History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: Compared to all the other regenerations of post-revival ''Who'', the Ninth Doctor's is different in that rather than just suddenly shifting from one face to the next (as with the Tenth to the Eleventh, or the Eleventh to the Twelfth), we see Creator/ChristopherEccleston's facial features change into Creator/DavidTennant's, complete with his hair growing out. Also, the regeneration happens during a regular episode; after this, they happen during specials.

* LargeHam: Even by Dalek standards, the Emperor is [[UpToEleven incredibly bombastic]].

** Since when did Daleks have a concept of blasphemy? This is when the Doctor realizes these Daleks are [[UpToEleven more dangerous than usual]].

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The Tenth Doctor's first reaction is to be intrigued and confused by his new teeth and then offer to take Rose to Barcelona (just as the Ninth Doctor had offered to her before regenerating).

* KillEmAll: Virtually everyone on the station is slaughtered by the Daleks (who seem to sustain exactly four casualties before Bad Wolf unmakes them), and Captain Jack is the only one who seems to be restored to life. Only ''one'' person on the station doesn't die, and that's Rose. Granted, the Doctor and Jack don't ''stay'' dead. That's not even mentioning the off-screen deaths of potentially billions of humans on Earth, which the Daleks are bombing (we see entire ''continents'' distort from the blasts).

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The TARDIS's heart apparently has the power to ''burn a Timelord alive from the inside and disintegrate the Daleks without any trouble.'' The Doctor piloted her in the Time War - without shields, as this episode reveals! See why Daleks ''crap themselves at her presence?'' Like the Doctor, the TARDIS can be dangerous and just won't die.

When we left our heroes, they were staring down an absolutely ridiculous number of Daleks. Who, in a twist that was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks done roughly 20 years before]], turn out to be mutated humans, trapped in their pepperpots forever.

* HandWave: The Doctor's cryptic but sophisticated-sounding excuse when Rose suggests the obvious solution of going back in time and warning the humans in advance about the Daleks, that doesn't actually directly answer the question or explain what would happen if you tried:

* DiscontinuityNod: Towards the half-human Doctor idea from [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]].
-->'''Rose:''' That makes them... half-human?\\
'''Dalek Emperor:''' [[AC:Those words are ''blasphemy''!]]

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* RealityEnsues: Lynda-with-a-Y. The Doctor thinks she'd be a great companion and even likes the idea of her travelling with him, but when you have a Dalek Empire descending on the station... what do you ''think'' will happen to her?

Just as he's about to be murdered, Rose... no, sorry, ''Bad Wolf'' steps in, with ''time itself'' pulsing through her from the TARDIS core[[note]] Some of the TARDIS seems to have slipped in too, as the Bad Wold refers to the Doctor as "my Doctor" with the affection a TARDIS would[[/note]]. As a catalyst for the Time Vortex, she's become a literal [[DeusExMachina goddess from the machine]], and with a single word she promptly kills every last Dalek she can find. On top of that, she scatters her name — and the name of the TV station — throughout time, space and parallel dimensions, as a sign to herself. [[CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen Oh, and she revives Jack.]]

Just as he's about to be murdered, Rose... no, sorry, ''Bad Wolf'' steps in, with ''time itself'' pulsing through her from the TARDIS core. As a catalyst for the Time Vortex, she's become a literal [[DeusExMachina goddess from the machine]], and with a single word she promptly kills every last Dalek she can find. On top of that, she scatters her name — and the name of the TV station — throughout time, space and parallel dimensions, as a sign to herself. [[CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen Oh, and she revives Jack.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Website/SFDebris Because paradoxes are fun!]]]]

-->'''Website/{{SFDebris}}:''' Because paradoxes are fun!

** When Bad Wolf!Rose starts to disintegrate him and his fleet, the Dalek Emperor yells "[[AC:I cannot die!]]"

->''[[FamousLastWords "Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I!'']]''

* ChekhovsGunman: The Anne-Droid briefly reappears to "disqualify" three Daleks. In fact, it's the only time before Bad Wolf shows up that any Daleks die at all.

* TunnelOfForeshadowing: [[PhysicalGod Temporarily super-powered Rose]] gets a glimpse of the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) in a similar optical effect, several minutes before Eccleston's Doctor actually [[TheNthDoctor regenerates]] into him.

* GoOutWithASmile: The Ninth Doctor smiles as he regenerates.

'''Rose:''' You can't! The TARDIS doesn't have any defenses, you're gonna kill 'im!\\

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to all the other regenerations of post-revival ''Who'', the Ninth Doctor's is different in that rather than just suddenly shifting from one face to the next (as with the Tenth to the Eleventh, or the Eleventh to the Twelfth), we see Creator/ChristopherEccleston's facial features change into Creator/DavidTennant's, complete with his hair growing out. Also, the regeneration happens during a regular episode; after this, they happen during specials.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The Doctor refuses to kill the Daleks because doing so would wipe out life on Earth (which the Daleks are wiping out anyway even as he thinks this, and would have killed many more if not for a DeusExMachina).

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack has some harsh words for the people on Floor 0 who won't help with the defense against the Daleks. He finishes off by telling them their only hope for survival is to stay quiet and hope the Daleks don't decide to come downstairs.

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: [[AvertedTrope Largely averted, tragically.]] Rose herself asks how they'll be able to stop half a million Daleks when they could barely deal with ''one'', and indeed, the Daleks, as mentioned below, completely curbstomp humanity.

* CurbStompBattle: Before Bad Wolf shows up, the Daleks suffer a grand total of ''three'' casualties. After Bad Wolf shows up, she vaporizes all of them in seconds.

->''Troper, before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what?''\\
''So was I!''

Rose wakes up unharmed from her ordeal, with some memories jumbled. However, Nine is starting to show an ominous glowing in his hand, and we realize something's wrong. He tells Rose that he had so many plans for her, like taking her to Barcelona. Not the Spanish city, but a planet of the same name where a breed of noseless dogs lives. Except that jolly rambling is interrupted by a jolt of hissing yellow energy thrashing inside of his chest. Though the Doctor's saved Rose, the Time Vortex energy he absorbed turned corrosive and it's making all his cells die. Fortunately, the Time Lords have a neat little trick, a way to cheat death. The downside? [[TheNthDoctor He has to change into a new man to live on.]] Knowing he's going to lose the aspects of this incarnation, the Ninth Doctor smiles at Rose Tyler as he bids her goodbye, telling her that she was "Fantastic... Absolutely fantastic! And you know what? So was I!" The Doctor is consumed with a burst of flaming energy and morphs into Creator/DavidTennant. The new Doctor tries to awkwardly introduce himself to a confused Rose, but interrupts himself when he realizes that he has brand new teeth, finding the sensation "weird". He takes a moment to try and remember what he was talking about, before realizing, "Oh, that's right! Barcelona."

* ActorAllusion: The penultimate chapter of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' was titled "The Parting of the Ways". Creator/DavidTennant played Barty Crouch Jr. in the film adaptation and this ends up being his first appearance as The Doctor.

* ActorAllusion: The final chapter of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' was titled "The Parting of the Ways". Creator/DavidTennant played Barty Crouch Jr. in the film adaptation and this ends up being his first appearance as The Doctor.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The TARDIS's heart apparently has the power to ''burn a Timelord alive from the inside and disintegrate the Daleks without an trouble.'' The Doctor piloted her in the Time War. See why Daleks ''crap themselves at her presence?''

** The fact that the TARDIS, A) manages to run into missiles, under a forcefield, without exploding, B) lands ''in style'' on the Dalek Ship, and C) flies back to the future with Rose, ''having been torn open'' classifies her in it too.