Continuity
- The Doctor mentions a craft with a link back to a person from Earth's history, a reference to "The Girl in the Fireplace".
- When they open the first door on the ship, Martha reminds herself to be prepared for anything, mentioning rhino-headed storm troopers and witches on broomsticks.
- When Martha comments on how the forest world could be compacted onto the ship like the console room is compacted in the TARDIS, the Doctor points out that every time you open the TARDIS doors the console room is there, "Well nine times out of ten." This is in reference to events in the 2005 episode "Father's Day" using a phrase famous from the episode The Robots of Death.
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Famous quotes containing the word continuity:
“Every society consists of men in the process of developing from children into parents. To assure continuity of tradition, society must early prepare for parenthood in its children; and it must take care of the unavoidable remnants of infantility in its adults. This is a large order, especially since a society needs many beings who can follow, a few who can lead, and some who can do both, alternately or in different areas of life.”
—Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994)
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)