DOCTOR WHO (my take and randomness)

We’re all mad in the UK, we love the doctor who so I had to write something. The chat rooms are full of it, the people are debating will Tennant be back (or rather not go?), will Sylvester McCoy make an appearance - who knows, anyways as a fan I am please to dabble and give my take on it…

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SO ......

"IT’S TOO LATE - I’M REGENERATING…..!"

The doctor raises his arms and the familiar death and rebirth begins, leaving all viewing agog at the events unfolding !

IT BEGINS
The regeneration energy arcs across the tardis and crashes into the bubbling hand in the jar. A scream of electricity can be heard throughout the tardis the energy IS enough to almost rip the tardis in half. Somehow Rose knows something is wrong having witnessed a regeneration in the past.
"It is isn’t working ! !
"The hand!" jack points - "LOOK"

The hand grips moves………and a flash of light!

The tardis quietens and we can see

TWO DOCTORS BORN

The first is David Tennant born from the hand but is completely different in attitude and thought. (similar to the way Colin Baker was an Ass when he was born in his regeneration.) However where the original Tennant stood stands a new doctor who loves rose etc etc but looks completely different played by (insert favourite actor here) - this obviously confused all around and makes the viewer not know who to route for….Remember the doctor from the hand is different but completely different in attitude and verbal style,

ALTHOUGH HE LOOKS LIKE THE TENNANT WE KNOW - The new doctor is the self sacrificing AND THE HAND ONE IS AN AR$E


REGARDING DONNA

"Can you hear that?"

"What?" Jack replies, my ears are still ringing from dying five times in ten minutes."

"Like Drums……..Underneath everything……." I heard them as soon as I stepped into the shadow proclimation……. its like something carryind itself inside me.

REGARDING Donna’s FATE

As all die around Donna is revealed………The Ring Cracks Open and her time lord spirit returns.

"I hid myself in time……As I crashed into the fire I saw the light from Dalek Khan pull Davros from his death and I latched onto him. The only thing I could do was hide and wait hoping that some of your followers were bound to find me….……….In all the cionfusion i had seconds to use the chameleon arch, hiding in time until I could return…… Knowing at the Medusa Cascade I would fight with you once more……


"But you hate me Rani….you hate everything I have done…….this just isn’t you……"


There is no point in ruling over nothing……Davros is flawed, and we will fight again…………..remember that…..you and I......or whatever idiot carnation you find yourself in.....

REGARDING THE DOCTOR

NEW DOC - If I must die then we can live then it is right…………..this is the burden you face…..……

DOC BORN OF JAR - "I am not brave enough for this, yet she loves me……."

NEW DOC - "That’s because some of his coward DNA is in you at least until you regenerate again. Your still brilliant but for a little out of sorts, try and avoid domination of races and go somewhere quiet......She loves your image, and soon you will be your old self again………you will learn to forgive again, and carry on…..

Listen, just listen you can feel the world turn, and the pulse of time……….....remember that..........this is the first time i have actuially died.... make all of this mean something....

As the conversation ends somehow the new Doc sacrifices himself to save one and all and as things are wrapped up on the beach…..


The doctor leaves.

"where are you going now….your so alone….what will you do…."……

"I need time to think, I once met a girl in a library that said she has some answers for me, they were spoilers, and now I have to live them…......."

COMMENTS MOST WELCOMED

Russell T Davies: Amy Winehouse would be a brilliant Doctor Who

DOCTOR WHO writer and exectutive producer Russell T Davies says that dysfunctional diva Amy Winehouse would make a "brilliant" Time Lord.

Davies was clearly aware of earlier reports in which bookmakers listed the odds of several celebrities becoming the next Doctor Who.

Although Winehouse could keep several sonic screwdrivers and probably another space-time dimension within her beehive hairdo, she sometimes seems like she's heading towards her own black hole of destruction without any help from the Daleks or other alien races.

Her odds of becoming the next Time Lord were listed by William Hill as an unlikely 100:1, the same as those of Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills.

Davies says he also can't help imagining Lesley Sharp (who appeared in the Doctor Who episode Midnight) and Judi Dench in the role, though I don't think either is a good choice.

Davies was speaking to the Guardian newspaper where, despite saying Winehouse would be "brilliant", he concluded that David Tennant's eventual replacement should not be female.

