New Doctor Who

Yeah, the trailer is supposed to be out tomorrow around 2:00 CST. I wonder if it will be viewable in the U.S.? Sometimes stuff on the BBC website is not viewable here, but since the Day of the Doctor will be simulcast all over the world they may allow the trailer to be see here (or else on BBC America.)

The best 10th Doctor story is Midnight. I do think Human Nature/Family of Blood is very good, certainly in the top 5. HN/FoB is definitely Tennant's finest acting performance.Turn Left is also a very good story. Blink deserves to be in the top 5 as well, though I understand your reservations.

The best 11th Doctor story? Tough to say. I really liked The Doctor's Wife since it provided a lot of backstory on the Tardis and was a good story to boot. The Name of the Doctor was also very good, but I have to see how they resolve the story. I also liked The Eleventh Hour and The Lodger. I guess I'd go with The Doctor's Wife, but that could change.

 

Hard to glean any plot clues with the rapid cut editing, however near the end it appears that the Doctors are in separate Tardises and are simultaneously engaging the controls. Thanks for posting this as I was able to scoop my teenage sons and point them to the trailer before they could tell me about it.

 

Yes, it's awesome. Probably the most intense 5 minutes in Dr. Who history. McGann is a great actor. This just makes me feel cheated that he never got to play the Doctor on the TV series. When he is told he has less than 4 minutes to live I loved his deadpan response--"That's an eternity...bring me knitting."

So he regenerates into the John Hurt Doctor. What will fandom call this Doctor? Eight-and-a-half? The War Doctor? BTW, the reflection of the newly regenerated Doctor is much younger looking than John Hurt, implying this Doctor could be the longest incarnation of his life. I also suppose it means we will see Hurt regenerate into the Eccleston Doctor.

 

I'm thinking they have some out-takes from 2005 that they could use for the regeneration scene. Throw in some FX and you've got it.

Forgot to mention in my previous post that the Tom-Doc story that the Sisterhood of Karn originally appeared in, "The Brain of Morbius" was a pathetic story.

 

The story can't decide if it's a satire or serious. There is very little tension. Most of the production takes place in two rooms. Professor Solon terribly overacts, more than usual for a Doctor Who story. It's boring. Sigh. It's been a long time since I've watched it.

 

BBC America had it on last night and I saw the last hour and a half. That truly is bad storytelling. Even for Doctor Who it was far-fetched and unbelievable. Not just the entire population turning into the Master, not lightning bolts flying out of the Master's hands, not the Master being able to fly, not the stupid Star Wars like shooting down of missiles by Wilf, not the Doctor falling to earth from over a mile crashing through a glass dome and surviving, not the planet Gallifrey entering our solar system and closely tracking earth with no gravitational repercussions whatsoever, not the Doctor absorbing millions of rads of radiation without immediately regenerating, and not the sappy farewell tour the Doctor went on with his companions. I guess the really stupid and far-fetched thing for me were the gas jets shooting flames out of the floor of the Tardis control room, fires in the console room in general, and parts of the Tardis crumbling and falling down during the regeneration scene.

This was followed by the introduction of the manic, frenzied eleventh Doctor which served as a condensed retroactive summary of why his personality was grating on me by about mid-way through his era.

 

So, is the 11th Dr the newest one?

I'm not terribly familiar with this show, this marathon on TV and The Day of the Doctor was the first I've really watched of it. And it's brilliant.

 

AGREED!!! :thumbsup:

 

Okay, I need some help, re: "The End of Time." The events in that episode occur 2 years of the Doctor's life (Tennant) after the events in "The Day of the Doctor." But it would seem that the Gallifrey in "End of Time" is just a few moments before or the same moments as "Day." Is that correct?

But if it is, then "End's" Gallifrey was gone for a few moments, and would have resulted in the Dalek cross-fire they achieved in "Day," negating the need for "Day's" Dalek cross-fire?....

 

It is confusing. Yes, if Gallifrey was displaced in The End of Time one would think the Daleks would self destroy, if there was the huge battle occurring when Gallifrey disappeared.

I don't know if I can answer your question or not. Continuity in Doctor Who is tricky. I suppose in TEoT Gallifrey could have been returned to the exact moment it left and the Daleks would not have noticed.

Apparently there are two timey-wimey gimmicks occurring here: A Time Lock and the Zygon Time Freeze. The Time Lock is a mechanism whereby Time Lords on Gallifrey are kept isolated in a fixed space/time. This is used in TEoT. The Zygon Time Freeze essentially freezes time. This is used by the 13 Doctors in DotD.

As is his habit Steven Moffatt does not fully explain things. He didn't explain the end result of the Zygon sub plot - - What was the result of the negotiations?

I doubt the events of the two stories could have happened on the same day. For one, Tennant is in present day Earth battling the Master in TEoT and preventing Rassilon from initiating The Final Sanction (whereby the entire universe would be destroyed and Time Lords elevated to sentient pure energy). For another, in TEoT Gallifrey is in a Time Lock so presumably no time travel to/from Gallifrey would be possible, meaning all Doctors could not converge in their Tardises and create the Time Freeze.

Also, if Gallifrey was displaced to our solar system wouldn't the War Council have noticed that? And wouldn't there have been Dalek ships carried along?

I spent a good hour trying to reconcile these two stories and I give up.