Best Of The Specials - 02x04 - The Destinations of Doctor Who

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Please do not swear.

You have got
to be kidding.

One of the greatest things
about "Doctor Who" is

that he can travel
anywhere.

But it smells, like...
Armpits.

There are no boundaries
on the show,

in terms of where
they'll go --

This must be
biographies!

What they'll do --

you hold on tight and don't you let go.
And who they'll see.

It's a swarm
in a suit.

You kind of never know
what you're going to get.

Sometimes it could be

a humanoid-type planet.

Steward:
The ambassadors

from the city-state
of Binding Light.

And then sometimes
you're just

hanging out on top
of a giant whale in space.

Never said that before.
That's fab.

They got to these places
that you would never be able

to fathom, in your own
puny, human brain.

Prisons in space.

"The sky's the limit."
The Universe is the limit.

We're standing
under a black hole.

I mean, obviously,
the destinations dictate

what the kind of tone and theme
of the episode are going to be.

The great and the good
are gathering

to watch
the planet burn.

What for?

Fun.

The thing about "Doctor Who"
is the potential.

The Earth isn't ready
for us to return yet.

The crazier the destination is,
the more exciting the show gets.

Can we go out and see?
Of course we can.

[ "Doctor Who"
theme plays ]

[ TARDIS engines ]

If the Doctor ever
came over to you and said,

"Hey, where do you want to go?
When do you want to go?",

because I don't know
what else is out there.

The first big trip that Rose
goes in with the Doctor is

to a platform where they
can witness the end of Earth.

Hardwick: It really kind of
hammers home the idea of

"we can literally go anywhere.
Anywhere in time and space."

So to take her
to the year billion,

to the destruction of
the Earth, is pretty great.

I thought that was

a great imagination
of what it might be like

at the end
of the Earth's life.

Computer:
Guests are reminded that

platform forbids the use
of weapons, teleportation,

and religion.

Earth death is
scheduled for : ,

followed by drinks
in the Manchester suite.

Rose: So, when it
says "guests,"

does that mean
people?

Depends what you mean
by "people."

I mean people.
What do you mean?

Aliens.

What are they doing
onboard this spaceship?

What's it all for?

It's not really
a spaceship.

More like
an observation deck.

The great and the good
are gathering

to watch
the planet burn.

What for?

Fun.

Mind you,
when I say

"the great
and the good,"

what I mean is
the rich.

You imagine, you know,
that corruption, money,

would've come into it
and people would gather

just to see the Earth
incinerated.

The platform is kind of like
a Schadenfreude hotel

where you can just watch
[laughs] the destruction

of the most wonderful
planet in the Universe

while you eat
cocktail weenies.

The idea that there are
wealthy aliens

who get taken around
to see the destruction

of star systems
is so genius.

Steward: Next,

from the Solicitors
Jolco & Jolco,

we have
the Moxx of Balhoon.

And next,

from Financial
Family Seven,

we have
The Adherents --

It is kind of cool
because it's like

this weird ball
setup where

everybody's introduced
as they walk in

and it's like
a fun event.

They remind me of
"Flash Gordon,"

when you see all the
alien races coming in.

You know that bit
in "Flash Gordon"

where they all come to give
their gifts to Ming.

I love all those
little references

to other science-
fiction films

and sort of
the genre.

Adsit: It's a little ironic,
that he brings her

to the end of her planet
because

it's such a joyful journey
that she's on

and the first place
she goes is

to watch the death
of her home.

Rogers: There is
a certain symmetry

in having
the very beginning

of his relationship
with Rose be

the end of everything,
in a way.

You know, he takes her to
the end of the Earth, right?

It's sort of that
romantic promise.

Is that romantic,

taking somebody
to the end of the world?

Might explain my dating
history, I suppose.

Haislip: That's
a little depressing.

I don't know,
maybe you need to work

on your lady tactics,
there, Doctor.

Adsit: I think the Doctor is
trying to show Rose, in one go,

that this is life
with him.

It's fascinating

and full of
various creatures

and danger.

Raise shields!

It was a test of Rose's
character because this

is her first experience
inside a spaceship

and so he didn't take
her somewhere simple,

he took her to
the end of the world.

And the amazing thing is that
she kind of takes it in stride.

Computer: Exoglass
repaired.

Exoglass repaired.

[ Shuddering ]

Exoglass repaired.

Shepherd: Platform is
an amazing introduction

to the kind of experience
that Rose is going to have.

Then he goes "right, so I'm
going to take you back now,

to your council state. Bye,"
and is surprised

that she goes
"I'm not going back there.

