This video was posted on YouTube, shows filming from episode 11 of the new series of Doctor Who. It is an episode written by Gareth Roberts, which is believed to be based on the DWM comic strip The Lodger. I love the fact that The Doctor has the number 11 on his football shirt. Of course, Matt Smith originally wanted to be a professional Footballer, and only switched to acting after a back injury ended his footballing career.
Tonight, the BBC started to ramp up the publicity for the next series of Doctor Who with the trailer below:
So, this is the 2D version of the 3D cinema trailer that will be shown with Alice in Wonderland and Avatar. And boy, you can tell. It is very busy, but is still great fun. It doesn’t feature any clips from the upcoming series, but I really hope that the vortex used in this trailer will be seen again in the new Title Sequence, and whenever the TARDIS is seen travelling in time.
It has already been announced that the Daleks and the Weeping Angels are back, so apparently nothing new was shown, until right at the end when the new look Silurians made there first proper appearance. When blurred and distorted images of these creatures first leaked onto the Internet, here were complaints from some fans that these Silurians looked nothing like the originals. To which I replied that that could only be a good thing. The original costumes were terrible. There could be no escaping the fact that the Silurians from the Pertwee and Davison eras looked exactly like a man in a rubber suit and a mask, and no amount of suspension of disbelief could hid that fact. At the end of this trailer we get to see a believable looking reptilian humanoid creature, a massive improvement on the Silurian costumes from the 1970’s and 1980’s.
You know, it is deeply depressing how many normally intelligent people have fallen for the Tory/Daily Mail inspired lie that the Television Licence Fee is a form of taxation. Here is the definition of Taxation from the WordNet Dictionary:
Taxation (Noun)
- Charge against a citizen’s person or property or activity for the support of government [syn: tax, revenue enhancement]
- Government income due to taxation [syn: tax income, revenue]
- The imposition of taxes; the practice of the government levying taxes on the subjects of a state.
Well, the Licence Fee isn’t #1 or #2 because whilst the Television Licencing Agency is owned by HM Government, it is run as a commercial concern and none of the money it makes in profit goes into H. M. Treasury, so it does not provide any income to support H. M. Government. Its not #3 either because the Licence Fee is not paid by every adult citizen in the UK, only by the head of a household that wants to use a television set.
So if it isn’t a tax, what is the Television Licence Fee. Put simply, it is a Subscription fee. You are paying your annual fee to be a member of the British Television Owner’s Club. The surplus that that Owners Club makes is given to an organisation that will guarantee its members that there will always be a diverse package of different programmes on the BBC and everyone will have, even if it is only once a year, something that they will want to watch on their television sets.
DWM #417 ©2010 Panini Magazines
Well it sounds as if all those people who hated Eccleston’s Salford accent and Tennant’s Estuary English will be happy with Matt Smith. If his normal speaking voice is the same as the one he uses for his portrayal of The Doctor, then we are going to have the first Posh Doctor since the series returned in 2005. This assumption is based on three things. First is the interview he gave on Doctor Who Confidential when his casting as The Doctor was first announced. Second is the snippet recorded at Jacob’s Antiques in Cardiff last year. The third an final piece of evidence is an recording of the original raw audio of the interview with Karen Gillan and Matt Smith that appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #417.
The Coat of Arms of the British Broadcasting Corporation
The British Broadcasting Corporation was founded in 1927, when the government of the day bought the existing British Broadcasting Company Ltd because they didn’t think purely commercial concerns could provide a high enough quality of programming. The BBC is known and loved throughout the World. Well loved by everyone except the upper echelons of the Conservative Party, not that they would ever admit to this though. This hatred has nothing to do with the “Usual Complaint” of political bias, because all politicians, Right, Left or Centre believe the BBC is biased against them. This is all to do with their basic political dogma. se The success of the BBC proves it to be wrong at every single level.
