Honestly, the best part of this episode is to see how necessary it is for Doctors and companions to argue and clash. Rose and Nine have such a lovely relationship and yet they manage to have different moral views affecting their dynamic without breaking it and I love it. It's a beautiful episode as a whole and the cast is amazing, but the one thing in my mind when I think about this episode is always Rose and the Doctor about to die and just how happy they are that at least they're by each other's side. How worth it it was, the moments they had together. Of course they obviously get out of this one as they often will (not... always...) but the foreshadowing goes crazy.

2025 Rewatch

• I now tend to have a soft spot for the historicals, and it's for episodes like this
• Solid story, full of chills, morbid conversations, and tragedy
• The gelth makes for a great villain, why they haven't been brought back again I'll never know, but they're great
• There's a great use of a side cast, especially Dickens, the main man himself. Of which Simon Callow does a grand job
• Eve Myles is haunting and brilliant, no wonder she eventually was cast as Gwen

Um dos melhores episódios da 1 temporada que não vejo muita gente falar sobre, acabo considerando um episodio bem subestimado,

aqui começa todo o mistério sobre bad wolf, a rose está muito boa nesse episodio mostra o lado egoísta dela que é bem legal de se ver, é bom lembrar que ela so tem 19 anos e é normal ter essas falhas, o final também é bem emocionante tanto da governanta quanto o do charles

This is one of the stories that whenever I rewatch the show, I remember as more boring than it is. It doesn't have many stand-out moments, but there are many things that work in its favour. We have the start of the Bad Wolf plotline, the most developed character to have died at this point in the show, period costuming (which I always love). The Gelth used to scare me to death when I was younger, so I used to avoid this episode if possible. Out of the first three episodes, it's definitely the weakest in terms of action and memorability, but it's still pretty strong when you contrast it to some of the later historical episodes. Dickens actually is a key part of the plot, and is written specific to the year that the episode is yet, not just as a cameo to harken back to a different time and jump in at the last second for no reason and without any character purpose like with the Beatles in The Devil's Chord.

I like the Actor who plays Dickens, and overall I think it’s a fine outing for the first Historical for NuWho. It’s a shame because when a Historical is good, it’s superb in my Eyes. For a televised Gatiss Script, I think it’s pretty solid. And overall an Episode, where I don’t have much to say, some very fun enjoyable Stuff and some stuff that I don’t care much about it.

Maybe when I get around to rewatch it, I will like it much more, but for now, pretty okay but nothing too remarkable.