You are live on channel 44000.
Please do not swear.
You have got to be kidding.
One of the greatest things about "Doctor Who" is
that he can travel anywhere.
But it smells, like... Armpits.
There are no boundaries on the show,
in terms of where they'll go --
This must be biographies!
What they'll do --
you hold on tight and don't you let go. And who they'll see.
It's a swarm in a suit.
You kind of never know what you're going to get.
Sometimes it could be
a humanoid-type planet.
The ambassadors
from the city-state of Binding Light.
And then sometimes you're just
hanging out on top of a giant whale in space.
Never said that before. That's fab.
They got to these places that you would never be able
to fathom, in your own puny, human brain.
Prisons in space.
"The sky's the limit." The Universe is the limit.
We're standing under a black hole.
I mean, obviously, the destinations dictate
what the kind of tone and theme of the episode are going to be.
The great and the good are gathering
to watch the planet burn.
What for?
Fun.
The thing about "Doctor Who" is the potential.
The Earth isn't ready for us to return yet.
The crazier the destination is, the more exciting the show gets.
Can we go out and see? Of course we can.
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♪ Dr. Who Specials 2x04 ♪ The Destinations of Doctor Who Original Air Date on August 25, 2012
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[ TARDIS engines ]
If the Doctor ever came over to you and said,
"Hey, where do you want to go? When do you want to go?",
I would not be able to really think
outside of just the Earth's timeline
because I don't know what else is out there.
The first big trip that Rose goes in with the Doctor is
to a platform where they can witness the end of Earth.
It really kind of hammers home the idea of
"we can literally go anywhere. Anywhere in time and space."
So to take her to the year 5 billion,
to the destruction of the Earth, is pretty great.
I thought that was
a great imagination of what it might be like
at the end of the Earth's life.
Guests are reminded that
platform 1 forbids the use of weapons, teleportation,
and religion.
Earth death is scheduled for 15:39,
followed by drinks in the Manchester suite.
So, when it says "guests,"
does that mean people?
Depends what you mean by "people."
I mean people. What do you mean?
Aliens.
What are they doing onboard this spaceship?
What's it all for?
It's not really a spaceship.
More like an observation deck.
The great and the good are gathering
to watch the planet burn.
What for?
Fun.
Mind you, when I say
"the great and the good,"
what I mean is the rich.
You imagine, you know, that corruption, money,
would've come into it and people would gather
just to see the Earth incinerated.
The platform is kind of like a Schadenfreude hotel
where you can just watch the destruction
of the most wonderful planet in the Universe
while you eat cocktail weenies.
The idea that there are wealthy aliens
who get taken around to see the destruction
of star systems is so genius.
Next,
from the Solicitors Jolco & Jolco,
we have the Moxx of Balhoon.
And next,
from Financial Family Seven,
we have The Adherents --
It is kind of cool because it's like
this weird ball setup where
everybody's introduced as they walk in
and it's like a fun event.
They remind me of "Flash Gordon,"
when you see all the alien races coming in.
You know that bit in "Flash Gordon"
where they all come to give their gifts to Ming.
I love all those little references
to other science- fiction films
and sort of the genre.
It's a little ironic, that he brings her
to the end of her planet because
it's such a joyful journey that she's on
and the first place she goes is
to watch the death of her home.
There is a certain symmetry
in having the very beginning
of his relationship with Rose be
the end of everything, in a way.
You know, he takes her to the end of the Earth, right?
It's sort of that romantic promise.
Is that romantic,
taking somebody to the end of the world?
Might explain my dating history, I suppose.
That's a little depressing.
I don't know, maybe you need to work
on your lady tactics, there, Doctor.
I think the Doctor is trying to show Rose, in one go,
that this is life with him.
It's fascinating
and full of various creatures
and danger.
Raise shields!
It was a test of Rose's character because this
is her first experience inside a spaceship
and so he didn't take her somewhere simple,
he took her to the end of the world.
And the amazing thing is that she kind of takes it in stride.
Exoglass repaired.
Platform 1 is an amazing introduction
to the kind of experience that Rose is going to have.
