Doctor Who (2005) 1x1 "Rose" | Full Episode Reaction!

Glad i finally found a great Doctor Who Reaction, I hope you will have as much fun with the rest of the show as I had when watching it for the first time.

does the blu-ray version run slower that the stream version? i have season 1 on youtube and i can't keep it synced i start getting ahead within a few seconds. tried it on the BBC I player with a VPN and same thing. I was looking forward to watching this reaction but it unsyncs so fast it's pretty much unwatchable for me :( none of the other shows on this channel have that problem so i don't think its a recording issue.

I had assumed that someone who was more knowledgable about Doctor Who than I am would have given you a bunch of background, but I don't see any (other than Ryan and the Autons). All I've got is this little tip of the hat to the original series. The first Massive Historical Event that Clive shows Rose a photo of is the motorcade with President Kennedy just before he was assassinated, with The Doctor in the crowd. The assassination took place on November 22, 1963. Doctor Who the television show premiered on the BBC on November 23, 1963. Due to extended news broadcasts and (power cuts), the BBC ran a repeat of the first episode directly before airing the second episode the following week, giving it more of a chance to reach intended viewers--children. Doctor Who started out as a children's program to teach history, by traveling backwards in time, and science, by traveling forwards in time.

So excited for this! I recently started rewatching this show. Now I can do it as a watch along with you. I’ve seen every episode multiple times, so it’s fun to see your reactions, it gives this rewatch a whole new experience. Thanks so much for the content and keep it up!

After watching this whole episode again, there are quite a few things that date it to 2005, but none more so than Clive's wife's surprise that his new visitor is a woman. This was a nod to how the classic show's fandom, and indeed pretty much all of science fiction fandom, was popularly considered to be mostly a sausage fest with only a rare glimpse of a woman.

You are hitting my favorite shows out of the park, I started watching doctor who when I was around 5 years old back in 1980. The first doctor I seen was the one with the curly blond Afro, I’ve been a fan ever since.

I am so excited!!! So glad you enjoyed the first episode so much, and it just gets better from here. Hard to believe, I know. 😄 I met David Tennant and Billie Piper at the Alamo City Comic Con in 2016 and got a photo with both of them, and it’s one of my most prized material possessions. My youngest daughter is also named Rose, although it’s after St. Rose of Lima and not the DW character, but its a nice coincidence. 😉 I wish you were uploading these every day, but good things come to those who wait. 😆 And yes, the music continues to be this good and even (in my opinion) gets better. I have all series saved to my Apple Msic when I need a Doctor Who pick up.

By the way, I've noticed you often talk about the score/soundtrack to the shows and movies you watch, even once in a while saying it was the best part of the experience for you. Are you a musician? Music nerd (in a good way)? Just deeply into music that moves you?

Chris I am SO EXCITED about how excited YOU are about Doctor Who! Everything you mentioned that you loved in this episode is packed full to bursting into the show (and more besides). I loved watching you discover that it's "The Doctor," not "Doctor Who," and what the TARDIS is. I love that you said "It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside" for reasons that will be revealed to you as you progress through the series. You have SO MUCH ENTERTAINMENT waiting for you with this series and I can't wait to watch with you. Someone far more familiar with the original series than I am will surely fill you in on cool facts and call-backs and so on when they occur, but yes you can absolutely view this as simply the next episode in the series that originally aired from 1963 to 1989 (and some other bits here and there, an American TV movie, comedy sketches, etc.). And yes, the music will continue to be *exceptionally* good. SO EXCITED, CHRIS!

Most of the episode previews are fine to watch, but definitely do NOT watch the one at the end of Episode 11, Boomtown. It has a truly unforgivable spoiler that caused such a massive backlash from the fans that the previews have been moved to after the closing credits ever since.

Know what? Yes, please! This is where I came into Doctor Who when I was a...um...younger person. Lol! I could do with a little British sci-fi cheese! Surprised, but happy to watch with you!

This episode is just about the perfect way to sum up everything people love about the show, and it's especially brilliant how Rose is used to help ease in people who never saw the old series (which this series is very much in the same canon with, rather than being a remake), asking all the same questions they would. There's really just one regrettable bit where it feels like the effects people made the plastic Mickey a lot more obvious than Russell T. Davies was imagining which means it's incredibly silly that Rose doesn't notice, but if you can get past that, the story is just a blast from start to finish, and by the time they grab hands on their way to the London Eye, you're fully invested and feel like running along with them (of course helped along by Murray Gold's majestic music, which was always a major highlight of his entire time on the show).

Yes!!!! I’m so excited for this. Signed up for your patreon for this. Let’s goooooooo!!!