You've shown me everything.
I'm coming with you."

Rose proved herself
very quickly,

that she was worthy
of traveling with him

by kind of accepting all
the bizarre things going on,

rather quickly.

[ Shuddering ]

So Starship UK is
actually the first place

that Amy gets to travel
with the Doctor.

Willcox:
Starship UK is

this kind of this
circular, metal planet

floating through space,
bursting! With skyscrapers

because they've
run out of space.

The Starship UK idea's
a great one

because we all know our planet's
going to die and the idea is

"where are we going to go?
What's going to happen?"

The Doctor: That's
not just a ship,

that's an idea,
that's a whole country,

living and laughing
and...

shopping.

[ Chuckle ]

And searching the stars
for a new home.

Can we go out
and see?

Of course we can.

The whole of Great Britain
is basically now

a floating spaceship -- you
think it's a floating spaceship,

but it's actually we're like
a parasite sitting on the back

of a giant spacewhale.

Haislip: And he's this
just massive, calm creature

who just happens to have

the entire United Kingdom
on his back.

It volunteered.

You didn't have to
trap it or t*rture it,

that was all
just you.

Haislip: Oh, and because
we're human beings,

we decided the best way
to get this guy

to travel with the entire
United Kingdom on his back is

to t*rture him by zapping
his brain so he keeps moving.

The amazing thing about
the people on this planet:

They're all so busy
living for themselves

and living for the quality
of their own life

that they don't realize
that they're actually

being supported
by a kindly old savior.

The way Amy solves
this dilemma

that Starship UK
is dealing with

is really our first
major glimpse

inside who Amy is,
as a person.

Aah!

Amy, what
have you done?

Nothing at all.

Am I right?

We've increased
speed.

Yeah, well, you've
stopped torturing

the pilot --
got to help.

Because she's the one
who doesn't see this

as a dilemma
of choosing

the Starwhale
over the people.

She really believes
that, if we just stop

torturing this creature,
he's going to work

with us,
not against us.

It came because
it couldn't stand

to watch
your children cry.

What if you were
really old,

and really kind
and alone,

your whole race dead,

no future --

what couldn't
you do, then?

If you were that old
and that kind

and the very last

of your kind,

you couldn't just
stand there

and watch children cry.

Adsit: Well, Amy makes the point
that the Starwhale is

the last of its kind
and it comes to help

when it hears
the cries of children

and that's exactly
what the Doctor did

at the beginning
of the episode.

It turns out they just
got to take it easy on it

and let the Starwhale
do its thing.

The Starwhale just wanted
a little TLC

and then it's going to
do its job.

There was this creature

suffering all that immense
torment and pain

and she played such a part
in rescuing it

and making sure that this
dreadful business stopped.

I watched that episode and I
thought, at the end of it,

I thought "I'm getting moved
by the life of a spacewhale."

I mean, it's ridiculous.

Yet again, the power of
"Doctor Who" is

you believe it, it makes
you believe everything

because it's done
with conviction,

it's performed with conviction,
it's written with conviction,

and you'll believe
anything.

Every door
has a nightmare.

Ay!

Anytime that
you've been afraid

that something is lurking
in the shadows --

it's a swarm
in a suit.

The answer is that that
is actually going on.

[ TARDIS engines,
theme plays ]

The destinations of
"Doctor Who"

seem like they're based
off of somebody's dreams.

They're so surreal
and crazy

and sometimes they're
superrealistic

with just a hint
of surrealism thrown in,

which makes them just as creepy
as the regular creepy ones.

The thing that "Doctor Who"
always succeeds in is

turning something
that seems everyday

into something terrifying.

So they go to this hotel.

It looks like
a normal human hotel

and it turns out

that it's
a haunted hotel

full of nightmares.

Supercreepy.

You open the door?
Wall.

You open the windows?
Wall.

It's kind of a terrible,
terrible place.

The walls move.
Everything changes.

You, clever one,
what's he talking about?

Rita: The corridors
twist and stretch,

rooms vanish and pop up
somewhere else.

It's like
the hotel's alive.

That quite enough
of that.

Yeah, and it's huge.

[ Static crackles ]

Rory: Did you try
the front door?

Rita: No, in two days,
it never occurred to us

to try the front door --
thank God you're here.

[ Laughs ]

They're not doors,
they're walls,

walls that look like doors.
"Doorwalls," if you like,

or "dwalls" --
"woors," even,

though you probably got it when
you said they're not doors.

I mean, the windows are...
Right.

Big day
for a fan of walls.

Rita: It's not
just that.

The rooms have
things in them.

