I'm told that the exec producer and head writer of Dr. Who (Russell T. Davis) is an atheist, but he must have imbibed the Christian story in his mother's milk, because it seems to be the Ur-Story behind all the stories. I just finished watching (most of, missed a few) Season II.
WARNING: SEASON II (ROSE TYLER) SPOILERS.
I was struck by how Rose's trajectory illustrates this passage from the Gospel according to Mark, chapter 10:
29"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31But many who are first will be last, and the last first." (New International Version).
In the last, "Doomsday," episode, she reminds the Doctor that she has already made the choice of him over her mother (whom she loves). She is willing to die with him to save the world again. At the last minute before she dies, she's whisked away to the parallel dimension where she will live with a restored family, including a father who died when she was very small. Of course, unlike the Kingdom of Heaven, she doesn't get to see the Doctor anymore when she's there. But still.
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