I LOVED this season!!! So excited for more to come. I am a month ahead with doctor who on patreon! 🎉 patreon.com/emmereacts

"I'm sure the next Doctor is going to be lovely, but I'm SAD." This is the way.

It's rare to have a new reactor not know this was Eccelston's only series. This is great.

"It's sad to say goodbye to the actor." That's how you know he did his job.

I never realised until now that the Barcelona line helps to show viewers who are unfamiliar with regeneration that he still keeps the previous Doctor's memories, that's why I love watching this through the eyes of someone completely new to the show!

"Maybe you will. Maybe I will... but not like this..." I'm gonna miss him... You know what suprsised me more? is that she didn't even realise that The Ninth Doctor is only on Series 1... I mean bravo, emme's viewers, for not telling her at all. That is astounding! I can understand that some people might realise it cause they bought DVD Cover or see thumbnail and all that. So I was genuinely suprised that she didn't know!

Unfortunately, since David Tennant does such an amazing job as The Doctor, people tend to forget about Christopher Eccleston’s time during this first season, which is sad because he was a very good Doctor. And, as I’m sure someone has already said, “You never forget your first Doctor.” Also, John Barrowman did a great job portraying Capt. Jack.

Oh, to be able to watch Doctor Who for the first time, not knowing about regeneration and starting with Eccleston as your first Doctor. Nearly 20 years on Eccleston is still one of the greatest Doctors, series 1 is still one of the greatest series, and the finale is still one of the greatest finales… of any show. How wonderful it must be to have 9 as your first Doctor.❤ Yes, it’s heartbreaking when a Doctor you love leaves… but the joy is gradually falling in love with a new Doctor, though your first Doctor will always have a special place in your heart.

"Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I." Indeed he was. Christopher Eccleston was fantastic as The Doctor. He was my first and forever will be my favourite Doctor. I remember when he came round to my house for tea and signed my Doctor Who Dvds. He was such a lovely man. Now we begin the 10th Doctor era, no doubt you're going to love it.

"It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for. "

Welcome to your first Doctor Who regeneration! It always hurts, especially if you really liked that version of the character but it's always surprising how quickly you can fall in love with the next version.

Yeah when the doctor regenerates he does retain all the same memories and will retain aspects of their past versions but will have a new personality and everything at the same time

What I love most about this show is that with a small budget, little in the way of special effects and battle scenes, they manage to produce some of the most epic storylines in sci fi.

Your reaction to this may be the first time I’ve seen someone mention how David’s “that’s right; Barcelona” line signaled the continuity of memory across regenerations; well spotted! Side note: one of my favorite little moments in this is @19:45 where you can tell what the Dalek said just by the way the lights flash; a neat little bit of writing and/or cinematography.

1975, Tom Baker's Doctor: "Do I Have the Right?" 2005, Christopher Eccleston's Doctor: "Coward, any day"

The Christmas specials are often noted as 2x0 for example as the 0th episode of the season that follows.

Can't remember seeing you crying like this in anything before, but that makes sense, the finale really hits you! Amazing series, but now we are in the Tennant era and I guess you can say it's going to be... FANTASTIC!

Seeing your first Doctor regenerate is always sad. And Eccleston was a great re-introduction to the character. So many more awesome stories are just around the corner. :)

There is something that everyone overlooks. The Doctor took that power out of Rose and put it right back into the TARDIS. He held that power for 5... maybe 10 seconds... and it killed him, hence regenerating. How long did Rose hold that power with almost no ill effects other than a headache at the end? A few minutes at least... long enough to actually merge with the TARDIS. Yet she's still alive. Makes you wonder what other changes she caused to happen... both to herself and to time in general.

I think it becomes common that every time you gain a new Doctor you instantly think of the previous one as being the best version, but then the new one grows on you so the cycle keeps repeating. I loved David Tennant as the 10th Doctor, but Eccleston as the 9th really did an otherworldly job in the role. He basically breathed new life into the franchise. Talk about having big shoes to fill and absolutely nailing the job.

It's a dad joke: Dad: I once had a dog with no nose. Unsuspecting kid: How did he smell? Dad: ...Awful!

Their's a minisode titled Born Again that shows the first interaction between Rose and The New Doctor.

This finale is unsurpassed in the whole history of the show, the way it swings from raw emotion, to horror, to humour and back again is pretty amazing.

