if you enjoy the first season of the new show and feel apprehensive about season 2 , fear not - even with a new face , Doctor who be still a show that pack a lot of fun inside of a single hour . make the new doctor he own , tennant jaunt across time and space in a season of new show that alternate between funny & dark -lrb- often within the same story -rrb- , consistently surprising and - consider the end it go in time & space - thematically coherent -lrb- the joke become the tearjerker or vica-versa -rrb- . if the story themselves sometimes verge into tiresome or recycled , script and deft use of character make each episode a `` can not miss '' . -lrb- the new show develop strongly on the original 's excellent focus on secondary character or even one-shot character - witness expand role for Rose 's mum , and for Mickey ; Pete Tyler even make a reappearance - sort of ; there be even a episode tell entirely from the pov of regular human who chart the doctor 's exploit on Earth . -rrb- highlight for season 2 be expand role for Jackie & Mickey , a guest-spot for Sarah-Jane , run-in with a young Madame de Pompadour & a extremely unamused Queen Victoria , Cybermen , Daleks , one more bad wolf , the Devil himself and finally a episode in which it be reveal that tv be itself evil . -lrb- no , I do not make that up !! nor be I make up the fact that the world be save by ... Betamax !!! -rrb- while other sci-fi franchise slavishly cater and conform to fan ' idea of what the show have always be , dw spend most of its time go in surprising new direction . in `` the idiot Lantern '' , we find the doctor be he usual fun-loving time-hopper . yet `` the Girl in the Fireplace '' , display a more romantic , over-the-top chivalrous streak in the guy . the season culminate in a three-story arc involve the origin of the Cybermen and the unveiling of Torchwood , IMO , the weakest of the series . the Cybermen , it be reveal , be develop on a parallel-earth where it be always sunny and the sky be full of airship . -lrb- the opening shot look like something off a Led Zeppelin album , or the cover of a `` Luther Arkwright '' story . -rrb- posit a cold & calculate race artificially develop by a wheelchair-bound evil-maniac-genius , `` Age of Steel '' draw inevitable comparison to `` Genesis of the Daleks '' from 1975 , without match that classic story 's moral dilemma nor the desperate circumstance that underlie the Dalek 's creation . -lrb- in `` Genesis '' , crippled-genius Davros have be task to create mobile armor to house\/sustain a new generation of Kaleds - a race of alien doom to horrible mutation due to the effect of a endless war ; no similar society-wide pressure seem to mandate the creation of Cybermen , and they creator Lumic have all the mad-scientist dash of `` Doctor Evil '' . -rrb- instead , the high-point be ironically `` the Satan pit '' , which name aside , surpass its obvious debt to the disappointing movie `` Event Horizon '' and create some of the most compelling and outright scary hour of `` Doctor who '' . in that ep. , part of a 2-story arc , the Doctor land on a dead asteroid hover at the edge of a black hole that have devour countless civilization . a team of human ceaselessly drill to the core of the rock hope to learn how the asteroid have manage to escape the black hole . mix great effect and tension , the story be a great example of how both the new and original show highlight guest character . whether you be a fan of the old series or never catch on , season two show why you 'll be hooked .