Then he goes "right, so I'm going to take you back now,
to your council state. Bye," and is surprised
that she goes "I'm not going back there.
You've shown me everything. I'm coming with you."
Rose proved herself very quickly,
that she was worthy of traveling with him
by kind of accepting all the bizarre things going on,
rather quickly.
So Starship UK is actually the first place
that Amy gets to travel with the Doctor.
Starship UK is
this kind of this circular, metal planet
floating through space, bursting! With skyscrapers
because they've run out of space.
The Starship UK idea's a great one
because we all know our planet's going to die and the idea is
"where are we going to go? What's going to happen?"
That's not just a ship,
that's an idea, that's a whole country,
living and laughing and...
shopping.
And searching the stars for a new home.
Can we go out and see?
Of course we can.
The whole of Great Britain is basically now
a floating spaceship -- you think it's a floating spaceship,
but it's actually we're like a parasite sitting on the back
of a giant spacewhale.
And he's this just massive, calm creature
who just happens to have
the entire United Kingdom on his back.
It volunteered.
You didn't have to trap it or torture it,
that was all just you.
Oh, and because we're human beings,
we decided the best way to get this guy
to travel with the entire United Kingdom on his back is
to torture him by zapping his brain so he keeps moving.
The amazing thing about the people on this planet:
They're all so busy living for themselves
and living for the quality of their own life
that they don't realize that they're actually
being supported by a kindly old savior.
The way Amy solves this dilemma
that Starship UK is dealing with
is really our first major glimpse
inside who Amy is, as a person.
Aah!
Amy, what have you done?
Nothing at all.
Am I right?
We've increased speed.
Yeah, well, you've stopped torturing
the pilot -- got to help.
Because she's the one who doesn't see this
as a dilemma of choosing
the Starwhale over the people.
She really believes that, if we just stop
torturing this creature, he's going to work
with us, not against us.
It came because it couldn't stand
to watch your children cry.
What if you were really old,
and really kind and alone,
your whole race dead,
no future --
what couldn't you do, then?
If you were that old and that kind
and the very last
of your kind,
you couldn't just stand there
and watch children cry.
Well, Amy makes the point that the Starwhale is
the last of its kind and it comes to help
when it hears the cries of children
and that's exactly what the Doctor did
at the beginning of the episode.
It turns out they just got to take it easy on it
and let the Starwhale do its thing.
The Starwhale just wanted a little TLC
and then it's going to do its job.
There was this creature
suffering all that immense torment and pain
and she played such a part in rescuing it
and making sure that this dreadful business stopped.
I watched that episode and I thought, at the end of it,
I thought "I'm getting moved by the life of a spacewhale."
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Yet again, the power of "Doctor Who" is
you believe it, it makes you believe everything
because it's done with conviction,
it's performed with conviction, it's written with conviction,
and you'll believe anything.
Every door has a nightmare.
Ay!
Anytime that you've been afraid
that something is lurking in the shadows --
it's a swarm in a suit.
The answer is that that is actually going on.
The destinations of "Doctor Who"
seem like they're based off of somebody's dreams.
They're so surreal and crazy
and sometimes they're superrealistic
with just a hint of surrealism thrown in,
which makes them just as creepy as the regular creepy ones.
The thing that "Doctor Who" always succeeds in is
turning something that seems everyday
into something terrifying.
So they go to this hotel.
It looks like a normal human hotel
and it turns out
that it's a haunted hotel
full of nightmares.
Supercreepy.
You open the door? Wall.
You open the windows? Wall.
It's kind of a terrible, terrible place.
The walls move. Everything changes.
You, clever one, what's he talking about?
The corridors twist and stretch,
rooms vanish and pop up somewhere else.
It's like the hotel's alive.
That quite enough of that.
Yeah, and it's huge.
Did you try the front door?
No, in two days, it never occurred to us
to try the front door -- thank God you're here.
They're not doors, they're walls,
walls that look like doors. "Doorwalls," if you like,
or "dwalls" -- "woors," even,
though you probably got it when you said they're not doors.
I mean, the windows are... Right.
Big day for a fan of walls.
It's not just that.
