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Post by matthewsee on Mar 18, 2012 0:28:45 GMT
2012 Annual
Amy’s Escapade:
Second story.
Amy has this little adventure on her own in a little break from the Doctor and Rory.
Quite a fun story which involves a monster baker and Amy gets to sort of have a companion in a boy plus the appearance of the Judoon.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 18, 2012 22:48:09 GMT
2012 Annual
Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday:
Third story.
We first heard the name of this story in Night Terrors (which was mentioned there as a reference to Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday, Snow White simply substituted the “Doctor Who and the Daleks” part of the title).
Night Terrors writer Mark Gatiss may or may not have written this story himself as no author has been credited.
Quite fun insertion into the Time Lord legend.
Curiously the illustration of Rassilon is that of the Timothy Dalton version which would have perhaps suggests that Rassilon decide to choose this face again when we saw him in The End of Time.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 18, 2012 23:32:07 GMT
The Invisible Enemy:
As an alternative to watching this story on DVD is the option of watching it with CGI effects in place of the original effects.
However it seems the person who inserted the CGI effects wasn’t paying attention in the final episode.
During the final episode shortly arriving on Titan, Leela tried to stop one of Lowe’s men by shooting him but he wouldn’t stop coming towards her, her shot towards him having no effect.
Briefly at one point, Leela’s gun was at the direction which was a few inches from where the Doctor was. Leela wasn’t shooting at that direction and so the original effects weren’t inserted there.
However the CGI effects were inserted here and this doesn’t really make sense. Why would Leela shoot in that direction when there was a good chance of harming or even killing the Doctor.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 19, 2012 22:58:37 GMT
In an interview with Euros Lyn in DWM 409 of his direction of the David Tennant swansong The End of Time he said that Bernard Cribbins got to be in the TARDIS in this story. The End of Time was not the first time that Cribbins has been in the TARDIS, he has travelled in the TARDIS before in Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD.
Perhaps Lyn hasn’t seen Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD and was advised against seeing it.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 20, 2012 22:50:25 GMT
The Invisible Enemy:
For the Trailers and Continuity, the subtitles correlated an announcer as saying the Doctor faces the invisible enemy in lower case. The announcer was clearly referencing the story title and this should have been reflected by the subtitles.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 21, 2012 12:28:50 GMT
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 21, 2012 22:45:59 GMT
Human Nature:
In the podcast for this episode, Freema Agyeman about what if the TARDIS could speak.
Wonder if she saw The Doctor's Wife since then.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 21, 2012 23:26:17 GMT
In a letter published in Torchwood Magazine #18 Keith Morrison via email pointed out that when Tosh first appeared in Aliens of London she reacted to sounds coming from behind a door labelled 456, which of course the number designated to the aliens in Children of Earth.
As Morrison had stated it was either a coincidence or Russell T Davies masterplan.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 21, 2012 23:40:08 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page:
Six episodes of the upcoming Doctor Who season will be shown this year and the remaining eight next year 2013.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 25, 2012 0:21:13 GMT
The Eight Truths:
The Eight Truths is the first instalment of the finale of the third season of the Eighth Doctor New Adventures from Big Finish released in 2009 and written by Eddie Robson.
The Eight Truths itself is made of two parts which the conclusion being Worldwide Web.
This story is a sequel to the Third Doctor swansong Planet of Spiders.
Planet of Spiders has legendary status and with their being no TV sequel to it, it was inevitable that Big Finish would make one themselves.
The story takes place in 2015 not far off from where we are now (ironically I read that the story was originally listed to take place in 2012 before the change to 2015).
A pretty good guest cast which includes Stephen Moore (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy & has since turned up in the Doctor Who TV series in Cold Blood), Sophie Winkleman (Red Dwarf: Back To Earth), Sanjeev Bhaskar (Kumars at No.42) and the return of Katarina Olsson as the Headhunter.
The presence of the Headhunter means that Karen is also back leading Lucie to become part of the Headhunter’s plan with the spiders.
The Eight Truths is a very good first instalment of the Spiders sequel including a reminder that the spiders don’t like to be called spiders.
The accompanying interviews on this disc are enjoyable to listen.
I was surprised from the interviews that the Karen here is not the same as before with Kelly Godliman replacing Louise Fullerton. Kelly Godliman did not try to copy Louise Fullerton’s performance but to be honest I did not noticed the difference between their respective portrayals of Karen.
It was interesting to learn from Sanjeev Bhaskar that he had previously worked with Paul McGann in the movie The Dance of Shiva. This perhaps why they worked well together for this story. In fact McGann was the reason why Bhaskar agreed to be in it.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 26, 2012 3:15:54 GMT
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 27, 2012 6:51:29 GMT
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 30, 2012 22:04:50 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page:
Joanne McQuinn and David Gyasi have been cast in the upcoming season. For the latter it is a return to the Whoniverse having previously appeared in Torchwood: Combat playing hospital patient Will Harris.
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