Saturday, July 12, 2008
"The Sarah Jane Adventures" sontaran episode spoilers
+ Mr. Smith begins to receive information that an attack on Earth is imminent - at the same time, Luke begins to experience strange dreams, with a familiar female foe haunting him. She's calling out for Luke, because [well, that'd be telling].
+ Coincendentally, Sarah-Jane is receiving a visit from an old friend at the same time; Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart - formerly Brigadier of U.N.I.T (or at least, the U.N.I.T of the old days...)
+ Sir Alistair is now semi-retired, having fallen out with the M.O.D over their treatment of U.N.I.T in recent years. Warfare isn't always the answer, he tells Sarah. It took a wise man (ergo, the Doctor) to make him realise that.
+ The Sontarans are back; having formed an alliance with an old foe! They want "blood revenge" for their defeat in Doctor Who's "The Sontaran Stratagem" two parter.
+ Sir Alistair has something rather sinister concealed in his cane - a gun! He uses it to shoot a Sontaran's probic vent!!
+ A florists plays an important role within the story...
+ There's "a lovely scene" with Sarah, the Brigadier and Luke up in Sarah's attic. It's a trip down memory lane; especially when Sir Alistair sees a picture of Harry Sullivan...
+ We learn what the Brig was doing
+ Coincendentally, Sarah-Jane is receiving a visit from an old friend at the same time; Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart - formerly Brigadier of U.N.I.T (or at least, the U.N.I.T of the old days...)
+ Sir Alistair is now semi-retired, having fallen out with the M.O.D over their treatment of U.N.I.T in recent years. Warfare isn't always the answer, he tells Sarah. It took a wise man (ergo, the Doctor) to make him realise that.
+ The Sontarans are back; having formed an alliance with an old foe! They want "blood revenge" for their defeat in Doctor Who's "The Sontaran Stratagem" two parter.
+ Sir Alistair has something rather sinister concealed in his cane - a gun! He uses it to shoot a Sontaran's probic vent!!
+ A florists plays an important role within the story...
+ There's "a lovely scene" with Sarah, the Brigadier and Luke up in Sarah's attic. It's a trip down memory lane; especially when Sir Alistair sees a picture of Harry Sullivan...
+ We learn what the Brig was doing
Friday, July 11, 2008
WAR hero Sir Winston Churchill is all set for a new adventure — alongside Doctor Who.
This is from the SUN so take it with a grain of salt lol:"::::::
The legend who led the Allies to victory in World War II will help current Doctor David Tennant.
Winnie joins Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare as historical characters met by the Time Lord since the series was relaunched in 2005.
Perhaps we can expect a stirring speech of “We shall fight them in the Tardis”.
But no date has been fixed for the cigar-smoking former PM to appear and it is not known who will play him.
Doctor Who finished its latest BBC1 run last Saturday and returns next year for four one-off specials.
A new series begins in 2010 but the Beeb is keeping tight-lipped whether Tennant will be back for that.
Plans to feature Churchill in a new Dr Who novel, Revenge of the Judoon, have been shelved.
The legend who led the Allies to victory in World War II will help current Doctor David Tennant.
Winnie joins Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare as historical characters met by the Time Lord since the series was relaunched in 2005.
Perhaps we can expect a stirring speech of “We shall fight them in the Tardis”.
But no date has been fixed for the cigar-smoking former PM to appear and it is not known who will play him.
Doctor Who finished its latest BBC1 run last Saturday and returns next year for four one-off specials.
A new series begins in 2010 but the Beeb is keeping tight-lipped whether Tennant will be back for that.
Plans to feature Churchill in a new Dr Who novel, Revenge of the Judoon, have been shelved.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Doctor Who: The Forgotten
In August, American comics publisher IDW will release the first issue of Doctor Who: The Forgotten, a new comic book miniseries starring the Tenth Doctor and Martha, and also containing flashback stories for each of the previous nine Doctors. The comic is written by Tony Lee, who previously wrote for the Tenth Doctor and Rose in the Doctor Who Magazine strip "F.A.Q." (DWM 369-371). It is illustrated by Canadian artist Pia Guerra, who is best known for her work on the Vertigo comic Y: The Last Man. Guerra has described herself as an "insane" fan of Doctor Who (see her studio for proof) and is a past winner of the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Art. Covers for the series are provided by Nick Roche, who illustrated IDW's previous Tenth Doctor miniseries. That series, written by Gary Russell, will be available in trade paperback as Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur in August.Comic Book Resources has an interview with Lee, along with sample art from the first issue of The Forgotten.IDW also publishes Doctor Who: Classic Comics, which reprints Fourth Doctor comics from Doctor Who Weekly in full color.
