Bad Wolf

And, you know, I'm hoping that's the case there.

We also get our first, what, our first, oh no, it's not, it's our second Bad Wolf mention, right? Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like how their conversation goes from giggling about boys to the creepiness of Gwyneth's sight, just like that.

Mm-hmm.

uh whereas the first two episodes are more about rose here we get the first true threads of the arc with bad wolf and we get more hints of the time war and get more into the doctor's psyche i think i recognize the alley where the tardis lands is somewhere we'll see again off and on throughout the modern series see great minds think alike i must say that for whatever reason the cg for the gelf seems to have held up better than the space station exteriors the previous episode hmm I can't agree

with that.

One other thing, too.

We get the first mention of Bad Wolf in this story.

Oh, I must have missed it.

Yeah.

He's talking to someone there.

And it's very brief.

He just goes, it's the Bad Wolf scenario all over again.

See, it's the accents.

Just Google Doctor Who TARDIS crew on Google Images listeners to find this picture.

I do think that it is actually interesting that it has come to fruition, though, because you've got to think it came out of the Bad Wolf era, which supposedly now has nothing to do with Doctor Who.

So somehow it survived that and, you know, become its own thing.

And all the Daleks have got different

Hmm.

I know the BBC has a charter obligation these days to put a certain amount of programme making out to tender.

But I wonder if the only reason it was ever allowed to go outside the BBC's structure was because Bad Wolf had RTD to offer and Julie Garner and James Tranter.

Did any of you read that long interview in The Guardian on a couple of Sundays ago with Russell T. Davis about the launch of his new autobiography?

I used to love the overarching sort of stories, the hidden stuff in Doctor Who when they first started doing it.

Like I loved Bad Wolf and I liked all of the, you know, when the Ood were like, Doctor, you're going to freaking die.

You know, I liked all that stuff.

Yeah.

It's a rough episode to get through.

But then we go to Bad Wolf.

Now, throughout the season, of course, there's been a sprinkling of the term Bad Wolf, and you would think that this would be the culmination of that, but it's not.

This is actually the last two-parter of the season.

So it's Bad Wolf and the parting of ways, technically the end of the season, though there's one more episode, which is the introduction of the new Doctor.

It's the 2005 Christmas special.

But, anyway, Bad Wolf and Parting Ways.

So, overall, it technically is part of the culmination, but it's not.