Doctor Who Episode: "Father's Day"

This episode of Doctor Who had a lot to do with time travel. It showed the possibilities of what could happen if you messed with the balance of time or if you saved someone’s life who wasn’t supposed to be saved. In this episode, Rose, who is Doctor Who's companion, decides to go back in time with the Doctor to see her father on the day he dies, and to be with him when he does. Her mother had told her that he had wished there would have been someone at his side while he passed away. Out of instinct, she ends up jumping in front of the car who was supposed to kill him and saves his life. This then creates a giant collision in time. These huge creatures then start attacking everyone at the wedding Rose, the Doctor, and her dad were attending. Everyone then scrambles inside for protection from them. At one point in the show, I thought it was really cool because, to show what happens when you change time, none of the phones worked. Whenever you tried to call someone, it would just repeat what the Doctor called "Alexander Grahambell's" first call on the telephone. This goes to show how Rose saving her dads life messed ALL of time up, not just the future, but the past too. Rose then tells her father that she is her daughter. He asks her whether he was a good father, since he doesn’t know that he was supposed to die and Rose lies and says that he used to read her a bedtime story every night and took her on picnics every weekend. But she does not fool him, and he realizes he was supposed to die. As Roses father tries to explain to her mother what is going on, he puts the baby Rose into the adult Rose's arms to compare and show they are the same, which causes a paradox in time and lets the creatures into the church. The Doc steps in front of everyone and ends up getting eaten. As Rose grieves, her dad looks out the window and notices something suspicious. There is a car driving on the road, and then disappears. This happens over and over until Rose's father realizes that it's the car that was supposed to kill him, and it is stuck in that one period of time until he is killed. He decides that he needs to be dead in order for time to move on. He tells Rose and adds that he wants her to be that one person with him when he dies. So he runs out in front of the car, and Rose watches him die in her arms. Everything goes back to normal, and the Doctor comes back. It goes to a scene of Rose as a little girl talking to her mom. Her mom tells her that when her father died, there was a mysterious girl holding him and comforting him and then she disappears and isn't seen again. This episode had a lot of time travel elements in it, but also was very sad. I have to admit, it was kind of upsetting, but it was still good.