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[camilikins]

Don't know if any of you are following David Tenant on Facebook, but his page just exploded.

Here is the release date of Waters of Mars: 15th November, 7 pm on BBC One...


David Tennant is also 'jealous' of Matt Smith...

And, spoileriffically:
John Simm had fun 'destroying' Tennant Here is the link to this spoileriffic article

So good to finally hear something about the coming season. The wait has been too long.

[Alderaan]

For those of you who are too good to watch Sarah Jane Adventures, you just missed an awesome guest spot from the Doctor. The director took Tennant's mannerisms almost to the point of parody. You can tell everybody had a lot of fun filming that one.

[Disco Stu]

There's a new trailer and around 3 minutes of footage from The Waters of Mars online now, and it looks fucking awesome.

There's also a clip out from that animated short Dreamland and it looks fucking terrible.

Swings and roundabouts.

[Donal]

So, I just got caught up on the new series. I did a little background research so I could get the references and such and I have one nagging question:


Did any one actually die in the Time War? Or did they all just go into hiding?

[Wibblewobble]

There's a new trailer and around 3 minutes of footage from The Waters of Mars online now, and it looks fucking awesome.

Hey, it's Lindsay Duncan! I mean, Servilia of the Junii!

[brit1985]

the best thing about the new doctor who is that stephen moffet (blink) is taking over the executive duties

[Mr Gale]

So, I just got caught up on the new series. I did a little background research so I could get the references and such and I have one nagging question:


Did any one actually die in the Time War? Or did they all just go into hiding?

Everyone involved died apart from a few people. So nearly 2 entire species, plus a few other planets it seems got hurt, I think theres some reference to innocent casualties of the war.

[TheDarkFlame]

Those few people include The Doctor, The Master, and apparently a whole armada of daleks.

[Tim]

Well, the Doctor is supposed to have ended the Time War, The Master wasn't really a part of the Timelord army because he's an outlaw. Of the Daleks the only survivors were the Cult of Skaro who hid in the void, the Dalek who fell through time and ended up in that first Dalek episode and the Dalek emperor who rebuilt the Dalek Armada over a thousand years using the people he stole from Satellite 5. I'm not sure if they've ever really specified if the Timelords and Daleks were killed or if they're just 'gone', as in temporally blinked into non-existence.

I'm looking forward to this waters of mars thing. It can't be worse than that crappy easter episode with michelle ryan.

[Donal]

No, the Season 4 finale had the actual Dalek Armada that fought the Time Lords. The Doctor even said he saw Davros' ship destroyed

And the Master was part of the Time Lord army. He just cut and ran when he saw the destruction coming.

And that whole prison of Daleks freed in the season 2 finale.

[Tim]

Yeah but the season 4 finale Daleks and the season 2 finale Daleks were just saved from the Time War because of the cult of skaro. Presumably the cult stole the prison during the war when they went into hiding, and Dalek Caan rescued Davros and co when he temporal-shifted into the time-war.

[Disco Stu]

I was under the impression that most of the season 4 finale Dalek Armada had been grown from Davros himself. He said as much to the Doctor, when he opened his shirt and showed his exposed ribcage and organs. Only a few Daleks and Davros survived from the ship which crashed out of the Timr War, and set about building a new armada.

[ZacDilone]

For those of you who are too good to watch Sarah Jane Adventures, you just missed an awesome guest spot from the Doctor. The director took Tennant's mannerisms almost to the point of parody. You can tell everybody had a lot of fun filming that one.

OK, I swallowed my pride and watched it.  Three quick observations:

1.  It was a lot of fun, especially how they handled Tennant.
2.  The kids weren't as annoying as I imagined.
3.  I still hate the damn dog.

All in all, I actually enjoyed that.  Wish I had a young one to watch it with.  My 14-year old is getting into Doctor Who, but would never watch this.

[Disco Stu]

First pic released from the final two-part special The End of Time

[Ryan]

Press shot? Really? What sort of hype were they hoping to drum up? Ooooh, his hair's still floppy!

Come on, BBC, give me my licence fee's worth...

[Mr Gale]

So, well, that sucked.

SPOILERS AND SUCH


About a webisodes worth of plot, really, nothing really happened in the first 40 minutes. Then we get to the, should have been, cool bit... Doctor embraces his self as TIME LORD VICTORIOUS, a new MASTER of total conviction... for like 5 fucking minutes and then regrets it. What was even the point of that if you step back off it a few minutes later.

Oh yeah, and random Ood, great.

Glad we made it 15 minutes before somone awkwardly forced into the plot that he knew someone who was gay, "my brother, has a husband, WE ARE ALL GAY IN THE FUTURE" almost missed that. And we got a meta joke, "imagine you were in pompeii" and a 4 knocks reference.

But really, meh, villains looked ok but barely saw them and they didnt do much. Cast was barely touched upon. Long time for nothing much to happen.

Also water does not always win. Water is pretty lame.

[lord_harris]

Water does always win. At least, that was the excuse I used when I pissed the bed.

[Archaeology Dalek]

Also, the references to Space Oddity and Life on Mars were inspired (Bowie Base One)

[TheAlmightyCoxy]

That was AWESOME!

Spoilers: 
I thought the villains were fucking terrifying, the fact that they looked ever so slightly off human was creepy as hell.

I loved how the crew (well, most of them) were fated to die from the outset, allowing the Doctor to be powerless and stand back for once, even when he eventually stepped in with his God complex,Adelaide was still fated to die.The end result was still the same. 

Okay, the characterization was weak, but how much characterization did you expect to get in an hour with a cast that large? And yeah, there were some terrible accents.

But all in all, I'm going to have to say that was the best episode yet.

Roll on Christmas!

[Tim]

No, Gale is right, this episode was awful. Barely anything happened. The SPINNING NEWSPAPER HEADLINES were annoying as hell. The plot device of telling us they were all going to die at the start was retarded. When that all came up I asked Gale if he thought it the Doctor was going to Pompeii it or if the woman was going to Minogue it. I guess RTD couldn't decided which cliché he wanted so he just did both. Plenty of standard doctor who episodes have as many characters as that and they manage to characterise them just fine in 45 minutes.

And yeah, that bit about the doctor becoming ULTIMA TIMELORD was just retarded if you're going to make it only like 4 minutes. Why not have him, crazed by his own power, try to go back in time and prevent the Time War, and have him find the Ood there. If you need an Ood. It's not like the Ood are that great really.

Also, I know I make this complaint everytime they show an episode but; God damn I hate the sound on this show. The soundtrack is always far too loud and overbearing and insistent. And in this episode we had occasional instances of TECHNO RUNNING MUSIC and PSEUDO-JAWS MUSIC. I do hope Moffat will finally get rid of Murray Gold.