History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E1Rose

* StarfishAliens: As noted by Davies [[AllThereInTheManual in the 2006 Annual]], the Nestene Consciousness, under "temporal stress" caused by the Time War, mutated from a tentacled creature with an affinity for plastic, to, as noted by Davies' [[AllThereInTheManual Target novelisation]], a creature actually made of plastic. Its new form resembles a giant molten blob.

* BrandX: Henriks, the department store where Rose works, is quite clearly modeled on the famous department store Harrods: from the handwriting-style logo to the facade and the prestige.

* CelebrityCasualty: For the fifteenth anniversary, Russell T. Davies wrote an additional chapter to his novelization of the episode which is heavily implied to depict UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson as having been crushed to death by a steel beam as a consequence of said episode in 2005. As a result, the Boris who became Prime Minister in 2019 is actually an Auton which absorbed his body to become a new entity.

* CelebrityCasualty: For the fifteenth anniversary, Russell T. Davies wrote an additional chapter to his novelization of the episode which is heavily implied to depict Boris Johnson as having been crushed to death by a steel beam as a consequence of said episode in 2005. As a result, the Boris who became Prime Minister in 2019 is actually an Auton which absorbed his body to become a new entity.

* TheEndOrIsIt: For the 15th anniversary of this episode during the Lockdown event, RTD wrote a 'final chapter' to the novelisation he had released two years earlier. Here the last vestige of the Nestene survives, plots revenge against the Doctor and the world and merges with someone in Westminster. Their name isn't given but they are mentioned to be blond, implying that the person in question is future prime minister Boris Johnson.

* TheOner: We're treated to a long, long tracking shot of Rose and the Doctor walking through her neighborhood while having a conversation.

* TheEndOrIsIt: For the 15th anniversary of this episode during the Lockdown event, RTD wrote a 'final chapter' to the novelisation he had released two years earlier. Here the last vestige of the Nestene survives, plots revenge against the Doctor and the world and merges with someone in Westminster. Their name isn't given but they are [[UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson mentioned to be blond]].

* CelebrityCasualty: For the fifteenth anniversary, Russell T. Davies wrote an additional chapter to his novelization of the episode which is heavily implied to depict Boris Johnson as having been crushed to death by a steel beam as a consequence of said episode in 2005. As a result, the Boris who became Prime Minister in 2020 is actually an Auton which absorbed his body to become a new entity.

*** "A [[Characters/DoctorWhoSecondDoctor little man]] with a Beatles mop of hair outside an antique shop."

*** "A World War II photo of a [[Characters/DoctorWhoSeventhDoctor short man with an umbrella]] running with some soldiers."
*** "A [[Characters/DoctorWhoEighthDoctor dashing, Byronic man]] at [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the opening of some atomic clock thing]]"
*** "a [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor man with a fantastic jaw]], dressed in a tweed jacket and bow tie"
*** "an [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor older, angry man]] in a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker brown caretaker's coat, holding a mop]]"
*** "a [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor blonde woman]] in braces running away from [[NoodleIncident a giant frog in front of Buckingham Palace]]".
*** Clive has photos of them in folders in incarnation order, seeing that the Ninth Doctor was in a box-file labelled "09". He also has two pictures of possible Doctors, including "a tall, bald black woman wielding a flaming sword" and "a young girl or boy in a hi-tech wheelchair with what looked like a robot dog at their side".
** Clive explains to Rose that his father was present during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks the Shoreditch Incident of 1963]]. It is revealed that he was exterminated by an Imperial Dalek when Clive was two years of age. This led Clive to begin his research into 'the Doctor'. Rose empathises with him and explains that her own father died when she was six months old.

** Jackie walks in on the Doctor and Rose in a compromising position after their encounter with the Auton arm.

* ColourMeBlack: In the novelization, Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who has regenerated black.

* AentYouGoingToRavishMe: When Jackie realizes her daughter has brought a rather attractive gentleman home with her, she starts practically purring while fiddling suggestively with her dressing gown. The Doctor is nonplussed to say the least.

'''Doctor:''' Yes, you are.\\

'''Doctor:''' Yes, there is.\\

'''Doctor:''' [[NoJustNo No.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The sonic screwdriver has a visible effect when used on the lock that never gets used again in the revival series. RTD stated this is because it would've eaten into their budget significantly had every shot of the screwdriver being used been modified to use the same effect.

'''The Doctor:''' Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!

* ContinuityNod: The Doctor takes an instant to read ''Literature/TheLovelyBones''; a probable nod to the high-speed reading ability implied by Susan back in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]''.

