Rose (Doctor Who episode) viewed by 10.81 million viewers in the UK, the most viewed "Doctor Who" episode since "The Creature from the Pit" in 1979, and received positive reviews from critics, though there were some criticisms of its use of humour. Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), a teenage shop assistant, is being chased by mannequins in the basement of Henrik's, the department store where she works. She is rescued by the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), who destroys the building with an explosion. The next day, the Doctor visits Rose at her home, where he is attacked by a plastic mannequin arm which he and Rose
Time War (Doctor Who) Rose Tyler touching it. The Doctor later discovers that the Dalek Emperor itself had also survived, and had gone on to build a whole new Dalek race, using the organic material of human cadavers by completely rewriting their DNA. The destruction of the Emperor and its fleet in the year 200,100 during an attack on Earth at the conclusion of the 2005 series by a time vortex-augmented Rose Tyler is accompanied by her declaration that "the Time War ends". The elite Cult of Skaro also survived by fleeing into the Void between dimensions in a specialised ship, taking with them