The Tories are faced with a problem. Openly admitting they are going to do in Aunty would be electoral suicide, any move to destroy the BBC will be done stealthily, if they win the next election outright. How do they do away with such a successful nationally and internationally respected organisation? By making it look like an outdated basket case that desperately needs to be closed. They will do this by playing silly devils with the Licence Fee. In the United Kingdom, it is a legal obligation for anyone owning a piece of hardware capable of receiving a broadcast television signal, whether from any sort of aerial or over the Internet to hold a Television Licence. The cost of this licence depends on type of equipment used and is administered by the Television Licensing Authority. The BBC is funded by the surplus made by the Television Licensing Authority from the administration of the Television Licence Scheme. This is what makes the BBC unique, it is State Owned, but not State Funded, so can remain politically neutral at all times. Unfortunately, President Blair shares the Tory’s disdain for the BBC, so the current Licence Fee was set by the Government at a level that does not supply the BBC with enough funds. The BBC owns a number of profitable businesses, and it is the money that it earns from these that have prevented the quality of the Corporation’s output from falling. David Cameron has said that as soon as he becomes Prime Minister (its not in the bag yet you arrogant twerp) that he was going to freeze the Licence Fee at its current level, ending the BBC’s right too increase the cost of the Licence Fee to take into account the current level of inflation each year. This would be a crippling blow to Aunty, as although £3 per year rise in the Licence Fee does not sound like much, multiply that by number of Licences issued, and you get a serious hole in the BBC’s income. And then in 2012, the BBC and the Government will renegotiate their agreement over the Licence Fee. The Tories wont be able to abolish the Licence Fee, as it is protected by the Royal Charter that governs the BBC, but they will probably cut it, and they have said that they think giving a portion of the Licence Fee to other organisations that provide Public Service Broadcasting in the UK (exactly who that is is a mystery, they certainly cannot mean ITV) is a good idea. Without the money it needs to run all the services it is mandated to run, the Corporation would implode. It would have to cut jobs, channels, services and programming like crazy, and the BBC would look like a disaster at the very time that its Royal Charter is due for renewal. The Tories will say, “look at the BBC, it clearly is not working, lets not bother renewing the Royal Charter and close down the BBC”. With a few weasel words from the likes of the Daily Mail and poison from rags like The Sun, this deliberate policy of mismanagement would result in the United Kingdom and the World will losing something of immeasurable value. Nation would no longer be able to speak peace unto Nation through the medium of the BBC.
No doubt the Conservatives hope that by asking Greg Dyke, the former Director General of the BBC (who remains a strong supporter of the Corporation, despite the shabby way he was treated by both the Blair Government and the BBC Trust) to investigate the Broadcasting Industry in the UK for them, that the Public wont realise how much they despise the BBC, and that by the General Election the public will also have forgotten David Cameron’s little slip about the Licence Fee. Sadly for them, but fortunately for everybody else, along came lose cannon Daniel Hannah MEP. Hannah infamously appeared on FOX News in the US, claiming that the National Health Service was a “60 year old Stalinist mistake.” and that the American people should reject President Obama’s attempt to reform their healthcare system. Daniel Hannah said on the BBC that he no longer had a Television Licence because he only watched BBC programmes on the BBC iPlayer. So he can hypocritically enjoy the products of the BBC without paying a brass farthing to pay for them. No matter how hard Conservative Central Office tries to claim that this maverick right-winger does not represent what the Tory Party really thinks, the more it becomes apperent that Hannah is the true face of Tory Policy in the run up to the General Election Which means it will be even harder it will be for the Tories to hide their hatred of the BBC.
So on Election Day, fear that EastEnders, Doctor Who and Top Gear will disappear from our television screens forever might be what saves Gordon Brown’s bacon. That the love of Aunty will prevent Smiling Dave from getting the keys to Number 10 Downing Street. That the average voter will vote with their TV remote control and install in power the government that is most likely to preserve the BBC.