Rose happily obliges. The Doctor, on the other hand, does ''exactly'' what he does best and makes stuff go boom: the building goes up in flames and Rose is [[OutOfJobIntoThePlot out of a job and thoroughly confused]]. She goes back home while passing a strange blue phone box, where her mum Jackie is enjoying the excitement perhaps a little too much: phoning everyone, assuring them she's still alive, and trying to get Rose interviews, preferably well-paid ones. Rose is understandably angry. Boyfriend Mickey turns up, and tries to take his almost-dead girlfriend out to the pub, ostensibly to comfort her, but really so he can watch football. Rose asks him to get rid of the arm. Mickey chucks it in some random bin and calls it a night. It's not really his fault — it's only the series premiere, so he hasn't learned that random alien weirdness that turns out to be hostile should be stomped into bits, [[KillItWithFire set on fire]], and the ashes stomped into bits just in case.

Next morning, Rose is jobless, which is why she's home when the Doctor — having traced the plastic arm to her flat — turns up. The Doctor examines himself in the mirror for what is [[TheNthDoctor apparently the first time]], talks to Rose and gets attacked by the plastic arm, which, having re-entered the flat in the night, was hiding behind the sofa. Rose thinks he's kidding around with the arm, until it flies off him, redirects towards her in midair and tries to kill her. Rose and the Doctor escape after the Doctor defeats the arm and start [[ContemplateOurNavels contemplating their navels]]. Apparently the plastic people want to take over the world. They make puns. The Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, a.k.a. the "mysterious blue box"; the new audience, like Rose, is not meant to know what it is just yet.

Meanwhile, Mickey has been eaten by a plastic wheelie bin, which spits out a plastic copy of him who, despite looking like a life-sized Ken doll, manages to fool Rose into believing he's the genuine article. The two drive to a pizza place, badly, where the fake Mickey is obsessed with the Doctor and keeps repeating the same words, babe, sugar, baby, sweetheart. The Doctor tracks them down and causes the fake Mickey to fall apart through the power of dodgy CGI and propwork (just because they have a bigger budget now doesn't mean the show's immune to laughably terrible effects; at this point it's part of the appeal). They escape into the TARDIS, which has both had a hell of a makeover and gotten a lot more cramped since we last saw it in 1996 (incidentally bringing it closer to the size it had throughout seasons 1-26; blame the lack of a movie-sized budget per episode). The Doctor tries to fly to plastic people headquarters, but fails. He and Rose have a half-angry half-curious all-expository argument, among other things featuring the Doctor getting defensive about his OopNorth accent. They discover that the base is under the London Eye[[note]]a massive Ferris wheel, for those not in the know[[/note]], go down there, and see the plastic controller, which the Doctor calls the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Nestene]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Consciousness]], who's gone from looking like dodgy tentacles in a box to being a blob of lava with a face. The real Mickey's there, freaking out. The Doctor tries to talk the Nestene out of it; except the Doctor has been involved in something big and terrible that he couldn't stop from destroying their nutrient planets, nor any other worlds that were destroyed in the conflict — which has made the Nestene ''extremely'' unwilling to trust him. The Nestene discovers the anti-plastic the Doctor has, goes crazy and activates all the plastic people (also known as the Autons, but they aren’t identified as such in this episode) in a repeat/homage to its debut appearance in 1970. Jackie, who's out shopping, is attacked by evil plastic robot brides. Clive, also out shopping, gets a moment to enjoy seeing his theories verified before the verification of his theories shoots him with its ArmCannon.

They arrive near home, where Mickey goes into [[HeroicBSOD pseudo-PTSD]] from being the Nestene's prisoner. The Doctor offers to take Rose on his travels across the universe. She declines. He vanishes. And apparently doesn't come back for a good century in his time (a playground for writers in the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse expanded universe of the series]]) before a pressing thought hits that he forgot to tell her something. Then he appears again and says "Did I mention, it also travels in time?" That's right, a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' moment from across time and space.

*** It's more gruesome, and includes decapitations through the Autons forming their hands into sharp blades.

* AmbiguousGender: In the novelization, Clive has a picture of a presumably future Doctor who's a wheelchair bound child if unknown gender.

** How exactly Rose failed to catch on to Plastic Mickey's fakeness will be a question left to the ages.

* FreudianExcuse: The Nestene lost its protein planets in the Time War, and mentions "constitutional rights" as it explains its invasion plans to the Doctor.

