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==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
The Doctor takes Rose on her first voyage through time, to the year five billion. | [[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]] takes [[Rose Tyler]] on her first voyage through time, to the year [[5,000,000,000|five billion]]. The Sun is about to expand and swallow the Earth. But amongst the alien races gathering to watch on [[Platform One]], a murderer is at work. Who is controlling the mysterious and deadly [[Metal spider|Spiders]]? | ||
==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
The Doctor asks Rose where she would like to go on her first trip in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. She asks to go one hundred years into the future, but when they arrive, the Doctor states that the [[22nd century]] is boring. They travel again, this time to 12,005 at the time of the [[New Roman Empire]]. Again, they move on without leaving the TARDIS. The Doctor then takes to a [[Platform One|space station]] orbiting the [[Earth]] in the year [[5.5/Apple/26]] - the day the sun expands. | The Doctor asks Rose where she would like to go on her first trip in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. She asks to go one hundred years into the future, but when they arrive, the Doctor states that the [[22nd century]] is boring. They travel again, this time to 12,005 at the time of the [[New Roman Empire]]. Again, they move on without leaving the TARDIS. The Doctor then takes to a [[Platform One|space station]] orbiting the [[Earth]] in the year [[5.5/Apple/26]] - the day the sun expands. | ||
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==Continuity== | ==Continuity== | ||
*Rose asks why all of the [[alien]]s seem to speak [[English]], the first companion to do so since Sarah Jane Smith. Given his reaction, Rose is also the only one to question why he didn't ask permission first. [[Donna Noble]] also asked the Doctor and tried speaking Latin ([[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]''). In the classic series, [[Sarah Jane Smith]] asked the Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]''), but while being possessed. It was this that alerted the Doctor that she was possessed. | *Rose asks why all of the [[alien]]s seem to speak [[English]], the first companion to do so since Sarah Jane Smith. Given his reaction, Rose is also the only one to question why he didn't ask permission first. [[Donna Noble]] also asked the Doctor and tried speaking Latin ([[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]''). In the classic series, [[Sarah Jane Smith]] asked the Doctor ([[DW]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]''), but while being possessed. It was this that alerted the Doctor that she was possessed. | ||
*The Doctor implies he was on the ''Titanic'', a connection previously implied in [[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''. In the classic series there was a | *The Doctor implies he was on the ''Titanic'', a connection previously implied in [[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''. In the classic series there was a reference in ''[[The Invasion of Time]]''. | ||
*It has been commented upon that the Doctor shows a darker side by leaving Cassandra to die, a scene very reminiscent of the scene with [[Davros]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', even down to use of the phrase "Have pity". | *It has been commented upon that the Doctor shows a darker side by leaving Cassandra to die, a scene very reminiscent of the scene with [[Davros]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', even down to use of the phrase "Have pity". | ||
*Cassandra returns in [[DW]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]''. | *Cassandra returns in [[DW]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]''. | ||
*The Face of Boe returns in [[DW]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Gridlock]]''. The Doctor later speculates that the Face of Boe may be the future form of [[Jack Harkness]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') | *The Face of Boe returns in [[DW]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Gridlock]]''. The Doctor later speculates that the Face of Boe may be the future form of [[Jack Harkness]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') | ||
*The Earth's end was last seen when the planet was trailing smoke as it headed towards the Sun at the close of episode two of [[DW]]: ''[[The Ark]]'', during the 57th [[Segment of Time|segment of Time]]. The last Humans left on Earth had evacuated the planet because of the increasing danger that it would fall into the sun, fleeing to planets such as [[Refusis II]] and [[Frontios]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ark]]'', ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]''). | *The Earth's end was last seen when the planet was trailing smoke as it headed towards the Sun at the close of episode two of [[DW]]: ''[[The Ark]]'', during the 57th [[Segment of Time|segment of Time]]. The last Humans left on Earth had evacuated the planet because of the increasing danger that it would fall into the sun, fleeing to planets such as [[Refusis II]] and [[Frontios]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ark]]'', ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]''). | ||
*The Doctor upgrades Rose's phone into the [[Superphone]]. He later does this to Martha Jones and Donna Noble in [[DW]]: ''[[42]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]''. | *The Doctor upgrades Rose's phone into the [[Superphone]]. He later does this to Martha Jones and Donna Noble in [[DW]]: ''[[42]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]''. | ||