The rooms have things in them.
Things? Hello!
What kind of things, interesting things?
I love things. Ask anyone.
Bad dreams.
I wouldn't want to stay there.
It's a terrifying concept, to be stuck in a place like that.
I remember watching that episode as it went out
and I was hosting a corporate sort of event
and I was in a hotel which was exactly like
the one featured,
nervously looking around at the doors and the windows,
in case something sinister lay behind them.
Ay!
Don't...blink.
What?
Every door has a nightmare
of some sort -- it may not be yours.
You may think it's yours. It may not be.
But it's really supercreepy.
Why haven't they got us yet?
Amy, they're not real.
What?
They should've got us by now.
Amy, look at me. Focus on me.
It's your bad dream, that's all.
I don't even think they're for us.
Aah!
Doctor, what are you doing?
I'm sorry, I just have to see what it is.
I just -- I have to see.
Oh, look at you.
I love haunted things, so the haunted hotel
was a really fun episode for me.
What I love about "Doctor Who" is that they can throw in
a Minotaur, if they want to.
They could literally do anything they want, and they did.
There was a Minotaur in this episode.
At the end of the episode, it turns out that,
as is often the case in "Doctor Who,"
things are not what they seem
and, in this case, you never would've guessed it,
but the hotel is actually a prison for a Minotaur God
that looks like kind of a cross between a labyrinth
and something
out of "Tron."
What is it, a Minotaur or an alien?
Or an alien Minotaur. That's not a question
I thought I'd be asking this morning.
I mean, it's both,
actually, yeah, here we go.
Distant cousin of the Nimon.
They descend on planets and set themselves up
as Gods to be worshipped,
which is fine, until the inhabitants
get all secular and advanced enough
to build bonkers prisons.
Prisons in space.
Where are the guards?
No need for any.
It's all automated. It drifts through space,
snatching people with belief systems
and converts their faith
into food for the creature.
This Minotaur God is feeding on people's faith.
It takes somebody's faith and hope
and turns it into this kind of horrible nightmare for them.
They take the old Minotaur legend
and take it out of a maze
and basically put it into this sort of
weird dimensional maze of this haunted hotel.
It's one of the great ways the show takes mythologies
that we're all familiar with and then just
aliens them up a little bit
and just gives them a dimension that they didn't have before.
Sometimes alternate dimensions they didn't have before.
The library is this giant planet that is just a library
and it has every book ever written.
The Library.
So big, it doesn't need a name,
just a great big "the."
It's like a city.
It's a world. Literally, a world.
The whole core of the planet is
the index computer,
biggest hard drive, ever, and up here,
every book ever written, whole continents of
Jeffrey Archer, "Bridget Jones,"
"Monty Python's Big Red Book."
Brand-new editions, specially printed.
Clearly, Steven Moffat must've recently gone
to the British library, which holds
every single book in the world and I've
been there before and it is quite impressive.
The idea of a library is always really --
is an exciting one, I think,
especially maybe for science-fiction nerds,
but for any of the sort of reading nerds
out there, the idea that there's a place
you can go where you just get to read all the time.
That's all that you're there for.
Any research you want to do, anything you want
to learn about, any story you want to know.
So that's, yeah, it's a dream destination.
It seems like they just took kind of a boring vacation
to a library, but, as the episode unfolds,
it becomes more and more frightening
and more and more sinister.
And it turns out that all the books were created
from a forest that used to be on the planet,
that used to be inhabited by the Vashta Nerada,
who live in the shadows and used to live in the trees.
But there are no more trees.
Way to go, library.
They're like meateating carnivorous microbugs,
or something like that, and you don't know
where they are and, if you step in a shadow,
you could be dead or, if all of a sudden,
you have two shadows, you're dead.
Basically, you're dead when you show up on this planet.
Dave, can you hear me?
Hey! Who turned out the lights?
Ah!
Hey! Who turned out the lights?
Excuse me!
Back from it, get back!
Right back!
Once a shadow has attached itself to you
and you've got two shadows, then you're really screwed.
Doesn't move very fast, does it?
It's a swarm in a suit.
But it's learning.