* GooglingTheNewAcquaintance: Rose decides to research the Doctor by searching "Doctor" on... "Search-Wise", which predictably brings up a huge amount of irrelevant results. So she narrows the search to "Doctor Blue Box", which brings up a relevant result improbably quickly.

** He also has this when it's revealed the Nestene Consciousness has teleported the TARDIS into its lair, and is going to activate all the Autons in London.

* ShutUpAndSaveMe: The Doctor is being attacked by a plastic hand. Rose continues talking to him while she's in the kitchen, and even when she walks into the room she initially thinks he's mucking about.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Played with when Rose meets Clive, who has information about the Doctor (whom she has kept mysteriously bumping into). Initially, he starts off presenting his theories about why the Doctor keeps popping up in different parts of history in a calm and reasonable fashion, and presents a relatively plausible theory that she'd be likely to believe: they're all different men who are related and sharing a code name. Then, as he gets a bit carried away with having an audience, he starts getting a bit more worked up and intense, until he's convinced that Rose believes him fully and so blurts out his real theory (which is quite close to the truth): that they're same man, and the Doctor is an immortal alien. Unfortunately for him, he hadn't quite won Rose over before this, who leaves believing that he's a nutcase.

* FlamingSword: In the novelization, Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who's a black BaldWoman with a flaming sword.

* BaldWoman: In the novelization, Clive has a picture of a future Doctor who's a bald black woman.

** The Auton invasion is more gruesome, and includes decapitations through the Autons forming their hands into sharp blades.
*** The Auton massacre is told from the point of view of several victims, including Rose's old boyfriend Jimmy Stone who was busy robbing his current girlfriend when he is killed. Donna Noble also has a cameo appearance, [[RunningGag naturally sleeping through the Auton massacre.]]

Meet everygirl [[Creator/BilliePiper Rose Tyler]]: she has an overprotective mum, a dead dad, a nice but aimless boyfriend, and a dead-end job in a department store. In short, ThisLoserIsYou, only probably a bit prettier.

It ends sort of abruptly when the pair make it into a lift, followed so closely by a mannequin that the stranger (the Doctor; it's not like no-one saw it coming) can pull one of its plastic arms off. Rose's reasoning skills impress the Doctor enough that he asks for her name, introduces himself, and advises Rose to run like hell before the bomb he's going to plant goes off.

Rose happily obliges. The Doctor, on the other hand, does ''exactly'' what he does best and makes stuff go boom: the building goes up in flames and Rose is [[OutOfJobIntoThePlot out of a job and thoroughly confused]]. She goes back home, where her mum Jackie is enjoying the excitement perhaps a little too much: phoning everyone, assuring them she's still alive, and trying to get Rose interviews, preferably well-paid ones. Rose is understandably angry. Boyfriend Mickey turns up, and tries to take his almost-dead girlfriend out to the pub, ostensibly to comfort her, but really so he can watch football. Rose asks him to get rid of the arm. Mickey chucks it in some random bin and calls it a night. It's not really his fault — it's only the series premiere, so he hasn't learned that random alien weirdness should be stomped into bits, [[KillItWithFire set on fire]], and the ashes stomped into bits just in case.

Next morning, Rose is jobless, which is why she's home when the Doctor — having traced the plastic arm to her flat — turns up. The Doctor examines himself in the mirror for what is apparently the first time, talks to Rose and gets attacked by the plastic arm, which, having re-entered the flat in the night, was hiding behind the sofa. Rose thinks he's kidding, until it tries to kill her. Rose and the Doctor escape and start [[ContemplateOurNavels contemplating their navels]]. Apparently the plastic people want to take over the world. They make puns. The Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, a.k.a. the "mysterious blue box"; the new audience, like Rose, is not meant to know what it is just yet.

Rose goes to Mickey's house and hops on the Internet. With quite possibly the worst Google-fu seen in modern TV history (starting with the word "Doctor" and looking surprised when [[http://search-wise.net/ totally-not-Google]] gives her actual medical doctors), she tries to find information and eventually stumbles across some random conspiracy-theory website run by some random guy.[[note]]Ironically, in the real world, typing "Doctor" in Google gives relevant results right away, starting with the second link.[[/note]] Then she dragoons Mickey into driving her over to conspiracy theory guy's place, where they discover that he’s a pretty normal guy named Clive — even has a wife and kids. He tells Rose all sorts of things that we know to be true, but naturally Rose doesn't believe him, and she bails at the first opportunity.