Do not be decieved. Doctor#10 was not killed by all that radiation he absorbed saving Wilf from the Nuclear Bolt control box, he has don this sort of thing before in Smith and Jones and lived for a good few years afterwards. Only Odd Numbered Doctors are killed by poisoning. This Doctor was an Even Numbered Doctor, so like all Even Numbered Doctors he was killed by a fall. If you don’t believe me, look at the evidence:
Even Numbered Doctors
#2 – The Time Lords forced his regenerations, but his last words were “You’re making me dizzy!” which indicates that they were about to drop him from a great height.
#4 – Fell from the Pharos Project’s radio telescope.
#6 – Fell from an excercise bike and died from the head trauma he recieved as a result.
#8 – OK so we really don’t know how or why he regerated, but I should imagine falling had something to do with it.
Odd Numbered Doctors
#1 – died of old age, so doesn’t really fall into any pattern.
#3 – Poisoned by the radiation in genereted by all those blue crystals on Metabelis 3.
#5 – Poisoned by raw Spectrox on Androzani Beta.
#7 – Weakend by being shot and then poisoned by the anaesthetic given to him when they tried to remove the bullets.
#9 – Absorbed the whole of the Time Vortex, and as he said nobody is supposed to do that. It poisoned every cell in his body.
Now, the closest the Vinvocci could bring him to the Naismith Mansion was a few hundred feet. He jumped from the spaceship, went crashing through the glass dome and landed hard on the marble floor. That is what killed him. Although he could not know it, there was massive internal bleeding, broken bones, concussion and all sorts of trauma. His body was a mess. So he rescues Wilf and absorbs all that radiation, but because his body is so badly messed-up after the fall it is not going anywhere. It is not until the regeneration that all that radiation can be released, and in doing so, the TARDIS Console Room gets royally trashed.
Written by Russell T. Davies
Directed by Euros Lyn
Starring: David Tennant, John Simm and Bernard Cribbens
Guest Starring: Catherine Tate, Timothy Dalton, Jacqueline King, David Harewood, Clare Bloom, Alexandra Moen, Karl Collins, Billie Piper, Camile Coduri, Noel Clarke, Freema Agyeman, John Barrowman, Elisabeth Sladen, Jessica Hynes, Russell Tovey, Tommy Knight, June Whitfield, Claire Bloom, Tracy Ifeachor, Lawry Lewin, Sinead Keenan, Teresa Banham, Barry Howard, Sylvia Seymour, Simon Thomas, Pete Lee-Wilson, Dwayne Scantlebury, Joe Dixon, Julie Legrand, Brid Brennan, Lachele Carl, Paul Kasey, Ruari Mears, Max Benjamin, Silas Carson, Brian Cox, Nicholas Briggs, Dan Starkey
Introducing MATT SMITH as The Doctor
Three Wise Men
1. Plot:
Part One:
It is 23rd December, 2010 and the World has been having bad dreams, dreams that are forgotten on wakiing. Whilst out Christmas shopping one man Wilfred Mott remembers. He sees the Church in which his granddaughteur Donna should have been married three years earlier. He is drawn into the church Donna vanished from on her wedding day. He sees a blue box in the stained glass window and instantly recognises it. A wonman in the church tells him that this was once the site of a convent that was rescued from a demon by the Sainted Physiscian, again Wilf knows exactly who this is and what he must do.
Elsewhere, in the prison where Lucy Saxon is being held for the murder of her husband, dread events are unfolding. The deluded prison guards, disciples of Harold Saxon have set in motion a process that will see him resurrected. Lucy knows that Harold Saxon was really the evil Time Lord known as The Master and sacrifices herself trying to prevent his return. It is a sacrifice in vain, for although the prison is destroyed, a cadavarous Master survives and escapes into the wastelands of London.
On Christmas Eve, The Doctor arrives on Earth to seek out The Master. On a recent visit to the Oodsphere he is told of The Master’s resurrection and that something capable of ending time itself is coming out of the darkness with The Master. He chases and loses The Master and encounter Wilf Mott and his network of friends, The Silver Cloak who have tracked him down.
