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Rose expresses a wish to visit the future, and the Doctor cheerfully obliges... but scorns her idea of a mere hundred years in the future in favour of five ''billion'' years. Nothing succeeds like excess!
It's the year 5.5/Apple/26 when the Doctor and Rose materialise aboard Platform One, a cruciform space station orbiting a dying star. The star is, in fact, our sun; and in a few minutes, it will finally expand and consume the Earth. This is considered high entertainment in the future -- [[Snuff Film]] writ
The Doctor seems well at ease in this company, but Rose is completely at sea. She wanders off and has a few second thoughts about this adventure business, as she realises that she is five billion years in the future in the company of a manic alien.
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The station's overheating badly what with all the sun filters being down, and when the Doctor tries to raise them, he finds that the power's gone out. Fortunately, there's a redundant power generator on one end of a [[Death Course]]. Unfortunately, someone needs to hold down the Death Course-deactivating switch in order for someone else to have a fighting chance. Fortunately, Jabe's around! Unfortunately, she's made of wood, so she catches fire and dies, and the Death Course is reactivated. Fortunately, the Doctor's a Time Lord, so with enough effort, he can walk through the remaining few whirling blades of death and hit the big red button!
Space station saved, the Doctor and Rose go out for chips. The Doctor confides that [[Wham! Line|his home planet is destroyed]], and that he's the [[Last of His Kind]]. So that's why he's been a bit moody recently. Unfortunately, it'll take another ''six years'' before we find out [[Doctor Who
* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]: Lady Cassandra--''and how''.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: This brief announcement at the beginning.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: This is the first example in the new series that shows the Doctor is not a man you want to be on the bad side of.
* [[
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Jabe retrieves one of the "peace" drones by extending a vine, then apologizes--"I'm not supposed to show them in public."
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The Doctor makes reference to being on the ''Titanic'', which was established last episode.
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* [[Future Imperfect]]: A jukebox is called an iPod, and an ostrich is pretty much called a dragon.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Jabe
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* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]: "Whatever I am, it must be invisible."
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* [[Nice to
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Lady Cassandra
* [[Plant Aliens]]: "Representing the Forest of Cheem, we have...trees." Jabe is a direct descendant of the Tropical Rainforest.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Not being familiar with running a sci-fi series, Russell T. Davies spent a quite disproportionate amount of the series one budget on this episode. All the money is right up on screen, but later episodes did suffer a bit for it. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|But it did help win over legions of both new and old fans]]
* [[Sci
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: "Toxic"
** "Baby, can't you see? I'm calling / ''a guy like you Should wear a warning'' / It's dangerous, I'm fallin'" doesn't fit the scene?
* [[Stock Episode Titles]]: 31 uses
* [[Suspiciously Apropos Music]]: Rose is handling her first trip into space and the future quite
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I've got to
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* [[Trojan Horse]]: the metal "peace" gifts; the ostrich egg.
* [[The X of Y]]
* [[Wham! Line]]: The Doctor is the last of his WHAT?!?
* [[Who Needs Their Whole Body?]]: Certainly not Cassandra.
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