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{{quote|''"He pulls a gun out of his ass and shoots them. [[[Beat]]] [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer|No, really]], he pulls'' a gun ''out of'' his ass ''and'' shoots them. ''I so wish [[Moral Guardians|Mary Whitehouse]] was still alive to see this; her head would pop off, spin around three times and land upside-down again."''|'''[[SF Debris]]'''}}
{{quote|''"He pulls a gun out of his ass and shoots them. [[[Beat]]] [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer|No, really]], he pulls'' a gun ''out of'' his ass ''and'' shoots them. ''I so wish [[Moral Guardians|Mary Whitehouse]] was still alive to see this; her head would pop off, spin around three times and land upside-down again."''|'''[[SF Debris]]'''}}


The casual viewer might be forgiven for assuming that he's ingested the wrong substances and is hallucinating a ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''/''[[Big Brother]]'' crossover, but no -- the Doctor really ''has'' landed in the ''[[Big Brother]]'' house. Of the 2002nd century. He's as confused about it as the casual viewer.
The casual viewer might be forgiven for assuming that he's ingested the wrong substances and is hallucinating a ''[[Doctor Who]]''/''[[Big Brother]]'' crossover, but no -- the Doctor really ''has'' landed in the ''[[Big Brother]]'' house. Of the 2002nd century. He's as confused about it as the casual viewer.


Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''/''[[The Weakest Link]]'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''/''[[What Not to Wear]]'' crossover staffed by naked robots (whom Jack flirts with). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...
Rose, meanwhile, has ended up in a futuristic ''[[Doctor Who]]''/''[[The Weakest Link]]'' crossover; and Jack Harkness in a ''[[Doctor Who]]''/''[[What Not to Wear]]'' crossover staffed by naked robots (whom Jack flirts with). The casual viewer may be forgiven for thinking that this is all rather ''strange''...


But no: it's a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]. All three have in fact landed in the Game Station, which [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|the Doctor and Rose visited back when it was called Satellite Five.]] The Doctor expected history to get back on course once the Jagrafess was removed, but is horrified to learn that the power vacuum caused human civilisation to collapse instead. It's 100 years later, and the giant space station is now a home for more lethal versions of 21st-century reality TV <ref>Such as "Call my Bluff" with real guns, "Stars in Their Eyes" (literally -- if you don't sing, you get blinded), "Wipeout" (speaks for itself)...</ref>. [[Smash TV|(Hmm... that sounds familiar...)]] Anyone on Earth can be selected as a contestant and transmatted into a game with no warning, but the Doctor realises that any transmat beam capable of pulling him out of the TARDIS had to be far, far more powerful. Someone wants him here, and he's going to find out who.
But no: it's a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]. All three have in fact landed in the Game Station, which [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|the Doctor and Rose visited back when it was called Satellite Five.]] The Doctor expected history to get back on course once the Jagrafess was removed, but is horrified to learn that the power vacuum caused human civilisation to collapse instead. It's 100 years later, and the giant space station is now a home for more lethal versions of 21st-century reality TV <ref>Such as "Call my Bluff" with real guns, "Stars in Their Eyes" (literally -- if you don't sing, you get blinded), "Wipeout" (speaks for itself)...</ref>. [[Smash TV|(Hmm... that sounds familiar...)]] Anyone on Earth can be selected as a contestant and transmatted into a game with no warning, but the Doctor realises that any transmat beam capable of pulling him out of the TARDIS had to be far, far more powerful. Someone wants him here, and he's going to find out who.


The Doctor and Jack escape from their crossovers; the Doctor by realizing he's [[Plot Armor|too important for the system to kill]], and Jack by... well, let's not dwell on where he pulled that gun from. The Doctor also takes a girl named Lynda along as a future companion. They all rejoin ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', but Rose is still stuck inside her game, and she's losing. In fact, [[Mood Whiplash|she's lost, and the host robot vaporizes her]]. [[Christopher Eccleston]] conveys more hurt and loss with his eyes than most actors can even on a [[Chewing the Scenery|steady diet of scenery]].
The Doctor and Jack escape from their crossovers; the Doctor by realizing he's [[Plot Armor|too important for the system to kill]], and Jack by... well, let's not dwell on where he pulled that gun from. The Doctor also takes a girl named Lynda along as a future companion. They all rejoin ''[[Doctor Who]]'', but Rose is still stuck inside her game, and she's losing. In fact, [[Mood Whiplash|she's lost, and the host robot vaporizes her]]. [[Christopher Eccleston]] conveys more hurt and loss with his eyes than most actors can even on a [[Chewing the Scenery|steady diet of scenery]].