The Doctor is suspicious of Wilf. Captain Jack spent over a century in Cardiff waiting for him to return to refuel the TARDIS at a rift in space and time that runs through the city. Wilf manages to track him down in hours. Wilf does not know how he managed it, and The Doctor realises that something is using Wilf and that thee old man is in himself harmless. The Doctor tells Wilf that he is about to die. Wilf points out the The Doctor can regenerates. Previous regenerations have been sudden unplanned affairs, but this time The Doctor knows it is going to happen and he is terrified, as all living things should be, of this death. Yes he knows he will regenerate, but he knows that his life will be radically different and this will be the final end of this incarnation. Wilf is the only person left he can explain this too.
The Doctor returns to the wasteland where he confronts The Master, and for the first time ever hears the sound of drums in the Master’s head, the sound that has been driving him mad since childhood. Sadly, before he can do anything, a squad of commandoes snatches The Master and takes him away.
On Christmas Day Wilf sees the woman he saw in the Church on his television screen when everyone else is ignoring the Queen’s annual Christmas Message. She tells him that he must take arms to help The Doctor. Earlier in the day, he had been given the book Fight the Future by Joshua Naismith as a gift from Donna, who had no idea why she bought it for him. The Doctor and Wilf travel to Naismith’s mansion, where they discover that The Master has repaired an alien device that can heal entire planets. The Master triggers the device and turns every single human being into a copy of himself. However, he is merely a puppet and in the darkness of the Time Lock that surrounds the Time War, the Time Lords of Gallifrey are planning their last gambit of the war.
The Silver Cloak
Part Two:
A pair of Vinvocci scrap merchants had infiltrated the Naismith Mansion. They had planned on stealing the device once it had become operational. The device, known as “The Immortality Gate” was manufactured by Vinvocci and they knew they could get a good price for it if they got it back home. The arrival of The Master upset their little scam, and they see The Doctor and Wilf as the only way of getting it back on the rails. The rescue does not go according to plan and soon Wilf, the Vinvocci and The Doctor a trapped aboard a crippled spaceship in high orbit above the Earth.
The Master makes contact with the Time Lords and sets in motion their escape from the time locked Time War. The Doctor is horrified and rushes to repair the Vinvocci ship so that he can return to Earth and prevent his people’s escape. The Master is triumphant, he says that having succeeded in hijacking the Human Race, he will now hijack the Time Lords in a similar manner, making every one of them a copy of himself. The Lord President of the High Council of Time Lords simply shakes his hand and The Master’s grand scheme comes to nothing. He tells the Master that they know that the Time War was lost and that the weapons used in it would destroy the physical Universe, but they don’t care because he will take the Time Lords to the next level of existence, unfettered by time and space. The Doctor admits that this is why he had to destroy Gallifrey as well as the Daleks.
In the final confrontation, The Doctor returns Gallifrey to its inevitable doom and The Master sacrifices himself to make this happen. He realises that it is this corrupt quorum of Time Lords who made him what he is, who ruined his life, so he sets about destroying theirs. However, with the threat from the Time Lords gone, he has to rescue Wilf from the malfunctioning Vinvocci equipment, and in doing so receives a fatal dose radiation. Soon he will regenerate. He takes Wilf home, but says that he will see him one last time.
The Doctor uses the time left to him to visit all the key friends from this incarnation one last time. Finally the moment arrives, and he says what every dieing creature must be thinking “I don’t want to go.” before erupting into a stream of golden light and regenerating. This regeneration is far more powerful than any before, and whilst it restores The Doctor, it wrecks the TARDIS. The last thing we see is a crashing TARDIS heading towards Earth with the new Doctor shouting “Geronimo!”
