a jukebox. The skinny: 5 billion years in the future is where the Doctor takes Rose on their first excursion "date", the Sun is collapsing and explodes outward, to dishevel the Earth, or in more obtuse language, totally destroy it...the Doctor gets emotional when the subject of "who he is" and "where he comes from" comes about, which is perfectly understandable to want to know, from Rose's viewpoint, brings him to tears as a matter of fact, when the Tree-creature (who is sacrificed in doing well for the Doctor) (a martyr for the "cause"? the "cause" of the Doctor?) finds out about him. Yet things get crazy when Cassandra gets involved wanting ransom money, to keep her "skin" alive, debacles and questions over what is human are raised, Casandra, as a sheet of skin, is self-touted as the "last human", versus Rose, who, probably at that moment in spacetime, is the last human, totally regularized and pure (a little racist perhaps?) all this against the backdrop of the destruction of the Earth, what is human? questions raised at the point of homeworld being brought to its destruction...a jukebox, a couple classic hits, no more than 2 decades apart from each other, versus the 5 billion years it took for culture to evolve and survive, how cheeky, 2 songs, 20 years apart, at the most...
Rose is faced with a plumber, who is alien, her character faces another "blue collar" typeset in the next episode The Unquiet Dead.
This seems to be used to develop her character, this facing of herself throughout the Ages, because back home, thats what she is, a worker in the shops, to show that this lower class has always been evident serves to strengthen her character in that, through time, she has had forebears and those who succeed her in this role, by the way, these two blue collars are both killed...(perhaps a shunning of this stigma?)
The Unquiet Dead - (Location: Earth, 1869, Cardiff) What is noteworthy about this episode is that tis the first to showcase an historical personality, Mr. Charles Dickens, (a la in other episodes featuring such greats as Shakespeare and Vincent van Gogh) And, as in the van Gogh episode, he is shown, or told, that his books will live on forever, (whereas in Vincent's, he did not "ask", he was shown deliberately, as a means to boost his spirits, his bipolar, depressive episodics would nevertheless continue however...(as it should be (?))
Rose, as before mentioned, meets a lower class, who sacrifices herself to maintain the good, and the lively, herself to save the World and its culture...Christian thematics here, as Davies is wont to do, and can be traced quite deliberately, as I am now wont to do...
Cool horror aspect in the storyline, would be nice to whip this one out for another viewing 'round All Hallows Eve...
Builds on the mythos of the TARDIS, how it is Time Lord technology, bigger on the inside, (which put in this way, makes it seem like a moral, or an allegory...) how Rose was told to change into something more "period" in terms of her clothings...and told to go down so many hallways and turns, past so many doors, and there on your right...would be a dressing room, the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS looks larger, and appears to show more, whereas the Ninth and Tenth versions of the TARDIS do not show more, as is believed to be there.
