This episode gets a scariness rating of 2.5. Scary bald men who fight good with sticks, and a Werewolf who is after the queen.
Things I like about this episode:
Really cool fight scene at the beginning.
When the werewolf is coming after the queen and this happens. ROSE: What do we do?
DOCTOR: We run.
ROSE: Is that it?
DOCTOR: You got any silver bullets?
ROSE: Not on me, no.
DOCTOR: There we are then, we run. Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a vigourous jog. Good for the health. Come on!
When The Doctor and Rose figure out that the royal family might be part werewolf.
Things I don't like about this episode:
Father Angelo and all of the other monks. They're pretty creepy, bald, mean looking guys.
The werewolf "host"
Awesome quotes from this episode:
The Doctor: 1979! Hell of a year! China invades Vietnam. The Muppet Movie. Love that film. Margaret Thatcher. Ugh. Skylab fell to Earth with a little help from me. Nearly took off my thumb.walking out of the TARDIS And I like my thumb. I need my thumb. I'm very attached to— sees the armed men on horseback pointing guns at him —my thumb. to himself. 1879. Same difference.
Captain Reynolds: You will explain your presence and the nakedness of this girl.(not really naked, i guess its just saying that someone from 2005 seems naked to someone from 1879.She looks like thishttp://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos/art/dwdoctorrosequeen.gif)
The Doctor: Are we in Scotland?
Captain Reynolds: How can you be ignorant of that?
The Doctor: Oh, I'm dazed and confused. I've been chasing this wee naked child over hill and over dale. I'nt that right, ya timorous beastie?
Rose: Och! Ay! I've bin oot and aboot.
The Doctor: No, don't do that.
Rose: Hoots mon.
The Doctor: No, really don't. Really.
The Doctor: Rose, might I introduce Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. Empress of India and Defender of the Faith.
Rose: Rose Tyler, Mum. And my apologies for being so naked.
Queen Victoria (Pauline Collins): I've had five daughters. It's nothing to me.
Rose: I want her to say "We are not amused." I bet you five quid I can make her say it.
The Doctor: Well if I gambled on that it'd be an abuse of my privilege as a traveler in time.
Rose: Ten quid?
The Doctor: Done.
Queen Victoria: Please excuse the naked girl.
Rose: Sorry.
The Doctor: She's a feral child. I bought her for sixpence in Old Londontown. It was her or the Elephant Man.
Queen Victoria: We shall dine at seven and talk some more of this wolf. After all, there is a full moon tonight.
Sir Robert: So there is, mum.
Queen Victoria: I take it sir that you halted my train to bring me here.
Father Angelo: We've waited so long for one of your journeys to coincide with the moon.
Queen Victoria: Then you have waited in vain. After six attempts on my life I am hardly unprepared. pulls a revolver out of her bag.
Father Angelo: Oh, I don't think so, woman.
Queen Victoria: The correct form of address is Your Majesty. shoots him.
The Doctor: Front door's no good—it's been boarded shut. Pardon me, Your Majesty, you'll have to leg it out of a window.
Sir Robert: I'm sorry, Mum. It's all my fault. I should've sent you away. I tried to suggest something was wrong. I thought you might notice. Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?
The Doctor: Well, they were bald, athletic—your wife's away, I just thought you were happy.
The Doctor: Imagine it. The Victorian Age accelerated. Starships and missiles, fueled by coal and driven by steam. Leaving history devastated in its wake.
Queen Victoria: Sir Robert, if I am to die here—
Sir Robert: Don't say that, your majesty.
Queen Victoria: I would destroy myself rather than let that creature infect me. But that's no matter. I ask only that you find some place of safe keeping for something far older and more precious than myself.
The Doctor: Hardly the time to worry about your valuables.
Queen Victoria: Thank you for your opinion. But there is nothing more valuable than this.
Rose: Is that the Koh-i-noor?
The Doctor: Oh yes. The greatest diamond in the world.
Queen Victoria: Given to me as the spoils of war. Perhaps its legend is now coming true. It is said that whoever owns it must surely die.
The Doctor: Well that's true of anything it you wait long enough.
The Doctor: What if this house—it's a trap for you, mum?
Queen Victoria: Obviously.
The Doctor: At least that's what the wolf intended. But what if there's a trap inside the trap?
Queen Victoria: Explain yourself, Doctor.
The Doctor: What if his father and your husband weren't just telling each other stories, they dared to imagine all this was true. They planned against it, laying the real trap not for you, but for the wolf.
Queen Victoria: Although we may not speak of these events in public they will not be forgotten. I promise you that. Your husband's sacrifice, the ingenuity of his father, they will live on.
Lady Isobel: But how?
Queen Victoria: I saw last night that Great Britain has enemies beyond imagination. And we must defend our borders on all sides. I propose an institute. To investigate these strange happenings and to fight them. I will call it Torchwood. The Torchwood Institute. And if this Doctor should return, then he should beware. Because Torchwood will be waiting.
Thats how Torchwood got started. Wait, have we seen Torchwood yet?
TARDIS!
