This episode is starting out sort of sad. Rose has been gone from home for 12 months because she's been time traveling. I can't help but wonder why they can't just time travel back to an earlier time to fix it? I suppose Dr Who would say it's because time isn't linear, and events in the future could affect events in the past, but that's generally thought to be a scifi cop out. At least it is to me. Dr Who seems very perky to see mayhem. I wonder why it follows him around time and space?
Apparently Dr Who is 900 years old.
The aliens are in London in early 2000s. This show gets to accomplish a lot of scifi cliches. It can travel to the future to see new technology on earth, or on different worlds, bring the aliens to earth in the present and watch panic ensue, even travel back in time and meddle with history. It's very diverse! But I can't help thinking that this show would meet even Steven Johnson's criteria for trash television. No complex plots or character networks...
The military seems concerned with risk of contamination through space germs.
Good god, doors never open for anybody in this show!
I'm beginning to suspect that this episode will in fact end with them going back in time so all this never happened. Things are getting bad. Or maybe... it will turn out ok implausibly.
To be continued! I haven't seen that in a while.
I started looking through wikipedia to try to understand why this show is so popular. There appears to be a Time Lord that makes rules for travel in space and time, which could explain why they can't just go back in time for this. I obviously don't understand the rules yet, and I have no idea, save for wikipedia, where to find out. I remember when I first started watching Star Trek I didn't like it much, but it grew on me. I'm hoping this grows on me before the novelty wears off. Also, I haven't yet found any social network of Dr Who fans, which is disappointing. Although the farting and the kitchen chemistry with vinegar was hilarious.
Sort of a troublesome relationship Rose and the Doctor have. I should watch different episodes to see who else is in this series.
And it turns out to be the implausible resolution! A virus to remove all mention of the Doctor from the internet, the human race fools itself into thinking it was all a hoax, etc etc.
PS: I looked around a bit for where the fans are, and so far I've discovered http://dwasonline.barryrward.co.uk/index.php which is the first BBC recognised fan club, and
http://members.cox.net/tardisaz/tardis.html which is a local to AZ fan club. I emailed them, because they meet every 2 weeks, and I thought I should check that out. I decided to call myself a "Doctor Who" fan instead of a "Dr Who" fan in the email. That's how both the websites spell it. So far, I don't see online message boards or anything. There must be some somewhere.
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