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  Draconian (Doctor Who) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unlike many "monster" races in Doctor Who, the Draconians were articulate and portrayed as having a sophisticated and advanced culture not unlike that of feudal Japan.
The Draconian Empire was a vast spacefaring feudal civilisation of reptilian humanoids, centered on the planet Draconia, with a society stratifed along class and gender lines (for example, females were not permitted to speak in the presence of the Emperor) that was bound by a strong code of honour.
An uneasy peace was negotiated in the end, leading to two decades of cold war and the carving out of a frontier between the two empires.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Draconian_(Doctor_Who)   (552 words)

  
 The End of the World (Doctor Who) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The End of the World is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 2, 2005.
The Doctor tells Jabe that he was once on another "unsinkable" ship and wound up clinging to an iceberg, an apparent reference to having been on the RMS Titanic when she sank.
Jabe's scan of the Doctor displays an animation by Drew Berry of translation, a process wherein a protein molecule is synthesised according to the genetic code carried by messenger RNA.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_End_of_the_World_(Doctor_Who)   (2800 words)

  
 End of the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
end of civilization, doomsday scenarios of the end of civilization, humanity or the planet.
end of the world (philosophy), the notion that certain ideas could result in the "end of the world"
Until the End of the World (song), a song by U2 This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/End_of_the_world   (264 words)

  
 The End of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to open the shades, revealing that they’re in a space station orbiting the Earth -- and with a flash of intense light, the sun begins to expand.
As the Doctor and Rose head for the station’s main reception area, a computer voice announces the arrival of further shuttles and reminds guests that weapons, teleportation, and religion are forbidden aboard Platform One.
Fortunately, the Doctor is able to reverse the damage and raise the filter again, but the top half of the room has been scorched by the searing heat, and the door lock has melted.
www.drwhoguide.com /who_tv02.htm   (3502 words)

  
 Vorcampbel's View: Doctor Who : The End of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Doctor persuades the Steward, the host of the party being held on Platform 1 to mark the Earth's demise, that he and Rose are to of the super rich invited guests.
Rose and the Doctor have a quarrel, she is less than pleased that the telepathic field of the TARDIS has entered her brain, when the Doctor explains that that is why she is hearing everyone speaking in English.
The Doctor returns Rose to crowded modern day Cardiff, where he tells her that the vitality of the planet as it lived was more important than mourning the burnt-out husk of a dieing world.
www.20six.co.uk /Vorcampbel/archive/2005/04/08/187z3ky0ro4rw.htm   (1529 words)

  
 Eye of Horus | Doctor Who | Series One - 2005 - Episode Guide - 2 - The End of the World
Other aliens were window-dressing (and had no relationship with the Doctor, contrary to the insistence of RTD and Eccleston that aliens would have), with the much trailed, Moxx of Balhoon being the most disappointing and employed only for cheap ‘spitting gag’ and resultant incineration.
DOCTOR WHO FOLKLORE The Doctor clinging to an iceberg during the 1911 sinking of the Titanic.
DOCTOR WHO FOLKLORE Jabe the Tree describes the destruction of the Time Lord's home planet, Gallifrey (without naming it), and that she thought all had been killed.
www.eyeofhorus.org.uk /content/series-01/02-endworld.html   (1243 words)

  
 The End of the World - Tardis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Doctor decides to show Rose the future of the Earth and takes her all of the way forward to the year 5,000,000,000 to the day on which the Earth is destroyed.
The Doctor adapts Rose's mobile phone so she can stay in touch with her Mother in the past, which leads to the question of why he hasn't don this for any past companions.
Doctor - "I'm the Doctor and this is Rose Tyler she's my plus one" - This may or may not be a reference to a Sex and the City episode entitled Plus One.
tardis.wikia.com /wiki/The_End_of_the_World   (1427 words)

  
 ABC TV Guide
"The End of the World", the second episode of Doctor Who screens on ABC TV on Saturday May 28 at 7.30pm and sees the Doctor take Rose on her first voyage through time, to witness the death of Planet Earth.
The Doctor and Rose arrive on Platform One to witness The End of The World as the Sun expands and our planet burns.
Among the guests and suspects is the Lady Cassandra (Zoe Wanamaker), the last human, who is over 2,000 years old, she is vain and has had so much cosmetic surgery that she has been reduced to a piece of human skin stretched across a metal frame.
www.abc.net.au /tv/guide/netw/200505/programs/ZY7775A002D28052005T193000.htm   (221 words)