Things? Hello!

What kind of things,
interesting things?

I love things.
Ask anyone.

Bad dreams.

Davison: I wouldn't want
to stay there.

It's a terrifying concept, to be
stuck in a place like that.

I remember watching
that episode as it went out

and I was hosting
a corporate sort of event

and I was in a hotel
which was exactly like

the one featured,

nervously looking around
at the doors and the windows,

in case something sinister
lay behind them.

Ay!

Don't...blink.

What?

[ Electricity crackles ]

[ Gasp ]

Every door
has a nightmare

of some sort --
it may not be yours.

You may think it's yours.
It may not be.

But it's really
supercreepy.

Why haven't they
got us yet?

Amy,
they're not real.

Amy: What?

They should've
got us by now.

Amy, look at me.
Focus on me.

It's your bad dream,
that's all.

[ Gasp ]

I don't even think
they're for us.

[ Footsteps
thumping ]

[ Creature growling ]

Aah!

[ Footsteps thumping,
creature snuffling ]

Doctor, what
are you doing?

I'm sorry, I just
have to see what it is.

I just --
I have to see.

[ Footsteps thumping ]

Oh, look at you.

I love haunted things,
so the haunted hotel

was a really fun
episode for me.

What I love about "Doctor Who"
is that they can throw in

a Minotaur,
if they want to.

They could literally do anything
they want, and they did.

There was a Minotaur
in this episode.

At the end of the episode,
it turns out that,

as is often the case
in "Doctor Who,"

things are not
what they seem

and, in this case, you never
would've guessed it,

but the hotel is actually
a prison for a Minotaur God

that looks like kind of
a cross between a labyrinth

and something

out of "Tron."

What is it,
a Minotaur or an alien?

Or an alien Minotaur.
That's not a question

I thought I'd be asking
this morning.

The Doctor:
I mean, it's both,

actually, yeah,
here we go.

Distant cousin
of the Nimon.

They descend on planets
and set themselves up

as Gods
to be worshipped,

which is fine,
until the inhabitants

get all secular
and advanced enough

to build
bonkers prisons.

Correction:
Prisons in space.

Amy: Where
are the guards?

No need for any.

It's all automated.
It drifts through space,

snatching people
with belief systems

and converts
their faith

into food
for the creature.

This Minotaur God is
feeding on people's faith.

It takes somebody's
faith and hope

and turns it into this kind of
horrible nightmare for them.

They take the old
Minotaur legend

and take it out of a maze

and basically put it
into this sort of

weird dimensional maze
of this haunted hotel.

It's one of the great ways
the show takes mythologies

that we're all familiar with
and then just

aliens them up
a little bit

and just gives them a dimension
that they didn't have before.

Sometimes alternate dimensions
they didn't have before.

The library is this giant planet
that is just a library

and it has every book
ever written.

The Library.

So big, it doesn't
need a name,

just a great big
"the."

It's like a city.

It's a world.
Literally, a world.

The whole core
of the planet is

the index computer,

biggest hard drive,
ever, and up here,

every book ever written,
whole continents of

Jeffrey Archer,
"Bridget Jones,"

"Monty Python's
Big Red Book."

Brand-new editions,
specially printed.

[ Sigh ]

Clearly, Steven Moffat
must've recently gone

to the British library,
which holds

every single book
in the world and I've

been there before and it
is quite impressive.

The idea of a library
is always really --

is an exciting one,
I think,

especially maybe for
science-fiction nerds,

but for any of the sort
of reading nerds

out there, the idea
that there's a place

you can go where you just
get to read all the time.

That's all that
you're there for.

Any research you want
to do, anything you want

to learn about, any story
you want to know.

So that's, yeah, it's
a dream destination.

It seems like they just took
kind of a boring vacation

to a library, but,
as the episode unfolds,

it becomes more and more
frightening

and more and more
sinister.

And it turns out that
all the books were created

from a forest that
used to be on the planet,

that used to be inhabited
by the Vashta Nerada,

who live in the shadows
and used to live in the trees.

But there are
no more trees.

Way to go, library.

Haislip: They're like meateating
carnivorous microbugs,

or something like that,
and you don't know

where they are and,
if you step in a shadow,

you could be dead or,
if all of a sudden,

you have two shadows,
you're dead.

Basically, you're dead when
you show up on this planet.

Dave,
can you hear me?

Hey! Who turned
out the lights?

Ah!

Hey! Who turned out
the lights?

Hey! Who turned
out the lights?

Excuse me!

Back from it,
get back!

Right back!

Once a shadow has
attached itself to you

and you've got two shadows,
then you're really screwed.

