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2007 Md Who episode

185a – "Human Nature"
Doctor Who episode
Cast
Doctor David Tennant – Tenth Doc/Smith
Companion Freema Agyeman – Martha Jones
Others Jessica Hynes – Joan Redfern Harry Lloyd – Jeremy Baines Thomas Sangster – Tim Latimer Tom Palmer – Hutchinson Pip Torrens – Rocastle Rebekah Staton – Jenny Gerard Horan – Mr. Clark Lauren Wilson – Lucy Cartwright Matthew White – Phillips Derek Smith – Doorman Peter Bourke – Mr. Chambers
Production
Directed by	Charles Palmer
Written by	Paul Cornell
Based on	Human Nature by Paul Cornell
Script editor	Lindsey Alford
Produced by	Susie Liggat
Executive producer(s)	Russell T Davies Julie Gardner Phil Collinson
Incidental music composer	Murray Gilded
Production lawmaking	3.eight
Series	Serial three
Running time	1st of ii-function story, 45 minutes
Beginning broadcast	26 May 2007 (2007-05-26)
Chronology
←Preceded past "42" Followed by → "The Family of Blood"
List of Physician Who episodes (2005–present)

"Human Nature" is the eighth episode of the third series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast on BBC Ane on 26 May 2007. Information technology is the outset episode of a two-part story written by Paul Cornell adapted from his 1995 Medico Who novel Homo Nature. Its 2d part, "The Family unit of Blood", aired on two June. Forth with "The Family of Blood", information technology was nominated for the Hugo Award for All-time Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2008.^[1]

In the episode, the alien fourth dimension traveller the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) hides from his pursuers, the Family of Blood, in 1913 England. He transforms himself into a homo and implants the false persona of a schoolteacher called "John Smith" to avoid detection until the Family'southward life runs out.

Plot [edit]

The Tenth Doctor tells Martha that they are being pursued by the Family of Blood, who seek the Physician'south Fourth dimension Lord life forcefulness to prevent themselves from dying. He tells Martha that he must transform into a homo to escape the Family's detection until they die out, and gives her a listing of instructions to follow. The Doctor turns himself into a human and transfers his Time Lord essence and memories into a play a trick on lookout man that he asks Martha to guard.

They land on Earth in 1913. The Doc has taken the persona of John Smith, a instructor at Farringham School for boys, and Martha acts as a maid at the schoolhouse. John is quiet and timid, just faint memories of the Md sideslip through in his dreams. He catalogues the dreams in a volume he has titled A Journal of Incommunicable Things. John keeps the fob sentinel on his drape, believing it is a normal watch. John has also go infatuated with the school nurse, young widow Joan Redfern, and shares his journal with her. Martha is concerned, as the Doctor did non instruct her on what to do should he fall in love. Timothy Latimer, a young student at the school who has extrasensory perception, discovers the flim-flam watch and bonds with it, seeing visions of the Physician.

The Family of Blood track the Doctor to World, and cloak their ship with an invisibility shield to go on it subconscious. The Family seek out humans to possess, and take the bodies of several people including one of the schoolboys, Jeremy Baines. They too animate scarecrows to use equally their soldiers. When Timothy briefly opens the fob watch and experiences portions of the Doctor's memories, the Family unit detects its presence at the school. Martha realises that the Family has found them, and attempts to remember the picket but cannot find it. John asks Joan to accompany him to the hamlet trip the light fantastic that night, and she accepts. Timothy follows them to the dance and bumps into Martha, recognising her from the Dr.'s memories. At the dance, Martha once more tries to persuade John to get the Doctor past showing him elements of his past such as his sonic screwdriver. Now aware that John Smith is the Md, the Family interrupt the trip the light fantastic and face up him. They take Martha and Joan every bit hostages and give John a selection to either go a Time Lord again or spotter his companions die.

Continuity [edit]

All 10 incarnations of the Dr. are also illustrated (admitting non all are shown on-screen), with the First, 5th, Sixth, 7th, and 8th clearly visible, marking the first time the faces of the Doctors from the classic series had been depicted on screen in the revived series. The pocket lookout from the episode is as well sketched.^[two]

Production [edit]

Human Nature was Paul Cornell's fifth original novel, all having been Medico Who stories for Virgin Publishing, and the thirty-eighth New Adventure. The plot was developed with boyfriend New Adventure novelist Kate Orman and the book was well received on its publication in 1995. Several years later, the revived Doctor Who television serial included several people who had worked on the New Adventures. For his 2d story for the boob tube serial, Cornell adapted his novel. Although most praise for the script was directed at Cornell, a not bad deal of the episode had in fact been rewritten by executive producer Russell T Davies.^[three]

Despite Julie Gardner'south position as executive producer since "Rose", this episode marks the first time since Verity Lambert'south 1965 swansong, "Mission to the Unknown", that a woman was the credited producer of an episode of Doctor Who. However, it is non producer Susie Liggat's showtime product job in the Doctor Who universe: in 2006, she produced Invasion of the Blight, the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Thus, simply she and John Nathan-Turner have produced episodes from two different programmes gear up in the Doctor Who universe.

