Doctor Who Review - Father's Day (2005)

Father's Day - by Paul Cornell

Starring: Christopher Eccleston & Billie Piper

Rose reminisces about her father, Pete Tyler, whom she describes as "the most wonderful man in the world". When Rose is a little girl, her mother Jackie tells her about how Pete died on November 7 1987, the day of Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clarke's wedding and how she wishes Rose could have known her father. Jackie tells the young Rose that nobody was there for Pete when he died and that the hit-and-run driver was never found...

*Note: Sorry if I look tired in this review. For an experiment i'm going without sleep for 4 days and this was filmed on the 2nd night.*

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[someone332]

I can tell your calling Confused Matthew out on movies being manipulative.

[MrTARDISreviews]

@someone332 Urm...am i? =S I was actually calling a lot of other critics out on stuff like that

[darkbatMori]

You're a great reviewer, I'll definetly be watching your stuff again. This is one of my favourite episodes. Well done for highlighting the excellence of Ecclestone's Doctor. I'm sorry you hate Rose so much though. I'll have to watch some more of your reviews to find out why that is, I suppose. I see her as a really strong character. RTDs companions are all great examples of good female characters...and then we get a huge step backwards with Amy Pond. Blarg. Cheers Moffat. :|

[MrTARDISreviews]

@darkbatMori I mainly explain my dislike for Rose in my 'Rose' and 'The Unquiet Dead' review. Amy isn't the best companion, but she's definitely not the worst. She's got great potential but she didn't change or evolve throughout the series like Martha and Donna did. She's a 'nothing' character at the moment. I prefer Rory alot more.

Thanks for the kind words =)

[saphirebandit93]

Don’t know if it’s relevant , but did anyone notice that the baby started crying just as Rose verbally burst out over her parents arguing. Just thought that was slightly interesting.

[MrTARDISreviews]

@saphirebandit93 Actually, i did make a point about that in my original cut of the review (the 'directors cut' was just under 17 minutes but i had to cut 2 minutes out for youtube). But it was either talk about that or mention Murray Gold's music =/

[hombad26]

@MrTARDISreviews Wow, I wonder what happened to this plan. Maybe before the end of April 2012?

[Kate90Grace]

Thank God. I thought I was the only person who didn't like Rose Tyler. I felt that the writers were over thinking her relationship with the Doctor. She was nowhere near the Doctor's level and did not enjoy their relationship. It's a shame that RTD and the fellow writers kept referring to Rose in Series 3, ruining what could have been a brilliant friendship with Martha.

Loving these reviews by the way. Have subscribed and will be looking forward to the others.

[mugiwaraboshi37]

You had to say "Worst female companion" because of Adric, didn't you? Ha, I hate him too, but the difference is Adric died, kind of honorably if you ask me. Oh how I wish Rose had died!

[Burori1]

This episode is by far my least favorite one of the Eccleston era = 3 =;

[NathanJosephCole]

Mickey grew up without friends, that's why he hung out with Rose.

[SegaNintendoGuy64]

I cried in this episode I'm not fucking lying.

[microchoc]

what are the Marry Gold songs called in this episode

[waffleriddle]

Shouldnt the reapers appear in the seires 5 finale where amy pond meets her younger counterpart?

[waffleriddle]

There has been quite alot of episodes after fathers day where really the reapers should appear the example the shakesphere code. the witches made love labours won get finished. it real history it was never finished really shouldnt the reapers appear?

[darkbatMori]

@TheTardisDreamer RTD is soooo good at writing the human side of Doctor Who, and that's why I love his serieses. I still watch Who now but it saddens me to think that if the first episode of it I ever saw was from Moffat's seasons, I probably wouldn't have wanted to see any more.

I also love all 3 of Moffat's companions. :) Amy is...well, as well as being eye candy, she's nothing more than a plot device to make stuff happen to the Doctor. :S