Planet Gallifrey

Tuesday, July 3

Other - Series 2

Jathaa sunglider
A weapon reverse-engineered from a ship called the "Jathaa sunglider" is first seen in The Christmas Invasion, where it is a powerful beam weapon used to wipe out a Sycorax ship. Its later discovered in the episode Army of Ghosts, that Torchwood One shot down the sunglider.


A scaled down version of the same weapon is seen in The Poison Sky aboard UNIT's aircraft carrier the Valiant. It was used to attack a Sontaran stronghold.

Koh-i-Noor Diamond
This famous diamond was designed to be part of a telescopic device designed to focus a beam of moonlight to trap and eventually destroy the physical form of a werewolf in Tooth and Claw.


Deadlock seal
Introduced in School Reunion, a deadlock seal is a type of locking mechanism that stops all sonic devices from opening. Since then, deadlock seals are often used as a plot device to prevent the Doctor from using his sonic screwdriver as an easy escape. The TARDIS itself can also be deadlocked, preventing even those with keys from entering; it does not, however, prevent the sonic screwdriver from interfering with the ship itself.


Ice Gun

A fire extinguisher used to immobilise the Clockwork Droids in The Girl in the Fireplace. The name "ice gun" was suggested by Mickey, and the Doctor called it a fire extinguisher.


A Power Cell
A small and insignificent part of the TARDIS which continues to glow when the rest of the ship 'dies' after crashing into a parallel world. The Doctor gives up ten years of his life in order to charge up the cell so it can reboot the TARDIS.
As well as this, the cell is used as a surprisingly powerful weapon against the Cybermen, causing them to disintergrate. However, this power can only be used once, as the cell has to recharge.

Glasses

Basically, a pair of 3-D glasses. The different colour lenses are used by The Doctor to examine the void ship, the Daleks, and the "ghosts" in the episodes Army of Ghosts/Doomsday. They can detect the radiation or 'void stuff' given off by anything that has crossed between dimensions.


Magna clamp
These clamps negate the weight of the things they are attached to, allowing a single person to easily lift something weighing several tonnes. In Doomsday the Doctor and Rose use these clamps to attach themselves to the walls of Torchwood to prevent themselves from being sucked into the Void.

Genesis Ark
Originally created by the Time Lords, the Genesis Ark is a Dalek-shaped prison ship that contains millions of captured Daleks. Like the TARDIS, it is bigger on the inside, yet is only large enough to release one Dalek at a time.

Monday, July 2

The Unquiet Dead

Episode Location: Earth, Cardiff 1869
Aliens/Enemies: The Gelth
New Characters: Charles Dickens, Gwyneth, Sneed
Gadgets Used: None
Episode Objective: To discover what is making dead people walk, try and help the Gelth, and stop the Gelth when they become evil.


Bullet-Point Plot
  • Sneed owns a morgue
  • Gwyneth works there
  • His corpses sometimes go a-walking...
  • The Doctor tries to take Rose to Napals in 1860
  • They arrive in Cardiff 1869
  • Rose is disappointed...
  • Charles Dickens is going on stage
  • He's very depressed
  • And believes his life is now pointless...
  • He sees an audience member glowing blue
  • It is one of Sneed's corpses...
  • The Doctor and Rose arrive
  • The Doctor questions Dickens
  • Sneed and Gwyneth take the corpse
  • Rose chases after them...
  • The strange blue ghost disappears into the gas lights
  • Rose is chloroformed by Sneed...
  • When she wakes up, she is in the morgue
  • Two corpses approach her threateningly
  • The Doctor turns up and confronts the corpses...
  • They tell him they are failing and ask for help
  • They turn into gas and disappear into the lighting...
  • Gwyneth and Rose get all chummy.
  • Gwyneth has a slight psychic tendency
  • Almost a 'second sight' due to being brought up on the rift...
  • They hold a séance
  • The blue ghosts reveal themselves to be The Gelth
  • Their home and bodies were destroyed in the Time War
  • They ask for help...
  • They describe how Gwyneth can be used to open the rift
  • And how they can use the corpses as new bodies...
  • Rose is against it
  • The Doctor is for it
  • Rose is against it again
  • Gwyneth is for it
  • Dickens doesn't believe any of it...
  • It is discovered that the Gelth were lying
  • They were planning to take over the bodies of Earth
  • Dickens realizes the gas can be used to stop the Gelth
  • He turns up all of the gas lamps
  • The Gelth are sucked back into the houses gas system...
  • The Doctor realizes Gwyneth is already dead
  • Gwyneth takes a match and blows up the house...
  • Dickens now has a new faith in life
  • He laughs merrily as the TARDIS vanishes...
Best Bits
- The Doctor and Dickens' conversation
- The final appearance of the Gelth
- The fact that Dickens is happy at the end
- Rose's rant, slapping Sneed, and the Doctor grinning in the background