What do we do? Where do we go?!
See that wall behind you?
Duck!
Squareness gun!
Everybody out!
Everybody loves a library. It's nice and cozy.
You have a cup of tea and a book.
And then get chowed down upon by millions of aliens.
The lesson that you could learn from this episode is that,
anytime that you've been afraid
that something is lurking in the shadows
or something is hiding in the dark closet,
the answer is that that is actually going on.
And this episode drives that home
in a really, really terrifying way.
It's a swarm in a suit.
This library has this massively large hard drive
in the center of it that,
when the shadow creatures start attacking,
the planet realizes it needs to save everyone.
It actually "saves" them in the hard drive
and creates this entire fictional world
that their brains are kind of living in.
Donna is kind of downloaded into the mainframe
of the computer
and is given a life to enjoy.
With a family, these two little kids,
these cookie-cutter kids that are really cute,
but also really creepy.
The memories are all still there --
the library, the Doctor, me.
You've just been programmed
not to look.
Sorry, but...
you're dead.
In a way, we're all dead here, Donna.
We are the dead of the library.
Well, what about the children?
The children aren't dead.
My children aren't dead.
Your children were never alive.
Don't you say that.
Don't you dare say that about my children.
Look at your children!
Look at all of them, really look.
They're not real.
Do you see it now? They're all the same.
All the children of this world,
the same boy and the same girl,
over and over again.
She just gets screwed, man, when those kids turn out
to not be her kids on the library.
She's having a great life, actually,
the perfect life for her,
and I think she would've been extremely happy to stay there.
Oh, you've lived this life, have you, have you?
None of this life was real.
I like the way they do that.
Yeah, very sad.
You could be watching TV, you see an angel,
that's an angel and that will kill you.
Doctor!
I thought it was going to be like
a Dr. Seuss land of fun and happiness
and it's just a bunch of really bitter guys.
Well, it's always a different place
when you go with the Doctor.
Anyplace in the Universe is available to you
and the thing about the TARDIS is
you never know where you're going to end up.
You can plan all you want, but you open those doors
and it's always something a little different
than what you thought it'd be.
This is the one place in the "Doctor Who" universe
that you just don't want to end up.
It's a crashed spaceship full of Weeping Angels
next to a crack in time in some weird indoor forest.
And everybody want to kill you, basically.
Beautiful gardens in space. What could possibly be wrong?
There's not going to be anything sinister there.
But! Statues of angels that'll kill you.
It's not just one weeping angel this time,
or not just a few Weeping Angels this time,
it's hundreds of them.
One weeping angel is scary enough,
but then you have an entire freaking haunted forest
of Weeping Angels?
Could these things get any worse?
We learn that, basically, the Weeping Angels
can operate pretty much like the plot of the movie "The Ring."
Amy's watching a 4-second loop
of the angel in the hold
and it's just a recording
and it's been looped so it's just
the same 4 seconds,
but the thing that we didn't realize
about the angels before this was
that anything that holds the image
of an angel is itself an angel.
Doctor!
This whole book, it's a warning
about the Weeping Angels, so why no pictures?
Why not show us what to look out for?
There was that bit about images, what was that?
Yes. Hang on...
"That which holds the image of an angel
becomes itself an angel."
Doctor!
What does that mean,
an "image of an angel becomes itself an angel"?
When the weeping angel comes out of the TV,
that messed me up.
Doctor! It's in the room!
Amy!
Basically, you could be watching TV, you see an angel,
that's an angel and that will kill you.
If you blink, that will kill you.
At the end, I like the fact that
all of the angels
just kind of tumble off the planet
like they're little plaster statues on a shelf
and someone's gone "ah, forget that."
The angels are draining all the power from this ship,
every last bit of it, and you know what?
I think they've forgotten where they're standing.
I think they've forgotten
the gravity of the situation.
Or, to put it another way, angels --
You hold on tight and don't you let go for anything.
Night-night.
The fact that these things are beasts
and proper killer/ threatening
are just like crumbly things made out of concrete.
No problem. Done.
And the gravity destroys them
because they're weeping, but not smart.
