These inconsequential bits of dialogue evolved into whole stories on Doctor Who.
Doctor Whohas a habit of taking a throwaway line and making it into a big deal.
Mavity isnt alone in the shows history.
Come the finale, as the Doctor announces theyre on the brink of destruction, Barbara realises something.
The ship, the TARDIS itself, has been giving them clues.
Thats what the strange events have been.
Before this, though, we hadRussell T. Daviesdropping in colossal-sounding events and concepts without offering any details.
The Time War was in the minds eye of the beholder.
What was The Couldve Been King?
The Horde of Travesties?
Arcadia is Gallifreys second city.
We get more of a sense of the planet, rather than just the Capitol.
And this allows Moffat to show the people of Gallifrey, notably the children.
Billions of lives, rather than a small group of politicians, are at stake.
And didnt we have trouble with the prototype?
Unfortunately their presence reinforces the original timeline rather than altering it, until Jon Pertwees Doctor intervenes.
It cant be.
Sarah points out that they could just leave, because they know the world doesnt end in 1911.
The Doctor takes her to 1980 and shows her a desolate planet circling a dead sun.
Essentially, UNIT seemed to be from the late Seventies.
This means The Invasion takes place in 1979 at the earliest.
The best bit is this isnt even the biggest problem with the UNIT timeline!
If you want to know more, go and watch Mawdryn Undead and get back to me.
How, then, is the Second Doctor here with this knowledge?
The sentence was subsequently remitted at the intercession of the CIA.Castellan: Celestial Intervention Agency.
They get their fingers into everything.
Robert Holmes wrote this as a gag, and nothing more.
To counteract this, the Doctor has to be at his most ruthless.
The point is not whether you understand.
What is going to happen to you, hmm?
Theyll tell everybody about the ship now.
No getting around it, thats a strange choice.
They see her enter a junkyard, and find a strange old man with a strange blue box.
Hearing Susans voice they barge in, and discover an impossibly large white control room.
In context its more of a threat, a worry.
And thus, everyones favourite family TV show was born.
