Currently I am disappointed the latest series was split in two, probably not helped by not knowing, and am looking forward to the second part and the new companion!
As much as I loved the Ponds I think it was about time for a change and let us be honest they have lasted longer than anyone else on the show now as far as the companions are concerned. What i only just realised right now as I type this is they achieved that accolade but never managed to meet Captain Jack?! LOL.
The stories involving new companions I have always found to be really interesting in all the years of being a Doctor Who fan, even if I now have difficulty recalling the ones from the early years?!
I do also hope that the second half of this series picks up somewhat as apart from the opening one they were down a little, just a little mind, on previous series.
Mind you I do think one thing more and more with each day and that is this...
..we have not seen the last of the Ponds?!
Also I expect some sort of change as the words of River Phoenix when they first met were quite unforgettable as she described a more serious, mature and level headed Doctor of the future and I have been waiting for that to sort of happen, due to the devious and brilliant mind that is Steven Moffat, ad cannot help but wonder if 'losing' the Ponds is a step towards this?
Also was that damnable sonic screwdriver 'try the RED setting' which is obviously NOT the one the current Doctor uses! Talk of Matt Smith having difficulties with the work schedule? There must be a new Sonic Screwdriver at some point and that inevitably means ... a new Doctor?!?!
Oh damn, wish I had not realised that?! LMAO!!!
Also the Doctor seemed to give Amy strange looks in an earlier episode and I wondered if it was a nod to something that would transpire later in the series as a kind of story arc. So his surprise that they disappeared when they did was .. well a surprise! LOL.
Well i have always had a habit of second guessing story tellers but Steven Moffat is one of those rare breeds that shows flashes of brilliance and genius and i have often spoken to others that there has to be a point when Hollywood pick up the phone to him. Boy, will I NOT enjoy that day if and when it arrives!!
Missed the clips to the Christmas episode, if there were any as I ran out the room not knowing it was end of series 7000 part 0.5?!?! LOL.
Have to keep an eye out in coming weeks!
So if there is to be a new Doctor at the end of this series or the next I will have to start wondering who could be likely candidates! After all when it was announced that Christopher Eccleston was leaving at the end of the first series I received an odd call from my sister with an odd request?!
She worked for William Hill and they wanted to offer bets on who would be the new Doctor and did she know anyone into Doctor Who to come up with likely candidates? She said yes sure and called me!
I gave the following lol ...
Mont Don
David Warner
David Tennant
Possibly one or two others I cannot recall.
I will have to see how the rumours play out as I might have to come up with some more?!
LMAO
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Doctor Who The Later Years Introduction
Well I was first going to do this as one blog but due to the absolute huge length of time, or eras really, between the two runs of the time travelling Time Lord in his blue box it seemed more logical to me to have two separate blogs for the two eras.
I, as my father was along with many others, were absolutely over the moon, if your American that means very happy and then some, when we first heard that the Doctor was to FINALLY return. Of course we were none too sure as this was not the first time there had been whispers of the Doctor returning in his Tardis but would it ACTUALLY materialise this time round, ohh sorry for the pun!
Over time there was more and more talk and eventually it emerged in the tabloid press that Christopher Eccleston has been cast for the role and I remember pictures emerging of him looking like a Tom Baker style Doctor Who complete with BIG HAIR!! But, alas, this was not to be the case and he looked like someone you would meet down the local pub, or bar. Luckily the same would not be said about his character and this mad him enjoyable to watch with the talent that Mr Eccleston possessed.
Just as I had get used to him a remark he made on appearing on a Doctor Who Mastermind special and I realised that he had agreed to do just one series and that there would be someone else standing in very early on in the Doctor's return. I remember thinking how curious this was as you are going to bring back a British TV Icon like this and likely the biggest after such a long time would take a long time for the public to adapt, well those that remember the Doctor of old, like me. So to then have an actor only wanting to do one series seemed somewhat bizarre to my mind and you would have thought that they would have started with David Tennant from day one?!
But I dare say that behind the scenes would be something similar to that of the other great British icon of James Bond and how Pierce Brosnan was always destined to play the super spy and indeed was all but signed up for The Living Daylights and with a script by his bed he received a phone call to say that he was not going to be released form his contract and in stepped Timothy Dalton.
