Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E13 The Parting of the Ways: Difference between revisions

The Doctor and Jack rig a force field out of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E11 Boom Town|Margaret the Slitheen's surfboard]], and go fetch Rose. Jack tenderly kisses Rose and the Doctor goodbye on their lips, and goes off the stall the Daleks, knowing that he probably won't survive. <ref> This is the first time that the Doctor's kissed a guy ''on screen''. However, the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor]] happily snogged his male companion Fitz (who had a crush on him) years earlier.</ref> The Doctor tricks Rose into going back into the TARDIS and sends her back to her own time to keep her safe. He activates a hologram recording that tells Rose to live a normal life, let the TARDIS die, and experience all she can as a regular human girl.

The Daleks approach the comms centre of the satellite as the Doctor is still preparing his wave attack, and they EX-TER-MI-NATE anyone they encounter -- includingencounter—including Lynda and Jack. The Dalek Emperor tells the Doctor to make his choice. Will he be a killer like he was in the Time War, murdering every last human on Earth to destroy the Daleks? Or will he be a coward and let nature take its course? The Doctor realizes that he can't bear to repeat the actions he took during the Time War, and says that he'd be a coward, any day. Even if it means letting those mutated humans live on as Daleks forever. Even if it means he'll have to sacrifice himself.

Just as he's about to be murdered, Rose steps in, with ''time itself'' pulsing through her from the TARDIS core. As a catalyst for the Time Stream, she's become a literal [[Deus Ex Machina|Goddess from the machine]], and she promptly kills every last Dalek she can find with a single word. On top of that, she scatters the words "Bad Wolf" -- the—the name of the TV station -- throughoutstation—throughout time, space, and parallel dimensions, as a sign to herself. Oh, and she revives Jack. Remember the last time she [[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E08 Fathers Day|saved someone who was supposed to be dead]]? [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]

Jack is left behind on the satellite so he can go star in ''[[Torchwood]]''. <ref> Chronologically, Jack's extended flashback in [[Torchwood/Recap/S2/E12 Fragments|"Fragments"]] directly follows this episode.</ref> [[The Nth Doctor|The Doctor regenerates]] into [[David Tennant]]. Rose doesn't remember a thing, and is terrified when a strange man is suddenly bouncing around the TARDIS. From there, the ending segues into [[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 Ci NS Doctor Who Children in Need|Doctor Who]].

* [[Morton's Fork]]: The Doctor doesn't have the time to refine the delta ray--eitherray—either he lets the Daleks live and puts the whole universe at risk, or he commits another act of double genocide and takes out the human and Dalek races at once.