Doctor Who Project - "The Long Game"

Following on from the excellent 'Dalek', 'The Long Game' sees new 'Adam joining the TARDIS crew and travelling with The Doctor and Rose to the year 200,000. Here we find the happy time travellers aboard Satellite 5, a space station that broadcasts or more accurately manipulates the news (RTD's spin on manufacturing consent?) and The Doctor knows something's wrong. Turns out humanity is being shaped (via the news broadcasted) by The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe (Yes I did Google it!) and The Editor from Floor 500 and has setback mankind's progress 90 years.

This episode is one of the hit and miss episodes in series 1 and is basically just a setup for the later episode 'Bad Wolf'. It's a bit of a filler, not the worst episode but far from the best. The one thing I love about it is how it demonstrates human greed and how a choice in companion can go so drastically wrong. Adam sees the wealth of information available to him in the future and decides it would be a great idea to send this information home via Rose's mobile and an answering machine in 2005. And of course he does this by getting an implant installed despite The Doctor advising him that it's outdated technology that doesn't exist in this time. Of course this comes back to bit him in the arse with information on The Doctor and Rose's identity being extracted from Adam's implant. What's interesting about this episode is the fact that it's not The Doctor who saves the day but a normal person. Even more interesting is that it's done via the same device that got them into the predicament (ie the implant).

With the day saved The Doctor drops off Adam back at his Mum's house (maybe the TARDIS isn't big enough for 2 Mancunians?) leaving him with a stern telling off and an embarrassing secret exposed with a click of the fingers.