Talk:The Long Game

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Contents 1 Picture a spoiler? 2 How the reporters work 3 Superphone 4 Jagrafess

[edit] Picture a spoiler?

Given the nature of the Editor's boss is something of a reveal late in the episode, it's a bit of a spoiler to have a picture of him right below the spoiler text where it will be seen whether someone reads below the synopsis line or not. Perhaps we could find a different picture? -- Guybrush 11:35, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. Pity though, as that's a great, dramatic camera angle with a very nicely conceived effect. --khaosworks 14:01, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How the reporters work

I must be missing something; I checked the episode before my edit, and the Doctor says that Cathica gets the information from all the sources around the Empire beamed into her brain - not the reporters - and then that that reporters, who have chips also, send that information out. He doesn't elaborate further, so I admit my note that they package the information for transmission is an interpretation, but given this explanation I don't see how the information can be flowing from the other reporters to Cathica. It makes no sense for them to be transmitting to her and for her to be downloading the info into her brain, and in any case the Doctor's statement indicates the information she receives is coming from outside the satellite.

Am I missing something? Is one of us confused? It's a minor point but I'd like to clear it up for my own peace of mind, if nothing else. -- Guybrush 23:12, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

I just watched the sequence again, and I apologise - I was the one who was confused. You're right; Cathica receives the info and the reporters beam it back out. I must have been distracted by Suki's cleavage... :) --khaosworks 23:53, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Superphone

Rose's "superphone", which the Doctor modified to allow her to call back to her own time (c. 2005) in The End of the World appears to be intelligent enough to realise who is using it, as it allows Adam to call back to his own time period of 2012.

Though I haven't really thought about it much, I kinda imagined that the phone just used the built-in clock on the phone to work out 'when' to call. That'd explain why the same time had elapsed for Rose's mum as for Rose herself, even though she'd been jumping around in time. If that's right, then Adam just needed to temporarily re-set the clock time. This is speculation, I know, but using my finest razor from the Occam company, I think it's a bit simpler than having the phone somehow 'know' which time period to call. Not sure what place any of this should have in the article, though. --DudeGalea 6 July 2005 14:28 (UTC)

Actually, when Rose calls home in The End of the World, it is very likely to a time before Rose leaves with the Doctor, since Jackie doesn't seem to be worried about Rose not coming home after the Auton massacre. Jackie's remark about asking Rose to put in a quid for the lottery money indicates that it's very likely earlier in the day before Henrik's blows up, or even the day before. So it's not necessarily synchronised with the "time" of the user. --khaosworks July 6, 2005 14:39 (UTC)

Hmm, good point. Or maybe Rose didn't have her phone set to the right time in the first place. Or maybe RTD just doesn't waste so much of his life thinking about this kind of trivia, bless 'im! :-) (I still think my version is how the phone should work, even if it turns out that it doesn't. I claim 'engineering license'.) --DudeGalea 6 July 2005 15:45 (UTC)

According to RTD's column in Doctor Who Magazine, Rose's call arrives a couple of days before the first episode (hence her asking Jackie what day it is; she realises that what her mum's saying doesn't fit how things were when she left). The column added that this two-day discrepency was permenent, and that Jackie's first "where the hell are you?" call (made the day after Rose) arrived off-camera during World War Three, following which Rose set the phone's answering machine.

DudeGalea's idea strikes me as a lot simpler 8-). Daibhid C 12 July 14:44 (UTC)

[edit] Jagrafess

... monstrous creature known as the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe (or Max) and... (Plot)

... he pronounces it as "The Mighty Jagrafress of the Holy Hadrajassic Maxaraddenfoe". Actor Simon Pegg... (Notes)

Shouldn't it be the same throughout the article? It's... Thelb4! 19:30, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

No, because the point of the note is that Pegg mispronounces it. The spelling in the plot section is the correct one. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 23:46, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I see, but I'm going to make it easier to understand. Thelb4 (talk • contribs) (I can't get my tilda button to work.)