Doesn't move
very fast, does it?

It's a swarm
in a suit.

But it's learning.

What do we do?
Where do we go?!

See that wall
behind you?

Duck!

Squareness g*n!

Everybody out!

Everybody loves a library.
It's nice and cozy.

You have a cup of tea
and a book.

And then get chowed down
upon by millions of aliens.

The lesson that you could learn
from this episode is that,

anytime that
you've been afraid

that something is lurking
in the shadows

or something is hiding
in the dark closet,

the answer is that that
is actually going on.

And this episode
drives that home

in a really, really
terrifying way.

It's a swarm
in a suit.

This library has this
massively large hard drive

in the center of it that,

when the shadow creatures
start attacking,

the planet realizes
it needs to save everyone.

It actually "saves" them
in the hard drive

and creates this entire
fictional world

that their brains are
kind of living in.

Donna is kind of downloaded
into the mainframe

of the computer

and is given
a life to enjoy.

With a family,
these two little kids,

these cookie-cutter kids
that are really cute,

but also really creepy.

The memories
are all still there --

the library,
the Doctor, me.

You've just been
programmed

not to look.

Sorry, but...

you're dead.

In a way, we're all
dead here, Donna.

We are the dead
of the library.

Well, what about
the children?

The children
aren't dead.

My children
aren't dead.

Your children
were never alive.

Don't you say that.

Don't you dare say that
about my children.

Look at your
children!

Look at all of them,
really look.

They're not real.

Do you see it now?
They're all the same.

[ Giggling ]

All the children
of this world,

the same boy
and the same girl,

over and over again.

She just gets screwed, man,
when those kids turn out

to not be her kids
on the library.

She's having a great
life, actually,

the perfect life
for her,

and I think she would've been
extremely happy to stay there.

Oh, you've lived this life,
have you, have you?

None of this life
was real.

I like the way
they do that.

Yeah, very sad.

You could be watching TV,
you see an angel,

that's an angel
and that will k*ll you.

Doctor!

I thought it was
going to be like

a Dr. Seuss land
of fun and happiness

and it's just a bunch
of really bitter guys.

[ TARDIS engines,
theme plays ]

Well, it's always
a different place

when you go
with the Doctor.

Anyplace in the Universe
is available to you

and the thing
about the TARDIS is

you never know where
you're going to end up.

You can plan all you want,
but you open those doors

and it's always something
a little different

than what you thought
it'd be.

This is the one place
in the "Doctor Who" universe

that you just don't
want to end up.

It's a crashed spaceship
full of Weeping Angels

next to a cr*ck in time
in some weird indoor forest.

And everybody want
to k*ll you, basically.

Beautiful gardens in space.
What could possibly be wrong?

There's not going to be
anything sinister there.

But! Statues of angels
that'll k*ll you.

It's not just one
weeping angel this time,

or not just a few
Weeping Angels this time,

it's hundreds of them.

One weeping angel
is scary enough,

but then you have an entire
freaking haunted forest

of Weeping Angels?

Could these things get
any worse?

We learn that, basically,
the Weeping Angels

can operate pretty much like the
plot of the movie "The Ring."

Amy's watching
a -second loop

of the angel
in the hold

and it's just
a recording

and it's been looped
so it's just

the same seconds,

but the thing that
we didn't realize

about the angels
before this was

that anything
that holds the image

of an angel
is itself an angel.

Doctor!

[ Clanging ]

Doctor!

This whole book,
it's a warning

about the Weeping Angels,
so why no pictures?

Why not show us what
to look out for?

There was that bit about
images, what was that?

Yes.
Hang on...

"That which holds
the image of an angel

becomes itself
an angel."

Doctor!

What does that mean,

an "image of an angel
becomes itself an angel"?

When the weeping angel
comes out of the TV,

that messed me up.

Doctor!
It's in the room!

Amy!

Basically, you could be
watching TV, you see an angel,

that's an angel
and that will k*ll you.

If you blink,
that will k*ll you.

Long: At the end,
I like the fact that

all of the angels

just kind of tumble
off the planet

like they're little
plaster statues on a shelf

and someone's gone
"ah, forget that."

The angels are draining all
the power from this ship,

every last bit of it,
and you know what?

I think they've forgotten
where they're standing.

I think
they've forgotten

the gravity
of the situation.

Or, to put it another way,
angels --

[ alert warbling ]

You hold on tight and don't
you let go for anything.

Night-night.

Long: The fact that
these things are beasts

and proper k*ller/
threatening

are just like crumbly
things made out of concrete.

