TV Review: Doctor Who Series 1 Episode 7 " The Long Game" [Emz]

So here is "The Long Game" We are getting close to another double episode and I know full well the first time I watched those episodes it creeped me out.

But anyway back to this episode. This is the first appearance of Satellite 5. The next appearance is also this series but not quite yet. We also have a brief  'Cameo' by the Face Of Boe, who we first met in episode 2.

This episode originally aired on the 7th May 2005 on BBC One.

Here is the synopsis:

New companion of the Ninth Doctor, Adam Mitchell, takes his first trip in the TARDIS. The ship materialises in Satellite 5, a space station that broadcasts across the entire Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. However, something is amiss: the Empire's attidude and technology is backwards, those who are promoted to Floor 500 simply disappear, humanity is possibly being manipulated by the news, and who exactly is the sinister Editor's employer?

Review:

This episode was very odd but I liked it. So this is Adam's first trip into space, let alone the future. After being shown a section of the space station, Adam proceeds to faint at which the Doctor says to Rose, "That's your Boyfriend" and she says, "Not anymore." 

They find that Satellite 5 projects to New around the world.  They gather all the news through the chip in their heads. They soon learn that something is not right. The Doctor realizes that the way things are being run and the technology are 90 years too old. 

We later learn that The Editor (Simon Pegg) is actually a Puppet for someone else, this turns out to be the Jagrafess. The Editor holds The Doctor and Rose hostage and wants to know who they are as they are not known at all.

In this time Adam has gone wandering and ended up with a chip implanted in his head and it can open up at the front of his head. He goes to try and gather lots of information but ends up giving The editor exactly what he wanted, Knowledge on The Doctor and Rose. It takes Cathica who they met previously to stop it.

Of course after The Jagrafess is destroyed by overheating it, The Doctor sends Adam back home as he will not allow him to travel with him again.

The funniest bit is the fact that the chip in his head opens at the front with the click of a finger. When Adams mum comes home and is really happy to see him she express that time flies and then clicks her fingers and Adam's forehead opens up.

Recurring Theme: The Recurring theme throughout this series is Bad Wolf. It is first mentioned in Episode 2 The end of The world Were 'The Bad Wolf Scenario' is Mentioned. Again in episode 3 The Unquiet Dead when Gwenyth mentions The Big Bad Wolf when she can see where Rose is actually from. The words Bad Wolf are seen in Aliens or London/ World War Three, spray painted onto the TARDIS. In this episode there is TV channel called Bad Wolf TV.

Next time I will be reviewing is the emotional Father's Day.

Till next time

Emz x