2. Thoughts:
Oh my God! That was amazing! No, I can’t leave it at that so…
I cannot see any reason for splitting this story. There was no Hollywood blockbuster movie on BBC One this Christmas Night. This story all together was as long as a Hollywood blockbuster and should have been shown in full on Christmas Day. Never mind, on New Years Day BBC HD showed a Doctor Who marathon, and I watched the entire story in a single sitting, allowing me to write this complete review.
The fact that David Tennant was leaving Doctor Who is now very old news. We have known who will be replacing him as The Doctor for almost a year now. In fact nearly three quarters of Matt Smith’s first series as The Doctor has now been filmed, and a good proportion of those episodes must now be ready for broadcast. Things move on, but Tennant has saved the best until last. He was truly electrifying in this story. By the time he uttered his last lines, everyone watching, no doubt including Matt Smith did not want him to go either. It is amazing that the series has been able to keep such a good actor, whose star is on a meteoric rise for so long. It is not at all surprising that David Tennant has supplanted the Mighty Tom Baker as the greatest Doctor ever. His performance in this story had everything, moments of quiet introspection and mad bad bluster, smug self-righteousness and genuine concern, joy and tears and life and finally death.
John Simm has been absolutely outstanding as The Master. I know a lot of the fans who hate the fact that the series has moved on from 1975 despise his portrayal of The Doctor’s great nemesis, but this is how the character had to develop. We were shown in The Last of the Time Lords that since his initiation into Time Lord society, The Master has been hearing a constant beat of drums in his head that has slowly driven him mad. Now we know why and how, the corrupted Time Lords from the end of the Time War have ruined his life, using him as a tool of their salvation. The Time Lords implanted a coded message into his head, and because it was part of a predestination paradox, the people around him at the time knew nothing of this, could not help him and this created the monster The Master became. Simm’s totally over-the-top characterisation was the denouement of a very long term plan. I have really enjoyed the fact that John Simm has given us a Northern Master, just as Christopher Eccleston gave us a Northern Doctor, it proves that the two characters really are opposite sides of the same coin. The moment in part one when The Doctor says that he can finally hear something beating out a rhythm in The Master’s head is a joy to watch, as Simm’s Master suddenly finds himself released. The joy of going from being told that he is an unspeakable lunatic to being told that not only is he sane, but that he always has been sane rapturous, a feeling you can almost touch. And lets be honest, can you honestly imagine anyone other than Mr. Simm pulling of a role as complex as The Master Race, despite the fact that each copy of The Master is supposed to be identical, Simm adds just enough tiny nuance to each version of The Master to make the overall loss of identity all the more terrifying.
The thing about the Time Lords is that they are supposed to be such a powerful race, and every single appearance they have made in the series has until now diminished them. The scale of stories like The Deadly Assassin and Invasion of Time was just not achievable by the original run of the series in the 1970’s and the banality of J-NT’s vision of Gallifrey did them immense harm. Now at last with CGI the Panopticon and the other landmarks of The Doctor’s home planet could be given the scale and grandeur they both needed and deserved. This is Gallifrey as it should always have been.
So, the Time War corrupted the Time Lords and they are now as bad as the Daleks. It makes sense I suppose. Even Rassilon, the creator of Time Lord society who worked so hard, even after his apparent death, to keep his people free from megalomaniacs fell victim to the corruption when he was resurrected to help in the Time War. It is now obvious that The Doctor came to the decision that whichever side won the Time War, it would be curtains for the Cosmos so he had to toast both sides.
