Nouveau Who Beau

With spoilers up to S2E12 of new Doctor Who.

Rose Tyler dies in the finale, according to the voice-over introduction to last week's episode and all the surrounding press. She's been annoyingly arrogant this year, treating the whole of time and space like it's her personal playground, so with any luck she'll get caught in the crossfire when the Daleks and Cybermen face off for supremacy of the Earth at around a quarter to eight. It's going to be completely O.T.T. but I wouldn't have it any other way.



Rose's replacement, one Martha Jones, was unveiled to the media this week. Freema Agyeman is a relative unknown here so, like David Tennant replacing Christopher Eccleston, she'll be fighting the good fight to keep the budget down in Series Three.

Freema already appeared in Doctor Who, as an office worker who got her brain pulled out through her ear. We hope her next character will be less one-dimensional (and more durable). Rumours abound but I like the "runaway bride" theory because we won't be popping back to the here and now to play happy families as much as we did with That Tyler Woman. Whoever Martha Jones turns out to be, the T.A.R.D.I.S. crew is going to be nicely colour-coordinated when she joins it next Spring.

Update 2006-07-08: The perfect song to mark the occasion!