I know that apparently everybody hates the episode with the monster that absorbs people - tha absorbalof? - and I can't say what I'd think of it now.
But as a kid I loved that episode? We got to look at the Doctor and Rose from the outside. Through the eyes of just a regular guy. Mr. Blue Sky! I've loved that song ever since this episode introduced me to it. And that episode ended just horribly. What the monster DID was horrible and that girl ended up being a FACE IN A TILE. But I loved the speech he did by the end. '... Life is so much stranger and so much better..' The contemplation on what an encounter like that can really mean - what it can destroy. But life goes on. It was that slightly uncomfortable feeling of - mostly comedy and ridiculousness and the guy was ok - but what happened was fucked up. Optimistic but honest. Really contributed to grounding the series.
