Monday, October 29, 2012

TARDIS Blueprints!

Blueprints and instructions on how to build your own TARDIS! I've actually had these for a while, and it somehow never occurred to me to upload them anywhere. I forget where I found them, but all credit goes to the original author.

NOTE: These are not exact blueprints for the TARDIS prop, because I'm pretty sure the BBC doesn't use imperial units.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C03DD00C1324C151!782&authkey=!AM6hJTu6DBWff9s

Friday, October 26, 2012

Matt Smith's Birthday

So the cast of Doctor Who celebrated Matt's birthday today (even though it's not till Sunday). He received a TARDIS cake, and everyone wore masks with his face.




So I found of gif of Jenna with her mask.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Pictures From Filming This Week & Last

The following pictures have been scoured from Google Image Search and all are from the filming of the first episode of Series 7.2, rumored to be titled "The Bells of Saint John".








I do hope Clara thinks fezzes are cool.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Things I'd Like to See in Series 7.2/8

Here are some things I'd like to see in the next season and a half

  • Captain Jack and the Torchwood team
  • The Master
  • A Sherlock crossover (could actually happen in Series 3 of that show)
  • The Ice Warriors (they'd be good to see with modern special effects)
  • K-9
  • A meta-reference/breaking the fourth wall
  • More story arcs (I for one, actually enjoy them)
  • An explanation for why the TARDIS exploded in Series 5
  • Doctor/Master scene (straight or lesbian versions only, though)
  • An entire episode taking place inside the TARDIS
  • The TARDIS kitchen (that is the room I seriously want to see the most)
  • Jelly babies (the Doctor discovers his stash that got lost when the TARDIS rearranged itself sometime prior to Series 1)
  • Trenzalore (I don't want to wait any longer than Series 8 for this whole story arc to end)
  • Clara doesn't fall for the Doctor because she's lesbian (we need a companion who doesn't love the Doctor for that reason) 
  • Donna gets her memories back

NOTE: This does not include the 50th Anniversary Special(s)

Friday, October 12, 2012

P.S.

Here is an unshot scene from The Angels Take Manhattan specially made by the BBC with voice-over by Arthur Darvill. It features Brian Williams after the events of that episode.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Random Spoilers From Episode 7

Courtesy of Doctor Who TV, Doctor Who Spoilers, and Twitter.


Doctor: I like your house!
Clara: It’s not mine -- I just work there.
Doctor: Oh, yes! You look after the children, you’re a governess! Just like -- Um. Just like…
Clara: Just like what?
Doctor: Just like I thought you would be … ! But this isn’t exactly a career choice, why here?
Clara: Well, my Mum died, I had no ties, no plans, so why not?
Doctor: People always have plans.
Clara: What’s your plan?
Doctor: It’s the internet. Wifi. There’s wifi everywhere around us. We are living in a wifi soup. But, imagine. If there was something in it. Something living in the wifi. Harvesting human minds, copying them, editing them. A million souls, trapped like flies in the World Wide Web, all crying out.
Clara: Isn’t that basically Twitter?
Doctor: Yes. Sentient Twitter! Hold on… (inaudible) … And you just made a joke about Twitter?!
[Something happens behind them]
Clara: Is it the wifi? Is the wifi switching the lights on?
Doctor: No, the people are switching on the lights. The wifi is switching on the people!
Doctor: You and me -- in the box! Now!
Clara: What? Together? Why?
Doctor: You’ll understand once we’re inside.
Clara: I bet I will!
Doctor: [shocked] Clara! Please!
Clara: Why do you have a box anyway? What’s in there?
Doctor: Clara! … [whispers] Clara, look… behind you!
BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. [Director shouts this, as The Doctor and Clara look to different areas. A shadowed man is standing in the distance.]
Clara: What are they?
Doctor: A walking base station. You saw it earlier.
Clara: I saw a little girl.
Doctor: Of course! Active camouflage! They drew an image from your subconscious and bounced it right back at you! … In the box, now!

