How the landscape ofDoctor Whofandom has changed.
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Eccleston himself manages to poke fun at his ears.
And just like pizza, hell is used here for the first inDoctor Whoas a swear word.
What the hell is that?
comes courtesy of the new more brutish, more direct and less well-mannered Ninth Doctor.
Though he probably neednt have bothered shedding any tears given the events ofThe Day Of The Doctor.
(Wed have to wait a few years for that to happen.)
Actress Eve Myles joined the rank of a number ofDoctor Whostars who managed to return as a different character.
(And also gave The Doctor an excuse to pop back to Cardiff now and again.)
Continuity fans alerted those who care about such things that The Doctor got his age wrong in this two-parter.
Time wimey and all that.
Old skool fans also raised a cheer at the return of UNIT the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.
Just like the previous ep, aTorchwoodactor appears Naoko Mori.
Another nod to the future was The Ninth Doctors insistence at calling Mickey Smith, Ricky.
And look out for some graffiti, not BAD WOLF but Salford the home town of Christopher Eccleston.
In another first for naughty words in the history ofDoctor Who, goddamn is used by Van Statten.
Dont be like him kids, dont swear it aint cool.
He has the honour of being the only companion to be chucked out of Team TARDIS.
Well, he was an asshat.
As a kiss to the future, as it were, the phrase Its Volcano Day!
Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?
The last episodes provided a few fine firsts forDoctor Who.
Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner.
That should settle a few arguments…