No problem. Done.

And the gravity
destroys them

because they're weeping,
but not smart.

Gallifrey is something that
any serious "Doctor Who" fan

has always wanted
to take a real peek at.

I know Gallifrey.
I've been to Gallifrey.

I've been tried
on Gallifrey.

That was a very exciting
moment for me,

as an old "Doctor Who" fan,
to see Gallifrey again.

I don't know what I expected
Gallifrey to look like,

but I don't know
if I expected it

to be a snow globe
full of downtown L.A.

I thought it was
going to be like

a Dr. Seuss land
of fun and happiness

and it's just a bunch
of really bitter guys.

The fashion trend
of Gallifrey is that

of spooky wizards
from the future.

That's basically what
Time Lords dress like.

They just all look

like Anton Lavey
at a discotheque.

I think it's kind of like
British court systems.

I think they have to
wear this stuff.

It's ceremonial.
They've always worn it.

I don't think they like
putting it on.

[Pounds table ]
What news of the Doctor?

The Chancellor:
Disappeared,

My Lord President.

The Partisan: But
we know his intention.

He still possesses
the moment

and he'll use it
to destroy Daleks

and Time Lords
alike.

The visionary
confirms it.

Ending, burning, falling.
All of it, falling!

The black and pitch
and screaming fire,

so burning.

It's quite clever
that the Doctor

does not fit in
with the map

of what these other
Time Lords are.

They're all
completely different,

with very different
agendas.

Doesn't seem like
that nice of a place,

where the Doctor's from,
all of a sudden.

People are mean.
Because they're scared.

They're scared that
they're going to die.

But they're all fighting
for their survival.

It's wonderful that
the immortals are threatened.

Adsit: They're
at their wits' end

because they're losing
the time w*r.

And they do
something terrible

to try to survive.

You die with me,
Doctor.

I know.

Gallifrey's coming back
and it's just

going to mean the end for
pretty much everything.

[ Resonating ]

Get out of the way.

[ Electricity crackles ]

You did this to me!

The master finally
teams up with the Doctor.

Not because

he decided that
they're friends,

but because "the enemy
of my enemy

is my enemy."

The master, who has
always hated the Doctor,

turns out, is going to be
a good guy this time

and send Gallifrey back
to the time loop

and that was
a beautiful moment.

Not a bubble, a plughole.
The Universe

is a plughole and we've
just fallen down it.

This planet is mean,

he's a bastard.

You should be dead.

You're going into that black
hole and I'm riding with you.

[ TARDIS engines,
theme plays ]

The destinations

that you go to in "Doctor Who"
are always really surprising.

They kind of
open out to reveal

something completely
different.

You never quite know the
reality of the destination.

Krop Tor is a planet
that is

in a stable orbit
around a black hole,

which is impossible,

so it's called
The Impossible Planet.

The Doctor and Rose arrive
and he's confused

about how it could
possibly be so stable.

We can't be.

Rogers: My favorite thing
about the Doctor

is always that
he's a scientist first.

But I like that he is
presented with a situation

that he can't explain
scientifically

because that's always
what compels him.

That's
a black hole.

But that's
impossible.

I did warn you.

We're standing
under a black hole.

In orbit.
We can't be.

You can see for yourself,
we're in orbit.

But we can't be.

This lump of rock
is suspended

in perpetual
geostationary orbit

around that black hole,

without falling in --

discuss.

And that's bad,
yeah?

"Bad" doesn't
cover it.

A black hole's
a dead star.

You wonder what a black
hole actually looks like.

There's many theories.
I thought that was

a very well-visioned image
of what we imagine

a black hole
to be like,

this object
which is just

far beyond our
knowledge of physics.

So, they can't be
in orbit.

We should be pulled
right in.

We should be dead.

And yet,
here we are,

beyond the laws
of physics.

Welcome onboard.

Krop Tor turns out
to be a prison for Satan,

which is the first
remotely spiritual thing

the "Doctor Who" series
has ever brought up.

That's why I love
British shows,

because they are not afraid
to throw in a little Satan.

Everyone needs
a little Satan.

I've seen fake Gods

and bad Gods

and demigods
and would-be Gods.

And out of all that,

out of that
whole pantheon,

if I believe
in one thing,

just one thing,

I believe in her.

[ Growl ]

With the Doctor,

he's pretty much
seen everything,

so the worst thing
that human beings

can imagine,
which is just

this incarnation
of the devil,

is really just
another alien to him,

that he's got to
sort out.

That's why the Doctor's
kind of like your dad,

in a way, like "Ah,
I'll hold your hand.

