Author Notes

Finally, someone explains the plot! All this exposition, of course, is just a way of getting all that ‘plot’ stuff out of the way so we can get down to having monsters chasing our heroes and going ‘grrrr’ alot.

Greyhaven’s plan, while basically undemocratic, isn’t actually an evil one. He wants to reopen all the closed factories, shipyards and mines. I’m sure someone, somewhere could write an essay on how The Dying Days – the first Who story set in the Blair era, as Tim Collins could tell you - was a metaphor for how New Labour courted big business and encouraged globalisation to get unemployment down.

Fans have often asked how The Dying Days ‘fits’, given that everyone on Earth should know about the Martians afterwards. Here, Benny asks the same question. The Doctor doesn’t answer. Note that the eighth Doctor speaks of the seventh Doctor in the third person.

The Brigadier knows that only the Doctor can get them out of this situation – he doesn’t know what’s about to happen to his old friend.