Ever since the " The Parting of the Ways ", every regeneration has been portrayed as a " golden glow explosion " ( although the colour of the explosion is fiery orange in " The Parting of the Ways " and is milky white in Utopia ).
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As of 2008, it shares the new series'highest Audience Appreciation rating of " 89 " with " The Parting of the Ways ", and is generally favoured by critics for both the Cybermen Dalek conflict and the farewell scene between the Doctor and Rose.
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Both Fish and Hancock chairman Stephen Brown offer the same explanation for the parting of the ways : The growing convergence of banking and insurance made it dicey to have a banker sitting on the insurer's board with Hancock preparing for an initial public offering of stock.
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In their book " Who is the Doctor ? ", Graeme Burk and Robert Smith described the climactic kiss between the Ninth Doctor and Rose in " The Parting of the Ways " as being something " we all secretly wanted, even though it ultimately killed him ".
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John is having a heated argument with Charles as he gets ready for his appointment with Miss A . John, having finally had the breakthrough psychic experience he wished for throughout his amateur years, is revealing to Charles the last of his tricks while telling him this is the parting of the ways.
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In the episode " Attack of the Graske ", he took Rose to an ABBA concert in 1979 at Wembley Arena, and quoted the something of the wolf " in her and that she has " burnt like the Sun ", a reference to the 2005 series episode " The Parting of the Ways ".
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This episode features the return of former companion Jack Harkness, who was left behind by the Doctor during " The Parting of the Ways " and ended up the main protagonist of the spin-off " Torchwood " before learning of the Doctor's presence in the series 1 finale " Journey's End ".
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It has been speculated that Davies loosely adapted elements from The Flood in his later DW storylines The Parting of the Ways and Army of Ghosts ( in particular the Doctor absorbing the time / space vortex to save Rose Tyler's life, triggering his regeneration and the ghost-shifting infiltration of The Cybermen on an unsuspecting public)
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In " The Parting of the Ways ", the Doctor mentions that when Emergency Program One was activated, the sonic screwdriver would receive a signal from the TARDIS . In " Forest of the Dead ", he claims that a few hair-dryers can interfere with the device, though he states that he is " working on that ".
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At the time, BBC News published that Paterson Joseph, who appeared in the " Doctor Who " episodes " Bad Wolf " and " The Parting of the Ways ", was the bookmakers'favourite to succeed Tennant, followed by David Morrissey, who would be appearing in the 2008 Christmas special, " The Next Doctor ".
