![]() ![]() Suddenly, a tremor shakes the station, and the Doctor gleefully observes that that wasn't supposed to happen. The Doctor jokes that if Rose thought the telephone call was amazing, she should see the bill. When the Doctor alters Rose's mobile phone so she can talk to her mother in the past, another fact sinks in - her mother is long dead. When she asks where he is from, he brushes off her questions. They soon infiltrate the entire station, sabotaging its systems. The spiders are being disgorged from the metal spheres gifted by the Adherents of the Repeated Meme to guests. She leaves and does not see Raffalo spot small, spider-like robots in the ducts, which rapidly grab her and pull her inside. At first she is comforted by the familiarity of Raffalo's matter-of-fact, working-class manner, but when Raffalo explains that she is from Crespallion, which is part of the Jaggit Brocade, affiliated to the Scarlet Junction in Complex 56, Rose realises just how far she is from home, with a man she does not know. Elsewhere, Rose has a brief conversation with a station plumber, Raffalo, who is investigating a blockage. ![]() ![]() The Doctor receives a call about the TARDIS' parking place and is given a ticket telling him where it is being moved. Rose is a bit overwhelmed when the jukebox plays "classical" music - "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell - and leaves the hall. The Moxx gives the gift of bodily salivas, and the Adherents of the Repeated Meme hand out gifts of "peace" in the form of metal spheres, even to the Steward.Ĭassandra gives her own gifts: the last ostrich egg, and an "iPod" (a jukebox) from ancient Earth. The Doctor gives her the gift of air from his lungs. Jabe of the Forest of Cheem gives the Doctor a cutting taken from her grandfather. The skin needs to be constantly moisturized by her attendants. Rose watches in horrified fascination as the guest of honour arrives: Earth's last human, the Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17, a piece of stretched-out skin with eyes and a mouth mounted on a frame and connected to a brain jar. Pakoo, the Ambassadors from the City State of Binding Light, and, from Financial Family Seven, the hooded Adherents of the Repeated Meme. As the Doctor and Rose wait, the other guests arrive and are announced, including the diminutive Moxx of Balhoon, the Face of Boe, living humanoid trees from the Forest of Cheem (whose ancestors originated on Earth), the brothers Hop Pyleen (inventors of hypo-slip travel systems), Cal Spark Plug, Mr. On encountering the Steward, who manages Platform One, the Doctor persuades him that he and Rose are invited guests by using his psychic paper. The station has automated systems and is staffed by blue-skinned humanoids. The rich and powerful of the universe will gather here to witness the end of the world, which will occur in about half an hour. Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun at last. They have used gravity satellites to hold back the effects of the Sun, but the money has run out. The humans left it long ago and the planet was taken over by the National Trust. It's the year 5.5/Apple/26 when the Doctor and Rose materialise aboard Platform One, a cruciform space station orbiting a dying star, specifically, the Earth, which is about to be enveloped by the expanding sun.Įarth has long been empty of any kind of life. ![]() but scorns her idea of a mere hundred years in the future in favour of five billion years. Rose expresses a wish to visit the future, and the Doctor cheerfully obliges. The one with the bitchy trampoline and an elegy courtesy of Britney Spears. ![]()
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