The Time War, the event that has driven The Doctor’s character development for two incarnations was always Russell T. Davies’ personal addition to the myths and legends of the series, and in this, his last story in charge, he has finally showed us all the details he has been alluding to for nearly five years. However, the end of the Time War has now changed. With Rassilon dead again, those who opposed him can safely come out of the woodwork. They might not have much time. The Doctor is still going to destroy Gallifrey and the approaching Dalek Fleet with a terrible weapon referred to as “The Moment”. Now instead of blindly accepting Rassilon’s insane notion that it will lead to the Time Lords ascending to a higher level of existence, they can do something so save themselves. The Lady in White is now at a key position at a key moment in history. And The Master is now in the mix. In this story he wondered what he would have been like without the drumming in his head, perhaps now he will have a chance to find out, he is already on the road to redemption by killing Rassillon, we don’t know how long he has, but perhaps he can fully become the person he was meant to be and not what the Time Lords made him, and somehow save and redeem himself and the rest of Time Lord society. I doubt if we will see a reborn Time Lord race during Stephen Moffat’s time as show runner because he has said in many interviews how much he dislikes them, so we will have to wait and see what his successor might do with the seed that Russell T. Davies has planted.
Who exactly was the woman in white who kept wittering on to Wilf and how much actual good did her wittering do?
Undoubtedly Bernard Cribbens added so much to this episode. His character Wilfred Mott was originally a one-off character designed to supply a moment of comic relief for The Voyage of the Damned. However, after the sad death of Howard Attfleld, the actor who played Donna’s father, Cribbens was asked back and in this story he is a key player. Every single scene featuring Cribbens was a joy to watch , and when he was interacting with David Tennant’s Doctor it was magic. My favourite scene was when Wilf first comes aboard the TARDIS and instead of the usual its bigger on the inside reaction, he tells The Doctor that he thought it would be cleaner. Of course, in reality, Cribbens has already played a bigger on the inside scene back in the 1960’s when he played PC Tom Campbell in the Amicus screen adaptation of Dalek Invasion of Earth. And saving Wilf is what ultimately leads to The Doctor’s regeneration, which is ironic as earlier Wilf had told The Doctor that he didn’t want him to die.
I can’t help feeling that the whole Silver Cloak, the network of old people who helped Wilf track down The Doctor was a bit of a compliment to the network of people in Cardiff who seek out and find location filming, no matter how hard the Production Team tries to hide the facts. Minnie Hooper says “because Wilf phoned Netty, who phoned June, and her sister saw the Police Box and her neighbour saw this man heading east”, which could so easily be “So Scooty phoned Mark and he phoned Ahremsee, whose mate lives opposite the church and he saw the TRACK signs and his neighbour saw the FATTS vans heading East.” Davies also managed to get a subtle dig in at some of the more lunatic fringes of Fandom when The Doctor channelled the Comic Guy from The Simpsons by describing the Vinvocci rescue as the “Worse. Escape. EVAH!” .
Of course, this story was not just David Tennant’s swansong, but the final goodbye from Russell T. Davies. In the final analysis, Davies is up there with Sidney Newman, Verity Lambert, and Barry Letts as one of the giants of Doctor Who, for without him the series would still be in limbo, out of production and slowly dieing in the public consciousness. The End of Time was cinematic, a true epic and I think that in years to come it will be up there with the likes of The Deadly Assassin, Caves of Androzani and City of Death as one of the greatest Doctor Who ever.
Of course, I have to mention the final scene that introduced Matt Smith as the latest incarnation of The Doctor. This scene was written by the incoming Head Writer/Executive Producer, Steven Moffat. I loved the fact that Smith’s first word in character was “Legs”, as in the Bingo Call “Legs Eleven”. It also has to be noted that the last word of the story was “Geronimo”, which is the slogan of the Eleventh Airborne Division of the United States Army. I love clever wordplay, and this is a good sign of what is to come in the new series.
3. Stars:
5 out of 5. (I would say 11 out of 10, but that could be seen as a terrible pun).
This video appears on YouTube:
Well it is worth reposting this because it looks as if whoever created that video was on the money.
In the climax of Series 29 of Doctor Who we were given a tantalising glimpse of Gallifrey, The Doctor’s home planet. Since the series returned to the screens, this planet and its ruling Time Lords have only ever been mentioned in the past tense. The last great Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords ended with the destruction of this planet and the vast bulk of the Daleks. It was a lose-lose situation which has powered The Doctor’s actions and his character development. With Russell T. Davies’ time in charge of the series coming to an end, we finally get to see this apocalyptic event.
