4. Aliens of London
- DR. WHO COLLECTORS' EDITION EPISODE GUIDEThe episode of 'Aliens of London' embodies exactly what was discussed before in The Series One Overview, of how the writers of DR. WHO wanted to make this new series story lines closer to home, as a 'what if' scenario of what would happen if an alien space craft landed in your backyard, or rather, your capital city? First of all the Doctor takes Rose home to see her mother Jacky and tells her that she's only been gone for twelve hours. As Rose heads up to her flat, he then notices a 'Missing Person' poster on a pole. Low and behold… it's a poster with Rose's face on it. Whoops! As Rose walks in on a distraught mother, he then rushes in and apologizes, that the time frame the TARDIS has arrived in, she's actually been gone for 12 months. By using Jacky's reaction to Rose's disappearance, it grounds the story of the Doctor and his companion as they travel through time and space because it looks at how it affects the lives of the other people who have to carry on their lives back in the real world with out her. Jacky doesn't know where Rose has been, and being her mother of course she was worried about her daughter's disappearance. All Rose can tell her mother is that she has been traveling with the Doctor. This doesn't impress Jacky one bit, and in a comedic scene, Jacky slaps the Doctor! The Doctor is quite stunned over this; "900 years of time and space and I've never been slapped by someone's mother." He tells her as they sit on the roof top of Rose's block of units. "Your face…" Rose laughs at her friend. "It hurt!" the Doctor says sulkily. It's from this conversation that Rose learns the age of her Time Lord friend when compared to her modest age, of being 19 years old. "900 years? That's one hell of an age gap." Then their conversation is cut off as an alien space craft zooms over their heads and flies precariously over London, wavering here, wavering there, before it smashes through the clock face of Big Ben and then lands in the Thames. Naturally the Doctor and Rose try to go to investigate, but the streets are blocked off as the city closes down. Rose says to the Doctor; "So history's happening and we're stuck here… we could always do what everybody else does - we could watch it on TV." And they do. Back in Rose and Jacky's flat, as family friends fill the small space during this exciting moment - the return of Rose and the space ship crash - the Doctor tries to watch it all unfold on the news. This brings us to another comic scene of the Doctor fighting over the remote control of the TV with a small boy as the TV screen changes from a cooking show of how to make an alien space craft cake back to the news about the alien space craft. The Doctor decides to go and have a closer look, and Rose is worried that once the Doctor goes inside the TARDIS that he may leave with out her. As a promise that he won't, he gives Rose a spare copy of the TARDIS key. Then just as the TARDIS is disappearing to take the Doctor in for a closer look at all the action, Micky hears the familiar engine noise and comes running. He tries to stop the Doctor, but in another funny moment, he runs through the no-longer existent TARDIS and straight into a wall. As the Doctor is doing what he does best by working out that the alien the authorities pulled out of the space craft is not an alien, but a genetically modified pig in a space suit to look like an alien to mask the real aliens that are hiding on Earth; Micky goes upstairs to confront Rose. He yells at her because of her disappearance, being the boyfriend, he got the blame from Jacky and was taken in by the Police for questioning 5 times. This scene is another look at how in real life, the repercussions of Rose's actions, the police and the public blame Micky as Rose's boyfriend for Rose's unexplained disappearance. How many times have we seen on TV the news or read in newspapers of this very thing happening? Or scarily enough, how many times has this been true? Meanwhile down at No.10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister is missing and the head of the Army as well as the Ministers who are second or third in charge rally together during this crisis. Only there is something slightly unusual about these Ministers, is that they have huge flatulence problem. When Harriet Jones MP for Flydell North (as she always announces herself and shows her ID - which becomes a running joke) witnesses whilst hidden in a closet, the other Ministers argue with the Army General, and the Ministers shed their skins to show the real aliens underneath. They kill the Army General and then use the Army General's skin and masquerade as him as well. After Jacky also witnesses the TARDIS' disappearance, she reports the Doctor to the authorities as an alien. When the authorities come to arrest the Doctor and Rose, they are in fact taken to No. 10 Downing Street under police escort. The Doctor from his past dealings with aliens makes him somewhat an 'alien specialist' and along with the Alien Specialist Team with the United Nations, there is a meeting held by the Aliens masquerading as the British Ministers. Whilst the Doctor is in the meeting, Rose meets Harriet Jones who tells her what she had seen. Then just as the two discover the missing body of the Prime Minister, another Alien Minister walks into the room with them. The episode reaches a suspenseful ending with Rose and Harriet being chased from room to room by an Alien inside of Downing Street, and the other Alien Ministers taking off their human 'suits' and extinguishing the UN Alien Specialist Team and then they attack the Doctor… GOOGLE ADSENSE |
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