I'll make sure there's
no devil under your bed."

You know, he makes
everything okay.

This is your freedom!

Free to die!

You're going
into that black hole,

and I'm riding with you.

[ Snarling ]

Yates: The devil is almost
like the ultimate.

It doesn't get more evil
or more scary

or unpredictable
as the devil.

Seeing the Doctor,
David Tennant,

fighting the devil,

you know, is worthy
of any Bible story.

The Trash Planet is
this really weird planet

that they end up
that's essentially like

it feels like
a garbage dump, sort of,

at the end
of the Universe.

Basically, everything that
you ever wash in your sink

all sunk down
into this drain

that doesn't have
a garbage disposal.

It's just sitting there,

waiting to collect
dust and mold.

The Trash Planet,
I think, is probably

what Gallifrey
would've looked like

without the use
of the TARDIS,

which, of course,
is everyone's

multitool closet.

Rory: What is
this place,

the scrapyard at the
end of the Universe?

Not end of,
outside of.

Rory: How can we be
outside the Universe?

The Universe
is everything.

Imagine a great,
big soap bubble with one

of those tiny, little
bubbles on the outside.

Okay.

Well, it's nothing
like that.

Completely drained.
Look at her.

Wait, so we're in a tiny-
bubble universe sticking

to the side of the
bigger-bubble universe?

Yes. No! But,
if it helps, yes.

This place is full
of rift energy.

She'll probably refuel
just by being here.

Now, this place --
what do we think, eh?

Gravity's almost
earth-normal.

Air's breathable.

But it smells, like...
Armpits.

Armpits.

What about all this stuff?
Where did this come from?

Well, there's a rift --
now and then,

stuff gets sucked through it.
Not a bubble, a plughole.

The Universe is a plughole
and we've just fallen down it.

It's a soap bubble
on a soap bubble

or it's a drainplug
or...Who knows?

It's one of those things
that you're like

"the Universe
is infinite!

But what's outside
of the universe?"

Did Stephen Hawking
write "Doctor Who"?

Because, at this point,
it kind of feels like he did.

Thomas: The idea
of this plughole

where all the junk,
you know,

it goes down the plughole
and it's all there

and this planet,
it's a really good idea,

I just didn't
understand it.

This planet isn't
actually a planet,

it's actually
a living organism

kind of like a sea urchin:

It's got a hard shell
on the outside

and it's all squooshy
ooshy on the inside.

And it's also a d*ck.

This planet is mean,
he's a bastard.

House: You haven't answered
my question, children.

Uh -- question?

You remember.

Tell me why I shouldn't
just k*ll you both now.

Well, because --

Rory, why?

Because...

k*lling us quickly
wouldn't be any fun.

And you need fun,

don't you?

That's what auntie
and uncle were for,

wasn't it? Someone
to make suffer.

I had a P.E. teacher
just like you.

You need to be
entertained

and k*lling us
quickly

wouldn't be
entertainment.

So entertain me.

Run.

Ray: And the trash planet's
consciousness is called House,

which, it didn't sound
anything like Hugh Laurie,

so that confused me.

At first, he claims to be
helpful, but, really,

"you're on a planet
of trash."

You're like "I don't think
this is going to be

a very good place
for him."

And then slowly,
it's like "I knew it,

"this trash planet
is not kind.

Let that be a warning."

It's almost like
you're watching

the United Nations
of the Universe.

Ha!

Never said that before.
That's fab.

Welcome
to my new empire,

Doctor.

Davros: Not really
that great to talk to,

but a master planner.

[ TARDIS engines,
theme plays ]

The amazing thing about
the destinations in "Doctor Who"

is that he is
traveling through time

and he's traveling
through space.

So he could travel
a million light years away

and discover
this amazing alien world

or he could travel to the exact
same place on earth that he was

and that would be
totally different.

I've always that, you know,
that science fiction

is mostly about going
out into space and, yet,

there's so much we don't know
about what's under,

you know,
beneath our feet.

So I think most of us
have wondered, at some point,

whether there might not be
an entire advanced civilization

of lizard people living
under the Earth.

We're looking
for a small,

tribal settlement,
probably housing

around a dozen
h*m* reptilia.

Maybe less.

One small tribe?

Yeah.

Maybe a dozen?

There's a whole
underground colony

full of Silurians
and it just

surprises the hell
out of the Doctor.

Ah.

Maybe more
than a dozen.

Maybe more like
an entire civilization

living beneath
the Earth.

I love the Silurians
because there's

a lot of credibility
to their existence

and their being and where
they could've come from

and the idea that,
a long time ago,

there was a race of reptiles
that, you know,

roamed this planet.

