Rate "Father's Day"

[Slagathor]

Well?

[Claire Voyant]

I liked the story. It was wonderful getting more background on Rose. And I liked the tension between Rose and the Doctor. The one thing I could have done without is the Reapers. They seemed like a silly consequence of changing time. They made no sense.

[Cornelia_Africana]

The underlying idea for this episode was very good - antibodies of time coming through from the vortex to sterilise a wound in time - and could have given rise to a highly original story. Unfortunately its promise wasn't realised, I think. This is because of all the episodes in the first series, I feel it suffered the most from "soapy" elements. The emphasis was all on the relationships between Rose's family, and this meant that the actual storyline took a back seat. After all, what happened in it when all's said and done? They took refuge in the church, the Doctor was unable to do anything to help, he was swallowed up by a Reaper, and then Pete Tyler took the initiative by voluntarily killing himself, and that restored everything. Now, we all knew that had to happen in the end, but it would have been nice if it had been led up in a more original way, so that the circumstamces which led to Pete Tyler's death, for instance, came as a shock.

So all in all, I can only consider this story Good, rather than Fantastic, as it would have been had it been less soapy.

[Slagathor]

One thing I like about the new series is that not every problem has to be solved by the Doctor. Others can be the heroes, like Cathica, Peter Tyler, etc. Even Charles Dickens was able to come up with a solution.