Remake: Dr. Who 2006, wanneer op de buis hier in Nederland?

[ZoekenDVD]

Wie weet wanneer Dr. Who 2006 hier op de nederlandse buis verschijnt?

[Sméagol]

Wat bedoel je met Dr. Who 2006?
't nieuwe seizoen is nog niet eens op de BBC uitgezonden (geen duidelijke datum, alleen gepland voor "spring 2006"), dus dat gaat hier zéker nog een tijdje duren.
't 1ste seizoen (althans, 1ste van de nieuwe serie) was aangekocht door.. Ik heb geen idee (NPS?), maar 't zou op Nederland 3 worden uitgezonden. Ik heb geen idee of dit al gebeurd is of wanneer dit gaat gebeuren. Ik weet ook niet meer waar ik dat nieuws gelezen had.. Wel zijn ze al op Belgische publieke omroep (ik weiger 't "één" te noemen ) inmiddels gestart met de uitzendingen.

Edit:
Ik heb iets gevonden, [zie hier].
NPS dus.. Wat dus misschien voor problemen kan zorgen voor de Nederlandse uitzending (?).

[Dennis Vansant]

Hier wordt Dr. Who al uitgezonden door ik dacht kanaaltwee?
Vind het nergens naar lijken -_-

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Hier wordt Dr. Who al uitgezonden door ik dacht kanaaltwee?
Vind het nergens naar lijken -_-

Tja als jij al die US scifi prullaria aanbid is de kans groot dat andere vormen van scifi als minder gezien worden.

Dr Who (2005) en het succes ervan heeft in Engeland heel veel ruimte gemaakt voor scifi op tv of films & series die er tegenaan zitten.

Ik persoonlijk vind doctor Who in al zijn versies werkelijk goed. Maar ja ik vind ook de orginele Star Trek superieur aan zijn latere versies of uitvoeringen.

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Vandaag doctor who series 1 aangeschaft, wederom een uitgave van Memphis Belle. Dus met Nederlandse ondertiteling. :wink:

deze series 1 is eigenlijk niet de echte eerste serie maar een reboot die in 2005 de Doctor liet terugkeren op de BBC.
Thans is serie 2 al met veel succes gelopen op de BBC en op de 1ste kerstdag komt de kerstspecial "the runaway bride".
Seizoen 3 met david Tennant bezig met zijn 2de seizoen als de Doctor is dan weer van de partij.

Voor de liefhebbers moet ik er ook nog op wijzen dat er woensdagavond een spinoff serie loopt van de Doctor Who (de 1ste spin off!!) namelijk Torchwood (anagram van Doctor Who) op BBC 2 22.00 uur.

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Doctor Who series 2 wordt per vandaag op VRT1 uitgezonden om 14.00 uur. (volgende week een fantastische aflevering met Kung Fu priesters en weerworlven!)

Doctor Who series 3 wordt vanavond om 20.15 uur op BBC 1 uitgezonden, het tweede deel van het seizoen neemt nu zijn aanvang.

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Saturday May 19, 2007
Doctor Who 3.07: "42"



Written by: Chris Chibnall
Directed by: Graeme Harper
Rating:

If proof were needed that Martha’s been well and truly absorbed into the Who-niverse, this episode closes with the Doctor symbolically handing over a set of TARDIS keys. With half the season gone it’s an eloquent way of saying Ms Jones is no longer a passenger; perhaps she’s finally forced her way into the place in the Doctor’s hearts once occupied by Rose?
The episode's 24-style, real-time format could easily have felt like a gimmick, but the premise of an out-of-control spaceship 42 minutes away from crashing into a star never overwhelms the real story; the Doctor and Martha's evolving relationship. Chibnall's script cleverly shifts the balance of power back and forth between the lead duo, giving each their fair share of saving the day. Both Tennant and Agyeman get to show off their emotional range - Agyeman, in particular, is unafraid to put herself through the wringer - and the scene where the Doctor shouts “I will save you” as Martha is launched, helpless, away from the ship in an escape pod, provides the season’s most powerful moment so far. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that, in a brilliantly audacious move, the scene’s shot in near-silence; frankly it’s genius.
While the monster wandering around the grimy, Alien-influenced spaceship is fairly conventional, the combination of a face-obscuring gas mask (anyone seen Dead Man's Shoes?), heavy breathing and a lethal beam of light coming from the eyes ensure it’s a creepily effective bogeyman. Coupled with an ominous ticking clock, it helps to create a wonderfully tense 42 minutes - even the Doctor admits he's scared.
But even when you’re mere moments away from being turned to toast there’s still time for a laugh, and a wonderful sequence where Martha has to answer pub quiz questions to negotiate a series of locked doors (did Elvis or the Beatles have more number ones? Hmm…) shows that in space, someone can hear you phone a friend. Which brings us to the episode's other trump card. The mysterious Mr Saxon may be somewhere on the other side of the universe, but he still manages to leave his mark on "42" courtesy of sinister government agents (one of whom used to be in Hollyoaks - mysterious) who are tapping Martha’s mum’s phone. On election day! Now we know Saxon’s tracking Martha’s “chipped” mobile, the second half of the season's set up beautifully. Roll on next week...
Best line: “Talk about dumbing down. Don’t they teach recreational mathematics any more?” Richard Edwards

[Hezingen]

Weet iemand hier waar ik seizoen 1 als dvd box kan kopen en niet de losse schijfjes???