"I am often tempted to say yes to [a female Doctor] to placate everyone but, while I think kids will not have a problem with that, I think fathers will have a problem because they will then imagine they will have to describe sex changes to their children.

"I think fathers can describe sex changes to their children and I think they should and it's part of the world, but I think it would simply introduce genitalia into family viewing. You're not talking about actresses or style, you're talking about genitalia, and a lot of parents would get embarrassed."

David Tennant will feature in this year's Christmas special, which will be set in Victorian England and feature the Cybermen, as well as four other specials which begin filming in 2009. Davies is hard at work on those specials, after which he hands over the reins to Steven Moffatt.

Davies refused to say whether Tennant will return when the full series returns in 2010, except that a decision has been made and the BBC knows what it is.

Doctor Who finale: Tennant not evicted from the Tardis - but who will be the next companion?

FANS of Doctor Who actor David Tennant must have been relieved - and then doubly delighted - at tonight's end-of-season finale.

Last week's cliffhanger showed the Time Lord exterminated by a Dalek and then beginning to regenerate, adding to speculation that Tennant was leaving the show and causing a total hullaballoo in the Whovian fan community.

Tonight's conclusion, Journey's End, the last episode to be written by departing writer and executive producer Russell T Davies, delivered dramatic fates for the Doctor, for Donna and for his former companion Rose.

First we saw the Doctor use what he needed of his regenerative energies to heal himself and then directing the rest of the energy into the severed hand he kept on the Tardis (a hand chopped off by the Sycorax leader in The Christmas Invasion special, and regrown by the Doctor as he was in the first hours of his latest incarnation).

As companion Donna Noble and the Tardis faced destruction from the Daleks, Donna reached out to the hand, which then regenerated into a second Doctor (another David Tennant - no signs of Robert Carlyle or any of the other speculated replacements). This Doctor double was part-human and mortal, with just one heart. Some of the energy stored in the hand also went into Donna and turned her into a Time Lord with the Doctor's intellect and knowledge.



The clues to these three Doctors had been there earlier in the mention in a previous episode of the Time Lord being 'the threefold man'. Many of us suspected that severed hand would play a part. And one commenter on my earlier blog pointed out that Donna means woman, noble means lord and temp (her former job) means time, hence 'woman time lord.'

The episode was most certainly a Journey's End for many. The Daleks (and seemingly leader Davros) were destroyed; the second Tennant, along with former Doctor's companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), was sent to a parallel reality where the pair were to live happily together for the rest of their lives; and poor Donna couldn't handle the strain of the Time Lord's vast knowledge and had to have her mind wiped of all Doctor Who memories and be returned home as though she'd never stepped foot in the Tardis.

Then the Doctor - the real one, the original Tennant - was left alone again. Now we are no longer wondering if there'll be a new Time Lord but are instead wondering who will be his new companion. River Song (Alex Kingston)? Jenny (Georgia Moffatt)? Will bookmakers soon be producing a list of possibilities for the next assistant?

We also saw Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) walk away with Captain Jack, perhaps hinting that Martha will join Torchwood.

Although the episode piled on the plot twists and contrivances and you shouldn't even begin to question the physics of everything that happened with the Earth and the other planets (we saw our world towed into its correct position by the Tardis at one point!), Russell T Davies had obviously wanted to go out with a bang and clear his desk in style. It definitely gives a clean slate for the next series. And we all know the Daleks could return if they really wanted to bring them back.

What did you think of the episode? Did it deliver what you expected, hoped or wanted? Was Journey's End a fantastic voyage or a bad trip? And who will be the next companion?

Doctor Who to get axe in 2008

HIT show Doctor Who will be EXTERMINATED next year ? after the fourth series.

Boss Russell T. Davies has decided to axe the BBC1 sci-fi drama and concentrate on other projects.

He and senior staff have hatched a plot to hand in a group resignation in summer 2008.

A source said: “The heavy workload ? nine months of 16-hour days every year ? has started to take its toll.

“It was decided the best thing for the show was go out at the top next year.”

Davies was behind the relaunch of Doctor Who in 2005 ? 16 years after it was originally axed.

COURTESY OF THE SUN: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article231415.ece

The series, starring David Tennant as the Time Lord, is watched by eight million every Saturday.

* EX Doctor Who star Billie Piper, 24, is due to get her divorce decree nisi from DJ Chris Evans, 41, at the High Court today.

