"The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle."
Episode 165: The Long Game.
Companions: 9th Doctor and Rose Tyler.
Air Date: 7th May 2005.
New companion of the Ninth Doctor, Adam Mitchell, takes his first trip in the TARDIS. The ship materialises in Satellite 5, a space station that broadcasts across the entire Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. However, the Empire's attidude and technology is backwards, those who are promoted to Floor 500 simply disappear, humanity is possibly being manipulated by the news, and who exactly is the sinister Editor's employer?
At the end of the previous adventure the Doctor and Rose pick up Adam Mitchell, a former worker at the facility where they encountered the Dalek. On his first and only trip in the TARDIS they come to the far future where mankind seems enslaved by the media. Hundreds of channels beaming news out from all around the human empire.
In the story Adam tries to be naughty and bring back future knowledge so that he can profit from it in the 21st century. Surprised that no one else has tried that to be honest, but the Doctor does overreact and feels somewhat out of character in the way that he handles it though it is probably in keeping with the current personna.
Bad Wolf is referenced this time in the form of the Bad Wolf news channel.
The problem with this story is that it is part filler where nothing really happens and exists just to set up the story at the end of this first season. As such I find it all rather dissapointing.
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