Favorite Quotes
The Doctor: Go out there dressed like that, you'll start a riot... There's a wardrobe through there. First left, second right, third room on the left, go straight ahead, under the stairs, past the bins, fifth door on your left. Hurry up!
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The Doctor: I'm the Doctor, by the way.
Charles Dickens
: A Doctor? You look more like a navvy.
The Doctor
: [exasperated] What's wrong with this jumper?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doctor
: Honestly, Charles. Er, can I call you Charles? I'm such a big fan.
Dickens
: Er.. your a... what? Big what?
The Doctor
: Fan. Number one fan, that's me.
Dickens
: How exactly are you a fan? In what way do you resemble the means of keeping oneself cool?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gelth: The Time War. The whole universe convulsed. The Time War raged, invisible to smaller species but devastating to higher forms. Our bodies wasted away.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doctor: Nothing is safe, remember that. Nothing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doctor: I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon... [makes a face] in Cardiff!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doctor
: I'm so glad I met you.
Rose
: Me too.

The End of The World

Episode Location: Platform One, the year five-billion
Aliens/Enemies: Lady Cassandra, Spider-robots
New Characters: Jabe, The Blue Steward
, The Face of Boe
Gadgets used: Psychic Paper
Episode Objective: To witness the end of the world, save Rose, raise Platform One's shields, and find out who is behind the attempted massacre.

Bullet-point Plot
  • The Doctor takes Rose to the end of Earth.
  • They appear on Platform One
  • The Doctor gets them in using the Psychic Paper...
  • Rich aliens arrive
  • Including Jabe, a tree
  • And Lady Cassandra
  • Shes the 'last human'
  • She gives everyone little metal orbs...
  • It's too much for Rose
  • She leaves the room...
  • The metal orbs turn out to be spider-robots
  • They scuttle into the ships ventilation
  • And ruthlessly kill The Steward...
  • The Doctor finds Rose
  • Rose demands to know who he really is
  • He avoids telling her...
  • The Doctor fixes Rose's phone
  • She calls her mum
  • They discover that the Steward has been murdered...
  • The Doctor questions Jabe
  • They go to find the engine room...
  • Rose stays behind to talk to Lady Cassandra
  • They argue and Rose stalks off in a huff
  • She is knocked out and trapped in a room...
  • The sun-glass protecting her room from the sun begins to lower
  • This causes blisteringly hot light to cipher into the room...
  • The Doctor manages to override the controls
  • Stopping Rose from being fried
  • Yet he is unable to free her from the room...
  • The Doctor and Jabe rush to the engine room again
  • All the sun-glass begins to lower all over the ship
  • Jabe sacrifices herself to try and help
  • The Doctor fixes the main controls...
  • The Doctor unmasks Lady Cassandra as the culprit
  • She teleports away
  • The Doctor brings her back
  • She explodes due to lack of moisterisation....
  • The Doctor explains how he is the only Time Lord
  • Asks Rose if she still wants to travel with him
  • Rose replies that she wants chips
  • So they go and have chips...
Best Bits
- Meeting the aliens on board Platform One.
- The conversation between The Doctor and Rose about who he is.
- The bit with the giant fans.
- Lady Cassandra's death.

Favorite Quotes
Announcement: Guests are reminded that Platform One strictly prohibits the use of weapons, teleportation and religion.
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The Doctor: This is the year 5.5/apple/26... five billion years in your future, and this is the day, hold on... This is the day the sun expands. [Grins] Welcome to the end of the world..
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The Doctor: The great and the good are gathering to watch the planet burn.
Rose
: What for?
The Doctor
: Fun. Mind you, when I said "the great and the good," what I mean is the rich.
~~~~~~~~~~
Rose
: They're just so... alien [The Doctor looks at her blankly] The aliens... are so alien. You look at them... and they're alien.
The Doctor
: Good thing I didn't take you to the Deep South.
~~~~~~~~~~
The Doctor
: Where's the engine room?
Jabe
: I don't know. But the maintenance duct is just behind our guest suite, I could show you...? [She glances at Rose] and your wife.
The Doctor
: She's not my wife.
Jabe
: Partner?
The Doctor
: Nope.
Jabe
: ...Concubine?
The Doctor
: Nope.
Jabe: ...Prostitute...?
~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doctor
: The door's jammed.. stay there!
Rose
: Where am I going to go, Ipswich?
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The Doctor: Everything has its time and everything dies.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doctor
: I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left traveling on my own, 'cause there's no one else.
Rose
: There's me.

