Bill Nighy in Doctor Who?

Rumour has it that Bill Nighy, who has played too many awesome characters to name, will be appearing in the Van Gogh episode of season 5. His appearance has not been confirmed, but if it’s true this is awesome. I love Nighy and would love to see him interact with The Doctor.

Matt Smith/Karen Gillan Interview

Here’s a clip from an interview with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, mainly discussing costumes and seeing all the iconic things from the show for the first time. It’s nice to hear them together and they seem to have a good relationship which I hope translates on screen.

There are very minor spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the season 5 trailer you probably won’t want to listen.

The End of Time Review

Well that’s it. The 10th Doctor says goodbye and a new era of Doctor Who begins.

I have to say the most interesting part of the whole story was that The Doctor didn’t save the day, The Master did. It was great to see why the Doctor still believes in him even after all that he’s done. Speaking of the Master, John Simm rocked that role. In both parts of the story he managed to bring the crazy, sadness, desperation and anger that the Master suffers from and weave it all together. I’m not quite sure if we’ll ever see him again, since he was sent back to the final day of the Time War, but I suspect someone will find a way one day.

The return of the Time Lords was interesting. We didn’t get the version the Doctor remembers, the powerful yet good people. Instead we got the Time Lords who survived the destruction of their planet and became twisted and evil who wanted to actually end time. That’s a hell of a plan! Timothy Dalton was great as the angry President, and really chewed up the scenery! I’d like to see him return one day, he’d make a great foil for the Doctor.

Bernard Cribbins was an amazing companion for the Doctor. His total love and respect for him was nice to see and was a lovely thing to have for the Doctor as things were ending. Having Wilf be the one who knocks 4 times was tragic. The Doctor could have left him and Wilf would have been fine with it, but he just couldn’t let Wilf go. Of all the ways the Doctor can die, saving an innocent and unimportant Human has to be the most fitting.

The final scenes, where the Doctor goes and visits all the people who have travelled with him was sweet and very well done. Saving Mr and Mrs Smith from a Sontaran, saving Luke and seeing Sarah Jane, giving Donna an amazing and heart warming wedding gift and seeing a pre-Doctor Rose on new year’s day was a great ending.

There’s not really much else I can say. The whole story was a great end to the 10th Doctor’s journey. It was exciting, personal and more than anything emotional…exactly what was needed. His final line, “I don’t want to go” was perfect. I liked that it seemed like he was fighting to the end, the result of which was trashing the TARDIS.

A perfect ending for one of the greatest Doctor’s.

The End of Time Clip

Here’s the 3 minute clip from Children in Need that aired last night. It looks like it’s from near the beginning of the episode and seems since the end of The Waters of Mars, the Doctor has been running around the universe having as much fun as possible.

The Waters of Mars Review

After a long wait, the 10th Doctor returns to our screens and pays a visit to Mars. Unfortunately he finds himself in a fixed point in time that he can’t interfere with.

First of all, this episode was called one of the scariest ever, and while the water zombies looked freaky, it wasn’t really scary. I think Blink still holds the title of scariest episode ever! I did like the idea of the zombies though, it was a nice bit of exaggerating real science. Water has been discovered on Mars and very recently proven to be on the Moon, and having this in the back of your mind while watching that water kill people is pretty cool.

The main focus of the episode though is the Doctor coming to terms with the reality of his life and time, his predicted death and what it means to be the last of the Time Lords. I really liked that the Doctor tried to stay out of things as much as possible, but his curiosity and compassion gets the best of him and he finally goes too far and breaks the rules he usually follows. The fact that the end of this version of the Doctor may be his own fault is a nice way of ending this story and leading into the next.

I liked seeing the crew try and deal with the situation as best they could…following the rules and regulations and finding that nothing could prepare them for the reality of water monsters. Unfortunately not a lot of them got a great deal of character development. Adelaide, as the most important woman in Earth’s exploration of space, clearly gets the majority of the development. Not only do we learn about her encounter with a Dalek but we get a family history spanning centuries. The others we find out like robots, carrots and Christmas dinner. That was a shame because when the did get soaked, I didn’t really care too much.

Overall it was a good episode that did a good job of pushing the Doctor too far and shooting him head first into his own end. The enemy were cool looking but failed to live up to the hype unfortunately. I did enjoy the episode and am definitely excited to see how things play out now.

Oh…and the less said about Gadget the better!

Generic Sarah Jane Post

Here’s the cinema trailer for the 3rd season of the Sarah Jane Adventures. Gotta admit, it looks like it’ll be a lot of fun.

Love the Judoon and Doctor moments scattered throughout, though another Slitheen episode doesn’t sound as exciting.

New Logo

The BBC have revealed the new logo that will appear in the opening titles, as well as on tons of Doctor Who stuff, when the new season starts next year.

The text portion kinda reminds me of the older logos and the other part is a DW shaped like the TARDIS. I suspect the DW will appear on merchandise and in trailers. Overall I kinda like it, it’s the same but different and like a lot of what we’ve seen so far, harkens back to the earlier Doctors.

Spoilery Set Pics

SFX have published some very interesting photos from some recent filming of the new season of Doctor Who. Matt Smith can clearly be seen wearing the 10th Doctor’s clothes, but the interesting part is that they’re shredded. If I were a guessing man 10 is going to regenerate in a pretty violent way! The other photo’s show Karen Gillan in what I think a lot of people will hope is her standard costume!

Very interesting stuff and some possible insights into the Doctor and Amy’s first meeting. It’s unusual that no time will have passed between his regeneration and meeting up with Amy as the previous few Doctor’s have had time to adjust before meeting up with someone.

Air Date Confirmed

The BBC have finally confirmed the air date for The Sarah Jane Adventures. The first episode, which see’s the return of the Judoon, will air on the 15th October on BBC1.

Season 3 also features the first appearance by the Doctor in the show, which is bound to be an awesome 2 parter – especially since it’ll be one of the last times we see the 10th Doctor.

11th Doctor First Day Filming

Southerndown beach, best known to Doctor Who fans as Bad Wolf Bay, was the location chosen to film the first scenes for season 5 and for the 11th Doctor. The photos coming from there show the new Doctor’s outfit which consists of a tweed jacket with leather elbow pads, braces, a bow tie, rolled up trousers and boots. It’s a pretty old fashioned look for such a young looking Doctor. I like it though and kinda suits him.

Other revelations of the day include the name of the 11th Doctors companion, played by Karen Gillan. She is called Amy Pond, and by the looks of it is from the 21st century. Her costume is pretty much what you’d expect for a person her age, and she looks really good next to the Doctor.

Biggest spoiler though is who else was on the beach. Click to read who! show

The only other big bit of the news is the newly painted TARDIS. It’s a lot bluer and looks more like the 1st Doctors version. Not much to say about that really. The TARDIS has had a makeover in the past so this change isn’t totally out of the blue. It’s still a police box and that’s all that matters!

Links to photos

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