where do you begin on such a awesome mind-blowing season ? even the pedestrian episode , like `` Christmas Invasion '' , `` New Earth '' , `` fear she '' and `` idiot 's Lantern '' be still excellent just by sheer triumph of style alone : for example , watch people ` s face and identity get suck into a tv set . the second season still manage to nicely capture its own newness and the joy a old character rediscover itself , and of a write staff blaze into new territory of storytelling . yes , David Tennant may take some get use to , but he will grow on you quickly . besides , when you have a Queen Victoria and a werewolf `` Tooth and Claw '' episode , there be no time to hold grudge . Everything work marvelously this season -- there be a Sarah Jane Smith reunion with the doctor in `` School Reunion '' , as well as a gorgeous period piece -lrb- one of the all-time best write episode in my opinion -rrb- with `` the Girl in the Fireplace '' it have a fairytale-like quality with the way the doctor appear in Madame de Pompadour 's fireplace at critical moment in she life . the Cybermen get to make they reappearance in a two-part `` rise of the Cybermen '' \/ `` the age of steel '' story-their method of create new Cybermen be one of the all-time great horrific moment of the series . `` the impossible planet '' be a great high-concept story that be nicely book end by `` the Satan pit '' which bring you down from the concept -lrb- a lonely planet in a stationary orbit around a black hole -rrb- and into the pit -lrb- as it be -rrb- of a horror . there be also one very offbeat episode , `` love and monster '' that give the doctor and Rose the Rosencranz and Guildenstern treatment by move they to the periphery of the story and focus on the small-time character of Elton instead . the monster be a hoot , especially when he and the doctor finally meet . it all come crash down magnificently with the dalek-cybermen throwdown season end of `` Army of Ghosts '' \/ `` Doomsday '' . this be the episode the Freddy vs. Jason and Alien vs. Predator fan have be wait for and every potential be live up to here with some eye-popping cgus effect and a heart-wrenching farewell between the doctor and Rose . as a product , the overly price -lrb- my one huge complaint -rrb- dvd set adequately satisfy also . there be enough special feature to almost equal out the episode themselves . the commentary I hear -lrb- it be pretty hard to listen to watch a episode again all over -rrb- be pretty relax . I dig the in-vision commentary ... but do not explore this until you have actually see and enjoy the episode , because it be really distracting otherwise . in all , this be probably the best 13 or so hour of sci-fus and storytelling that have be on television and dvd in a long while . as for season 3 ...