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In this story, there is no set. They forgot to make one. So everyone hangs around in some nothingness for a bit.
Jamie uses this as an excuse to stroke Zoe's fingers. Even her fingers are lovely.
She is a bit scared, but mostly just glad that this is not The Dominators any more.
The actors here have been given different instructions.
Zoe has been told to act like she is facing the most terrifying thing she has ever seen.
Jamie has been told to act like he has to choose between a Twix and a Crunchie, and he really wants both, but he's only allowed one.
There are some robots watching them, and looking slightly ashamed to be doing so.
Doctor Who has been asleep for a bit. When he wakes up, the TARDIS has turned white, as well as everything else.
His face suggests that he finds this irritating, but that he is prepared to put up with it, as he has a massive hangover.
Jamie and Zoe have been turned white too.
The robot on the right looks absolutely mortified that this has been allowed to happen. He's thinking, "Why do we always do this? What's wrong with us? I'm going to have to say something."
He won't, though. People never do.
After a bit, the TARDIS explodes for no reason.
The console floats round in space, doing a spin, with Jamie and Zoe clinging on, thinking "This is making me sick. But it's still better than The Dominators, which was like being sick, and then having to eat the sick, and somehow still being bored".
This sequence is amazing and weird. It is often used on clip shows, to demonstrate how wacky Doctor Who is.
Which is kind of cheating, because most of the time they just stand around in corridors wearing idiotic hats.
This is the most popular still image in all Doctor Who, for reasons which are probably obvious. I almost didn't take it, due to it's ubiquity.
But then I thought, no. There's a kind of postmodern brilliance to taking the exact same shot as everyone else does to represent my own viewing experience. It's a kind of self reflexive comment on the nature of engagement with a text that is, in its own way, already commenting on itself.
That's what I thought and that's why it's here. Prove otherwise.
Later on, Jamie turns into a cardboard photo of himself and his face comes off.
Doctor Who just goes, "Right." and gets on with things. That's why this is the greatest show that has ever been on television.
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