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We are joined by our good friend Darryl Lewis of FlyingMonkeyMotoGear.com as we discuss Doctor Who series 1, episode 8, “Father’s Day.” Darryl is the amazing talent behind our theme music and he writes a awesome blog about Motorcycles, Sci-Fi and Rock ‘n Roll, so check it out.
This time, Rose’s brilliant idea of the week is to go back and meet her father in his dying moments. Hilarity ensues when she saves his life instead, tearing a hole in the time space continuum. Giant bug-dinosaur-like creatures take advantage of the situation, terrorizing the town and all the British white trash within. It looks like the end for the Doctor when he becomes a crunchy snack for one of the Reapers, until Pete Tyler becomes the hero and sacrifices himself to set things right again.
If you want to survive breaking the Universe be sure you have your TARDIS key handy and Don’t Fear the Reaper!
I never understood whythese Reapers show up in Father’s Day, but not any other time. Anyone have any ideas?
That’s a good question. I’d like to hear what others think about it. There have been several times they should have shown up. I do like how in this episode time starts falling in on itself (like in another episode I won’t mention due to spoilers) after a fixed point in time is changed.
it was very tricky to talk about this topic without mentioning any future episodes. It will definitely come up again for me.