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:
“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“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)
“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)