History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays

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'''Series 1, Episode 13:'''

'''Air date:''' 18 June, 2005\\
'''Production code:''' 1.13

->''"Hello! Okay- ...New teeth, that's weird. So, where was I...? Oh, that's right! [[BrickJoke Barcelona!]]"''
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->''"Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I!'"''

[[Recap/DoctorWho Index]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild 9]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf 12]] | '''13''']]-]]]

->'''Emperor Dalek:''' [[AC:You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.]]
->'''Bad Wolf:''' You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence. [[PreMortemOneLiner And I divide them.]]

'''Original air date:''' June 18, 2005

Written by Creator/RussellTDavies.

->Emperor Dalek: [[AC:You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.]]

->[[AC:Emperor Dalek: You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.]]

-->'''The Doctor:''' I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages and you've got no way of stopping me. So if there is anybody who's going to shut up IT'S YOU!

-->'''The Doctor''': I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's going to shut up, ''[spins round]'' IT'S YOU! ''[two Daleks jerk back in fear]'' [[DissonantSerenity Okeydoke. Where were we?]]

-->[[AC:Emperor Dalek: You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.]]
-->'''Bad Wolf:''' You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence. [[PreMortemOneLiner And I divide them.]]

The one where we say adieu to someone fantastic [[WeHardlyKnewYe only 13 episodes into the new series]].

-->[[AC:Emperor Dalek: You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.]]\\
'''Bad Wolf:''' You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence. [[PreMortemOneLiner And I divide them.]]

->'''Emperor Dalek:''' [[AC:You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.]]\\

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness:
** Compared to all the other regenerations of post-revival ''Who'' (minus that of the War Doctor), 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.
** The Doctor is only able to stave off his regeneration for a minute or so, just long enough to give a farewell speech to Rose. In future regeneration stories, the Doctor can delay their regeneration seemingly for as long as they like, just so long as they don't delay it so long that they end up dying from whatever necessitated the regeneration to begin with. Of course, who knows how dangerous this time energy was.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Subverted. While everyone knew that the Daleks would appear in the finale, no one expected the [[GodEmperor Dalek Emperor]] to appear.

** 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.
** The Doctor is only able to stave off his regeneration for a minute or so, just long enough to give a farewell speech to Rose. In future regeneration stories, the Doctor can delay their regeneration seemingly for as long as they like, just so long as they don't delay it so long that they end up dying from whatever necessitated the regeneration to begin with.
** Also, the regeneration happens during a regular episode; after this, they happen during specials.

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 as he bids her goodbye, telling her that she was "Fantastic... Absolutely fantastic! And you know what? So was I!" The Doctor smiles one final time in this face before being consumed with a burst of flaming energy, regenerating into a new form portrayed by Creator/DavidTennant. The Tenth 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". The Doctor takes a moment to try and remember what he was talking about, before realizing, "Oh, that's right! Barcelona."

With all that, she collapses, and the Doctor, grinning, tells her... "I think you need a Doctor". He absorbs the full force of the Time Vortex from Rose's body by kissing her. It's a beautiful moment until it kills him. He blows the essence of the Heart back into the TARDIS, and then takes flight... without Jack. Jack hears the sound of the TARDIS as it vanishes, leaving the poor guy stranded in 200,100... From here he'll go on to star in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''.

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 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 regenerates into a new form, portrayed by 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."

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.[[note]]An imperfect plan, one would think, since the Daleks would presumably benefit more from the superior genes and intelligence of the winners of the games.[[/note]]

* HisStoryRepeatsAgain: This past season established the Ninth Doctor's backstory as having been forced to end the Last Great Time War by committing genocide against both the Daleks and the Time Lords, leaving him with massive trauma and guilt. When given the chance to wipe out the reborn Dalek Empire at the cost of destroying humanity too, he can't bring himself to do so, indicating how much he grew since he first met Rose.