  
 Outpost Gallifrey: Episode Guide
After the Doctor has his TARDIS parked (and gets a parking ticket!), he checks up on Rose, who doesn't understand why he won't tell her more about who he is or where he comes from.
Rose takes a disliking to Cassandra while the Doctor and Jabe explore the machinery ducts attempting to find out why the gravity shields are collapsing; it is there that Jabe confronts him with the knowledge that she knows who and what he is, and offers her consolation for his suffering.
The Doctor is able to use Cassandra's teleport technology to bring her back to the station, but not her assistants, so the lack of proper moisturizing makes her wither and snap like a sheet of paper.
www.gallifreyone.com /episode.php?id=2005-02   (1175 words)

  
 Ninth & Beyond | The End of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Doctor takes Rose five billion years into the future to witness the end of the world, where they join a whole host of aliens on 'Platform One' to witness the event.
The Doctor and Jabe (one of the Trees) go and investigate and; after scanning the Doctor, it is revealed that he is the last of the timelords.
The End of the World is a great story, although it lacks the impact of 'Rose'; most likely because I am more settled into the series.
www.drwho2005.net /endoftheworld.html   (589 words)

  
 Doctor Who: The End of the World, reviewed by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
As we noted in the last review, the first episode of the new Doctor Who series, "Rose", was a decent story which suggested that the series had the potential to be truly excellent.
In "The End of the World" Jabe, the Steward, and the Moxx of Balhoon all die fairly horrible deaths, but these are more suggested than explicitly shown (Cassandra's death is an exception, but even then there is a minimum of gore).
At the episode's climax, the Doctor is seen to, effectively, enact vigilante justice upon Cassandra, calling her back to the station knowing full well that she will dry up and perish.
www.kaldorcity.com /features/articles/world.html   (983 words)

  
 Adrian's Doctor Who Reviews
All is explained by the end of the first episode as The Doctor, superbly portrayed by William Hartnell, bundles Ian and Barbara into the Tardis for fear of them spoiling the rather nice peace the Time Lord and his Granddaughter had been experiencing on 1960s earth, whilst exiled from their own world.
Ninth Doctor - The End Of The World
A feature of the new format of the revived Doctor Who, especially the episodes penned by Russell T Davis is what initially seems like plot holes are actually important facets of an entire season, to be appreciated and made sense of, much later.
www.adriandenning.co.uk /extra/doctorwho.html   (5987 words)

  
 Doctor Who: The End of the World
Looking at the second installment of the new Doctor Who, it's easy to see how the story might have unfolded had it been made for the original series-the Doctor and Rose arrive on board a space station full of delegates, gathered together to watch the end of the world.
At times, it feels almost like The End of the World is trying to take a page from the classic Pertwee serial, "The Curse of Peladon." We have a gathering of aliens together for an historic event.
I got the feeling that the Doctor was feeling out how Rose would react to certain things-Cassandra, the end of the world, etc-before he took her fully into his confidence about being the last Time Lord in the universe.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/4507/who/endofworld.htm   (1258 words)

  
 A Brief History Of Time (Travel): The End Of The World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Doctor and Rose arrive on Platform One in the year Five Billion, where some of the richest beings in the universe have gathered to watch the destruction of the Earth as its Sun erupts into a red giant.
To this end, he created the new character of the plumber, Raffalo, and the scenes involving her and Rose were taped at the Temple of Peace on February 19th.
The transmission of The End Of The World on April 2nd came as Doctor Who remained squarely in the public eye.
www.physics.mun.ca /~sps/serials/2005b.html   (1060 words)

  
 It’s not the end of the world - Johnny Fanboy
The Doctor Who episode The End of the World states that the Earth perishes when the Sun expands in about the year five billion.
It’s possible that the Doctor is counting in Gallifreyan years in either The Ark or The End of the World.
The refugees of Frontios, who, according to the TARDIS data banks, fled “the imminence of a catastrophic collision with the Sun,” could have left the Earth before the National Trust halted the star’s expansion, as described in The End of the World.
www.sci-fi-online.50megs.com /newletters/fan05-04-13_Who.htm   (363 words)