The Doctor, Jack and Lynda (whom Jack flirts with) are informed that they will be taken to a lunar penal colony to be held without trial or appeal. They respond by breaking out in about five seconds and making their way to floor 500 -- ''still'' not made of gold -- where the Doctor demands to know who's in charge and who just killed his friend. Unfortunately, the Controller -- the human supercomputer in charge of the satellite, who was installed at the age of ''5'' -- can only communicate with members of staff. One such staff member (whom Jack flirts with), however, has been keeping a log of mysterious encrypted signals and unauthorised transmissions, and he agrees with the Doctor's theory that this is just a cover for something else.
The Doctor, Jack and Lynda (whom Jack flirts with) are informed that they will be taken to a lunar penal colony to be held without trial or appeal. They respond by breaking out in about five seconds and making their way to floor 500 -- ''still'' not made of gold -- where the Doctor demands to know who's in charge and who just killed his friend. Unfortunately, the Controller -- the human supercomputer in charge of the satellite, who was installed at the age of ''5'' -- can only communicate with members of staff. One such staff member (whom Jack flirts with), however, has been keeping a log of mysterious encrypted signals and unauthorised transmissions, and he agrees with the Doctor's theory that this is just a cover for something else.
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'''Rose''': Yes Doctor?<br />
'''Rose''': Yes Doctor?<br />
'''The Doctor''': I'm coming to get you. }}
'''The Doctor''': I'm coming to get you. }}
* [[Call Back]]: This [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S9 E1 Day of the Daleks|isn't the first time]] we've seen a character named "the Controller" turn against his Dalek masters and make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to help the Doctor defeat them.
* [[Call Back]]: This [[Doctor Who/Recap/S9 E1 Day of the Daleks|isn't the first time]] we've seen a character named "the Controller" turn against his Dalek masters and make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to help the Doctor defeat them.
** Bonus [[Call Forward]], for sounding [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E13 Journeys End|so familiar...]]
** Bonus [[Call Forward]], for sounding [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E13 Journeys End|so familiar...]]
** The Doctor [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S13 E3 Pyramids of Mars|once again]] claims that nothing ''just gets'' into his TARDIS, and his horrified reaction that whatever ''can'' is definitely not anything good.
** The Doctor [[Doctor Who/Recap/S13 E3 Pyramids of Mars|once again]] claims that nothing ''just gets'' into his TARDIS, and his horrified reaction that whatever ''can'' is definitely not anything good.
** The answer to one of the questions in The Weakest Link is "The Face of Boe". Rose gets it right because [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E2 The End of the World|she met the Face of Boe before]].
** The answer to one of the questions in The Weakest Link is "The Face of Boe". Rose gets it right because [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E2 The End of the World|she met the Face of Boe before]].
* [[Come With Me If You Want to Live]]: The Doctor to Lynda after he breaks out of the Big Brother room.
* [[Come With Me If You Want to Live]]: The Doctor to Lynda after he breaks out of the Big Brother room.
* [[Deadly Game]]: Just about all the game shows in the episode except that the "disintegrator ray" is actually a teleporter. Not that it's much better than getting disintegrated when they're being processed into Daleks.
* [[Deadly Game]]: Just about all the game shows in the episode except that the "disintegrator ray" is actually a teleporter. Not that it's much better than getting disintegrated when they're being processed into Daleks.
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* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: The Defabricator. Invoked by name by Jack.
* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: The Defabricator. Invoked by name by Jack.
* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: "Oh, my masters. You can kill me...for I've brought your destruction."
* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: "Oh, my masters. You can kill me...for I've brought your destruction."
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Why, two hundred thousand years in the future, are there recreations of ''game shows'' from ''one specific time period''? Simple: they pulled them out of Adam's mind [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|last time we were here]].
