Doctor Who "The Empty Child" - 5/5/06 (US airing)

Okay, I’ll admit it - when Nancy said her dead brother was Jamie, I immediately thought of the Jamie that was an earlier companion of the Doctor. Imagine if she thought her brother was dead, only to have him jaunting about time with a Time Lord.

StG

The Voyage Home: as they leave the cloaked Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park Kirk says, “Everybody, remember where we parked.”

And you got Futurama on DVD before we did, too.

Lousy, spoiled, gloating Limeys … :wink:

The Christopher Eccleston series has just won two TV Baftas (the UK equivalent of the Oscars) One was for the best drama series, with its writer, Russell T Davies, receiving the Dennis Potter Award for outstanding writing.

I’m watching the Canada DVDs right now, and I have to say that The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances represents the absolute zenith of the new series so far (I have two more episodes to go). msmith537 is right: the explanation doesn’t take away from the power and creepiness of it at all.

The UNIT stories starting with Jon Pertwee’s Doctor were set in the 1980s and originally broadcast in 1970. There was also a previous story with the Second Doctor set in the 1970s and broadcast in 1968 in which UNIT was introduced. So the UNIT stories were originally set about ten years in the future.

Later, the Fifth Doctor was in the “present” – 1982 – and, when questioned, basically says, “This is 1982, right? Contact UNIT and they’ll vouch for me.” So the show had caught up. :slight_smile:

The series also won the Pioneer Audience award, which is voted for by the viewing public (I think it’s the only TV Bafta that is).

I imagine Russell The Davies’ award will have been for his entire body of work, rather than just Doctor Who.

In Pyramids of Mars, Sarah Jane Smith says, quite explicitly, “I come from 1980” …

I believe you. What scene was it?

Twice: once when she tells Laurence Scarman directly (“That is utterly preposterous, Ms. Smith”), and again when the Doctor takes her and Scarman to see what “1980” looks like after Sutekh has finished with it (“That’s a trick! I’m from 1980 …!”).

Okay, the last time I asked a question about this series, I got accused of reading too much into it, buu-u-uut…

[paraphrasing]
Officer: Jack:…you’re going down to the shelter?

Captain Jack: Wow, nice bottom!

Officer: (hushed tone) Jack! There’s a time and a place for everything!

Captain Jack: Oh not you, I’m looking out at one of the decoy balloons. Oh but, you do have a nice bottom too!
[/paraphrasing]

Did that mean what I think it did? I realize Jack was all flirty with Rose, but then again…

I read that as a joke. It was Rose’s Bottom he rather liked.

Oh yeah, another exchange I was wondering about;

ward doctor: Before this war began, I was a father and a grand-father. Now I am neither, but still a doctor.

THE Doctor: I know the feeling.

Does this mean that Susan (the Doctor’s grand-daughter) is dead? I know he said he’s the last Time-Lord (which presumably means Romana has bought the farm), but Susan wasn’t necessarilly one. Not all Gallifreyans are Time-Lords (as per “Invasion of Time”). Was the entire Gallifreyan race wiped out of existence, or just the Time Lords?

… uh … yeah … what he said …

The title escapes me, but there was a Star Trek novel (from the 90s) where Kirk muses over rumors of a race in the constellation of Kasterborous who controlled time. This is a direct reference to the Timelords (even the Kasterborous reference).

Someone out there will probably remember the title (maybe they remember the reference and didn’t know it referred to Dr. Who).

I believe at the conclusion of “The End of the World,” the Doctor tells Rose, “My planet’s gone,” suggesting that his entire race is destroyed, not just the Time Lord civilization.

Yeah, the implication I’ve been getting all season long is he’s now the last of his kind, no asterisks.

So Sarah Jane was from the future… How about that! I’ve been watching Doctor Who for over 30 years and never picked up on that.

Of course, by watching, I mean picking it up in fits and spurts on PBS stations across the South and West USA. Sometimes I didn’t have access to the Doctor at all. And when I did, it was mostly 4, 5, & 6, with a mere smattering of 3 and 7. I’m very much enjoying catching up on the Original, 2, and the rest of 3 & 7 thru some VHS and now DVDs. Still ain’t easy being a Texan Whovian in OKC.

As I recall

Captain Jack is bisexual!