The Doctor: “Clara! Clara! Ha! It’s me. Demonked! I’m wearing sensible clothes! Can I come in?”
Clara: “Where am I? Please tell me. I don’t know where I am. Where am I? Please tell me. I don’t know where I am… [she keeps repeating]“

The Doctor: "Hello! Are you alright?".
Clara: "I'm in bed...I don't remember going though"

Clara: "Are you guarding me?! Are you seriously going to sit down there all night?!"

  • There's a creepy little girl in a nightdress
  • At one point she had a greenscreen hat on
  • At another point the Doctor rushes into the house, up the stairs, waving the sonic screwdriver, shouting "Clara! Clara!"

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Multiple Companions - One Actress?

So filming reports in today from the filming of the first episode of Part 2 seem to reveal Jenna is not going to be playing the same character as in the Christmas special. Apparently, both of them are running children's homes, which seems to suggest some sort of connection between the two. It's probably some sort of weird wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing (perhaps something akin to Scaroth from City of Death, only she doesn't realize it). Episode 7 appears to take place in the modern day, with something living in the Wi-Fi. The Clara in this episode doesn't seem to know what the TARDIS is, and seems to think the Doctor is going to do something not-so-nice to her in there.

http://www.doctorwhospoilers.com/2012/?p=6837

http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-7-part-2-filming-spoilers-40526.htm

Monday, October 8, 2012

Classic Series Villains

So far, each season of the new series (except Season 6) has seen the return of at least one classic series villain. Season 1 saw the return of the Autons and the Daleks. Season 2 saw the return of the Cybermen. Season 3 saw the return of the Master. Season 4 brought back the Sontarans. Season 5 brought back the Silurians.

What will this season see? Who knows. Rumor has it the Ice Warriors will return, but only time will tell.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

My Theory For the Question, Series 5, & Series 6

I already posted this theory a real long time ago here, but I'm posting it again where it will hopefully get seen more, plus I'm expanding it a little.

The Doctor's name is the passcode to open the Time Lock on Gallifrey. The Doctor chose it because it's only known to a handful of his family and friends. Once the war was over, he was the only person left in the universe who knew it. The Time Lords couldn't open the time lock because (I'm just making this up) a time lock can only be opened by the device that created it. They didn't have access to his TARDIS, so they couldn't open it.

Well for whatever reason, Captain Jack has decided to open the time lock on Gallifrey, and he knows he needs the Doctor's name and TARDIS. He realizes that the Doctor isn't about to just hand over the information, so he decides to ask him on the Fields of Trenzalore, when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer.

The Silence realize that someone is going to try to open the time lock, and they want to prevent this. Their first thought is to kill the person who's asking the Doctor his name, but they can't do this seeing as it's an immortal. Their second attempt is to blow up the TARDIS. They fail to realize the consequences of blowing up a TARDIS, or perhaps they don't do it properly, and end up destroying reality and the Doctor has to reboot the universe. Their final attempt is to just kill the Doctor, which they try to do multiple times, and fail.

The only other person who could possibly try to open the time lock is Omega, safe and sound in his antimatter universe, where the Silence can't reach him. That's the only other possibility for who could be asking the question. It can't be the Master, because he must surely already know the Doctor's real name (they were probably friends before they chose those names). It can't be River, because if the Silence wanted to prevent her from asking The Question, all they had to do was not kidnap her, and just let her live a normal life. The only reason River knows the Doctor's name is because she was there when the Doctor revealed it.

Note that this a completely separate theory from this one.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

The Case For a Captain Jack–11th Doctor Episode

So it's been over a year since Captain Jack graced the screens of television in Torchwood: Miracle Day. It's also been almost three years since he last appeared in Doctor Who in The End of Time, Part 2. I think it's about fair time he made a return, and here's why.