In Doctor Who: The Forgotten, the Doctor finds himself stranded in a strange Museum that's dedicated to him; and with no TARDIS in sight. The Doctor and Martha must make sense of their surroundings, hindered by one small fact… the Doctor has lost his memories of every one of his previous incarnations! With items relevant to each Doctor in their possession, the Doctor must try to use them to regain his memories before it's too late.
Fans try to "call" the Doctor.
Several articles of fans trying to phone the Doctor (07700 900461) can be found at The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Mirror and The Inquirer.
Is the Brig set to return in SJA????
According to sources on the Doctor Who Forum [SPOILER] Nicholas Courtney is in Cardiff right now, filming scenes for his appearence as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the second series of "The Sarah Jane Adventures".There's been no official confirmation of his return, but Courtney has apparently been spotted on set - and will remain in Cardiff for the remainder of the week.Rumours suggest that he'll be appearing in a story that also features the Sontarans - who returned to Doctor Who earlier this year.Updates whenever possible!
Dalek made of liquorice? mmmmm
Doctor Who may think he's beaten the Daleks but he hasn't got them all licked, as design and textile students from New College in Ponfefract demonstrate with a creation that even the Timelord's arch enemy Davros would be proud of.
The students used more than 110lb of liquorice to produce Daliq – a sweet incarnation of the sci-fi baddie – to promote the town's annual liquorice festival.They spent a month working with design technician Steve Jefferies and textiles tutor Amanda Bird to create the 5ft 10in-high work.The liquorice was donated by the town's two sweet factories, Monkhill andHaribo.The festival on Saturday and Sunday features all kinds of entertainment including music, food, acrobats, arts and crafts.For more information visit www.pontefractliquorice.co.uk
The students used more than 110lb of liquorice to produce Daliq – a sweet incarnation of the sci-fi baddie – to promote the town's annual liquorice festival.They spent a month working with design technician Steve Jefferies and textiles tutor Amanda Bird to create the 5ft 10in-high work.The liquorice was donated by the town's two sweet factories, Monkhill andHaribo.The festival on Saturday and Sunday features all kinds of entertainment including music, food, acrobats, arts and crafts.For more information visit www.pontefractliquorice.co.uk
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Davies vows clean break from Doctor Who
As Series Four draws to a close, Executive Producer and Head Writer Russell T Davies talks about his involvement with Doctor Who, the show he was part of reviving after a 16-year hiatus in 2005. Answering fans' questions on the BBC News website, he says that once he leaves he will no longer be involved with the show even for an occasional writing stint. He hands the reins over to Steven Moffat in 2010."I think Steven's more than his own man. He doesn't need me at all. I won't write for it in the future. I'm done with it. It's time to move on and I'd hate to be just a ghost haunting the corridors that I used to walk."And who needs me? Because Steve's brilliant and they've got a thousand million plans. I'll just be old news and it's about time."He said he would most miss the people he had worked with. "They are genuinely brilliant people, our designers and producers and the crew at BBC Wales. They are fantastic and they're part of the reason I've stayed for so long."Despite his intial fears of low budget and a non-peaktime slot, he was pleased with the way the BBC treated the show. "I thought there'd be a lot of compromise, I thought we'd be compromised on budget. We could have ended up with no ratings and a Sunday afternoon slot, so absolutely nothing [was compromised] and that really is the honest answer. We got to make everything that I wanted to make."I knew what we'd made was good. So I knew I could sleep at night. I knew even if no one watched it, I could sit there and say I had done a great piece of work."He added: "None of us ever saw this much success coming. I didn't even envisage a spin-off would be possible."When asked about his favourite line of dialogue, he replied: "I did love Donna, played by Catherine Tate, in a show we did two weeks ago called Turn Left. She said: 'You liar, you told me I was special' to Rose, when she feels her life has been betrayed and lied. I think she delivers that line with such venom - I love that moment."Asked which villains or creatures he might have brought back if he'd continued with Doctor Who, he said: "I've used a lot of the classics but the Silurians were always very good. They were a race of lizard people who were the original owners of the Earth. I always thought it was a very clever idea that there was a civilisation before us. I'm not bringing them back but they're ripe to be returned one day."
