Midnight and the land of the Midnight Sun

On Sunday afternoon I watched the second-most-recent Doctor Who episode (S4 ep10), and in the evening I rewatched the Top Gear episode where Our Heros race to the North Pole (Hammond with a team of dogs, Clarkson and May with a Toyota Hilux).

My brother had all sorts of statistics, gleaned from Wikipedia, about how the Doctor Who episode was the first to do this that and the other, but the thing I noticed was that the tension building was the same in each one.( Read more... )