With the word "Run!", Rose Tyler's life is never the same. We're swept up right along with her in a madcap adventure full of aliens, a mysterious Doctor, and lots and lots of running. At the end, when the day is saved and the Doctor offers up all of time and space to explore with him. We're a bit hesitant at first, but then we run headlong into the TARDIS with Rose, leaving our ordinary lives behind as the Doctor, for the first time in sixteen years, takes a whole new era of Whovians into the stars. Fantastic Quotes From The Doctor: "Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!" "That won't last. He's gay and she's an alien." "It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go...That's who I am." Rose: "If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?" Doctor: "Lots of planets have a north!" This episode is brilliant for the fact that, for once, the Doctor has complete control over the main conflict, which is whether to send Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen back to her home planet where she will be killed, or to let her go free. Fortunately, Blon is a well-characterized villain who also manages to elicit sympathy from the audience, which makes for an interesting dynamic between Blon and the Doctor. While she pleads for mercy, he's determined to see justice done. The best scene in the episode is dinner in the restaurant between the Doctor and Blon, a hilarious scene where the Doctor completely foresees and foils every attempt she makes to kill him, and seems completely unconcerned about her murderous intentions to boot. When her tricks fail, she appeals to his merciful side. When that also fails, their exchange inevitably takes a darker turn, especially when Blon calls out the fine line the Doctor walks between using his authority as a Time Lord and abusing that power: Doctor: "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new. Every now and then, a little victim's spared, because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions. Because once in awhile, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction, you happen to be kind." Blon: "Only a killer would know that. Is that right? From what I've seen, your funny little happy-go-lucky life leaves devastation in its wake. Always moving on because you dare not look back. Playing with so many people's lives, you might as well be a god." Seeing the Doctor struggle with his dark side adds such depth to the show, and what could easily have been a throwaway episode becomes a fascinating psychological study of how the Doctor views mercy, justice, and forgiveness and how he separates himself from the monsters he faces. Fantastic Quotes: Capt. Jack Harkness: "Aw, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?" Doctor: "Buy me a drink first." Jack: "You're such hard work." Doctor: "But worth it!"