DOCTOR WHO IS FUCKING BACK TONIGHT (post in this thread about Doctor Who [please])

[The Tomtrek]

“The Tenth Doctor will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the old TARDIS set permanently. The last remnants of RTD have been swept away."
-Grand Moff Steven

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SO BEGINS THE NEW ERA OF DOCTOR WHO. Series 5 (if you’re a normal person)/Series 1 (if you’re the production team) / Season 31 (if you’re cool).

Now under the helm of Steven “Remember me? I wrote the really good episodes? Yeah, those ones.” Moffat with Matt “I got arrested for carrying my sonic screwdriver through customs” Smith and Karen “I appear to be actually lovely in every way (and Scottish)” Gillian as Amy Pond (MAYBE HER MIDD NAME IS DUCK? BUT WHAT IS A DUCK POND… WITHOUT ANY DUCKS?)


WHAT WE WILL EXPECT FROM THE EPISODES THAT WILL BE COMING INTO OUR BRIANS VIA THE TELEVISION:


1. The Eleventh Hour
Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest Starts: Annette Crosbie, Nina Wadia, and Arthur Darvill
Geronimo! A brand-new Doctor crashing to Earth. New face, new body, new man. And he's barely staggered out of the blue box, before he's found himself in the middle of the Crisis That Just Won't Stop! No time to rest and recover, no Tardis, no screwdriver – just six billion human beings about to die and only one man to save them. But the new Doctor encounters more than danger – this is the day he meets Amy Pond. Can he persuade her to trust him, when he's been letting her down all her life?

2. The Beast Below

Spoiler

Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest Stars: Sophie Okonedo, Terrence Hardiman
The Doctor takes Amy to the far future, and Starship UK. The British people, adrift among the stars on a giant spaceship, in search of a new home. But there are secrets here, in the rusting corridors and clanging hallways. A masked figure, who knows the Doctor of old, begs his help, while Amy encounters the terrifying Smilers, and uncovers a secret so dreadful, no one can remember it…

3. Victory of the Daleks

Spoiler

Writer: Mark Gatiss
Guest stars: Ian McNeice and Bill Paterson
From the terrifying future of the United Kingdom to one of the darkest chapters of its past – World War Two. The Doctor and Amy find themselves in a top-secret cabinet war room deep beneath the London streets. And there, gliding among the nicotine walls and Bakelite telephones, the Daleks are hatching their deadliest scheme yet. Only one man can help the Doctor – whose side is Winston Churchill on?

4. The Time of Angels
5. Flesh and Stone

Spoiler

Writer: Steven Moffat
Guest Stars: Alex Kingston and Ian Glen
A two-part story. A crashed spaceship, a shattered temple and a terrifying climb through the maze of the dead – River Song is back in the Doctor's life, and she's brought more trouble than even he can handle. The last of the Weeping Angels is loose in the ruins of Alfava Metraxis, and the Doctor is recruited to track it down. "Dont Blink!" everyone tells Amy – but as Amy is about to discover, not blinking, might just be the worst thing you can do…

6. Vampires in Venice

Spoiler

Writer: Toby Whithouse
Guest Star: Helen McCrory
In Venice, even danger is beautiful. The House of Calvierri has the whole city under its protection, but something is very wrong. There are blood-drained corpses in the street, something lurks in the canal, and the Calvierri girls are the loveliest in town, except when you glance in the mirror…

7. Amy's Choice

Spoiler

Writer: Simon Nye
Guest Star: Toby Jones
It's been five long years since Amy travelled in the Tardis with her mysterious Doctor – and when he shows up again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, danger is not far behind him. Amy is faced with a heartbreaking choice that will change her life forever.

Episodes 8 and 9. The Hungry Earth & Cold Blood

Spoiler

Writer: Chris Chibnall
Guest Stars: Meera Syal, Stephen Morre and Neve McIntosh
In 2015, the most ambitious drilling project in history is under way. Dr Nasreen Chaudhry and her team have reached 21 kilometres into the Earth's crust – but something is stirring far below. Amy Pond discovers there's nowhere to run when you can't even trust the ground at your feet.

Episode 10. Vincent and The Doctor

Spoiler

Writer: Richard Curtis
Guest Star: Tony Curran
Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a battle with a deadly alien – saving the world has never been so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?

Episode 11. The Lodger

Spoiler

Writer: Gareth Roberts
Guest Stars: James Corden and Daisy Haggard
The Doctor faces his greatest challenge yet – a flat share! People are disappearing on Aickman Road, and the Doctor must solve the mystery of a staircase that people walk up – but never down.

Episode 12 and 13. The Pandorica Opens & The Big Bang

Spoiler

Writer: Steven Moffat
A message on the oldest cliff-face in the universe, a puzzle box opening from the inside and a love that lasts thousands of years…The fates are drawing close around the Tardis – is this the day the Doctor falls?

Episode synopsis from: http://tardis-base.blogspot.com/2010/03/radio-times-series-five-episode-guide.html



And although the other threads have been throwing spoilers out like mad IF WE COULD KEEP ALL SPOILERS IN SPOILER CODE IN THIS THREAD (the thread where people will post about Doctor Who every week [I hope]) THEN THAT WOULD BE REALL COOL AND I’D LIKE YOU AS A PERSON. Obviously stuff about the show that has just aired are not spoilers so people in the us can suck it wait until it’s on BBC America (or download the episode).

So THAT’S ABOUT IT until the first episode starts (in HD too, HD fans) in about four and a half hours.