And this ladies and gentlemen, is what Doctor Who is all about. This has to be my favourite reaction of yours of all time. So glad you started doing Doctor Who, it doesn’t get any easier though, so keep them tissues close haha

The whole joke about "dogs with no noses" is that the other person is supposed to ask "how do they smell?" to which you then reply "just aweful!"

I cry almost every episode. The personal arc of The Doctor is incredible because with each character, it shows his personal evolution and growth. We get to see him learn from his mistakes and become better at being himself with each regeneration in a very obvious sense. I love your reactions. Thank you for sharing with us. I appreciate you.

I was five when I saw my first regeneration in back in March 1981. It was the fourth Doctor to the fifth Doctor.

Fun fact, Parting of the ways is where we meet David Tennant, and then in harry potter, the character that david tennant plays appears in the chapter called ....parting of the ways. Weird coincidence.

One of the best seasons of television ever. Every single episode builds up to the finale in some way.

This is when I became a forever Doctor Who fan. I was sold. I didn't know the regeneration was going to happen and I felt true loss. (I basically cried on every episode (of that era since).

"You never forget your first Doctor." I love them all, but something about Christopher Eccleston will always resonate because he was the first one I saw. And he was SO good.

I love how emotional you are reacting to this 🤣 I was sobbing right along with you. I truly can't wait to see the rest of your reactions as they come out. One of the best doctor who reactions I've seen (all of yours are). Overjoyed that you're loving it so much!

I think the way to think about regeneration is that it's still "you" after regeneration, but, it's like those moments when you look back at yourself when you were younger and you're just a different person now. That's why, I think, the BBC accidentally has created this beautiful thing. What was, really, just a way to keep the series going when the first actor left, has become this very human (if the Doctor will excuse the expression) metaphorical thing each time we see a regeneration. Which is lucky, honestly, because it's real hard to make it so that death still has weight and meaning once you've killed and brought back the same character 9 times by that point!!! It works though. 🙂

to me this is the peak of this show. there will never be a better season, a better doctor or a better companion than this

Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. As amazing as the upcoming (and previous) Doctors are, 9 was my first and he will forever be my favorite.

I know I should be paying more attention to Emme crying but I see pupper.

I love how you are engaging in the story and getting things quick, great reacts

Great reaction! No spoliers, but that is definitely not the only time you'll be crying watching this in the future.

Great reaction! You did a great job of editing to keep the best lines in. You got me weeping too.

You are in for a surprise @emme . He is not just the same Doctor with a different face. Each Doctor may have the memories and experience from before, but their personality can be very, very different from previous ones. He always likes travelling and helping, but may solve things in a different way, and have different interests.

I just found your channel today. I've just binged the whole series with you. I love seeig new fans finding the show!! Fantastic!!

I teared up again just watching this. I'll never not get emotional at this scene.

This was actually the first Doctor Who episode I ever saw. It was the first night I spent at my stepdad's house and my brother and stepbrothers were all watching the episode and I joined them for a while and I became interested. For months I kept watching the taped VHS video of this finale until I almost knew the whole script. And for Christmas that year, I was given the whole series 1 DVD boxset. Series 1 will always be my favorite series, Christopher Eccleston my Favorite Doctor and Rose and Jack my favorite Companions. Doctor Who introduced me to the genre of Sci-fi fantasy and I feel that helped me become a Star Wars Fan because Doctor who was my favorite franchise as a teenager and now from my early twenties to now, Star Wars is my Favorite.

"They were all supposed to die in the time war", oh sweet summer child ❤

The phrase "Bad Wolf" was in every episode this season, either written or spoken.

@ 8:01 - Jenna Russell. She sang the theme song for the "Red Dwarf" TV series.

It took me a while to figure out the "dogs with no noses" joke. "Then how do they smell?" "Terrible!"

This was an emotional episode. Glad you had Chai with you the whole time as your emotional support animal.❤️🐶

That is hilarious, she's really crying. Wow, Lol. I'm tearing up, too!!! I forgot how hard this finale hits, oh Emme, just you wait. There will be so many episodes and finales to ugly cry to going forward

We all remember the first time we saw the Doctor regenerate.

That reaction was... as the 9th Doctor might say... fantastic!

I’m glad you had no idea about the regeneration process. It was a good surprise.