William Hartnell Is Being Collected Or Going Places

William Hartnell, the first actor to take on the role of The Doctor when Doctor Who premiered in 1963, is featured on a new stamp from the Royal Mail.

Hartnell played The Doctor for three years, then gave way to Patrick Troughton. Before coming to the ground-breaking sci-fi show, Hartnell specialized in playing drill sergeants and tough cops. It was that sort of tough, loud persona he brought to the Carry On films that the stamp features.

The Carry On movies were a long-running series of modest-budget, slapstick comedies. While as subtle as an episode of The Benny Hill Show, there are 20 years' worth of Carry On films bouncing their way through British film history.

Image courtesy Royal Mail

Beyond Season 4

The season 4 Episode guide has now got enormous and I've noticed that we're now starting to get entries in it pertaining to the Christmas special, which traditionally we've always considered part of the next season. So I think possibly a new thread to collate the rumours and snippets we are getting about Beyond Season 4 (not sure we can call it season 5 as that is 2010).

The first post is spoiler tagged for plot elements, and the following 9 are spoiler free, so you can keep up with the shape of things to come without learning plot details. I will keep the first post up to date as a reference. But newer posts on the end may not be so well protected.

Here's what we know so far, or is rumoured so far...

General Info about 2008/2009

2009 is a light year for Doctor Who, it was originally announced there would be 3 specials in 2009, but now it appears there may be 4, with the Christmas 2009 possibly being bumped up to two parts. With the lite year taking place David Tennant is able to have a sabbatical to do some Shakespeare. Then at the end of 2009 we should get the start of season 5 production proper with a Christmas Special and a full season following in Spring 2010.

Children in Need 2008

Chances are we will have something for Children in Need this year as November 2008 is the 45th Anniversary of Doctor Who.

4B-00 Christmas Special 2008
Possible plot elements follow in spoiler tags
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I've heard a possible title of "Ghosts in the Machines" and Cybermen are confirmed as as being involved. There may also be some form of "alternate Cyberman" or "Cyber Wraith" as something robed in black feathers, with a definite "cyber like face" has been seen. The face is bronze with a diamond shaped face and the handles are set at 45 degrees to the vertical, joining to the top of the head.

David Morrisey has been spotted in location filming of this episode, as has Dervla Kirwin (playing Mrs Hartigan, Hartinger or something similar in sound). There is also a rather striking young dark skinned woman with long curly black hair that appears to be a major character, possibly called Rosita.

Cast Trailer Door labels have been spotted bearing the legends "Hot Scottie Tottie" and "The Other Doctor".

The episode appears to be set in Victorian Times around the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851 (a poster can be seen advertising the event). It should be noted that in The Eighth Doctor visited the exhibition in the Big Finsh story "Other Lives".

It would appear the Doctor finally gets real snow at Christmas, albeit faked for filming.

Advertisments for Ironmongers feature in set dressing at more than one location. There is also a poster offer four guineas reward for someone named Emily Price.

Locations used -
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9-10 Apr - St Woolos Cemetary (as seen in Blink)
14 Apr - Cardiff Maltings (as seen in Gridlock)
16 Apr - Tredegar House (as seen in The Christmas Invasion)
20-23 Apr - Gloucester (Miller's Green, the Cathedral, Berkerley Street)
24-25 Apr - The Shire Hall, Monmouth

4B-01 Mid Year Special 1 2009

Nothing much known about the mid year specials yet.

4B-02 Mid Year Special 2 2009

5-00 Christmas Special 2009

Nothing much known about this yet, though after season 4 wrapped when David Tennant was asked about how long he would be staying in the role he said he's only been asked to do 4 specials and nothing beyond that yet. Well this would be the last of those 4. However, recent announcements indicate there are now 4 episodes in 2009 in addition to the 2008 Christmas Special, so the Christmas Special may be a two parter.

Season 5

Expected to start production part way through 2009, season 5 will be the first season of NuHu without Russell T Davies at the helm, with Steven Moffatt taking over as show runner and Executive Producer.

Whats In Store For 2009

As we rush headlong into the end of season 4, so I've been casting around, ear to the ground, for what may or may not be in store for us next year.

As a result of various pieces of information that have come my way, I now believe that the following will be amongst the pleasures that await us in 2009.