Doctor Who: The Long Game - REVIEW - The Trip of a Lifetime 

"Create a climate of fear and it's easy to keep the borders closed. It's just a matter of emphasis..." Thanks for checking out this episode in my marathon review-series! Please consider hitting that "like" button to appease the almighty algorithm, and comments are great as well!

5:40 “Who installed that?” As he point backwards at the dalek art.

Man, what is it with Rose and being attracted to men played by abusers?

My biggest problem with Adam is that nuwho seems to be obsessed with having "the best" become companions. Or at least RTD. Classic Who had someone just walk into the Tardis, be extremely confrontational, and still become a companion. Whereas Adam tries to use the Tardis for his own gain, and instead of a conversation and warning from the Doctor he's immediately booted WITHOUT even having his forehead door removed. Also there's the whole romance thing with Rose being part of the reason he was kicked.

The Adam stuff has always been my favourite part of the episode. Although I may be a little biased there.

One thing I didn't quite get about this episode, is that pretty much everyone could open Adam's head-opener thing or whatever it's called

Late to the party but the reason Simon Pegg was The Editor is because he didn't have the time to play the original character he was offered. Rose's dad Pete.

I kind of wanted the Jagrafess to be a devolved Sil

Just watched this episode last night. The Doctor and Rose's attitude towards the end pissed me off. I get their reason, but I still feel like this Doctor is turning me off. Eccelston's Doctor is awesome, but my opinion of him has shifted a lot since I started watching this series.

Easily my least favourite of series 1, but I'd love to read a Target novelisation of it

Oh my God. It was Lex Luthor behind this all along!

Feels like you could write a small ESSAY on this story. Please do.

The Editor always felt like 9's equivalent of The Master before The Master came back for me. I wish we had been able to have more of him after The Long Game.

Here's some trivia that doesn't get enough attention. Simon Pegg Repeats his "Is a slave a slave, if he doesn't know he's enslaved?" line almost verbatim in Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Speaking of things that don't get enough attention.

This story always bothers me, mainly because they completely wasted Simon Pegg. He's capable of so much more, and in this he's incredibly under sued as a villain.

This story is incredibly flawed and the weak point of Series 1, but it gets a pass because of Simon Pegg.

Spot on. I agree with all the points except about Rose - but that's just me being biased. I kinda wish Jagrafess could have more backstory and be more menacing than just a screamy blob with teeth, or heck, might as well remove it and make the Editor the main villain with "inexplicable" technology prowess.

Honestly I just love this episode as good campy fun. Like, I know it's written pretty sloppily, but it has so many little fun moments; the opening scene, the beef milkshake, the side character's useless pew pew scifi gun, adam puking up an ice cube, Kathica complaining about not getting a promotion even after learning that floor 500 was a death trap, the ending scene with the finger snapping opening up Adam's head, plus Simon Pegg hamming it up alongside a dumb cgi blob monster. It's just perfect dumb fun for me

I can see maybe a ‘Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire’ continuum, similar to that of the Time Lord Victorious one. The only problem is, which other Doctor Who stories actually feature that concept?

Taking Adam, the alien-tech genius, to the future of humanity had all the makings of a great little story, but I'm so surprised they just didn't go in that direction.

14:23, yes this sequence is one of the most memorable scenes from Series 1. So creepy

If there’s a point to Adam in this story - the novelisation of Dalek did help inform this interpretation as did the series pitch published in DWM - it’s a test for the Doctor/Rose relationship. With Adam, Rose has another human on board whom she can relate to better, especially after the events of Dalek where she learned just how alien the Doctor still is, so it makes sense that she’s gonna wanna spend sometime with someone more her level again. This is reinforced by Adam being compared to the Doctor and his sad admission after he’s shown he can’t hack it that there really is no getting in between the Doctor and Rose. Later on Jack will end up serving the same purpose, but just more for the Doctor to actively compete against. It’s odd you’d use that scene with Adam and Rose as a mark against her seeing as that’s clearly Rose being nice. Also, while we’ll get into things in BoomTown, for now I’ll just say that Mickey isn’t the Rory Williams levels of loyal his fans like to paint him as. He freely admits he’d have given up on Rose after a year elapsed if he wasn’t a suspect, and abandoned her, flinging himself into a dumpster the last time we saw him. He made up for it, but those are definitely bad boyfriending moments. Overall another great review. A thing I appreciate the most is how you always try to see the bright side, even when it’s an episode your not a fan of. Can’t walk for the next review. Addendum: it just hit me that you could read the Doctor and Rose’s flippancy as less careless and more reassuring. Like, the calming feeling you get from professionals in their field. Also, the Doctor, I think, does show small growth by describing time travel in terms that Adam will understand (the Paris analogy), which is an improvement over the barrage of new concepts and species that Rose got given.