During the Moffat era, not one mention or appearance of any RTD era companion has been made in Doctor Who. The only companions who wouldn't need a fair bit of finagling to bring back are Martha and Jack. I really don't want to bring Martha back, seeing as she's rather overused in Doctor Who. After her initial departure, she's been brought back multiple times, and never really did anything. She's kind of a useless character in my opinion. She served no useful purpose in either of her appearances in Series 4. Jack has actually accomplished something in each of his appearances.

Jack would be good when the Master returns. The Master is just about the most cunning villain out there, and Jack has exactly the right type of military training to go up against him. I'd love to see Jack's reaction to the fact that the Master is still alive; I think Jack would just try to outright kill him on the spot. Jack and Clara could go off and deal with one thing, while River and the Doctor could deal with another, and both pairs of characters could just flirt endlessly (I think Jack is actually Clara's dad).

Jack is immortal, I'm sure that someone could make an entire storyline out of an immortal character. I actually like to think that the Silence's first attempt to prevent the Doctor from answering The Question was to kill the person who's asking it. Obviously that person outwitted all their attempts, and the Silence viewed it as easier to kill the Doctor. If they can figure out a way to kill someone with the cunning of the Doctor, I'm sure they could figure out a way of killing anyone. Just not someone who can't be killed at all, like Jack. So therefore, I think it's Jack who's asking The Question.

Moreover, with Torchwood on hiatus for the foreseeable future, this could be our only shot at seeing the character in the next year or so. They might even be able to work in a cameo from Gwen Cooper, but I don't want one episode of Doctor Who substituting in for an entire season of Torchwood. Torchwood still needs to make a return, but in the meantime, John Barrowman should totally team up with Matt Smith for an episode.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Angel's Kiss is Now Available for Download

The tie-in ebook for The Angels Take Manhattan is now available for download!

Amazon US
Amazon UK
eBooks.com
iBooks

Series 7, Part 1 Review

I do reviews now, reviews are cool.

Overall, not my favorite season, that will always be Series 4 or 5 (I can't decide). Steven Moffat promised big blockbuster events, and that is precisely what we got. Each episode stands out on its own and does not depend on any of the other episodes. The season really lived up to all the anticipation, and was probably worth the 8 month, 1 week wait.

Jenna–Louise Coleman's appearance in Asylum of the Daleks was probably the best-kept secret in all of Doctor Who history. Despite at least three screenings of the episode to the public, not one word was leaked on the internet. It took me completely off-guard, so much so to the point where I wasn't even sure if it was her or not. I was probably half-way through watching the episode when I decided, "yes, that actually is the new companion." It was quite possibly the most brilliant thing Moffat has ever done, especially seeing as it was apparently an afterthought. He apparently did not decide to have the actress for the new companion play Oswin until they were halfway through casting for the Christmas Special.

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and A Town Called Mercy definitely trace the development of a darker Doctor. The Doctor was more prone to simply kill someone to save other people/dinosaurs. Amy's comment about "this is what happens when you travel alone for too long" seems to harken back to the tenth Doctor. The 10th Doctor traveled alone for a period of a few years and eventually went on to do the whole "Time Lord victorious" thing in The Waters of Mars. The Doctor needs someone by his side at all times, and I think this really shows that. All through Series 6 and 7, the Doctor has only had a companion intermittently, he only came back to Amy and Rory from time to time. He did not have a full-time companion like he has had in all the previous seasons. I think Clara is definitely going to humanize him again, and bring him back to the happier, lighter stance that he had before.

The Power of Three was the most anticipated episode for me, personally. I was really looking forward to seeing an 11th Doctor-UNIT episode. I was actually hoping they would track him down through a Code 9 (see The Aliens of London), and was a little disappointed that they traced him through the artron energy in the TARDIS. The mention of the Zygons was good, though I'm still confused as to why they were sitting in the snow with the Doctor holding a cabbage, especially seeing as it was June. Also, is it just me, or was the Doctor wearing the coat from Let's Kill Hitler in that scene? The mentions of K-9 and the Brig also made me happy as a fan of the classic series. The ending of the episode was rather rushed, with too much happening and the Doctor solving the problem too easily. The sonic screwdriver turned out to be the solution to the episode, which I thought was supposed to be a no-no. Having the Doctor just sonic a screen and solve all the problems does not seem like a proper Doctor Who ending, it's just too easy. The UNIT inclusion worked rather well, the episode was a proper invasion Earth story. The only thing really missing was Trinity Wells.