Gallifrey is something that any serious "Doctor Who" fan
has always wanted to take a real peek at.
I know Gallifrey. I've been to Gallifrey.
I've been tried on Gallifrey.
That was a very exciting moment for me,
as an old "Doctor Who" fan, to see Gallifrey again.
I don't know what I expected Gallifrey to look like,
but I don't know if I expected it
to be a snow globe full of downtown L.A.
I thought it was going to be like
a Dr. Seuss land of fun and happiness
and it's just a bunch of really bitter guys.
The fashion trend of Gallifrey is that
of spooky wizards from the future.
That's basically what Time Lords dress like.
They just all look
like Anton Lavey at a discotheque.
I think it's kind of like British court systems.
I think they have to wear this stuff.
It's ceremonial. They've always worn it.
I don't think they like putting it on.
What news of the Doctor?
Disappeared,
My Lord President.
But we know his intention.
He still possesses the moment
and he'll use it to destroy Daleks
and Time Lords alike.
The visionary confirms it.
Ending, burning, falling. All of it, falling!
The black and pitch and screaming fire,
so burning.
It's quite clever that the Doctor
does not fit in with the map
of what these other Time Lords are.
They're all completely different,
with very different agendas.
Doesn't seem like that nice of a place,
where the Doctor's from, all of a sudden.
People are mean. Because they're scared.
They're scared that they're going to die.
But they're all fighting for their survival.
It's wonderful that the immortals are threatened.
They're at their wits' end
because they're losing the time war.
And they do something terrible
to try to survive.
You die with me, Doctor.
I know.
Gallifrey's coming back and it's just
going to mean the end for pretty much everything.
Get out of the way.
You did this to me!
The master finally teams up with the Doctor.
Not because
he decided that they're friends,
but because "the enemy of my enemy
is my enemy."
The master, who has always hated the Doctor,
turns out, is going to be a good guy this time
and send Gallifrey back to the time loop
and that was a beautiful moment.
Not a bubble, a plughole. The Universe
is a plughole and we've just fallen down it.
This planet is mean,
he's a bastard.
You should be dead.
You're going into that black hole and I'm riding with you.
The destinations
that you go to in "Doctor Who" are always really surprising.
They kind of open out to reveal
something completely different.
You never quite know the reality of the destination.
Krop Tor is a planet that is
in a stable orbit around a black hole,
which is impossible,
so it's called The Impossible Planet.
The Doctor and Rose arrive and he's confused
about how it could possibly be so stable.
We can't be.
My favorite thing about the Doctor
is always that he's a scientist first.
But I like that he is presented with a situation
that he can't explain scientifically
because that's always what compels him.
That's a black hole.
But that's impossible.
I did warn you.
We're standing under a black hole.
In orbit. We can't be.
You can see for yourself, we're in orbit.
But we can't be.
This lump of rock is suspended
in perpetual geostationary orbit
around that black hole,
without falling in --
discuss.
And that's bad, yeah?
"Bad" doesn't cover it.
A black hole's a dead star.
You wonder what a black hole actually looks like.
There's many theories. I thought that was
a very well-visioned image of what we imagine
a black hole to be like,
this object which is just
far beyond our knowledge of physics.
So, they can't be in orbit.
We should be pulled right in.
We should be dead.
And yet, here we are,
beyond the laws of physics.
Welcome onboard.
Krop Tor turns out to be a prison for Satan,
which is the first remotely spiritual thing
the "Doctor Who" series has ever brought up.
That's why I love British shows,
because they are not afraid to throw in a little Satan.
Everyone needs a little Satan.
I've seen fake Gods
and bad Gods
and demigods and would-be Gods.
And out of all that,
out of that whole pantheon,
if I believe in one thing,
just one thing,
I believe in her.
With the Doctor,
he's pretty much seen everything,
so the worst thing that human beings
can imagine, which is just
this incarnation of the devil,
is really just another alien to him,
that he's got to sort out.
That's why the Doctor's kind of like your dad,
in a way, like "Ah, I'll hold your hand.
I'll make sure there's no devil under your bed."
You know, he makes everything okay.