Next Time on The trip of a lifetime, Travelling to the 80's, A man who supposed to die live, And finally an Oscar clip worth watching, I guess we got next year's Fathers Day eariler than expected, Beware for the Time Paradoxes Reapers.

I think Simon Pegg in this Episode was waisted. (Now don't get me wrong) I love his performance and he does, I admit do a brilliant job as the editor (and in other think like Ice age 3, Ice age 5, Star Wars 7 and Shaun of the Dead) but It is still a waist I mean he could have been the Master in Series 3 instead or Rose's Dad. At least that way he would have had a greater more memorable part off Doctor Who considering how brilliant he is as an actor.

13:27 No, that’s not right, Doctor Who’s only supposed to get Political in 2018

Tonight on Fox News, We fake the true news in the year 200'000 in space, And the Doctor is super pissed at Adam.

This story was begging to be a two parter, while not awful it's easily one of the most undercooked stories of the series. Plus, in the original script, Adam's motivation for sending info back to the 21st century was that a family member of his had an incurable disease that was cured by the far future. But with that cut, all we have to go on is that Adam is clever?

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I feel like people are asking for too much here. It's a 45 minute episode. There's only so much world building you can do

You just reminded me of the Doctor Who Adventures kid's magazine. They once had a pull-out poster depicting spaceships and space stations and stuff, and they got Satellite Five and Platform One mixed up.

5:30 - 5:50 he says all of that with a Dalek over his shoulder, foreshadowing ;p .

I honestly need have a problem with this episode. I really like Adam, I like the political messaging and the reason both Rose and the doctor are so suspicious is that Adam was previously employed by Henry Van Stratten so they are right to be that way and you forget that the Doctor ends up be right about Adam.

I wouldn't say the story is a dud, but it is probably the weaker episode of the season for being almost filler.

First time I watched this series I too was critical of Rose, but watching it again I get it... She's 19. She's a child.

This was one of the two episodes that got a bit of a negative feedback from Season One. I always thought it was a great episode and still do today. I am glad if it is likely to reappraised more positively. Simon Pegg does a great job.

There's a doctor who graphic novel called prisoners of time which explains how Adam Mitchell go his revenge on the doctor

10:44, yes! This is a moment I've also always felt was weird

It always bothered me you can't see people's breath when it's meant to be freezing cold.

Your first review of this from about a dozen years ago was the first of your videos I watched.

We did see what eventually happened to Adam in the IDW comic series Prisoners of Time.

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I think with Adam, what he offers a bit different than Mickey is that we have a "companion that wasn't" that failed morally. That used his position as a companion for selfish reasons which could have radically altered history. And unlike some other companions (say Rose in the very next episode) he didn't have enough goodwill to bounce back from this. Whereas Mickey gained the Doc's favour and eventually got to travel a bit. In regards to the scenes with the different gender identities, robot and Boe's pregnancies, I do kind of wonder if this undermines part of RTD's point about how Floor 500 has stunted humanity's progressiveness. Doesn't them being quote on quote "woke" and interacting with someone most would assume is an alien kind of undercut that a little bit.

I like The Long Game

When you mentioned that this is the downfall of Rose made me think to your original Boomtown review, can we see Welshy come back in the new review?

Admittedly, The Long Game is the Series 1 episode I rewatch the least. I can't give my honest thoughts because I haven't seen it recently enough, but I do think you make some strong points about Adam, his role in this episode, and how he drags down the Doctor and Rose by his association. He really should only have been a side character in Dalek.

Hello Jackie, you look nice *Clicks Fingers* Hi Adam

Nice review. Yeah The Long Game is certainly one of my least favourite from Series 1, tied for bottom with Aliens of London/World War Three. Admittedly I think the Slitheen episodes would be more easily "fixed " than The Long Game.

I wouldn’t have even shown the Jagrafess. I’m a firm believer that your imagination is far more interesting and terrifying than anything a set designer or artist could whip up.

There’s something quite nice about the nothingness of this episode when it comes to the finale. When they find out they’re back there, it’s almost like: “What? That random, forgettable episode? What’s going on?”

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Tamsin Greig should play The Doctor

Ah the next one is a really awesome one. Enter Steven Moffat dr who's best writer Edit Um yea its 2 weeks...😭

Simon pegg = good episode

Nice video, love this channel

I think Simon Pegg got a better part then Nick Frost.

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