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i read it would be someone called richard dawkins

Here's a bit if niftiness that was, apparently, on BBC1 yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTxWRZKHI6s

Enjoy!

Berz.

In theory, it means either that she made some choice already that led us to where we are, currently, that if changed will change the outcome and reset things. Otherwise, it could also mean that she is about to make such a choice. But I did hear that chittering noise that we heard from the big bug in Turn Left.

But, yes, it does seem likely that a reset will be in order.

Berz.

So does that mean that the Master is coming back around?

The Daleks weren't in the The Sound of Drums. They've been in every season, but not every finale. And, really, the fact that they keep coming back is nothing new in the history of the show.

The beat I'm talking about kicks in at 26 minutes and 24 seconds into the episode; the beeping that precedes Harriet Jones' transmission over the SubWave network. It's definitely the same beat as the drumming. Further more, they used the same note as was used in track 21 of the season 3 soundtrack where they used that beat, at 24 seconds.

I'm not saying that the Master is coming back for the finale. In fact, at this point, it would be a little much to try and deal with. But do recall a couple things:

1. There was the lady picking up the Master's ring at the end of The Last of the Timelords. We still don't know what was up with that.
2. Harriet Jones mentioned that the SubWave network was created by the Mister Copper Foundation. What the heck is that!?!
3. The Archangel Network from The Sound of Drums was just as sophisticated. The Master has built something like this before.

So, all in all, while I doubt rather highly we're going to be seeing the Master this series (in fact, RTD has actually said we won't; he yanks our chains, but he has never all-out lied), the hints would seem to indicate that he's out there, in some form, still.

Berz.

Oh! Right! I had forgotten his name! Veeerrry interestink indeed! ninja

The question becomes whether or not he actually had a hand in developing the technology or was just the one to throw money at it. He strikes me as a rather naive individual. Perhaps he is being taken for a rather sinister ride...

Hmm... interesting indeedeedoo...

Meanwhile, anyone want to speculate on the Osterhagen Key that UNIT handed Martha?

I've been googling the term and I've come up with some interesting factoids.

1. Osterhagen is a place in Germany.
2. A sub-camp of the WWII concentration camp network was there.
3. You can split it into two words, oster and Hagen; "oster" being an old Saxon (eh? What now?!) word for "to rise" and Hagen being the name of a one-eyed, half-brother villain of a hero in an ancient Germanic story.
4. Osterhagen is an anagram of "Earths gone."
5. Oster and Hagen are two recent scientists; the former has his hands into biology and the latter does work in QFT on two-dimension theories.

Speculation thus far has been rampant. Some of speculated that it is a self-destruct for the entire Earth. Some have said that it will "unlock" that portion of time that is "locked" by the timewar and will may even restore Gallifrey. At least one person has sited the Skasis Paradigm (see "School Reunion" in the second series) and has suggested that it is somehow a device to allow the creation of a completely new universe according to the key-holder's parameters.

Considering that Harriet Jones told Martha not to use it and that Martha herself is extremely reluctant to use it, it would seem that something very bad happens as a side-effect.

Any thoughts?

Berz.