Just watched the final two episodes back-to-back on BBC Three - what a great way to spend two hours!



Bzzzt! Wrong answer! Amy doesn't put anything through Craig's door, she's heading off to put the postcard (the one that tells the Doctor which ad to reply to) in the shop window (she stops momentarily to stroke a cat, is all).

Surely someone who had been there just sent him the postcard, like the one he was in love with?

Who knows, there's nothing in the episode to explain it though. I suspect it's just a nod back to the previous episode from the production team.

Balls. It'll have to remain an annoying continuity screw up then. If he'd just not said he'd never been to Paris it would've been fine.

The series is ruined.


I hate Stephen Moffat.




















Not really.

I did that too, on Friday night. They really fit together well. Even though is second viewing for both episodes, it just flew by.

I have them both on Sky+. I don't usually rewatch stuff so soon after broadcast, so they're there if I fancy seeing them sometime.

Thanks to "Blogtor Who" on twitter, Doctor Who: Simpsons style!

http://springfieldpunx.blogspot.com/search...el/Doctor%20Who

Excellent!

As part of an assignment for the site I write for (the results of which I'll probably post here when it goes live) I've spent the last couple of days rewatching the Eccleston series for the first time since the episodes aired. It was an interesting experience since it wound up challenging a lot of my own memories of watching the episodes at the time.

Firstly, I didn't find Eccleston as The Doctor half as charming as I remembered him being. That's not necessarily a criticism, since his incarnation is quite prickly and has less of the levity that either Tennant or Smith has brought to the role, but I remembered liking him instantly, whereas it took a few episodes for me to warm to him this time around. It's probably just that I'm so used to those other portrayals of The Doctor, both of which build upon a lot of the darkness that he brought to the character, that a lot of the freshness of his performance has faded.

Secondly, I was surprised by how consistent the series was. I remembered there being a few highlights (Rose, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) but the overall quality is surprisingly consistent, with only The End of the World and Aliens of London/World War III being particularly rubbish. I had also forgotten that Father's Day was in the series, and how genuinely affecting it is seeing Rose reunited with her long-dead father. It all looks a bit cheap compared to more recent episodes, because the show was operating on an even stricter budget back then, but it still has that charm to it that has kept me coming back.

According to the Guardian, Katherine Jenkins and Michael Gambon have been cast in the Christmas special (filming for Xmas and series 6 has begun today).

Hurrah!

Yup!

This at Digital Spy says it's a twist on A Christmas Carol. That's been done umpteen times but a Doctor Who version could be interesting..

I like the working title too.

Katherine and Karen in the same show. Awesome.

For those on Twitter, Steven Moffat is now on there.. @steven_moffat

He's gloating! (fair enough too)

^ Thanks for that!

Matt Smith to quit 'Who' next year?

Here we go again . . .

I really liked Christopher Eccelston, but I sometimes wish he had never played the Doctor because all we get now is "When is X going to leave the show?" speculation, and it's all utterly pointless.

That question popped up every year with Tennant. Silly.

He can't leave this soon. We've only got two more to go after he departs.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

They'll probably retcon the 13 lives thing. I bet we'll just see the 13th Doctor regenerate into the 14th.

It might not have to be a retcon. The Master used all his regenerations up, but was granted another set by the Time Lords, IIRC.

I can see it now. The 13th doctor uses his last breath to say "up up down down left right left right B A start!" And BOOM, he's got 30 more regenerations.

Haha, amazing... This. Must. Happen.

It's okay.. The 12th Doctor isn't turning up soon, according to Karen Gillan..

http://tinyurl.com/37295jl (tweeted by blogtor who)

Though the article does end up digging at David Tennant and Labour.

Yes, I saw that earlier - good to hear!



Well, it is The Telegraph, they have to work it into every article somewhere . . . (Labour digs, not Tennant).

Yeah, but...really? That was crowbar-tastic!

It was a bit odd. And a bit from leftfield. I know Tennant did an ad/political broadcast with Eddie Izzard (I think?) but I doubt he used to go on about them on set.

Silly papers.

Apparently Benedict Cumberbatch has let slip that he's going to be in Doctor Who. The Master, anyone?

Not entirely sure why I put his name in Spoiler tags, It'll possibly be on the net and in papers tomorrow.

Oh, I do like him. If true, I think he'd be a good match for Matt's Doctor in that role.

I doubt they would reintroduce a major character so early in a series (they have only just started filming for next year), but Moffat is trying to shake up the old format a bit, so who knows?

True. Though methinks he'll be good whoever he plays.

This makes me happy. I love him. I loved him in spite of his silly name.

I love him for his silly name.

A couple of pieces of news . . .

- Tonight is the first of two Doctor Who Proms (the second being tomorrow morning) which will feature Matt Smith, Karen Gillian and (hurrah!) Arthur Darvill. The Prom starts at 7.30pm and, for listeners on Radio Three, there will be a 20-minute programme taking a light-hearted look at the music of Doctor Who called "Dance of the Daleks" which will be broadcast during the intermission at around 8.20pm (the second Prom starts tomorrow morning at 11.00am).

- For those who may have missed it / want to see it again / do not have access to iPlayer or the DVDs etc, BBC Three are starting a re-run of series five next Friday evening at 7pm.

... And started with the last episode of series four in preparation, last night.

^ Yes, I watched that - it's even worse after 13 episodes of Smith/Moffat.

End of Time is just a mess of ideas (not all of them bad, I'll grant you) but what would you rather have; the Doctor sat in a cafe being miserable, or the Doctor eating fish-custard? I know which I prefer!

To my mind RTD over-played the angst card and forgot that the series wasn't supposed to be grim competition for Eastenders on Christmas Day.

A case of showing how the Doctor needs his companions but going to angsty with it.

I'd have forgiven RTD for the 20 minutes of goodbyes if the earlier part episode wasn't so depressing.

Moffat/Smith/Gillan/Darvill is a bit of a dream team in comparison. Glad series 5 was, for the most part, great fun. And in some parts, excellent.

They have taken episode 13 of Series 5 off iPlayer. Is annoyed! *face*

I think the Series 5 repeats on BBC3 from next week are on every weeknight so the whole series will have been repeated within a few weeks.

Well, you've had a month to catch up, how long do you need?! (don't tell me, a month and a little more!).



*cough*

Sort of!



I don't think it will be every night at this point, I think it will just be on Friday nights for now.

I have a busy life, officer. Wasn't my fault.

Thanks for the tip, Ev.

Ah okay, I thought it was each weeknight. When they used to re-run Doctor Who it was on weeknights (not sure about weekends).

^ I'm trying to remember back two years to what they did after series four aired. I think they did do a weekly run through of that series before they went to nightly repeats, but they may have just gone back to series one or two and shown series four after they had done a full run through, not sure.

I think it was the older series so maybe they go weekly for the most recently broadcast series then.

I have the whole series on illegal download if you want it.

I have it on VHS! [/luddite]

Next episode is on Tuesday, I've no idea what they are doing now!

I wrote a quiz about Series 5 (or whatever you want to call it) fro HowWellDoYouKnow.com which you can find here. It's not massively difficult, but extra traffic reflects well on me, so have a go. It'll only take a few minutes.

I know that Question 3 is currently wrong. I didn't have the internet when I wrote that one, so couldn't fact check. Hopefully everything else is correct...

I've also written one for the Eccleston series, but that one won't be up until next week sometime.

Verg good, but your answer to question 3 is wrong!

In other news, the 5th series soundtrack has been announced for release at the beginning of November (following on from a release of the music from the Specials at the beginning of September).