The Christmas specials are officially not part of any series. However, each series ends with a big finale and so the Christmas specials do feel more like part of the next series. A few of them also introduce new plot elements and characters that continue in the next series.

This would definitely be considered a season finale, because it was Christopher Eccleston's final episode.

When a Time Lord regenerates they retain their memories as if they were the same person but everything about them top to bottom changes. Its even acknowledged that the brain chemistry of the person changes in the process which is why all the different Doctors have such distinct personalities. The Doctor remarked once that even though its a pretty cool trick, at the end of the process technically "someone" dies and "another person" walks away. 25:20 That's what he meant by "It's a bit dodgy, this process."

I see the State of Temporal Grace is on the blink again! It's not the first time they made daleks from humans, there was a story in the 80s where they did the same thing.

To be fair the reason why Jack was left behind the Doctor and Rose thought he was dead and is unaware that Jack came back to life by Rose's power.

One of my favorite season enders!!!! Chris was my first doctor tooo so I get the sadness but the show is still so good. The dialogue is usually amazing

Such a great reaction video, I loved reliving all those emotions with you. I will definitely be tuning in for the rest. You have so many more amazing moments in this show to come!

there is gonna be a lot more crying to come.

Enjoyed watching your reaction to the 1st season. You will enjoy the ride in the seasons to come! My #1 favorite show.

This season was very popular so the budget for effects got better after this.. not HBO crazy money good but still improved by a lot.

From the last scene of the last episode to the end of this episode is probably my favorite of all the Doctor Who stories since 1963.

Great finale .... welcome to what's generally considered to be the best era of the show (certainly the time with the highest viewership and most awards both national and international)... keep the tissues nearby, you ARE gonna need them...!!

Well he is the same person after the regeneration but with little personality changes.

25:11 wow that’s quite an interpretation! I never realised that the regeneration energy glow on his hand could look as if the time vortex was still inside him. Observations of a new viewer.

what a great episode and a great Doctor! i'm so glad to be with you on your journey through these episodes and for your reaction.

Wonderful reaction! Christopher Eccleston will always be my favorite Doctor, though each one has been amazing IMHO. You never forget your first! (My first was actually Tom Baker, and he IS my all time favorite Doctor, but Eccleston is a very close second and absolutely my favorite of New Who.) Enjoy the journey!

I've seen that episode at least 6 times, and I still get choked up at the end.

Rose: But what do I do every day, Mum? Get up. Go to work. Catch the bus, eat chips, and go to bed. Mickey: It's what the rest of us do. Rose: *But I can't*.

Eccleston was my first as well. It hurt me so badly seeing this happen because I could sense that something was wrong. I knew about regeneration, as my father watched Classic Who. Some part of me held on to Eccleston. It's as if it wasn't only Rose speaking as The Bad Wolf. Ecclestons' Doctor reflected the true emotional connection he has with the TARDIS. One that was needed. One that I rarely saw other Doctors do afterwards till Russell ended being showrunner. "The TARDIS. MY TARDIS. The best ship in the world."

When the Doctor regenerates he or she is still the same person, all the same memories, but depending on how the regeneration happened, they are messed up after, loss of memory, weak, needing to find themselves again, but always The Doctor.

What is the point of teleporting that tiny distance at :22? My answer lies in thinking we are seeing the endpoints of a much much larger existence. One wherein that entity began its journey when the door opened and ends it as we see, but during that seemingly trivial teleport she travelled far more than those few steps. A *moment* that ends up spanning all of time and space with the final reward and comfort being found in the arms of that which it loved. A demigod which knows its own endpoint, but which also had all the time in the Universe to pursue its goals. Anyhow, enjoy the journey. Thanks also for reminding me of one of my favorite modern Dr. Who episodes ever. You've got a lot of good storytelling ahead.

...we were not lying about needing those tissues.😂

That moment where he stops, turns and sends the TARDIS away to save Rose is still one of the most impactful moments for me. The idea of The Doctor ever sending the TARDIS away like that was like damn, he really thinks he's not going to survive this and the Daleks are going to win. I haven't seen that scene in awhile and watching it just now gave me the same chills all over again.

