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My thoughts of The End of Time (SPOILERS GALORE)
Dec 25th
The last five minutes of The End of Time had me just staring open-mouthed in amazement at the TV, as this … no, THIS … no, no, THIS … became the most amazing cliffhanger of all. Which certainly makes one hell of a change from the usual Christmas episode where I switch off feeling slightly cheap, used, and disappointed.
But anyway, don’t look any further until you’ve watched The End of Time Part One AND the preview clip of Part Two…
A small Doctor Who moment to make you go awwwww…..
Dec 22nd
Picture the scene – you’re Russell T Davies, famed showrunner of Doctor Who and famed atheist. You’re at a Q&A just after showing a preview of the Christmas 2009 episode – your penultimate piece of work on Doctor Who – when a little kid grabs the microphone, in front of lots of journalists, and asks:
“Did you meet the Doctor or did you make him up?”
Which is pretty much the same as asking whether Father Christmas exists. The moral quandry – do you tell all or nothing?
I’ve seen two accounts of what RTD said next – via SFX and Ian Wylie (spoilers!) – which are both slightly different. But were you there?
and in Who-related news: Doctor Who star goes back to old school to direct nativity play
The Waters of Mars…
Nov 15th
Well, that was definitely a very scary and chilling episode of Doctor Who meeting 28 Days Later. Either that or I’m just so proud of myself for not gibbering and hiding behind the sofa. My jumbled random thoughts after the jump…
Ripping Planet of the Dead to shreds – for fun
Nov 13th
I finally sat down to watch Planet of the Dead last week – and after 9 months of having no new Doctor Who, I was just so glad to see Doctor Who back that there may have been moistness in my eye. Even if it was a very slight story with not much new, and not much froth or fun either.
However, I didn’t get the chance to rip the episode to shreds for fun, so I’m glad that the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have done it for me… (spotted via theta_g)
Shame there’s not much happening on British TV on Sunday…
The new Doctor Who logo (2009 edition)
Oct 6th
Well, since a lot of visits for this blog in the last few days have come from people searching for the new Doctor Who logo, here it is:
Personally, I love:
- the TARDIS/DW insignia. Finally, Doctor Who gets some proper branding!
- the fact it’s not an orange lozenge or taxi logo!
- the blue steel effect
However, it does look a little too comic-book (like the McCoy era logo) for my liking, and not enough like a television logo. And for all my internal griping about the taxi logo, at least it looked made for television, and it’s hard to see this swooping in and out.
Still, the title sequence is going to be cool. And maybe a new theme tune!
Update: Rejected Doctor Who logos
Fandoms combining…
Sep 8th
In an era where fanfic writers think nothing of plonking the Red Dwarf crew on the Starship Enterprise, or the cast of Spaced in the TARDIS, it shouldn’t really come as that much of a surprise when professional media creators do the same thing.
Thus today, where we discover that Richard Curtis (famed romantic comedy writer behind Love Actually, Four Weddings, Blackadder and the superb and under-rated The Tall Guy) is writing a script for Doctor Who. This has met with a little consternation.
Of course, their fear comes from the possibility that romance might rear its ugly head in Doctor Who. It should, of course, be pointed out that:
- Richard Curtis, for all his faults, is a master at creating characters you like. Albeit middle-class English ones, of various hues and abilities.
- Pretty much all of Steven Moffat‘s celebrated scripts for Doctor Who have had huge dollops of romance in them. Doctor Who fans and Hugo Award adjudicators have lapped them up in their droves.
The news that the Pet Shop Boys have written a song for Shirley Bassey‘s new album also sent my geek fandom radar into overdrive. The Pet Shop Boys write fantastic songs – but let’s face it, Shirley Bassey‘s got a much more powerful voice that deserves to be used.
I'll tell you what's wrong with this Dalek!
Aug 6th
Yes, in case you haven’t noticed what’s wrong with this Dalek…
(aside from the fact it’s not hovering, bearing its beady blue eye down the photographer and threatening to exterminate…)
The eyestalk and the plunger are in the wrong place.
This particular Dalek cookie jar (one of 3000, I’m told) had a couple of mishaps in the various housemoves over the years between Cardiff, Llandudno, Manchester and London. And it’d sat languishing in a box above my kitchen cupboard, waiting for someone who could master the art of superglue.
Then a family friend came over, and volunteered to fix it. Unfortunately, I didn’t closely supervise the operation.
Even more unfortunately, it then sat on top of my DVD collection, staring at me for about four months. I didn’t dare touch it in case the superglue came off, so I just left it there and never really examined it. Until one day, Miss M and her boyfriend came to visit. Miss M, a fellow Whovian, didn’t spot anything wrong either but Miss M’s boyfriend took one look at it and exclaimed “Why is the eyepiece in the wrong place?”. And until then, the two Whovians in the room had never ever noticed.
I really ought to have my Doctor Who geek card revoked.
Interestingly, I haven’t had comments on this blog for ages. Put up a mangled Dalek picture, I get five comments including two from people who I didn’t even know existed. Which is almost nothing compared to the comments and lively discussion that’s been taking place on Facebook and LiveJournal…
David Tennant says sorry…
Jul 27th
So, it has come to pass and Doctor Who fans who were expecting an announcement about a Doctor Who movie at Comic-Con have been sorely disappointed.
So David Tennant would like to apologise. 120 times in fact.
When I was growing up, I was often benignly scolded for saying “Sorry” just too many times. To which I’d pause, and then say “I apologise”. Never pass up a chance to make a terrible joke.
Sorry ’bout that 
Ahhh.. fandom media … isn't it … paranoid?
Jul 10th
As a professional media creator and writer, this is going to come off as incredibly snooty, out of touch and sneering at people who are working on content for the sheer love of it. So be it.
GSG2DWS5 has a very short interview with the editor of Doctor Who magazine, Tom Spilsbury. It’s eight questions long, and since one of the questions is: “Do you have a girlfriend at the moment?” (prompted by Mr. Spilsbury, admittedly) we can ascertain it’s not going to win a Pullitzer Prize any time soon.
The highly amusing element is the legal disclaimer at the bottom:
“This interview has been officially endorsed by Tom Spilsbury himself. This is EXCLUSIVE to GSG2DWS5 and we reserve all rights on this interview. Any reproduction of this interview without consent from both GSG2DWS5 and Tom Spilsbury will result in legal action being taken. All Rights Reserved.”
Really…