The Stolen Earth

Phil Creighton@phil_creighton This is controversial but I found The Stolen Earth a let down. Overegged with too many ingredients; too fantastic IMHO.

Not controversial, that's perfectly valid. I kind of think of it as a modern Five Doctors in the sense that it's a 'Greatest Hits' package, with - very much as you say - everything AND the kitchen sink! I guess it was supposed to be RTD's big sign-off before he & Tennant were 'persuaded to stay' for the Specials/Gap year.

Simon G@SHGB001 I miss Tennant still. He is the one I miss most along with Peter & Sylvester.

The Doctor and Donna arrive on... Earth. 

Doesn't look very much like the walls of the universe are breaking down... 

It never ends well for milkmen in Doctor Who... 

50dw50@50dw50 milkfloat of doom! 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker milk floats always indicate something dodgy is going to happen. 

Back in the TARDIS for a quick check... but there's a whole lot of shaking going on... 

...and when they look out, the Earth is gone! 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin Why is the TARDIS left behind? 

50dw50@50dw50 erm... 

It's too heavy? 

"Far across the universe"? In a galaxy far, far, away? 

Martha looks out the window at UNIT HQ and the sky has changed... 

The last 3 surviving members of Torchwood, and Sarah Jane's attic have also got dodgy sky trouble... 

Cribbins! 

Phil Creighton@phil_creighton Is there a sweeter word in the English language than Cribbins?

Simon G@SHGB001 Cribbins is a legend and I don't throw that word around lightly. It is beyond me why he is not a Sir yet. 

And Rose does her best Thor impression to arrive in a flash of lightning! It is a bit Avengers, isn't it? 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker  Rose is handling a big weapon!  

She'll have to be careful with those teeth. 

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Simon G@SHGB001 Well she was married to Chris Evans. Oh wait sorry that's tool not weapon :) 

50dw50@50dw50 did we ever discover what had happened to Dame Billie's teeth? 

She very obviously had them straightened, whatever she says. 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin Fastest billing for actors in the opening credits ever! 

Donna is afraid that her family may be dead. 

The Doctor just doesn't know. 

Ooh, the Doctor's taking her to the shadow proclamation! 

The obligatory celebrity cameos this time round include Mr. Lalla Ward. 

Some handwaving babble about why there's still an atmosphere from Torchwood's butler... blah... 

There's some sort of giant space station on the way that isn't a moon. Some sort of Star... of Death! 

A message starts coming through... 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin Within 10 minutes the human race starts looting. Typical! 

Rose does that wanker thing of saying "have one on me" without actually buying anyone a drink, the upshot of which is 'have one at your own expense but give me the credit'. Think it's a Southerner thing. What she means is "for me", not "on me".  

Come on, sing along, you all know the words... "Exterminate... Exterminate..." 

Dunno why Jack and Sarah give up so easy, their previous experiences of the Daleks have all been wins! 

50dw50@50dw50 love the reaction to the Dalek voices 

atruedrwhofan@atruedrwhofan at least this time they try there is more than three of them :D

50dw50@50dw50 i was Dalek mad as a kid, i would have exploded had this been on! 

UNIT prepare for invasion in old New York... 

How cool is the Supreme Dalek? See you can make them colourful and bigger without making them teletubbies!  

Impressive on the outside, on the inside The Shadow Proclamation seems to be an underpass in some swimming baths where some Judoon are hanging out. 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker  Tennant's verbal dexterity when arriving at the Shadow Proclamation is brilliant 

The Shadow Proclamation tell him that other planets have gone missing too... 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin Callufrax Minor's a missing planet nice reference to The Pirate Planet 

"Pyrovillia is cold case..." 

The lost moon of Poosh! 

"Someone tried to move the Earth once before..." 

UNIT plan to activate project Indigo. Whatever. 

"Annihilate UNIT!" 

50dw50@50dw50 bye bye Valiant 

Martha is entrusted with the Haagen Dazs key, and teleports away, despite Captain Jack's warnings... 

Hang about, I know that voice... 

In his lair, a metal gloved maniac throws a spotlight on an abomination. Average night in for the Supreme Dalek. 

Donna starts to hear a heartbeat... and one of the Shadow Proclaimers tells her there was something on her back. 

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer For some reason after reading this tweet, I have a picture in my head of Judoon fighting Daleks while singing "500 miles" :P 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker I hadn't much liked Catherine Tate until these final episodes 

50dw50@50dw50 when i rewatched this series i was amazed how good it was and how good she was 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker yeah same here, appreciated her much more on rewatches. 