They feel that they have
claim to planet Earth,

more so than
the human race

because they were here
much, much earlier,

in prehistoric times.

And there's this
one moment where he just

sets the Silurians down
in front of Amy

and sort of
a delegation of people

and he's like "all right,
well, work it out.

You need to work out how
to share the planet together."

The future pivots
around you,

here, now.

So do good.

For humanity.

And for Earth.

Amy: Right.

No pressure there,
then!

We can't share
the planet!

Nobody on the surface
is going to

go for this idea, it is
just too big a leap.

Come on,

be extraordinary.

Oh, you --

hmm.

[ Sigh ]

Okay.

Bringing things
to order --

the first meeting
of representatives

of the human race
and h*m* reptilia

is now in session.

Ha!

Never said that before.
That's fab.

Carry on.

It's almost like he works

at the United Nations
of the Universe.

I mean, if you're going
purely by squatter's rights,

the Silurians
have us b*at,

so, you know, it's just
figuring out ways

for them to coexist.

Can we share it?
Can we not?

And, obviously, the right answer
is "yes, we can share it,

but it's going to
take time."

My priority is
my race's survival.

The Earth isn't ready
for us to return yet.

The Doctor: No.

Amy: minutes,
Doctor.

But maybe it should be.
So here's a deal.

Everybody,
listening.

Eldane, you
activate shutdown.

I'll amend
the system.

Set your alarm for
, years' time.

, years, to sort
the planet out,

to be ready.

Pass it on,
as legend or prophecy

or religion,

but, somehow,
make it known --

this planet is
to be shared.

Yeah, I get you.

[ Snaps fingers ]

That was the weirdest part,
where the Doctor's like

"you know what?
Just wait , years."

They're like "good, good, yes,
, , that'll be fine."

Culshaw: Makes you think,

in the Doctor's universe
and life,

" , years?
That's a blink.

Yeah, I can live with that.
We can work with that."

That's politics.

The nebula is a collection
of planets

that, when they're in
alignment with each other,

gravitational forces
and whatever else

creates the right
circumstances

to make a reality b*mb
which Davros will use

to destroy everything.

That's typical
Dalek fashion:

"If we can't have it,
no one can."

The Daleks are
all about thinking big,

especially when they have Davros
kind of pulling the strings.

I'm not sure of
his motivation for this

because he won't know
he's succeeded

because he'll be dead.

Oh, my God!

Look at the sky.

Oh.

[ Vehicle alarms blaring ]
That's impossible.

[Whispering]
That's just impossible.

[ Screaming outdoors ]

It can't be.

Right, now we're
in trouble.

[ Cocks w*apon ]

It's only just beginning.

Thomas: The Dalek Nebula,
the idea of stealing planets,

that sort of ties back
to an old "Doctor Who" story

called "The Pirate Planet"
by Douglas Adams,

who wrote "Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy"

and the idea that a man was
stealing planets, this captain.

And, again, what's
good about "Doctor Who" is

it doesn't forget its past
and it brings back,

you know, old enemies
or old ideas.

"Doctor Who's"
always full of rumors

and assumptions
and predictions,

but when you hear that,
down the line,

Davros might be returning,
you think

"Oh, I hope that's true.
I hope that's true"

and, wow, yes,
he gloriously came back.

Davros is a classic
"Who" villain.

He's been around
since the early days

of "Doctor Who"
and he is

the person who actually
invented the Daleks.

And you can see
there's this moment

when David Tennant,
who's normally

fairly unflappable,
suddenly realizes

that Davros is back
and you can see in his eyes

what a disaster that means
for the entire Universe.

Davros: Your voice
is different

and, yet,

its arrogance
is unchanged.

[Shuddering]
No.

But he's dead.

Welcome
to my new empire,

Doctor.

It is only fitting

that you should
bear witness

to the resurrection
and the triumph

of Davros,

lord and creator of
the Dalek race.

Doctor?

Have you nothing
to say?

He's very good at carrying
out a plan, that Davros.

Not superfun
to hang out with,

not really that great
to talk to,

but a master planner.

Darth Vadar and his like
might just have

one Death Star,

but, in order to be
better-prepared,

the Daleks will arrange
a galaxyful.

But, of course,

the Doctor will always find
a way just to undercut that

and he'll find the way
to let it all unravel

like a big piece
of knitting.

You're
a housemate.

You're in the house.
[Laughs]

Take all of television's
worst TV shows

and then
make them deadly.

Morales: Rose is like

"Sorry, I pick you.

"That's how
the game works.