Monday, July 07, 2008
Sylvester McCoy as Doctor Who: an appreciation
A great article about McCoys doctor bearing an unfair stigmata. Read it HERE....
McCoy: 'Izzard is the ideal Doctor'
Sylvester McCoy has revealed that he wants Eddie Izzard to be the next Doctor.
McCoy, who played the Time Lord from 1987 to 1989, said the comedian would be the ideal choice for the role when David Tennant steps down.
Teletext quotes him as saying: "I like Tom Baker's suggestion which he made a while back.
"Eddie Izzard would be perfect. He's a bit eccentric and he dresses in women's clothes. Everyone would be happy!"
McCoy, who played the Time Lord from 1987 to 1989, said the comedian would be the ideal choice for the role when David Tennant steps down.
Teletext quotes him as saying: "I like Tom Baker's suggestion which he made a while back.
"Eddie Izzard would be perfect. He's a bit eccentric and he dresses in women's clothes. Everyone would be happy!"
Sunday, July 06, 2008
More Companion Chronicles
Big Finish Productions has recently announced that their Companion Chronicles line will go from being a mini-series to an ongoing monthly range starting in July. The series will continue to be released in ‘seasons’ with each season comprising of twelve releases. Each release is a new Doctor Who story as told by one of the Doctor’s companions played by the actor who portrayed the role in the Classic Doctor Who TV series.July’s release is a First Doctor adventure narrated by Carole Ann Ford as the Doctor’s granddaughter, Susan. The story, entitled Here There be Monsters, has been written by Andy Lane. In the adventure, the Doctor, Barbara, Susan and Ian face creatures from another dimension.August sees The Great Space Elevator, written by Jonathan Morris, featuring Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield in an adventure with the Second Doctor where a one-way trip leads to a confrontation with an alien force that threatens the Earth. September’s release is The Doll of Death by Marc Platt, an adventure for the Third Doctor told by Katy Manning as Jo Grant. This is the first time that Katy has reprised her role since she starred in the TV series in the 1970s. The fourth adventure, Empathy Games by Nigel Fairs features the Fourth Doctor’s companion, Leela played by Louise Jameson. November's release for the First Doctor features Sara Kingdom who originally joined the TARDIS crew for the epic length TV story, The Daleks’ Master Plan. As in the original TV series, Sara Kingdom will once again be played by Jean Marsh. The story, entitled Home Truths, has been written by Simon Guerrier.With the expansion of the releases, the series will now include tales from Companions to Doctors 5 through 8, as well as tales from characters who are not strictly companions. Already confirmed to be appearing later on in the range are Mary Tamm (Romana I), Richard Franklin (Mike Yates), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), and Sophie Aldred (Ace).
Davies watched 'Who' finale 15 times
Russell T. Davies watched the Doctor Who finale 15 times before it aired, he has revealed."There are probably about ten of us who have watched it - including David (Tennant), who was cast as the tenth Doctor in 2005, and Catherine Tate, and that's about it," the writer and producer said in an interview before the show went out. "The controller of BBC One has not even seen it, or the head of drama, because it's been locked away. But I have seen it about 15 times. "I'm busy at the moment, but I had an hour off yesterday at 3pm and I watched it again because it is such an exciting episode. And I will be watching it on Saturday night at home in Manchester with my boyfriend."Davies also spoke about his plans now that he has quit as executive producer of the series. "I have got about 27 ideas boiling in my head and that is the main reason why I've left," he told the Daily Mirror. "I get a lot of people who want me to come and make a family drama for them. But having done Doctor Who, I have done the best - anything else would pale in comparison. "I have almost got to go and do adult stuff, something a bit cheeky or sexy. I will just see which thing comes to the front of my mind first and start with that."