Rose

Episode Location: Earth, London 2005
Aliens/Enemies: Autons or 'living plastic', The Nestene Consciousness.
New Characters: The Doctor, Rose, Mickey, Jackie, Clive.
Gadgets Used: Anti-Plastic, The TARDIS' tracking devise.
Episode Objective: To stop the Nestene Consciousness from taking over Earth with its ability to take control of all plastic and make it 'living'.

Bullet-point Plot
  • Rose Tyler in a shop
  • Evil shop window dummies attack
  • The Doctor saves her...
  • Dummies are 'living plastic'
  • They want to destroy the world
  • The Doctor is going to destroy them....
  • Rose talks to Clive, a man from the internet
  • Mickey is eaten by a bin
  • and replaced by a plastic look-a-like...
  • Plastic Mickey questions Rose
  • He threatens her
  • The Doctor turns up and pulls his head off...
  • The headless Mickey begins chasing The Doctor and Rose
  • Whereupon they hide in the TARDIS...
  • Rose is disturbed at the spaceship
  • And confused when it transports them to the center of London...
  • The London-eye is being used as a giant transmitter
  • Something is underneath controlling the plastic
  • A.k.a The Nestene Consciousness
  • It wishes to rule Earth and eat its pollution...
  • The real Mickey is found
  • The Doctor tells the Consciousness to get lost.
  • It finds The Doctor's anti-plastic he was going to use in an emergency.
  • It finds The Doctor's TARDIS and is pissed off...
  • The Doctor is grabbed by plastic guards.
  • The transmitter goes haywire
  • Shop dummies begin roaming the streets shooting people.
  • Rose saves The Doctor
  • The Nestene Consciousness is destroyed
  • Rose decides to travel with The Doctor

Best Bits
- In the lift
- The Doctor's sarcasm
- Eaten by a bin
- 'Fantastic!'

Favorite Quotes
The Doctor: I'm The Doctor, by the way. What's your name?
Rose: Rose.
The Doctor
: Nice to meet you, Rose. [holds up a bomb] Run for your life!
~~~~~~~~~~~

The Doctor: [At a magazine] That won't last; he's gay and she's an alien.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Rose
: Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off!
The Doctor
: Yes I can! Here I am, this is me, swanning off. See ya!
~~~~~~~~~~~
Clive
: The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes he's there, and he has only one constant companion.
Rose
: Who's that?
Clive
: Death.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Rose
: If you're an alien, then how comes you sound like you're from the North?
The Doctor
: Lots of planets have a North!
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The Doctor
: Think of it, plastic, all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables...
Rose
: The breast implants.
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The Doctor: If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of Warp Shunt technology. So, may I suggest with the greatest respect that you shunt off.

Sunday, July 1

Mobile Phones


The Mobile Phones are used by The Doctor's companions, Rose and Martha throughout the new series. This common item has often helped character communication in order to prevent huge end-of-world disaters. But these are not just ordinary phones, they are also equipped with a special devise...

It was first introduced through compnaion Rose in the episode End of the World. where The Doctor modifies Rose's phone with a special device that goes in place of the battery.
Martha Jones also is granted this special privaledge in the episode 42. Here, The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to upgrade her phone and give it 'Universal Roaming'.







Features
  • Calls can be made to any point in time and space as long as the area code in known.
  • It also calibrates to the user's home time period. Adam Mitchell in The Long Game is able to call his home time on Rose Tyler's phone, despite their time periods being about a decade apart.
  • The upgraded phones can send signals in places ordinary phones cannot.
  • The universal roaming doesn't seem to work when the TARDIS is out of range, suggesting the signal is aquired through the time machine.
Arch Angel Network
Introduced through Martha's phone, and becomes a vocal point of the final episodes of series 3, it is a worldwide phone network set up through fifteen satellites stationed arounf the Earth.

These satellites create a low-level, worldwide telepathic field which allows influence over the behavior of the entire planet. This is shown when the British public is persuaded to vote for
The Master for prime minister, and also used by The Master in order to keep the entire human race afraid of him. It also masks The Masters his Time Lord nature from the Doctor, so he does not sense him.

This extreme power is later backfired on The Master however, when The Doctor is able to use the network against him. After Martha travels the world and convinses every person to say The Doctor's name at an exact point in time, The Doctor is able to channel the combined psychic energy of the entire human race, and rejuvanate himself.