Saturday, January 06, 2007

Spoilers for season 3

At least two new alien worlds should appear in series 3 - one called Malcassairo, the other as yet unnamed.
Episode 1 brings in both Martha and the Judoon with a bang, is called 'Smith And Jones' and involves a hospital being transported to the moon.
Episode 2 is called 'The Shakespeare Code'. Not too surprising really.Episode 3 is set on New Earth and is the one featuring Ardal O'Hanlon as the cat-faced pilot seen in the 'Runaway Bride' teaser (presumably from the same race as the cat nuns). This is also the one where the Face of Boe returns... so we may get to hear that four-word message sooner than expected.
Helen Raynor is writing the two-part Dalek story (episodes 4 & 5) which appears to involve a plot to "disrupt the fabric of time" (perhaps a Time War tie-in?).
Episode 4 is called 'Daleks In Manhattan'. If it's anything as good as her Torchwood episode it ought to be a good deal more than another yelling Dalek tale.
Episode 6, by Stephen Greenhorn, is called 'The Lazarus Experiment' and is the one with Mark Gatiss in it as the rejuvenated man.
Paul Cornell's two-parter (episodes 8 & 9) is set in a boarding school, and is also apparently based on his previous book 'Human Nature' (a Virgin New Adventure featuring the 7th Doctor and Bernice Summerfield - does the Doctor ever get deja vu, I wonder?). One of the two episodes is called 'The Family of Blood'. The monsters are apparently called "Jack Straws".
Steven Moffat's episode (number 10) features the line "life is short, and you are hot" and RTD thinks it has the "scariest concept yet." It also features the word (or name) "Banto". Did I see the ears of a few "One Doctor' fans perk up there?
This is also the relatively "Doctorless" episode of Series 3 (as 'Love & Monsters' was for Series 2)..
Captain Jack returns in episode 11, which is called 'Utopia' and apparently takes place immediately after the end of the first series of 'Torchwood', when the TARDIS has picked Jack up from Cardiff.

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