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Broadcast on BBC1, Saturday May 6th, 2005
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Adam discovers that being a Time Lord's companion isn't as easy as it looks when the trio arrive in the year 200,000 A.D, aboard Satellite 5 – a central hub for the galaxy's news broadcasts.… "The Long Game" already marks the show's second venture to an orbiting satellite after Davies' own "The End Of The World" (is he obsessed with satellites, or is this a cost-cutting concern? Probably both). One thing prevalent with this new series is the limitations of the settings, which in conjunction with the constant return to present day Earth, makes the whole show seem somewhat constricted. The TARDIS can apparently go to anywhere, and "any-when"... so quite why The Doctor is obsessed with Earth-related satellites and underground complexes is beyond me (sigh).
Anyway, "The Long Game" is a fairly strong episode – blessed with a good central premise and a likeable guest appearance by Simon Pegg (Shaun Of The Dead, and narrator of BBC3's Doctor Who Confidential) as The Editor (above right), a white-haired, frosty-faced villain who lives on Floor 500 – which houses a deadly secret from the human workers below. Christopher Eccleston is really coming along now, managing to give a more three-dimensional performance than in the earlier episodes, while Billie Piper continues her solid and believable work. Bruno Langley, playing Adam, is also a good new addition (although, it will transpire, under-used in the series as a whole...) The production reeks of '80s Doctor Who, however. For some reason the BBC just can't create believable futuristic architecture, so just make sure everything's shiny, metallic, and with computer screens dotted about. In "The Long Game" they're going for a "Blade Runner-meets-Deep Space Nine" style that just doesn't come together. Still, it's effective enough on its own terms and doesn't ruin an enjoyable story. The CGI used it generally good (particularly "Type 2" brain surgery where a flap opens in the centre of your forehead to allow assimilation of news, and the episode's "end of level" monster – a sort of limbless, ceiling-suspended, Giger's Alien…)
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The following is a list of all the Doctor Who content reviewed to date :
2008 Series 30, Episode 13 - "Journey's End", by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 12 - "The Stolen Earth", by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 11 - "Turn Left", by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 10 - "Midnight", by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 8 - "Silence in the Library" (part 1 of 2), by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 7 - "The Unicorn and The Wasp", by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 6 - "The Doctor's Daughter", by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 5 - "The Poison Sky" (Part 2 of 2), by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 4 - "The Sontaran Stratagem" (Part 1 of 2), by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 3 - "Planet of the Ood", by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 2 - "The Fires of Pompeii", by Dan Owen 2008 Series 30, Episode 1 - "Partners In Crime", by Dan Owen2006 Series 28, Episode 1 - "New Earth", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 2 - "Tooth & Claw", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 3 - "School Reunion", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 4 - "The Girl in the Fireplace", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 5 - "Rise of the Cyberman", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 6 - "The Age of Steel", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 7 - "The Idiot's Lantern", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 8 - "The Impossible Planet", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 9 - "The Satan Pit", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 10 - "Love and Monsters", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 11 - "Fear Her", by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 12 - "Army of Ghosts" (Part 1 of 2), by Dan Owen 2006 Series 28, Episode 13 - "Doomsday" (Part 2 of 2), by Dan Owen
2005 Series 27, Episode 1 - "Rose", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 2 - "The End of the World", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 3 - "The Unquiet Dead", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 4 - "Aliens of London", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 5 - "World War Three", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 6 - "Dalek", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 7 - "The Long Game", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 8 - "Father's Day", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 9 - "The Empty Child", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 10 - "The Doctor Dances", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 11 - "Boom Town", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 12 - "Bad Wolf", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 13 - "The Parting of The Ways", by Dan Owen 2005 Series 27, Episode 1 - "Rose", by Dom Robinson 2005 Series 27, Episode 1 - "Rose", by Paul Manners
And the Audio CDs :
2000 04: The Land of the Dead 2000 06: The Marian Conspiracy 2000 10: Winter for the Adept 2000 12: The Fires of Vulcan 2000 14: The Holy Terror 2000 15: The Mutant Phase 2001 16: Storm Warning 2001 18: The Stones of Venice 2002 28: The Chimes of Midnight 2002 30: Seasons of Fear 2002 31: Embrace the Darkness 2002 35: ...Ish 2002 39: ...Bang-Bang-A-Boom!
DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
