h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Weird

There are a lot of workplaces that allow access to BBC sites but not many others. I can get in here and one or two other forums but most are either completely blocked or won't let me log in.

Yep, I can do any BBC and Channel 4. Other than that they're all work related.

We had the Face of Boe track? Missed that. Probably talking too much.

Bizarrely, the "Hello, Old Friend" was practically the first thing I thought of after Jack's inadvertent revelation. I really do want to go back and see all the F of B bits again now, to see how they add up now that I know the answer to the question

Mol

The question is why didn´the give The Doctor more information? Instead of "You are not alone" how about a "That guy called the Master isn´t really dead, but hiding in the year 100 trillion with a bunch of pointy-teethed people and will become prime minister." After all he had five billion years to come up with something good.

Well, you know how your memory goes when you're getting old ...

Mol

I was going to say that.

I think it is to do with paradoxes (not that, I admit, the writers seem too fussed about paradoxes!) Because jack knew what had happened (by the time he talked to him as the Face of Boe), he couldn't tell the Doctor anything that he knew the Doctor hadn't know at the time (Utopia, Sound of Drums, Last of the Timelords.) We know that Jack is sensible enough to not cross timelines &c. because he said that he was waiting for the 'right' version of the Doctor.

Hope that makes sense

Aye, it boggles the mind a bit this time-travel malarkey.

But in "The Long Game" the face of bo was pregnant

Again!

Apparently it wouldn't be Jack's first time either, he said in the pilot of Torchwood it was something he'd never do again

I cannot remember that very well

Beginning of the first episode:

"There you go. I can taste it. Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. You take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle, feminises the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky, then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again. "

Still haven't seen the whole series... when are they repeating it?

They'll probably repeat it just before series two is on, and I don't think that's until the new year (although no actual transmission dates have been announced as far as I know).

It'll probably be around the same time of year

I said all that /|\ a while back. I feel very clever now!

meh

Are there no televisual treats to look forward to between now and chrismas?

Apart from torchwood i dont think so, unless they do a special for CIN which is not very likely...