I'm sure your breath is not in the least niffy mega As for Reality TV, it was a great concept in the way "Last of the Summer Wine" was a great concept 40 YEARS AGO! Alas, these days it's been done to death and the Tabloids throw the term around for anything that isn't fictitious whether it be documentary, game show (Celeb Wrestling was cited as Reality TV for instance - go figure!) or reconstruction.

Anyway, to the plot, such as it is, at what point in the week do we start looking forward to "The Empty Child" in public rather than just fretting over Rose's earthbound tumble in the privacy of our own homes?

Ummm errr "A 'stitch in time' saves nine" and this is the Ninth Doctor........

Am I taking this a bit too far?

I've just seen the episode WOW what a excellent piece of drama and it's Dr Who as well.

Normally, Si-Fi anything will turn away a lot of people that just don't like that sort of thing, but in this one 45 mins show, we have a family show, and excellent piece of drama and Si-Fi that is acceptable to all.

Now personally, I've always been a Dr Who fan (Tom Baker/John Pertwee) but if you had told me before this series had started that it was going to be this good and this well received by millions, I would laughed.

Dr Who has always been a cult programme...
Not anymore!

look! I will get this last episode out of my system. maybe in a week

If you're an Asimov fan, you'll know that sounds very 'End of Eternity'

I like the idea - a lot!

A continuity editor time-travelling from the future to right the little slip ups, and by those very actions endangering the timelines.
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Now from 1989 to 2004 Dr Who may have been a Cult programme through the unfathomable popularity of new adventures and audios to keep authors creative and die-hard fans penniless, but in it's time Dr Who was one of the most popular TV shows on British TV...mind you, there were only one, two then three other channels respectively and most of them would show documentaries concerning cheese in opposition to it of a Saturday
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I don't know about you, but the thought of an earthbound tumble with Rose in the privacy of my own home has put me in a state

<Trance mode>Think pure thoughts...think pure thoughs...mmmm, Rose...</Trance mode>

I've loved Christopher Eccleston in the role and will be gutted when he goes.

Duncan, I also heard that reality tv featured in the finale, and that is was set part on Earth and part on a space station. (not sure if it was one of the Platforms or the one we saw in The Long Game - but we do know we find out who placed the Jaffafeast there by the end of the series.)

In fact, I agree that the Doctor and Rose are part of a giant reality tv programme that they don't even know about.



The only thing I'm not sure we'll see any resolution to is the destruction of Gallifrey/Timewar scenario - but then if the Doctor and Rose are part of reality tv, maybe it never happened?
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What, us lot on this forum read too much into something? Never!

But if the above spoiler is true is it that...

Hey cool, keep the wee lass occupied whilst The Doc shows me the depths his Tardis can really go to then meg

Oh yes - that's why I think it will be the biggest comedy moment of the series.

Ahem. Yes, well...quite

Totally priceless! Yes!

Well although this is the episode thread for last week, we also post speculation here as well so please feel free.

Now that really is "going where no-one has gone before!"

And within 24 hours a perfectly decent thread has descended to my level...I might get a complex...

...on a related note, someone (I forget who now) suggested Captain Jack was a "smarmy American" can I just ask whether being American is supposed to naturally make him smarmy in a terribly superior piece of British xenophobia or is that a character trait already leaked?

Dunno... It may just be that people associated his willingness to first sweep Rose off her feet and then turn his attentions to the Doctor, that made people assume he was smarmy...

On the subject of the potential future plot involvement of a space station/realityshow/who_placed_the_jaffafeast (sorry, that's got to be its official name from now on)...

Surely there had to be more than one station in place to give 100% coverage around the Earth (someone somewhere said that 5 was the right number). Who (or what) is on the other 4 stations? Other 'editors'?, other "abbeycrunchfeasts"?

K

Do you mean the Lagrange points?

Yes, there are five. So if Satellite Five is stationed at one of them, there should be at least another two (if I remember rightly, two points are sometimes not used because they're not the most stable? - somebody help!)

They could have other Jaffafeasts in them, or may not even need to since they would all be monitored and controlled from Satellite Five.

Astrophysics, eh? Did someone say this thread had sunk to the gutter?

Hmmmm, yes that's very plausible isn't it and would tie up the series quite conveniently!!

Lagrange points don't seem to have anything to do with global coverage.

http://www.physics.montana.edu/facul.../lagrange.html

I was very pleased to be able to remember what they were called and that there were five of them!

OK - so how many stations would be needed?

K

Well, I think it's a bit of a moot point to be honest Kenny - we could hazard a guess based on today's technology, but the episode was set in the year 200,000 - who knows what methods of broadcasting would have been invented by then?

The past 100 years of Earth's history has seem an amazing leap in technology - who could ever predict the advances that 198,000 years would bring?