The Angels Take Manhattan was the first time an episode of Doctor Who made me cry, though I will attribute that to the fact that I hadn't taken my medication and actually had more than two emotions. It only made me cry the first time through, which I think was due to the fact that I had heard it was a tearjerker and was actually expecting to cry, but after watching it once, it just didn't have the same emotional effect. I don't buy the whole thing about reading the future in a book forcing that future to happen. It's been stated before that "sometimes, knowing your own future is what enables you to change it". Never has it been said that knowing your own future forces it to come true. When River or the Doctor says "spoilers" to prevent revealing the future, it's just been explained away as you might try to change your future, which could have disastrous consequences. It's the whole 1st Law of Time thing, never try to interfere in your own timeline. It's always been stated that you can attempt to change your future, even if it might not work. This thing in The Angels Take Manhattan where knowing your future forces it to happen just seems like it's completely out of nowhere. Also when Amy was about to leave, the Doctor said she was creating fixed time and that he could never come see her. I don't understand why he couldn't just come visit her without changing anything. I do feel like it was the best departure of any New Series companion other than Martha. Martha simply chose to leave, Amy chose to be with the one she loved. Amy didn't actually lose anything, she still had her husband and her daughter.

The only other remark I have on this season is that the episodes seem shorter. They are the same length, it just seems less is happening. That may just be me though, it seems like my perception of time alters from school year to school year.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Sun's Gone Wibbly

Okay, so here's something I've been noticing for quite some time now: they've mentioned solar flares far too many times.

Solar flares have received at least four mentions: in Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, in The Waters of Mars, in The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People, and in The Wedding of River Song. In The Wedding of River Song, it turned out to not actually be solar flares, but they still received a mention. There might have been other mentions as well, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. There could very well have been a mention of solar flares in every season, but I can't really remember. There were probably also mentions of them in Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

I think we're going to see an explanation of this at some point, or at least another mention of them. I think there's something building extremely long–term here, something all the way back to Series 1. Someone is probably messing with the Sun, causing solar flares. Whatever it is, I don't think it's done yet. I might just be overthinking it, but this is Doctor Who, and everything means something.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Ultimate Jenna Theory

So here is my ultimate theory for Jenna–Louise Coleman's character.

Clara and Oswin are the same person, Asylum of the Daleks is the story of how she dies. She meets the Doctor for the first time (from her point of view) in the 2012 Christmas Special. She and him travel together for years, and eventually part company. Somehow, some way, she ends up losing all her memories. She has no idea who she is, or that she ever traveled with the Doctor. She makes up the name Oswin Oswald (not knowing her real name, Clara) and joins the starship Alaska to see the universe. It ends up crashing on the Dalek Asylum, and 363 days later, the Doctor, Amy, and Rory arrive. At the end, Clara/Oswin dies when the Daleks annihilate the planet. Moments before she dies, her memories come back, and she tells the Doctor to remember her so he will treat her well during their travels together.

The Doctor, never having seen Clara's face at the Asylum, never knows it's the same girl he took traveling. He never finds out what happens to her after they part ways after traveling together. He never knows the girl he met who became a Dalek was his dear friend Clara.

Monday, October 1, 2012

A Fall With Grace

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at The Angels Take Manhattan, entitled A Fall With Grace.

Moffat Is Pure Genius

Seriously, he's been planning the New York aspect of this episode for far longer than anyone imagined. Melody regenerated alone in 1960s New York. Well, guess who's stuck in the past in New York and wants children to raise? That's right, her f*cking parents! Amy and Rory get to properly raise their daughter.

I think she regenerated again after moving out from her parents, and ended up as Mels. Then she was picked up by the Silence and turned into a psychopath.