  
 Bureau 42 | Doctor Who: The End Of The World
Eldhrin writes, Doctor Who: The End Of The World This received 36/42 from Eldhrin in total, with 4/6 for the overall score.
According to the Doctor Who Reference Guide this was actually dealt with in the BBC books made for the 8th doctor.
Anyways, from the end of this episode my concern would be that I see the Doctor heading in the direction that made the American-filmed Doctor so objectionable to many fans.
www.bureau42.com /view/2537   (1899 words)

  
 The End of the World
Rose is overwhelmed by the presence of so many aliens and the imminent end of her world, and she and the Doctor soon fall out over a heated argument; when Rose attempts to make up, the Doctor responds by dabbling with her mobile phone, enabling her to call her mother back in the year 2005.
While the Doctor and Jabe investigate the cause of the tremor, Rose talks to Cassandra, but she soon becomes angry at the ‘woman’s’ attitude towards the purity of the human race.
Jabe is able to slow the mechanism down, enabling the Doctor to slip between the blades, but the rising heat soon proves fatal to the tree-woman, and her wooden body is swiftly reduced to ashes.
www.clivebanks.co.uk /Endofworld.htm   (764 words)

  
 Discontinuity Guide - The End of the World
The Moxx of Balhoon is inspired by the Mekon, and is also similar to the Vogans from the Doctor Whom comic strips The Vogan Slaves and The Wreckers, and the blue staff by Roald Dahl's Oompa Loompa's from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The fate of The Doctor's home planet (which, strangely, is never named - though presumably it's still Gallifrey, as established in the original series) is referenced throughout the new series.
The End of the World, where the Doctor tells us that his planet was destroyed in a war, reduced to burning rock, and that he is the last of his people.
www.whoniverse.org /discontinuity/9B.php   (1921 words)

  
 Dr Who Episode 2 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When the Doctor gets taunted into taking his new assistant to the End of the World, a menagerie of dignitaries line-up in a whodunnit before the first bad thing starts to happen.
But as the Doctor says, "Everything dies." Despite the pessimism, the comedic laughs and a touch of social commentary make the episode a worthwhile, if not outstanding, addition.
And The End of the World does not dissapoint in the spectacular explosions department.
www.uwm.edu /~dray/DRWHO_review_102.htm   (332 words)

  
 AMK's Journal: Doctor Who: "The End of the World" and "The Unquiet Dead"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Doctor Who: "The End of the World" and "The Unquiet Dead"
The Doctor and Rose travel to the distant future and find themselves among a group of tourists assembled to...
The Doctor and Rose travel to the distant future and find themselves among a group of tourists assembled to watch the Earth's last day, at least until their spaceship is sabotaged.
www.amk.ca /diary/archives/003879.html   (413 words)

  
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The Doctor reveals that he and his companions can hear aliens in English due to the telepathic field of the Tardis infiltrating their brains.
Virtually the entire reason why I waited before beginning reviews of the series, The End of the World is an enjoyable episode, the uniqueness of which is compromised by knowing that there are plenty of other silly Davies scripts to follow.
The most disappointing element is that, despite improvements, Doctor Who 2005 is still not a family show, but a children’s show, something which conflicts badly with remarks about prostitution and premature ejaculation.
www.anorakzone.com /christophereccleston/doctorwho2.html   (568 words)

  
 CBBC Newsround | TV/Film | Doctor Who: Behind the scenes
Doctor Who producer Phil Collinson gives me a quick tour of the set in between takes.
Billie Piper, who plays 19-year-old Earth girl Rose, tells Newsround that she's keen not to focus on what's been done on Doctor Who in the past.
I sit at one end of the set while the director Euros Lyn gathers a huge number of extras in the hall and explains a bit about the story.
news.bbc.co.uk /cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4400000/newsid_4400600/4400677.stm   (587 words)

  
 BBC - South East Wales Doctor Who: End of the World - Episode 2
BBC - South East Wales Doctor Who: End of the World - Episode 2
Doctor Who Locations - End of the World
The end of the world is nigh in the second episode of Doctor Who.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/sites/doctorwholoc_s1e2   (120 words)

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