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ok..another odd thing i've noticed. The date is never mentioned, but you can assume from the mentions of Twitter, and the laptops, that the bulk of the episode took place in the present day. But in the spideysense scene where the Doctor notices Rory filming the alien, the camera pans down Rory's body, before zooming in on his Hospital ID...which says "issued - 30/11/1990". I can't believe that they'd let something like that go out by mistake, particularly since the camera really zooms in on it. So is there something strange or time displaced about Rory? perhaps the whole village? Will that tie in with things later?

oh...and another thing to add to the "things which might reoccur later on"....The logo on the computer was MψTH. I bet that's something which will reappear in some form.

ok...watched it again. Some thought about the arc for this series the obvious stuff is all the "Silence will fall" "the Pandorica will open" "Cracks in the skin of the Universe, don't you know where they come from" that we got from the alien. Did anyone else think there was some sort of foreshadowing in the scene at the end where Amy asks why he chose her, and he says he's lonely...but he's standing in front of some sort of scanner device that he then deliberately switches off, and the music goes a bit eerie. Also there are 2 lines on the scanner, and the lower one (the one that isnt moving) looks a similar shape to the crack in the wall from earlier. And on another note...is it just my dirty mind or does the time rotor in the new tardis look....well....there's no way of saying this politely or delicately...but like a glass buttplug.

hmmm...i'm not sure if this is a spoiler or not, but i'll put it under a cut anyway

am i missing something, or are the last 3 posts just quoting Dan and then each other without any extra text? Or is there something not loading for me? edited to add that slothian's post came up as i was writing it, so i now mean the 3 prior to that :-)

Now that I've had the chance to hear the music properly I really like it, its just as epic as before but much darker, with a nice electronic feel. Its a shift in the right direction if the show really is dipping more into its more sinister element. I've also pinpointed the exact moment in the episode where Mike will fall for Amy Pond. well, i've listened to it a few times...and it's grown on me a bit. I still don't like the opening, feels too vague, I miss the big bang that the opening should have (either a whoosh like the original, or the explosion of the later classic versions)...this just sort of meanders for the first section. It's hard to get a full feeling for it, because both the start and end versions are just so short...the sequence hardly seems to begin before it ends.

very good. I really enjoyed that. The story wasn't the strongest but then series openers rarely are deep and involving, particularly one which has so much to introduce. Stephen Moffatt was on the DW confidential talking about how they decided that if they were going to change things, they should change everything...and they have. It's a very different feel, which as someone who was never as in love with the RTD vision as i wanted to be is something i'm lookin forward to. I hadn't realised how much i'd missed the old classic Who standby of an English country village, as opposed to all the cities of the RTD era. The negatives...well...I'm not completely sold on the new titles/music....the music is more disappointing to me than the titles, but i need to hear it a few more times before i decide. I'm also not keen on having the DW logo as part of the title (although the way it morphs into the TARDIS is nice).

2 more pics of the TARDIS interior, under the cut

The Cover of the new Radio Times shows off the best image yet of full interior of the new TARDIS. I like it http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/galleries/doctorwhocovers/47/mainImage.jpg I'm sure a bigger scan of it will be available soon

and the interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4nAVW8TYg

Matt Smith was a guest on Jonathan Ross's chatshow tonight. there was a new trailer (similar to the previous one but with some different clips), a clip from episode 6 (featuring a nice little moment relating to a previous doctor). clips and interview are all on blogtor who here http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/ edited to add youtube videos trailer clip from Vampires in Venice

and another trailer...this time courtesy of BBC America. This one has lots of scenes we haven't seen before. it's not a great recording, and the sound is the worst aspect of it, but...so exciting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asYuSjohKTI Better Quality Version is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdAPheEE_3k

did you record it before or after the new trailer was posted? will we have to wait another 2 weeks to get your thoughts and excitement actually, i just realised that the next episode (35) after that will be released the day after the new series starts...wow...it's really close now isn't it.

just spent ages rewatching and rewatching. some more thoughts and observations under the spoiler cut I feel more excited by the "look" of this than i did with any other trailer. oh and the irritatingly pedantic part of me must correct myself from earlier...i mentioned the union jack...of course it's acutally the union flag, not the union jack.

new trailer...lots of spoilers http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/s7/doctor-who/news/a209692/the-second-who-series-five-trailer.html

round up of reports from the press launch tonight http://news.whoviannet.co.uk/2010/03/geronimo-series-5-press-launch-round-up/

not exactly a surprise, but.. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/s7/doctor-who/news/a209476/doctor-who-confirmed-for-xmas-sixth-series.html

This is a report that originated in the tabloid "The Sun", so take this with a cartload of salt at this stage until a more reliable source appears, but http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/s7/doctor-who/news/a208256/doctor-who-game-heads-to-nintendo-wii.html

That, and seeing the Who trailer on the big screen, possibly in 3-D. yep, that would have been fun too...bet that would have looked good in 3-D

Bugger. Well, that just means people in your situation with that will just say "I might as well just wait and rent the DVD!" Which, if the other half wasn't really looking forward to seeing this, is exactly what I would be doing. Yep, I'm seriously considering not bothering. It's not a film i'm desperate to see (i've never been a fan of the book Alice in Wonderland), it was just the appeal of seeing it in 3D which attracted me.

Also, the Odeon near me, which is in a shit location, cannot/does not show 3-D films. So really, Odeon was never an option for me to see this film. Oh, that's understandable. And i'm not saying that Cineworld won't see a boost, but it's going to have an affect on the box office, losing a third of the screens in the country (and if Vue join in, almost 2 thirds). It's a shame for me, cause my local cinema is a brand new Odeon..I'd have quite fancied sitting in the comfort of the gallery, with my complimentary drink and popcorn watching it in 3D. Instead i'll ahve to go to the Cineworld (which in the opposite of your situation is a total shithole, stuck on an industrial estate, and always cold).

If it's in Lett's biography then I'm probably way off. (and heartily apologise for over-zealous correction if I am) I know it's an often repeated fact that then I read in something (I want to say Doctor Who Magazine) was a myth, since they found Houghton's outline but I think DWM is more likely to be mistaken than Letts. No, I'd be more likely to believe DWM. They have people who do an immense amount of research into the documents and paperwork that was around at the time. It's unsurprising that people involved in the show talk about 20, 30 or 40 years ago, occasionally misremember things.

from their own websites, in the UK - Odeon - 831 screens Cineworld - 790 screens Vue - 654 screens Empire have 144 screens Showcase have 21 cinemas, but I don't know how many screens

Well, in the UK, the Odeon chain (who are the biggest chain in the country) have confirmed they won't be showing Alice in Wonderland in protest at the reduced gap between cinema and DVD release. Cineworld (the 2nd biggest) will be showing it, but Vue (the 3rd) may join Odeon in the boycott. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8528820.stm

Another great podcast. Have to say, this is one of those stories where my opinion differs from most of fandom. I find this such a dull story, I really don't like it at all. The Parallel earth scenes aren't too bad, but mostly i find it such a snoozefest. I agree that the primords were totally superflous. Unfortunatly it's a bit of a curse that sometimes they feel that there has to be a monster in Doctor Who, and shove one in unnecceseraly (see also the Slyther in Daleks Invasion of Earth, the Taran Wood Beast in Androids of Tara, and the Magma Beast in Caves of Androzani to name a few). It'll be interesting to hear you views on the next season, the show changes again from this militaristic format set in lots of research centres, to a lot more colourful cartoony action series (Terror of the Autons in particular with it's overreliance on CSO (blue screen) is a bit of a shock to the system).