Every now and then there are mind exploding episodes.... This is one and WOW.... This IS why I LOVE DR WHO

For the record, as I understand, officially the Christmas special is classified as part of the series that follows it, so Christmas Invasion is episode 0 of series 2. Also, if you recall the Doctor inspecting his reflection back in episode 1, it is implied that he very recently regenerated, or at the very least, he has avoided looking at his reflection since he last regenerated out of shame for what had come before it. While we know that the Doctor did have adventures in this face before Rose started travelling with him, the novelization of the episode suggests that, while his encounters with Rose were linear and close togeather from her perspective, the Doctor had actually been on numerous adventures between scenes, explaining the pictures Rose saw. For a third thing, the title of the episode is a clever little casting gag; it is also the name to the last chapter of book 4 of the Harry Potter books, the 2005 film adaptation of which features in a minor but important role, incoming Doctor, David Tennant.

Great reaction. Can’t wait until she gets to the season two finale.

Yes you are correct when a Time Lord's body wears out or gets fatally injured he regenerates and becomes new the Doctor is still the same person he just looks different with a change of personalities and tastes sort of like a change in your molicules but yes he does have the same memories as the previous Doctors that came before. The regeneration first started way back in 1966 when William Hartnell the original Doctor got too ill and sick to continue so the producers had to work out away to continue the show without its lead actor so the idea of "regeneration" was born and we've had eight different Doctors since then Christopher Eccleston is the ninth incarnation of the Doctor.

Eccleston is why the "Doctor Who" revival worked. The guy absolutely nailed every facet and every mood the Doctor should have; he offered the definitive performance. Of course, every version of the Doctor is a little bit different so one can argue that there's no such thing as "definitive"; but there are some character traits the Doctor consistently has, and Eccleston mastered them all. Eccleston also had the best regeneration of all the Doctors. Just the way he approached it, trying to comfort Rose, downplay how big a change he's going through, prepare her for what she's going to experience. No regeneration scene before or since has been as good.

That was an ending that could not be predicted!🤯 Great reactions to the season finale and the season as a whole, Emme!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏👏

This episode is one of the reasons why I love Rose as a companion. She's an ordinary girl who grew to do extraordinary things. She wasn't special to start with, but she changed for the better. She's the 'every girl' kind of thing.

the scene with rose telling jackie she was the one holding her dads hand when he died absolutely breaks me, for me it's the best scene of the series.

The regenerations only get more heartbreaking after this one! They are emotionally devastating! Loving the reactions so far. Can’t wait for what’s coming

I did like the way Christopher Eccleston played the part. It was a surprise when he was cast, because prior to Doctor Who is was known as a very serious actor, usually playing working class characters in pieces with serious left-of-centre political messages, such as Our Friends From The North, or The Second Coming. The energy and playfulness he brought to the Doctor was a revelation, and the undercurrent of the traumatised veteran he portrays is masterful acting. Much though I love David Tennant's portrayal, it's a shame that Christopher left so soon. He was indeed 'fantastic!'

The Christmas specials are kind of a grey area, they're produced as the final episode of a season, but they're also considered the first episode of the next season in official listings. Basically, it doesn't really matter, but they're just 'specials', just fun one-off episodes, the season finale is what happens before the Christmas special.

Pinnacle! We going on a journey now. Thats what makes Chris’ time as the Doctor so good, it’s what spawns everything after.

Dr. Who comes with cut onions, ALWAYS

Beautiful reaction Emme . It's always great when a reactor doesn't realise there's a regeneration coming.

This finale is such an emotional rollercoaster

I’ve never seen someone guess the deus ex machina so well

Christopher Eccleston! He was, indeed, fantastic as the Doctor. He played the Doctor so well. Also, love Billie Piper as Bad Wolf. Such a twist to wrap up Eccleston's run.

It's Jack He'll find his way XD I've been waiting to come and comment. he can definitely find his own way

The doctors remember their previous selves.

One of the best regeneration scenes in the entire shows 60 year history!! chris eccleston is still my favorite modern era doctor. Wow, even you're 'ugly' crying you are still very pretty lol

Eccleston is my favorite Doctor; only the one season but he really gets to leave his mark on it

Never apologize for crying. 🤍🤍🤍

There's more tears to come, but plenty of laughs too. Doctor Who is quite the ride.

You've now been baptized by watching your first regeneration! Welcome to the fandom! We all have the same reaction when a doctor regenerates and some new person comes sauntering in.

This finale is the best for me out of all of them. There's a special quality to it, in part I think because of the circumstances in which it was made.