Doctor Who

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[ajr]

2. No. It's obviously the reset button device for the next episode.

4. I think they just did that as a way of saying "Look! Rose is back!" to the Doctor, rather than to actually *mean* anything.

6. There's a forcefield keeping in air and heat. So, the latter, I'd say.

7. It's not like things from real life have never been used in fiction before. The worst I can say is that if/when we eventually find out what's happening with bees, it'll date the episode really badly.

8. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[e_pepys]

Although it was rather disappointing to see the Shadow Proclamation as one woman and a few rhinos, I don't think the name is unreasonable. If there were a proclamation, one would expect an enforcement body. It often happens that an organisation is metonymically called after the treaty that sets it up (though I can't think of any good examples right now: maybe "Bretton Woods" referring to the IMF and World Bank).

So, when the Doctor has invoked the Shadow Proclamation, he was referring to the text. This time he visited the organisation that enforces it.

There are far worse things to complain about in this episode, like what they did to Harriet Jones.

[celestialweasel]

Warsaw Pact.

[e_pepys]

Zactly, a much better example.

[celestialweasel]

When UNIT, Toshwood, Sarah Jane and Harriet Jones were brought together I was reminded of the episode of Futurama where Al Gore's team to defend the fabric of the space time continuum was brought together ;- Gary Gygax, Nichelle Nichols, Stephen Hawking and the IBM chess computer (deep blue?).