Series 2 Episode 6: The Age of Steel

Summary:
The Doctor, Rose and Mickey are able to flee from the mansion together with the resistance group and Rose's father but they are chased by Cybermen and Ricky dies. Now the Cybermen take control of London and lead all the people via their ear-pods into their factories. There they start to convert them into Cybermen. The Doctor comes up with a plan to stop them but the only way to do this is to get into the factory and stop them from inside. Soon most of the group are captured and now it's Mickey's turn to save the world. Will he be able to do it?

I really like the solution of this two-parter although we won't see Mickey for a while now because he stays on the parallel Earth to destroy the remaining Cybermen. It's good that he has finally found his place and isn't the tin dog anymore. That shows that the characters evolve in this series and don't stay the same because I didn't like Mickey very much in the first episodes. It's a bit hard for the people who were turned into Cybermen that the Doctor turns off the emotion control and they realise what happened to them but maybe that's better than feeling nothing at all. The Cybermen are back, defeated by the Doctor once again but that was just one battle and not the war and we will see them again. In this episode the Doctor is his brilliant self again but he couldn't have done it without Mickey's help and Rose's Dad. It's so sad to watch when Mickey and Rose say goodbye and when her father leaves without another word because it is just too much for him to understand that Rose is his daughter. Now we are back again to Rose and the Doctor in the Tardis.