Oh, wait.
I just k*lled you."

[ TARDIS engines,
theme plays ]

I would characterize the
destinations as limitless,

unlimited by the flights
of the imagination

of the writers,

and, as the time's
gone on,

their imaginations
just seem to get broader.

Another amazing destination
that the Doctor

takes Rose to is
Satellite Five,

which is this new station
that's run by this evil editor.

I loved Satellite Five
because it was "Doctor Who"

at its satirical best.

It turns out the editor
of Satellite Five

is Simon Pegg and you see
Simon Pegg show up

and you're like "okay,
everything's going to be okay.

"It's Simon Pegg. Nothing can be
wrong. He can't be a villain."

Turns out he's
the worst kind of villain:

He's a businessman.

This is not

the fourth great and
bountiful human empire.

In fact, it's not
actually human at all,

it's merely a place where
humans happen to live.

[ Max speaks angrily ]

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sorry.

It's a place where humans
are allowed to live

by kind permission
of my client.

And,. As they get
further and further

into the upper echelons
of who's controlling

the news,
it is obviously

this horrible creature

that's essentially
all mouth,

as far as
I can tell.

You mean that thing's
in charge of Satellite Five?

That "thing,"
as you put it,

is in charge
of the human race.

For almost
a hundred years,

mankind has been
shaped and guided,

his knowledge
and ambition

strictly controlled
by its broadcast news,

edited by
my superior,

your master,

and humanity's
guiding light --

the mighty Jagrafess

of the holy Hadrojassic
Maxarodenfoe.

[Whispering]
I call him "Max."

And Simon Pegg reports
to the Jagrafess,

which is just a mouth
on a ceiling,

and he calls him "Max."

You can't give
a horrible monster

a cute nickname
like "Max."

Max is a cool name.

The next time that they
visit Satellite Five,

of course, it's game shows
that they're dealing with

and not a news organization,
but, in some ways,

that's even more
insidious.

What's your name,
then, sweetheart?

The Doctor, I think.
I was, uh --

I don't know.
What happened?

You got chosen.

Chosen for what?

You're a housemate.
You're in the house.

Christopher Eccleston
suddenly appears

in this brightly colored room
which is really confusing.

And he's suddenly in
"Big Brother"

and he's taking part
in a game show.

Of course!

Doctor Who would be
a great roommate because

he, in one episode,
kills the devil.

How would you not
want that guy

on your side
at a bar,

helping you flirt/
k*lling the devil?

McCall: You are live
on channel .

Please do not swear.

You have got
to be kidding.

Satellite Five was
basically what happens

when you take all of
television's worst TV shows

and then make them deadly.

My favorite bit is
"The Weakest Link,"

where Anne Robinson
is actually a robot

and she has the power
to destroy.

Why Fitch?

Uh --

I think she got a few
of the questions wrong,

that's all.

And you'd know
all about that.

Well, yeah, but I can't
vote for myself,

so it had to be
Fitch.

I'm sorry.
That's the game.

That's how it works.
I had to vote for someone.

Let me try again --
it was the lights

and everything --
I couldn't think.

It's very much
a reflection

on the media
and television.

We were obsessed
by reality TV,

it was getting nastier
and nastier,

and, you know, the next
step on will be

they will be
k*lling people.

Oh, God, help me!

Fitch,

you are
The Weakest Link.

Goodbye.

♪

Manager: And we've gone
to the adverts.

Back in three minutes!

It was really
quite something

because Rose is like
"sorry, I pick you.

"That's how
the game works.

Oh, wait.
I just k*lled you."

And, of course,
behind all of that was

that the Daleks were
controlling humans

and, ultimately, the Earth,
through Satellite Five.

I think most of the television
output feels, at the moment,

that it was probably
invented by the Daleks.

We're being
controlled, people.

Questions need
to be asked.

And, by the way,

the death game shows,
of course they'll happen.

Of course it'll happen.

Probably within a decade,
I would say

death game shows.

Maybe that could be the next
iteration of the Kardashians.

Now, that one,
I would watch.

The amazing thing
about the destinations

in "Doctor Who" is
that the opportunities here

are really endless,
for what can happen.

Are...right.

The destinations are great
because it could be

another planet,

it could be
another dimension.

This must be
biographies!

The fact that the Doctor
can almost be in any situation

and it not be weird, strange,
or unbelievable, it kind of says

why the show's so fantastic
and it's run for so long.

Burning, falling.
All of it falling!

Morales: Well,
that's the whole point

of watching "Doctor Who,"
is getting to see

all the different planets
he gets to travel through.