Meanwhile, Mickey has been eaten by a plastic wheelie bin, which spits out a plastic copy of him who, despite looking like a life-sized Ken doll, manages to fool Rose into believing he's the genuine article. The two drive to a pizza place, badly, where the fake Mickey is obsessed with the Doctor and keeps repeating the same words, babe, sugar, baby, sweetheart. The Doctor tracks them down and causes the fake Mickey to fall apart through the power of dodgy CGI and propwork (just because they have a bigger budget now doesn't mean the show's immune to laughably terrible effects; at this point it's part of the appeal). They escape into the TARDIS, which has both had a hell of a makeover and gotten a lot more cramped since we last saw it in 1996 (incidentally bringing it back to the size it had throughout seasons 1-26; blame the lack of a movie-sized budget per episode). The Doctor tries to fly to plastic people headquarters, but fails. He and Rose have a half-angry half-curious all-expository argument, among other things featuring the Doctor getting defensive about his OopNorth accent. They discover that the base is under the London Eye[[note]]a massive Ferris wheel, for those not in the know[[/note]], go down there, and see the plastic controller, which the Doctor calls the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Nestene]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Consciousness]], who's gone from looking like dodgy tentacles in a box to being a blob of lava with a face. The real Mickey's there, freaking out. The Doctor tries to talk the Nestene out of it; except the Doctor has been involved in something big and terrible that he couldn't stop from destroying their nutrient planets, nor any other worlds that were destroyed in the conflict — which has made the Nestene ''extremely'' unwilling to trust him. The Nestene discovers the anti-plastic the Doctor has, goes crazy and activates all the plastic people in a repeat/homage to its debut appearance in 1970. Jackie, who's out shopping, is attacked by evil plastic robot brides. Clive, also out shopping, gets a moment to enjoy seeing his theories verified before the verification of his theories shoots him with its ArmCannon.

Rose uses her bronze medal gymnastics skills to knock a plastic person into the Nestene, which also sprinkles it with the anti-plastic it took from the Doctor. It dies. The plastic people give up and the Doctor, Rose and Mickey escape in the TARDIS as the base goes up in flames.

They arrive near home, where Mickey goes into [[HeroicBSOD pseudo-PTSD]] from being made the Nestene's prisoner. The Doctor offers to take Rose on his travels. She declines. He vanishes. And apparently doesn't come back for a good century in his time (a playground for writers in the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse expanded universe of the series]]) before a pressing thought hits that he forgot to tell her something. Then he appears again and says "Did I mention, it also travels in time?" That's right, a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' moment from across time and space.

** The novelisation includes the scene from the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] where the Tenth Doctor visits Rose Tyler in 2005 right before his regeneration.

** Rose finds a photo of the Fourth Doctor while searching for the Doctor on the Internet; afterwards, Clive shows Rose pictures of incarnations other than the Ninth Doctor: He seems to know the first thirteen canon regenerations of the Doctor, except the War Doctor. Rose is too focused on the photo of the Ninth Doctor to look at Clive's pictures of "a man with two suits, brown and blue", causing her to not recognize that she's met the Tenth Doctor already. The shown photos include:
*** "an old man with white hair and a black cape" in front of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines a War Machine]]. (Clive also states that WOTAN invented the Internet while describing the First Doctor's photo.)
*** "A little man with a Beatles mop of hair outside an antique shop."
*** "A man with a fabulous grey bouffant standing next to a small silver hovercraft."
*** "That man in the long scarf again, too small to be seen in detail because he was dwarfed by a silly forced-perspective puppet monster rising out of the Thames."
*** "A rather hot blond man [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7TimeFlight at Heathrow]]."
*** "A curly-haired man clearly on his way to a fancy-dress party dressed as a picnic."
*** "A World War II photo of a short man with an umbrella running with some soldiers."
*** "A dashing, Byronic man [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie at the opening of some atomic clock thing]]"
*** "a man with a fantastic jaw, dressed in a tweed jacket and bow tie"
*** "an older, angry man [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker in a brown caretaker's coat, holding a mop]]"
*** "a blonde woman in braces running away from a giant frog in front of Buckingham Palace".

*** The Auton massacre is told from the point of view of several victims, including Rose's old boyfriend Jimmy Stone who is robbing his current girlfriend when he is killed. Donna Noble also has a cameo appearance [[RunningGag sleeping through the Auton massacre.]]
** The Doctor blows up Henrik's because the building is infested with plastic.

** The Doctor names the Autons to Rose; on screen, the name is only used in the closing credits.