Y'know, I could never bring myself to like Jack, but when he got killed, I almost felt sad.

But I didn't mind that they left him stranded on a half-dead Satelite Five. Huh.

The problem with Jack, is that they made him too competent. While he had a few botch ups in his introductory episodes, they didn't carry that over to his later appearances. The whole point of having a smug jerk like that, is to see him constantly fail.

As for the Lydia/Lynda thing, could we let that pass seeing as how I'm half deaf, and British accents have a habit of throwing me.

SWB

I personally felt the whole thing with Rose was a bit too much deus ex machina.

Still, there quite a few nice touches I felt. Like that little map of the earth Lynda was looking at was showing the continents changing shape when the Daleks were bombarding the place. My favourite part had to be when those three Daleks flew up outside the window. Despite being in space and it being totally impossible to hear anything, the middle one still spoke (as shown by their flashy lightbulbs) before firing. Hmm, I wonder what it said. Those crazy Daleks and their extermination.

i have a quick question. what did they mean about the doctor having a "northern accent"?

Because he had a northern accent...

Christopher Eccelston has a northern accent. Simple. Hence, so did the Doctor. So Rose asks him why he sounds like he's from the North.

It's a British northern accent, maybe that's what confused you if you haven't heard it before.

He speaks with a Northern English accent, as opposed to Rose, who's from London and therefore the south of England. I don't know a whole lot about English culture, but I think it's kind of like living in NYC and having a guy with a Texan accent tell you he's from another planet.

I forgot to say thank you. Love that scene, bet it was better on TV. :P

Is the regeneration always like that, or was that new special effects?

New special effects. Across the series, every regeneration has been different just about I think. From simple fades to flashes of previous memories and so on.

And no problem, by the way.

Doctor Who is well known for poor effects over here. At least, it was, until the new series, in which they've been amazing.

So yeah, that was a new regeneration effect.

As for 'British culture' in reference to the Doctor's accent, it is pretty much what you said. Eccelstone's accent is just a regional one. So Rose is basically saying "Well, if you're an alien, why do you have a Northern accent?", so just like you said, you wondering why an alien would have a texan accent.

His reply is priceless though.

"Lots of planets have a north!"

Hee hee, that and his godawful "happy medium" joke are probably my favorite Ninth Doctor lines.

i meant, Where would a person have to be born to have a northern accent?