Everything about our favourite Time Lord and his daily Pressing Need to Save the World. In my own fangirl-y, biased, and totally enamoured way.
You can find an image by image breakdown of the new official trailer at Blogtor Who’s (click on the image), but this one I couldn’t resist: Amy Pond and the as yet unnamed guest character played by the magnificent Rupert Graves. I don’t think you understand how much I’m looking forward to this. Or perhaps you do. Anyway. Huzzah!
OK, so the BBC are spoiling us today, with the following news announcements:
CONFIRMED: Jenna-Louise Coleman unveiled as new Doctor Who companion radiotimes.com/news/2012-03-2…
Radio Times (@RadioTimes) March 21, 2012
Steven: "We saw a lot of brilliant actresses. But Jenna was the only person going faster than Matt - he had to keep up!"
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Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) March 21, 2012"Even by the Doctor's standards, this isn't your usual boy meets girl." blogtorwho.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/new-co…
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Blogtor Who (@BlogtorWho) March 21, 2012Well—that sounds bloody amazing! Continue reading
Cool guys don't look at explosions
Previous episode: The Wedding of River Song.
The Doctor, in space, diving after a space suit that he desperately needs, ’cause he’s about to crash into Earth—for which he has to pass into the planet’s atmosphere first, though. Getting dressed in a hurry, then. (How exactly is he breathing…?) Oh, never mind: it’s Christmas! Continue reading
Quoting the BBC News article:
“The final days of the Ponds are coming,” Moffat said.
“I’m not telling you when or how, but that story is going to come to a heartbreaking end.”
He said the Doctor, played by Matt Smith, was going to meet “a new friend”. It is believed that role has not yet been cast.
Oh, dear. I will be sad, and excited at the same time, which really is the worst and yet best feeling that Doctor Who can give you. I will be sad to see Amy and Rory go—I’m just hoping that the Moff means heartbreaking in a good, in a happy way, because otherwise I shall be forced to pick up the pitchfork and chase him through Cardiff in his TARDIS pyjamas. Still, I’m excited that the Doctor will have new company next series, just because Matt Smith’s acting sizzles, and Eleven’s personality has so much more to offer; it will be an absolute treat seeing that bounce off someone else. Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan leave enormous shoes to be filled they have been at the top of their game for two years straight; and I’m sure that, with Steven Moffat, Sue Vertue, and Piers Wenger as casting geniuses, the actor or actress (I’m actually rooting for a guy to get the job, not because I’m a slash fangirl, that’s just a bonus, but because the pretty earth girl routine might be getting old; besides: Donna was his best mate, why not have a matey best mate around?) who is destined to do that will be tremendous. Whoever they are, I’m loving them already. Bring it on, Series 7!
Read the introduction to the new Christmas Special and in-depth interviews with executive producer and head writer, Steven Moffat, and lead actors, Matt Smith, Claire Skinner, and Alexander Armstrong, HERE.
Also, keep an eye on the BBC Adventure Calendar for news and teasers, one per day ’til Christmas.
The Doctor thinks he’s going to die, because he’s blowing up a spaceship while he’s still on it, with no chance of escape. Let me rephrase that: with no apparent chance of escape. He’s going to get out of it, it’s a prequel, dammit—but how? A consequence of River using up her regeneration cycle to save him in Let’s Kill Hitler, making him explosion-proof, justifying the line RTD (who, by the way, our hearts and wishes go out to in the light of his boyfriend’s illness) put in in The Sarah Jane Adventures: the Doctor stating that, oh, Time Lords can live forever? Or perhaps the TARDIS saves him, stubborn, sexy girl that she is. And, all questions aside, how does this connect to the Christmas Special itself, being set in England in 1941? Continue reading
I got hot butter on my brand-new dress, which, of course, you can’t just get out in the laundry, so I sat down with a needle and some twine and put an emergency TARDIS right on top of it! Stitched the contours, filled out the rest with textile marker (remember to iron it through tissue paper so the paint is fixed, then it withstands 40°C in the laundry without cracking or washing out). Also: use darning cotton, it’s thicker, for one thing, and it works better with the stretchy material of the dress. Continue reading
Called When the Skies Return, it features the Tenth Doctor, Captain Jack Harkness, and Donna Noble. It is set in my own little AU after Journey’s End, and it has drama/angst as well as humour and some fun. Posted on my fanfiction.net profile, thegrumblingirl.
Previous episode: Closing Time.
I told you. He can’t possibly not have a plan.
This is how the universe does it, boys and girls. In another reality, London has changed a bit—it’s April 22, 2011. It’s the day the Doctor dies, ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, and time’s so messed up that in a parallel universe, the War of the Roses is still going on, cars are up in the air, suspended by hot air balloons, and Charles Dickens (Simon Callow) is on the telly, giving clues about the next Christmas special, The Unquiet Dead, while there’s hot Roman soldiers outside, in carriages. Oh, and pterodactyls are the new doves. Oh, and Churchill is the New Roman Emperor, and Malokeh‘s his doctor. It’s nice to have so many people put in a guest appearance, but… Eh? Continue reading
Previous episode: The God Complex.
Two men and a baby, Cybermen, and time is running out. Fasten your seatbelts! Continue reading
Previous episode: Night Terrors.
Right. Get your mental split-screens, because this is going to be one hell of a ride. Continue reading
Previous episode: Let’s Kill Hitler.
Sometimes, when you just ask for help strongly enough, the Doctor makes a housecall. Continue reading
Previous episode: A Good Man Goes to War.
Oh, dear. At the end of this episode, I am trying to find a sense of accomplishment, as I always do. Something to take with me, something that happened—in this case, there is a lot to take in, emotionally, but as for stuff happening: difficult. In the end, Hitler is still in the cupboard, the Doctor’s still alive, and Amy and Rory are still bewildered parents. Which is fine, basically setting the universe right again is what the Doctor does, it always reverts to a state of status quo, if you will, but this episode celebrates it. Or maybe the episode doesn’t have any other ideas?