The following is all speculation on my part:
The clip above is the first two scenes after the credits at the start of The End of Time Part 2. It is obvious that the Time Lords have fallen under the sway of a mad, mad, mad man. That Timothy Dalton is playing a Lord President of the High Council of Time Lords who is a Caligula or Nero type character. That The Doctor returned to Gallifrey and found that no matter which side won the Time War, it was curtains for the Cosmos, as each side was as bad as the other. That the only way to defeat the mad man at the pinnacle of power was to destroy both Daleks and his now rotten and corrupt home world. The Time Lord Council talk about a weapon called the Moment, could it be that this was triggered by a Time Lord regenerating, and the reason why we did not see Doctor#8 becoming Doctor#9 is because it was being reserved for this episode, at the end of Russell T. Davies’ guardianship of the series. That immediately after the clip above, we will see Paul McGann appear in the current run of the series, but only to sacrifice that incarnation of the Doctor to save the Cosmos.
Time Lords Victorious
As has been shown many times in the series, The Doctor failed to destroy the Daleks, and now it looks as if he failed to destroy the Time Lords as well. It is now apparent that the Time Lords knew what the Doctor was planning, and made their plans against it. The Matrix, the greatest computer ever sat at the heart of the Time Lord’s civilisation. Maybe the Time Lords copied themselves into this great machine. That is why they resurrected The Master, a renegade Time Lord and criminal, who they knew he would run and hide and somehow survive the Time War. They went back into his time-line and inserted something into his head when he was a child. Throughout his career as a criminal and megalomaniac that implant grew in power, so that by the time he regenerated into his current body, it was an over-powering sound of drumming in his head. It is now so strong that even The Doctor can hear it. That The Master taking over the Immortality Gate and turning all humans into a copy of himself was part of the overall plan. The Master was acting under influence of the Time Lords all along. Because the drumming in his head was The Matrix archived and compressed, like a cosmic .zip file. When the Master created his Master Race, he created enough power for the Matrix.zip file to be extracted and bring the Time Lords and Gallifrey back.
This brings us to the rest of the episode:
With the Time Lords back, then The Doctor is in so much trouble. He tried and failed to destroy them. Treason on the highest level. The Time Lords are going to want to punish him, and all appears to be lost. But is it. Who is the woman in white as played by Clare Bloom. If you look at the last scene of Part One, then it looks as if she is one of the women with her head in her hands, standing behind Lord President Caligulanero. Perhaps she is part of the opposition to this particular Time Lord’s regime and she has been helping The Doctor all along. After all, why does The Doctor keep running into Wilf Mott and his granddaughter Donna, her chosen pawns. The Doctor is already suspicious of the old soldier. And what are the meanings of all the cryptic messages she has been giving Wilf. We shall find out on Friday night.
I sincerely hope that now the Time Lords and Gallifrey are back, that they were not resurrected for this one story only. That they are back permanently. Back in the background, subtly manipulating The Doctor, getting him to do their dirty work, just like in the original run of the series. The big difference, as proven by the clip above is that now Gallifrey can be shown with scale and grandeur that the original run of Doctor Who just could not manage to produce on its limited budget. Not that the current production team will be able to afford a visit to Gallifrey that often either, but at least when they do, it will look good.
OK, so a simple entry for today’s Advent Web Log, because I am off Cardiff today at the TIMELESS Christmas Lunch. The clips are from the BBC’s YouTube Channel, The feature a brief teaser for The Grufallo and a longer teaser for The End of Time, David Tennant’s final hurrah as The Doctor in this year’s two part Doctor Who Christmas Special. The second is the long Christmas Indent that will be shown before most prime time programmes on BBC One between 12th and 31st December, 2009. They are both, as some Americans might say, just totally made of AWESOME dude!
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