This is your freedom!
Free to die!
You're going into that black hole,
and I'm riding with you.
The devil is almost like the ultimate.
It doesn't get more evil or more scary
or unpredictable as the devil.
Seeing the Doctor, David Tennant,
fighting the devil,
you know, is worthy of any Bible story.
The Trash Planet is this really weird planet
that they end up that's essentially like
it feels like a garbage dump, sort of,
at the end of the Universe.
Basically, everything that you ever wash in your sink
all sunk down into this drain
that doesn't have a garbage disposal.
It's just sitting there,
waiting to collect dust and mold.
The Trash Planet, I think, is probably
what Gallifrey would've looked like
without the use of the TARDIS,
which, of course, is everyone's
multitool closet.
What is this place,
the scrapyard at the end of the Universe?
Not end of, outside of.
How can we be outside the Universe?
The Universe is everything.
Imagine a great, big soap bubble with one
of those tiny, little bubbles on the outside.
Okay.
Well, it's nothing like that.
Completely drained. Look at her.
Wait, so we're in a tiny- bubble universe sticking
to the side of the bigger-bubble universe?
Yes. No! But, if it helps, yes.
This place is full of rift energy.
She'll probably refuel just by being here.
Now, this place -- what do we think, eh?
Gravity's almost earth-normal.
Air's breathable.
But it smells, like... Armpits.
What about all this stuff? Where did this come from?
Well, there's a rift -- now and then,
stuff gets sucked through it. Not a bubble, a plughole.
The Universe is a plughole and we've just fallen down it.
It's a soap bubble on a soap bubble
or it's a drainplug or...Who knows?
It's one of those things that you're like
"the Universe is infinite!
But what's outside of the universe?"
Did Stephen Hawking write "Doctor Who"?
Because, at this point, it kind of feels like he did.
The idea of this plughole
where all the junk, you know,
it goes down the plughole and it's all there
and this planet, it's a really good idea,
I just didn't understand it.
This planet isn't actually a planet,
it's actually a living organism
kind of like a sea urchin:
It's got a hard shell on the outside
and it's all squooshy ooshy on the inside.
And it's also a dick.
This planet is mean, he's a bastard.
You haven't answered my question, children.
Uh -- question?
You remember.
Tell me why I shouldn't just kill you both now.
Well, because --
Rory, why?
Because...
killing us quickly wouldn't be any fun.
And you need fun,
don't you?
That's what auntie and uncle were for,
wasn't it? Someone to make suffer.
I had a P.E. teacher just like you.
You need to be entertained
and killing us quickly
wouldn't be entertainment.
So entertain me.
Run.
And the trash planet's consciousness is called House,
which, it didn't sound anything like Hugh Laurie,
so that confused me.
At first, he claims to be helpful, but, really,
"you're on a planet of trash."
You're like "I don't think this is going to be
a very good place for him."
And then slowly, it's like "I knew it,
"this trash planet is not kind.
Let that be a warning."
It's almost like you're watching
the United Nations of the Universe.
Ha!
Never said that before. That's fab.
Welcome to my new empire,
Doctor.
Not really that great to talk to,
but a master planner.
The amazing thing about the destinations in "Doctor Who"
is that he is traveling through time
and he's traveling through space.
So he could travel a million light years away
and discover this amazing alien world
or he could travel to the exact same place on earth that he was
and that would be totally different.
I've always that, you know, that science fiction
is mostly about going out into space and, yet,
there's so much we don't know about what's under,
you know, beneath our feet.
So I think most of us have wondered, at some point,
whether there might not be an entire advanced civilization
of lizard people living under the Earth.
We're looking for a small,
tribal settlement, probably housing
around a dozen homo reptilia.
Maybe less.
One small tribe?
Yeah.
Maybe a dozen?
There's a whole underground colony
full of Silurians and it just
surprises the hell out of the Doctor.
Ah.
Maybe more than a dozen.
Maybe more like an entire civilization
living beneath the Earth.
I love the Silurians because there's
a lot of credibility to their existence
and their being and where they could've come from
and the idea that, a long time ago,
there was a race of reptiles that, you know,
roamed this planet.