HOW VERY CONVENIENT , ISN’T IT??
THAT WHENEVER THE TARDIS MALFUNCTIONS IS ALWAYS MATERIALIZES JUST WHERE THERE’S A CRISIS BREWING!
IT’S SUCH A COIIIINCIDENCE!!

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[Tisiphone]

THANKS FOR THE REMINDER

 

[CaptainWacky]

Oh that starts tonight?

 

[Fuddlemiff]

IT'S ON IN A FEW MOMENTS

 

[whisky]

And I arrived back at home just a few minutes too late to catch it.

Bugger.

Guess I'll be watching it later.

 

[The Tomtrek]

That.

Was.

AWESOME.


I pretty much had a grin on my face all the way through.

All doubts I had about Matt Smith are gone, I think he's great. Just quirky enough but not TOO quirky.

Amy Pond is EVEN LOVLIER THAN I THOUGHT and that's saying something!


EDIT: OH AND FUCKING PATRICK MOORE.

The writing was, as per usual Moffat, excellent. Funny but not in ways that distract from the drama, full of interesting ideas (this episode basically did what Smith and Jones did but BETTER).

And of course the bit with all the old Doctors and then Matt Smith. I love this show.


I love this show.

EDIT: OH AND FUCKING PATRICK MOORE


EDIT EDIT: This was good too:

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[WillsZenith]

was much better then I thought

loved the scene with the food ' youre scottish , fry something etc'


was good, nice surprise

space spitfires coming up....

 

[Fuddlemiff]

First THE BAD

I didn't like the new theme tune

And now THE GOOD

I did like the visuals of the titles. And the story, which was a little bit Pan's Labyrinth (coincidence that C4 are showing it tonight? *raised eyebrow*). It was a relief to see a fully coherent, well written episode of Who after all this time. Reminded me of a good Sarah Jane two-parter. Matt Smith and Thingamy Thingan were both really good, as was the little Pond. The alien ships weren't as well done as they could've been, but the production team obviously had loads to do for this ep, so they can be forgiven. Got high hopes for the rest of the season.

 

[WillsZenith]

I agree with the them was a bit duff for my, I expect itll change next season...

also agree the effects were a little below, but im guessing it will improve looking at the dalek /space spitfire, and cyberman planet future eps they already look above tonights efforts, so prob budget constraints....

all in all a refreshing change, liked the bit with the docs shown and he steps through tennents projection...

jolly good stuff, and I agree 100% with what you post...

 

[The Tomtrek]

There's a clean version of the theme music on the BBC site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/episodes/b00rs6t7/videos/p00765br

I think it'll grow on me, the intro is a bit strange and it's wierd that the version they played during the credits didn't have the middle eight.

Of course, and this is 100% speculation, it's possible that we might get a teaked or different opening titles next week as Moffat did say we'd see Matt Smith's face in the titles, and it could be that he wanted to leave that out of this episodes titles as he's not properly the Doctor yet (but probably not).

 

[whisky]

His face might have given away the clothes he was going to end up wearing, which I know the trailers and a million photos already have.

Good start, could have been better, but that just means it can get better, its when they blow you away with the first episode that the rest of the series finds itself with nowhere to go.

Shame the full series trailer showed River Song getting rescued by the Tardis, I prefared the uncertainty of her possibly getting killed because the Doctor had told her she couldn't die now as he had already seen her die.

Loved the finger clicking door opening, and the fact that its not all set in london.

The montage was great, as not only did we see all ten previous doctors, but old school monsters too, which is a first.

 

[CaptainWacky]

The start of the theme was weird. Like I thought "is this actually the theme?" weird. And there was that brief appearance by James Corden's face in the preview at the end.

BUT those are my only "complaints" really! I was pleasantly surprised by how good Matt Smith was because I thought he might need time to grow on me. But he seemed like the Doctor right from the start. Also I was worried he'd be a bit mubling and rambling based on his interviews but I could actually understand everything he said! Always a bonus.

Amy was lovely with her FIERCE eyes and her hair spun by Scottish angels. Rory was a lot better than Mickey was in his first episode. I laughed quite a few times (SUCH AS at the "not him, the good looking one" line.) AND PATRICK MOORE.

The preview had a lot of cool shit too.

I LIKED IT.

 

[SaintLucifer]

Fuck Dr. Who! The series sucks. The character sucks. I mean, a fucking telephone booth to travel through Time and Space? Get fucking real. About as dumb as the Americans and their Superman using a fucking telephone booth to change.

 

[The Tomtrek]

It's nice to know you can't understand a concept that children have been understanding for over 45 years.

This was awesome:

BONUS:

 

[Tisiphone]

I got all excited about Dr. Who, then realized where I lived and I wouldn't be seeing it until next Saturday. *sniffle*

 

[whisky]

Did you make those yourself Tomtrek?

Yeah, the doctor walking through the 10th image is the best possible way they could have said "this is my show now"

 

[CaptainWacky]

It's lucky we weren't all sucked up Christopher Eccleston's nostrils.

 

[WillsZenith]

Fuck Dr. Who! The series sucks. The character sucks. I mean, a fucking telephone booth to travel through Time and Space? Get fucking real. About as dumb as the Americans and their Superman using a fucking telephone booth to change.

sci fi is lost on the canuck, strangely dr who has lasted longer then the third reich....


the irony...

 

[The Tomtrek]

 

[CaptainWacky]

She's more lovely than love.