The barminess of this two-part finale to the first series of Russell T. Davies revived Doctor Who isnt necessarily in the plot threads that culminated in the resolution of the series-long Bad Wolf meme, but more in the bizarre linking together of the two episodes. Bad Wolf isnt really about the Bad Wolf thread at all, instead involving the 9th Doctor, Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness being mysteriously transported to a space station where each finds themselves within a lethal game with an odd resemblance to a 21st century trash television show: Big Brother, The Weakest Link, and What Not To Wear. Some quality scenes with Jack aside, this is peculiar stuff, evincing some of the more pantomime elements of the 7th Doctors era on TV. Eventually, we discover that the Gamestation is actually Satellite 5 from the episode The Long Game from earlier in the series. The dead contestants in the games arent being disintegrated at all, but rather transported to unknown coordinates, and the Doctor and his friends have been brought there by the Controller to stop this from happening. The Controllers bosses kill her for betraying them, and Rose finds herself face to face with them. Its the Daleks, whore ingesting the humans for some reason. The next episode, the actual series finale The Parting Of The Ways, is entirely different to the previous episode in every way, and only nominally related to it in terms of storyline but this one gave viewers a resolution to the Bad Wolf plot thread that the Bad Wolf episode didnt, so thats alright.
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