They feel that they have claim to planet Earth,
more so than the human race
because they were here much, much earlier,
in prehistoric times.
And there's this one moment where he just
sets the Silurians down in front of Amy
and sort of a delegation of people
and he's like "all right, well, work it out.
You need to work out how to share the planet together."
The future pivots around you,
here, now.
So do good.
For humanity.
And for Earth.
Right.
No pressure there, then!
We can't share the planet!
Nobody on the surface is going to
go for this idea, it is just too big a leap.
Come on,
be extraordinary.
Oh, you --
hmm.
Okay.
Bringing things to order --
the first meeting of representatives
of the human race and homo reptilia
is now in session.
Ha!
Never said that before. That's fab.
Carry on.
It's almost like he works
at the United Nations of the Universe.
I mean, if you're going purely by squatter's rights,
the Silurians have us beat,
so, you know, it's just figuring out ways
for them to coexist.
Can we share it? Can we not?
And, obviously, the right answer is "yes, we can share it,
but it's going to take time."
My priority is my race's survival.
The Earth isn't ready for us to return yet.
No.
10 minutes, Doctor.
But maybe it should be. So here's a deal.
Everybody, listening.
Eldane, you activate shutdown.
I'll amend the system.
Set your alarm for 1,000 years' time.
1,000 years, to sort the planet out,
to be ready.
Pass it on, as legend or prophecy
or religion,
but, somehow, make it known --
this planet is to be shared.
Yeah, I get you.
That was the weirdest part, where the Doctor's like
"you know what? Just wait 1,000 years."
They're like "good, good, yes, 1,000, that'll be fine."
Makes you think,
in the Doctor's universe and life,
"1,000 years? That's a blink.
Yeah, I can live with that. We can work with that."
That's politics.
The nebula is a collection of 27 planets
that, when they're in alignment with each other,
gravitational forces and whatever else
creates the right circumstances
to make a reality bomb which Davros will use
to destroy everything.
That's typical Dalek fashion:
"If we can't have it, no one can."
The Daleks are all about thinking big,
especially when they have Davros kind of pulling the strings.
I'm not sure of his motivation for this
because he won't know he's succeeded
because he'll be dead.
Oh, my God!
Look at the sky.
Oh.
That's impossible.
That's just impossible.
It can't be.
Right, now we're in trouble.
It's only just beginning.
The Dalek Nebula, the idea of stealing planets,
that sort of ties back to an old "Doctor Who" story
called "The Pirate Planet" by Douglas Adams,
who wrote "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
and the idea that a man was stealing planets, this captain.
And, again, what's good about "Doctor Who" is
it doesn't forget its past and it brings back,
you know, old enemies or old ideas.
"Doctor Who's" always full of rumors
and assumptions and predictions,
but when you hear that, down the line,
Davros might be returning, you think
"Oh, I hope that's true. I hope that's true"
and, wow, yes, he gloriously came back.
Davros is a classic "Who" villain.
He's been around since the early days
of "Doctor Who" and he is
the person who actually invented the Daleks.
And you can see there's this moment
when David Tennant, who's normally
fairly unflappable, suddenly realizes
that Davros is back and you can see in his eyes
what a disaster that means for the entire Universe.
Your voice is different
and, yet,
its arrogance is unchanged.
No.
But he's dead.
Welcome to my new empire,
Doctor.
It is only fitting
that you should bear witness
to the resurrection and the triumph
of Davros,
lord and creator of the Dalek race.
Doctor?
Have you nothing to say?
He's very good at carrying out a plan, that Davros.
Not superfun to hang out with,
not really that great to talk to,
but a master planner.
Darth Vadar and his like might just have
one Death Star,
but, in order to be better-prepared,
the Daleks will arrange a galaxyful.
But, of course,
the Doctor will always find a way just to undercut that
and he'll find the way to let it all unravel
like a big piece of knitting.
You're a housemate.
You're in the house.
Take all of television's worst TV shows
and then make them deadly.
Rose is like
"Sorry, I pick you.
"That's how the game works.
Oh, wait. I just killed you."