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Why, two hundred thousand years in the future, are there recreations of ''game shows'' from ''one specific time period''? Simple: they pulled them out of Adam's mind [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|last time we were here]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: The Doctor after Rose (apparently) gets disintegrated. He snaps out of it in time to lead a jailbreak.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: The Doctor after Rose (apparently) gets disintegrated. He snaps out of it in time to lead a jailbreak.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The Controller, who gives the Doctor the last few numbers in the Daleks' co-ordinates even though the solar flares are no longer blocking transmissions. The Daleks promptly transmat her aboard and shoot her dead, but she's satisfied.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The Controller, who gives the Doctor the last few numbers in the Daleks' co-ordinates even though the solar flares are no longer blocking transmissions. The Daleks promptly transmat her aboard and shoot her dead, but she's satisfied.
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The Big Brother eviction.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The Big Brother eviction.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The Doctor's [[Badass Boast]] above sounds similar to [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] character Abslon Daak's [[Catch Phrase]], "I'm gonna kill every last stinking Dalek in the galaxy!"
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The Doctor's [[Badass Boast]] above sounds similar to [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] character Abslon Daak's [[Catch Phrase]], "I'm gonna kill every last stinking Dalek in the galaxy!"
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Turns out shutting down Satellite Five in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|The Long Game]]" simply created a power vacuum, eventually giving rise to an even worse television-based regime as opposed to reinstating the Fourth Great Human Empire.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Turns out shutting down Satellite Five in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|The Long Game]]" simply created a power vacuum, eventually giving rise to an even worse television-based regime as opposed to reinstating the Fourth Great Human Empire.
* [[The Nudifier]]: De-fabricator, which does [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]. "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up!"
* [[The Nudifier]]: De-fabricator, which does [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]. "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up!"
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: The Doctor and Jack's reaction to seeing the 200-ship fleet of the Daleks.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: The Doctor and Jack's reaction to seeing the 200-ship fleet of the Daleks.
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{{quote| "Oh my God, ''now'' we're in trouble. Clear the floor! He's on his way up here - with a GUN!"}}
{{quote| "Oh my God, ''now'' we're in trouble. Clear the floor! He's on his way up here - with a GUN!"}}
** Even before the viewer sees the Daleks, we get to hear several beats of the loud electronic heartbeat that is associated with their ships.
** Even before the viewer sees the Daleks, we get to hear several beats of the loud electronic heartbeat that is associated with their ships.
* [[Older Than They Think]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' with dangerous reality TV? That's already been done in 1985's ''Vengeance on Varos''.
* [[Older Than They Think]]: ''[[Doctor Who]]'' with dangerous reality TV? That's already been done in 1985's ''Vengeance on Varos''.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Hebrew Chanting]]: What is heard as the camera pans down from the Dalek flagship to show the entire fleet.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Hebrew Chanting]]: What is heard as the camera pans down from the Dalek flagship to show the entire fleet.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: There's a Lynda on ''[[Big Brother]]'', and there ''used'' to be a Linda, but she was evicted for damaging the camera.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: There's a Lynda on ''[[Big Brother]]'', and there ''used'' to be a Linda, but she was evicted for damaging the camera.
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* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The reveal of the Daleks appears in this episode's trailer.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The reveal of the Daleks appears in this episode's trailer.
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: The mysterious transmat
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: The mysterious transmat
* [[Title Drop]]: For the episode, and also for [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|"The Long Game"]], providing the context for that title.
* [[Title Drop]]: For the episode, and also for [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|"The Long Game"]], providing the context for that title.
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: As the Doctor put it, {{spoiler|he was being manipulated ''his entire life.'' Or his entire Ninth life, anyway.}}
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: As the Doctor put it, {{spoiler|he was being manipulated ''his entire life.'' Or his entire Ninth life, anyway.}}


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