Oddly and as much as I loved David Tennant he did take me a couple of episodes to get used to him and you when I first glimpsed Matt Smith I thought this process would take much longer still?! But by the end of the Eleventh Hour I was sold, oh OK after the end of the SECOND WATCH of the Eleventh Hour but still!!
Currently and while typing this we have just reached ... THE END? ... of the current series, or i should say like we had last year the end of the first part of the series?? Yes we have this odd thing going on whereby each series seems to have a longer one that the last, except the first of course, and is now being split into TWO mini series?! Not quite sure why this has come about and I doubt the American buyers can be that happy as they prefer series with over 20 episodes in them, not 13, 12 or indeed 6. Still, if your as popular as The Doctor you can do as you please I dare say.
Worrying news that was happily disregarded is that Matt Smith was finding the schedule tough going, could explain for the two odd breaks in between the last two series? It also added that at the end of the next series he would be quitting which i find an odd thing for someone to state and sounded like a gambled attempt to guess this correctly to acquire the 'false' reputation as someone in the know to attract viewers/hits and such like. After all this is Matt Smith's third series and matches David Tennant for longevity currently and at the end of the NEXT series would be the longest running actor of the Later Years to play the Time Lord! So to state that the schedule is getting to him then what did it do to the PREVIOUS actors when Matt Smith is on the verge of being the longest serving actor?!
Still there will o doubt come a time when the current Doctor's escapades will come to an end and possibly, HOPEFULLY, someone else will step into those admired shoes, err or box!!
I, as my father was along with many others, were absolutely over the moon, if your American that means very happy and then some, when we first heard that the Doctor was to FINALLY return. Of course we were none too sure as this was not the first time there had been whispers of the Doctor returning in his Tardis but would it ACTUALLY materialise this time round, ohh sorry for the pun!
Over time there was more and more talk and eventually it emerged in the tabloid press that Christopher Eccleston has been cast for the role and I remember pictures emerging of him looking like a Tom Baker style Doctor Who complete with BIG HAIR!! But, alas, this was not to be the case and he looked like someone you would meet down the local pub, or bar. Luckily the same would not be said about his character and this mad him enjoyable to watch with the talent that Mr Eccleston possessed.
Just as I had get used to him a remark he made on appearing on a Doctor Who Mastermind special and I realised that he had agreed to do just one series and that there would be someone else standing in very early on in the Doctor's return. I remember thinking how curious this was as you are going to bring back a British TV Icon like this and likely the biggest after such a long time would take a long time for the public to adapt, well those that remember the Doctor of old, like me. So to then have an actor only wanting to do one series seemed somewhat bizarre to my mind and you would have thought that they would have started with David Tennant from day one?!
But I dare say that behind the scenes would be something similar to that of the other great British icon of James Bond and how Pierce Brosnan was always destined to play the super spy and indeed was all but signed up for The Living Daylights and with a script by his bed he received a phone call to say that he was not going to be released form his contract and in stepped Timothy Dalton.
Oddly and as much as I loved David Tennant he did take me a couple of episodes to get used to him and you when I first glimpsed Matt Smith I thought this process would take much longer still?! But by the end of the Eleventh Hour I was sold, oh OK after the end of the SECOND WATCH of the Eleventh Hour but still!!
Currently and while typing this we have just reached ... THE END? ... of the current series, or i should say like we had last year the end of the first part of the series?? Yes we have this odd thing going on whereby each series seems to have a longer one that the last, except the first of course, and is now being split into TWO mini series?! Not quite sure why this has come about and I doubt the American buyers can be that happy as they prefer series with over 20 episodes in them, not 13, 12 or indeed 6. Still, if your as popular as The Doctor you can do as you please I dare say.
Worrying news that was happily disregarded is that Matt Smith was finding the schedule tough going, could explain for the two odd breaks in between the last two series? It also added that at the end of the next series he would be quitting which i find an odd thing for someone to state and sounded like a gambled attempt to guess this correctly to acquire the 'false' reputation as someone in the know to attract viewers/hits and such like. After all this is Matt Smith's third series and matches David Tennant for longevity currently and at the end of the NEXT series would be the longest running actor of the Later Years to play the Time Lord! So to state that the schedule is getting to him then what did it do to the PREVIOUS actors when Matt Smith is on the verge of being the longest serving actor?!
Still there will o doubt come a time when the current Doctor's escapades will come to an end and possibly, HOPEFULLY, someone else will step into those admired shoes, err or box!!
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