I would characterize the destinations as limitless,
unlimited by the flights of the imagination
of the writers,
and, as the time's gone on,
their imaginations just seem to get broader.
Another amazing destination that the Doctor
takes Rose to is Satellite Five,
which is this new station that's run by this evil editor.
I loved Satellite Five because it was "Doctor Who"
at its satirical best.
It turns out the editor of Satellite Five
is Simon Pegg and you see Simon Pegg show up
and you're like "okay, everything's going to be okay.
"It's Simon Pegg. Nothing can be wrong. He can't be a villain."
Turns out he's the worst kind of villain:
He's a businessman.
This is not
the fourth great and bountiful human empire.
In fact, it's not actually human at all,
it's merely a place where humans happen to live.
Yeah.
Sorry.
It's a place where humans are allowed to live
by kind permission of my client.
And,. As they get further and further
into the upper echelons of who's controlling
the news, it is obviously
this horrible creature
that's essentially all mouth,
as far as I can tell.
You mean that thing's in charge of Satellite Five?
That "thing," as you put it,
is in charge of the human race.
For almost a hundred years,
mankind has been shaped and guided,
his knowledge and ambition
strictly controlled by its broadcast news,
edited by my superior,
your master,
and humanity's guiding light --
the mighty Jagrafess
of the holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe.
I call him "Max."
And Simon Pegg reports to the Jagrafess,
which is just a mouth on a ceiling,
and he calls him "Max."
You can't give a horrible monster
a cute nickname like "Max."
Max is a cool name.
The next time that they visit Satellite Five,
of course, it's game shows that they're dealing with
and not a news organization, but, in some ways,
that's even more insidious.
What's your name, then, sweetheart?
The Doctor, I think. I was, uh --
I don't know. What happened?
You got chosen.
Chosen for what?
You're a housemate. You're in the house.
Christopher Eccleston suddenly appears
in this brightly colored room which is really confusing.
And he's suddenly in "Big Brother"
and he's taking part in a game show.
Of course!
Doctor Who would be a great roommate because
he, in one episode, kills the devil.
How would you not want that guy
on your side at a bar,
helping you flirt/ killing the devil?
You are live on channel 44000.
Please do not swear.
You have got to be kidding.
Satellite Five was basically what happens
when you take all of television's worst TV shows
and then make them deadly.
My favorite bit is "The Weakest Link,"
where Anne Robinson is actually a robot
and she has the power to destroy.
Why Fitch?
Uh --
I think she got a few of the questions wrong,
that's all.
And you'd know all about that.
Well, yeah, but I can't vote for myself,
so it had to be Fitch.
I'm sorry. That's the game.
That's how it works. I had to vote for someone.
Let me try again -- it was the lights
and everything -- I couldn't think.
It's very much a reflection
on the media and television.
We were obsessed by reality TV,
it was getting nastier and nastier,
and, you know, the next step on will be
they will be killing people.
Oh, God, help me!
Fitch,
you are The Weakest Link.
Goodbye.
♪
And we've gone to the adverts.
Back in three minutes!
It was really quite something
because Rose is like "sorry, I pick you.
"That's how the game works.
Oh, wait. I just killed you."
And, of course, behind all of that was
that the Daleks were controlling humans
and, ultimately, the Earth, through Satellite Five.
I think most of the television output feels, at the moment,
that it was probably invented by the Daleks.
We're being controlled, people.
Questions need to be asked.
And, by the way,
the death game shows, of course they'll happen.
Of course it'll happen.
Probably within a decade, I would say
death game shows.
Maybe that could be the next iteration of the Kardashians.
Now, that one, I would watch.
The amazing thing about the destinations
in "Doctor Who" is that the opportunities here
are really endless, for what can happen.
Are...right.
The destinations are great because it could be
another planet,
it could be another dimension.
This must be biographies!
The fact that the Doctor can almost be in any situation
and it not be weird, strange, or unbelievable, it kind of says
why the show's so fantastic and it's run for so long.
Burning, falling. All of it falling!
Well, that's the whole point
of watching "Doctor Who," is getting to see
all the different planets he gets to travel through.
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