"When I go back to meet my father, I found that script, you know, so compelling and so emotional and sad." "I think it's one of her toughest journeys to date." "But also, one of the most rewarding." "Go to him." "Quick." "Let's stand by there, please." "For a take." "Thank you." "...462, take 1, A camera." "B Camera." "Now, Rose, you're not going to bring about the end of the world, are you'?" "We had always wanted to tell the stow of Rose's dad." "It's a perfect time-travel story." "And Russell set up very early on that her dad had died and that Jackie had brought Rose up on her own." "And so, we wanted to explore what it really would be like to be able to go back in time and see a parent who you'd lost." "Who's that'?" "It's your daddy." "I think it's something we can all relate to, that thing of going back and all the "what ifs"." "What if this happened'?" "What if that happened'?" "What if they didn't say that or I didn't do that'?" "All those kind of questions that, you know, imagine if you could change them." "1987, 7th November." "He would have loved to have seen you now." "Could we go and see my dad when he was still alive'?" "Where's this come from all of a sudden'?" "All right, if we can't, if it goes against the laws of time or something, then never mind, just leave it." "No, I can do anything." "Your wish is my command." "He's a Time Lord and he's got a Tardis so you sort of think if somethings going wrong with time, you just solve it like that." "It's funny, out of all the science fiction series," "I think there's been less time anomaly, time muddle, time change stories in Doctor Who than in any other science fiction series because he's a Time Lord." "On, God, this is n." "Rose, no!" "He has a respect for the natural order of things and time is part of that." "And I think it all comes from the same kind of well there." "He's saying, you know, there has to be something that's out of our control so we can participate and enjoy ourselves so much." "And we can't meddle in that." "No." "Don't touch the baby." "You're both the same person." "I can't do anything right, can I'?" "Since you asked, no." "So, don't touch the baby." " I'm not stupid." " You could have fooled me." "I think the Doctor is showing an alien quality here in that he doesn't quite get how attached humans perhaps get to their families." "On the other hand, as this episode reveals, he was fairly attached to his family himself." "There used to be laws stopping this kind of thing from happening." "My people would have stopped this." "But they're all gone." "And now I'm going the same way." "I didn't know." "If I'd realized..." "Just... tell me you're sorry." "I am." "I'm sorry." "They may be back on good terms, but there's a wound in time that still needs to be healed." "Because these creatures come from the time vortex to enter... this parallel Earth, it meant that we had no constraints at all in the design." "Rather than it being so much of a fish-like mouth, it could actually open out into blades which Paul Cornell, the author, mentioned in his original script." "As you can see, the mouth folds out to give it this quite menacing appearance." "And what you thought were jaws and teeth, are actually full, separate arms to try and give it this alien, unique, appearance." "Adding the sickle scythe for the Reaper, to have that reaper element." "When it swoops down to attack somebody, the blades can come out in this quite menacing pose." "So, that's where the wings come in, this sort of enveloping cloak." "It also helps to cover up exactly what's going on when it attacks." "You can't have a lot of gory detail for a tea-time sci-fi show." "This is the first scene that you see the Reaper appear." "This was quite a challenge for us because the original plate really just had the actor, kind of, erm, panicking on the floor." "This is one of those very hard things for actors." "And obviously with Doctor Who like sort of a major effects movie with green screen, the actors aren't really sure what they're looking at." "We're all imagining different things and..." "But basically what you're seeing is some bloke with a long pole with a bit of gaffer tape stuck on it." "Reaper." "That's what you look at and you have to react to, you know." "And that's hard." "For a man to start reacting to monsters that aren't even there, it's quite strange." "If you're trying to animate the Reaper into a shot, and you have an actor reacting to something that isn't there, you have to make that work." "No." "We've tried to recreate a lot of shadows to really feel like he's on top of him." "We've created a little grass scuff here." "And using our environment lighting, you can see that this Reaper is a little bit more greener." "Feels that it's a little bit more like in a sunlit environment." "And then we've got, you know, really nice burning parts here to show that he's really angry." "Sound effects are the final piece of the jigsaw that make the Reapers