HMMMMMMM
Reading all about the net today i find that it's about half and half when it comes to the finale. Some liked it some hated it and a few are in between like me. I loved parts of it and was absolutely groaning thru other parts. RTD did an ok job with the finale but the only part that really touched me was when davros spoke about the people who have died around the Doctor and there was a montage from season one forward, and when the doctor dropped off rose and his twin to wander off and live oh ever so happy. The kiss was fantastic, even if it was with a plot twist {ie the blue doctor}lol.
In the confidential Julie Gardner is narrating that scence and states " Oh you know he is saying i love you in her ear..." well wtf not just say it and be done? What would the harm be in hearing what he felt and obviously still feels? RTD also relies alot on plot twists with the "magic wand" as he calls it waving over and making everything a-ok again and its soooo damn tiresome. All in all i hate the wait for the xmas eppy and the mini season to come but im soooo glad donna is gone, soory you donna lovers i still really do not like her. And when the doctor went and started spouting off like donna i almost lost it, omg what a sight! I was waiting for him to yell "am i bovvered?"
I do hope Moffat returns to the shadow proclamation and the reprucussions of the doctors actions in choosing to run away to fight the daleks on his own without support of the remaining universe. It is pretty bad when the BBC has to send someone on air to explain why the Doctor is still David Tennant tho.
I do hope that they can incorporate the Doctors twin into future episodes and maybe bring a bit more of a close to the whole Valeyard story line from Colin Bakers day. Just imagine the Twin goes insane after years of dealing with who he is and how he is torn between what he should be and why he isnt,mmmmm angst angst angst hehehehe.
I really hate that now people are so confused over the regenrations and how many the Doctor has used. I clearly heard the Doctor state he used the energy for repairing himself and then funneled the rest into the hand, so no regeneration just a botched or stalled regeneration of sorts. But oh well so people have to have each n every nuance spelled out clearly.
One fevered hope i have tho is that Moffat will come around to another Doctor who Incarnation get together and bring McCoy, McGann, Eccleston, Davison, and either baker{please tom tho lol}
back together for another five doctors special of some kind or another. We need one more before the actors reaaaaaallllly get way to old to explain away their apperance like in the CIN special with Tennant and Davison.
Perhaps i will rewatch the whole season as a whole and see something more in series four but deep deep down i know nothing will change my mind, it was ok but not much more than that......
In the confidential Julie Gardner is narrating that scence and states " Oh you know he is saying i love you in her ear..." well wtf not just say it and be done? What would the harm be in hearing what he felt and obviously still feels? RTD also relies alot on plot twists with the "magic wand" as he calls it waving over and making everything a-ok again and its soooo damn tiresome. All in all i hate the wait for the xmas eppy and the mini season to come but im soooo glad donna is gone, soory you donna lovers i still really do not like her. And when the doctor went and started spouting off like donna i almost lost it, omg what a sight! I was waiting for him to yell "am i bovvered?"
I do hope Moffat returns to the shadow proclamation and the reprucussions of the doctors actions in choosing to run away to fight the daleks on his own without support of the remaining universe. It is pretty bad when the BBC has to send someone on air to explain why the Doctor is still David Tennant tho.
I do hope that they can incorporate the Doctors twin into future episodes and maybe bring a bit more of a close to the whole Valeyard story line from Colin Bakers day. Just imagine the Twin goes insane after years of dealing with who he is and how he is torn between what he should be and why he isnt,mmmmm angst angst angst hehehehe.
I really hate that now people are so confused over the regenrations and how many the Doctor has used. I clearly heard the Doctor state he used the energy for repairing himself and then funneled the rest into the hand, so no regeneration just a botched or stalled regeneration of sorts. But oh well so people have to have each n every nuance spelled out clearly.
One fevered hope i have tho is that Moffat will come around to another Doctor who Incarnation get together and bring McCoy, McGann, Eccleston, Davison, and either baker{please tom tho lol}
back together for another five doctors special of some kind or another. We need one more before the actors reaaaaaallllly get way to old to explain away their apperance like in the CIN special with Tennant and Davison.
Perhaps i will rewatch the whole season as a whole and see something more in series four but deep deep down i know nothing will change my mind, it was ok but not much more than that......
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