Follow those bees!  

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin And the bees are disappearing and the cracks in time-- No sorry, wrong series. :-)

The Shadow Proclaimers want the Doctor to lead them into war. He doesn't really do the whole War thing any more. 

The Daleks are rounding up humans onto the streets, exterminating people in the streets. 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin A man throws a brick at a Dalek. If he'd used a baseball bat that would've worked. 

Wilf paintballs a Dalek, but "my vision is NOT impaired!" 

Phil Creighton@phil_creighton NuWho Daleks with their forcefields and bullet melting capabilities are just too invincible for my tastes.

Rose arrives with her massive weapon to give it some "come with me if you want to live!" 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker I love Cribbins with his paint gun!  

atruedrwhofan@atruedrwhofan My favourite moment. Its nice to see Bernard face the Daleks again. This scene was his request according to RTD.

I think it was the "want to swap?" line that was Cribbins' ad lib. 

After all the planets in the sky and the Dalek invasion, Sylvia *still* won't believe Donna's with the Doctor. 

The Doctor arrives in the Medusa Cascade as the human race surrenders to the Daleks. 

Harriet Jones skypes the secret society of companions, but Rose isn't invited.

Martha arrived at her mum's home 

Captain Jack compliments Sarah Jane Smith. "Not now, Captain..." 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker Rose's jealousy is great 'who's she?' 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin Wow, even when the fate of the entire universe is at stake Rose still moans about Martha being contacted instead of her! 

Torchwood butler points out that the Daleks have probably hacked their phones. 

Harriet Jones, computer hacker. Yeah, right. 

The companion cabal manage to get a call through to the Doctor. 

The Doctor's dials 1471 to track the call back. Or something. 

50dw50@50dw50 i love how in Doctor Who technology always explodes but continues to work

"Just as Dalek Caan foretold..."  

"YES. WE. KNOW. WHO. YOU. ARE!" 

50dw50@50dw50 lovely moving end for Harriet 

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer I remember rumours at the time that she would be turned into a Dalek... or be revealed as the supreme Dalek! Thankfully Not!  

All the crazy rumours in these few series. RTD must surely have listened to the rumours that the blue suit Doctor was a 2nd. 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin When the episode first aired a lot of people tried to ring that number. 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker yeah I know, the divs! 

The Doctor isn't so pleased to see Davros. He was supposed to have died in the first days of the time war... 

...but he was rescued by Dalek Caan, who was driven insane in the process. 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin The Doctor mentions how Davros was killed by the nightmare child why didn't we see that in Day of The Doctor 

James Cooray Smith@thejimsmith Because it was "in the first year of the time war" & Day is about the Last Day. Hence the title. 

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer Since its first year of war, would make good minisode/movie- McGann as Doctor with Julian Bleach as Davros! 

Each of the new Daleks is grown from a bit of Davros... lovely. 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker I liked that bit, was quite surprised at that slight grossness at Saturday teatime. 

The Doctor and Rose run to be reunited...  

...but a Dalek has other ideas, and the Doctor catches a blast! 

Jack arrives just after the nick of time to blow the Dalek up... 

...but the damage is done. 

Nail Gun Princess@SofaSeduction the ultimate cockblock! 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker Got to be impressed how quickly Jack reacts after being teleported and blasts the Dalek! 

They get him back to the TARDIS, because it's the law that the Doctor can only regenerate in the TARDIS now...  

The Doctor's hand start's glowing... 

The Daleks bear down on Sarah... 

...and enter the Torchwood hub...

50dw50@50dw50 i remember watching this multiple cliffhanger at work when it was first broadcast open mouthed with astonishment! 

"He's dying, and you know what comes next!" Yeah, the 11th Doctor. No wait, the 12th. Wait. Oh, sod this. 

"Good luck, Doctor!" 

"I'm regenerating...!" How's that for a cliffhanger!! 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin The shock value of the ending was too much for me to bear as a 10 year old I couldn't believe it

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer My favourite cliffhanger of New Who (in fact possibly ever). Everyone (myself included) thought he might just regenerate! :)

50dw50@50dw50 followed by a week of wonderful speculation, it could never live up to it!

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker probably the best one they've ever done, as there had been rumours and no-one was quite sure!

TTFN! K.

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