The physical prop of John Smith's journal notebook was created by creative person Kellyanne Walker, and incorporates text provided past author Paul Cornell.^[4] Much of the episode was filmed at St Fagans National History Museum, an open-air museum most Cardiff,^[5] and Treberfydd, the Victorian Gothic mansion which served as Farringham School, located nearly Llangorse Lake in south Wales.^{[half dozen]} Other interior locations were filmed at Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff.^[7]

The Doctor's list of 23 directives, much of which is sped through in the episode, is presented at normal speed in a deleted scene released on the BBC DVD. In place of the nonexistent unheard requests, David Tennant breaks the fourth wall to speak almost a dearest for The Housemartins and also talk nonsense to pad out the fourth dimension before returning to character for the 23rd and terminal directive. Some other instruction, virtually not letting Smith eat pears, appears in both the deleted scene and in the novel Human being Nature.^{[2] [8]}

Reception [edit]

The scarecrows from the episode as they appear at the Doctor Who Experience.

Along with "The Family unit of Blood", "Human Nature" was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Curt Form.^[1] David Tennant won the Constellation Award for Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode for the 2-office story.^[ix] The episode too received a favourable review from The Stage with reviewer Mark Wright commenting that the episode "is dissimilar whatever Medico Who story you'll ever meet", and that there was "nothing duff" nearly the episode. Wright singles out the performances of Agyeman and Tennant for considerable praise and he concludes by describing the episode as "BAFTA worthy Drama".^[10] IGN'due south Travis Fickett gave "Human Nature" a rating of 9.1 out of 10, writing that information technology "has some of the highest caliber of writing the series has seen". He specially praised the performances of Stevenson and Sangster and the episode's "more deliberate footstep". While he noted that the Family with Baines in particular were creepy, he felt that the scarecrows "might seem a little dizzy" to older viewers.^[11]

In 2009, Doctor Who Mag readers voted "Human being Nature"/"The Family of Blood" every bit the sixth best Dr. Who story of all time.^[12] In a 2014 poll, Doctor Who Magazine readers voted the episodes as the ninth best.^[xiii] Matt Wales of IGN named the two-part story the best episode of Tennant's tenure every bit the Md, describing it every bit "stunningly produced" and praising Tennant'southward performance.^[xiv] In 2008, The Daily Telegraph named it the seventh best Doctor Who episode in the bear witness'south history.^[15]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} "2008 Hugo Nomination List". Denvention 3: The 66th Globe Science Fiction Convention. World Science Fiction Order. 2008. Archived from the original on 24 March 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
2. ^ ^{a b} Ware, Peter. "Doctor Who – Fact File – Human being Nature". BBC. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
3. ^ "Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook interview". Unreality SF archive. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
4. ^ "Medico Who – Fact File – The Family of Blood". Archived from the original on 23 June 2007. Retrieved iv June 2007.
5. ^ "Walesarts, St Fagans Natural History Museum, Cardiff". BBC. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
6. ^ "Human being Nature" podcast
7. ^ "Walesarts, Llandaff village, Cardiff". BBC. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
8. ^ Cornell, Paul (1995). Human being Nature (PDF). BBC eBooks. p. 68. ISBN978-0-426-20443-v. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 September 2008. Retrieved 9 Nov 2007.
9. ^ "2008 Constellation Awards". Constellation Awards website. 15 July 2008. Retrieved xv July 2008.
10. ^ Wright, Marking (28 May 2007). "Doc Who 3.8: Human Nature". The Stage. Archived from the original on xx July 2011. Retrieved 15 Baronial 2011.
11. ^ Fickett, Travis (28 August 2007). "Doctor Who: "Man Nature" Review". IGN. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
12. ^ Haines, Lester (17 September 2009). "Medico Who fans proper noun all-time episode e'er". The Register . Retrieved 15 August 2011.
13. ^ "The Top 10 Doctor Who stories of all time". Doc Who Magazine. 21 June 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
14. ^ Wales, Matt (5 January 2010). "Top 10 Tennant Doctor Who Stories". IGN. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
15. ^ "The x greatest episodes of Medico Who ever". The Daily Telegraph. 2 July 2008. Retrieved 29 April 2012.

External links [edit]

• "Human Nature" at the BBC Dr. Who homepage
• "Man Nature": episode trailer
• "Human Nature" at IMDb

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