complete." "You never really know until that final picture's there, what you're gonna get." "I was thinking of birds of prey." "Hawks, eagles, falcons." "In the end, I came up with some vulture sounds." "But that's not nearly sophisticated enough or frightening enough so I added some reverb and different types of noises to get the final effect... that will hopefully scare the pants off people." "Doctor!" "Standing by." "457, take 2." "A Camera." "It was brilliant doing, setting up the '80s because we were actually doing a historical drama, a period drama that feels like it was yesterday." "What are you looking at with your mouth open'?" " Your hair." " What'?" "It's lovely, your hair is lovely." "The look for the '80s really is defined by huge hair, I would say." "All our extras had very big, heavily lacquered hair and there were some very dodgy perms as well." "Everybody brought their old '80s photographs in and we copied styles and make-up colors and make-up choices from our own photograph albums, really." "Peach, peach." "Peach was huge at people's weddings in the '80s, wasn't it'?" "Camille, the actress who plays Rose's mum, although she was apprehensive about the whole look, she carried it off amazingly well and she actually looks quite stunning in it, really." "All right, nice and quiet in here now, please, guys, thank you." "Doesn't seem like 20 years ago at all, it seems like yesterday." "It's been great seeing everybody, you know, looking at everybody and going, "Look at you!"" "And then you think, "My God!" "Did we really look like that?"" "I think they've done a beautiful job because it's very, very 1980s but it doesn't really distract you." "Action." "I'm not taking this dress home, no." "I don't think it's me, do you'?" "No, I'll hang it up and say goodbye." "Closure with the '80s." "And someone else looking for closure is Rose." "It's so weird." "The day my father died." "I thought it'd be all sort of grim and stormy." "It's just an ordinary day." " You sure about this'?" " Yeah." "She has one perception of her dad and so it was really interesting to blow that out of the water and say," ""Actually, he's not this great big businessman who was going to rule the world."" "I always thought if someone invented a windowsill with special compartments, you know, one for milk, one for yoghurt." "I do a bit of this, bit of that." "I scrape by." "And she comes back and sees him and he's a bit of a wide boy, really, and a bit useless." "And so it's a bit of a shock." "But then I think as the episode, as the story moves on, you kind of realize that they're similar in a lot of ways." "I'll get it right, love." "One day soon, I promise you I'll get it right." "Come on." "She does certainly really bond with her dad." "And by the end of the episode, he is everything that she would hope her dad would be." "Just for once, this is a Doctor Who story where the Doctor ends up being incapable of doing anything." "Between you and me, I haven't got a plan." "No idea." "No way out." "And it's down to the one guy who can make a positive sacrifice to save everybody." "You're gonna get rid of me at last." "Don't say that." "For once in your life, trust me." "The fact that his life is saved, which he kind of brushes off at the time when Rose saves him..." "He doesn't really think anything of it... until he sees the car again and again and again, then he kind of twigs." "Nobody can do anything." "The only way is to heal the wound in time which is for him to kill himself." "Who am I, love'?" "My daddy." "So Rose had a thought in her head that her dad was really heroic." "And, of course, by the end of the episode, it turns out that in a little unheard of corner of time, yes, he was." "He was a great hero." "One man's action saves the entire world but the unfortunate thing is that nobody will realize it." "Nobody knows, apart from people watching it." "Completely unsung, proper unsung hero." "You've got to get emotion into this stuff." "I don't mean hearts and flowers, I just mean good, honest, heartfelt emotion." "On, God." "And Rose has revealed a new side to the Doctor, too." "I think Rose has helped the Doctor to feel a whole lot more, and think before, you know, he makes these kind of... rash decisions." "She teaches him how to be emotional, how to feel and how, you know, to think a bit more, basically." "She's on a learning curve and he is, to a certain extent." "Go to him." "Quick." "She's learnt that she can really trust him on an amazing level." "And he, I think, knows that after having gone through that, she appreciates his situation a lot more than seeing each other differently at the end of it." "They're much closer at the end, I hope." "It's quite a romantic idea that Russell's got of togetherness." "We've had that throughout." "What does he have?" "He has one more heart and he has 900 years' more experience of time travel." "But in many other areas, she's his equal, if not better, which I think is fantastic."