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Nee niet met NL titels.

Overigens komt serie 2 uit in Juni/Juli in Nederland.

En zowel DVD outlet als Bol.com hebben nu een 4-tal Davison Dr. Who titels in de aanbieding (goedkoper dan welke Engelse shop dan ook kan leveren ) Ik ben benieuwd of deze dan Nederlandse ondertitels hebben of export titels zijn.

[Marco VC]

Weet iemand hier waar ik seizoen 1 als dvd box kan kopen en niet de losse schijfjes???

In Engeland! Wel ff 70 GBP per box!


Online te bestellen via o.a. Amazon.co.uk (stuk goedkoper dan in de winkels in Engeland)... En bij RoDisc (www.rodisc.nl) te koop voor 110 Euro per box...

Exclusief Ned. ondertiteling dus...

Mij toch net iets te duur... :sad:

[theThinWhiteDuke]

Hier wordt Dr. Who al uitgezonden door ik dacht kanaaltwee?
Vind het nergens naar lijken -_-

Tja als jij al die US scifi prullaria aanbid is de kans groot dat andere vormen van scifi als minder gezien worden.

Dr Who (2005) en het succes ervan heeft in Engeland heel veel ruimte gemaakt voor scifi op tv of films & series die er tegenaan zitten.

Ik persoonlijk vind doctor Who in al zijn versies werkelijk goed. Maar ja ik vind ook de orginele Star Trek superieur aan zijn latere versies of uitvoeringen.

Mbt Star trek: 110% mee eens....
Mbt Who: De oude serie is nostalgie.....de nieuwe serie de beste sci-fi TV serie van de afgelopen 25 jaar.
Imo zijn de beste series Battlestar Galactica (1978-79), Buck Rogers (1979-81) en Doctor Who (2005+)
idd chimera: alle nieuwe US scifi prullaria als de nieuwe Battlestar Galactica etc etc zijn het aanzien imo niet waard.
Ik zeg: EX-TER-MI-NATE!

[Hezingen]

Ben het niet met je eens dat de nieuwe sf prullaria het niet waard zijn. Zelf kan ik ontzettend genieten van de nieuwe BSG serie, maar wat te denken van het goudklompje van Josh Whedon: Firefly.

Natuurlijk is de nieuwe serie van Doctor Who een van de beste Sf series die ik gezien heb in de laatste jaren. Het is zeker beter dan menig Star Trek serie, zo niet alle.

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Doctor Who 3.07/3.08: "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood"




Written by: Paul Cornell
Directed by: Charles Palmer
Rating:
Two years ago, in “Father’s Day”, Paul Cornell’s first script for the series, there was a moment where a bride and groom talked of meeting waiting for a taxi, when the Doctor admitted, with a hint of regret, that “I could never have a life like that”. This two-parter spins off from that moment, giving us a chance to contemplate how very different the Doctor is from us ordinary mortals.
It’s a story that has been told before, of course. This is an adaptation of Human Nature, Cornell’s Seventh Doctor spin-off novel, published way back in 1995. Always held in high regard by fans, it was voted the best Doctor Who book ever by readers of Doctor Who Magazine. It should come as no surprise, then, that the TV version is a solid-gold classic. Five stars doesn’t really do it justice.
Why is it so good? Because of that simple central premise: “the Doctor becomes human”. Doctor Who fans often talk of the show’s infinite flexibility - it can go anywhere, any time, tell any kind of story. That’s true, but that freedom has always been fenced in by limitations which would seem absurd in any other brand of drama. The Doctor’s emotions has nearly always been off-limits: we never see him truly fall in love, experience grief or utter terror, or have his heart broken (even his romance with Madame du Pompadour, or his affection for Rose aren’t real painful, makes-you-cry-snot-bubbles love). That means there are acres of new ground to be explored, and Cornell runs wild and free in them, creating by far the most emotionally affecting story in the show’s 44 year history. Anyone who managed to resist finding “something in their eye” throughout part two’s succession of poignant codas (cripes, it’s like The Return of the King - but good) must have a heart carved out of cold black jet.
Although we know a lot about the Doctor in terms of dry data (two hearts, respiratory bypass system, member of the Prydonian chapter of Time Lords, yadda yadda yadda), after all these decades we still don’t know much about his interior life. The clever thing about this story is that it tells us a lot about him by throwing him into relief; by showing us what he is not - one of us.
It works incredibly well. The Doctor has made occasional use of the alias “Dr John Smith” since the Patrick Troughton years, but we’ll never think of it in the same way again. Here, Dr John Smith is more than an alias, more than a mere story - he’s a real, three-dimensional person, and one whose simple decency, confusion and Hugh Grant-ish bumbling in the face of romance we grow to love over the course of 90 minutes - so much so that, when we get the Doctor back, it’s a moment of grief sadness as well as a moment of relief and triumph. David Tennant delineates the two magnificently. If he doesn’t get a BAFTA nomination next year we should organise a f**king picket. While we’re about it, Harry Lloyd’s unblinking Joker of a possessed public schoolboy deserves a nod too.
As well as exploring love and grief, Cornell’s script also touches upon social issues: the racist attitudes towards Martha (even from a sympathetic character like Joan); the rights and wrongs of training young boys to kill for Queen and country; the status of women. And it does so with a deftness of touch, without ever becoming preachy or dull. It’s difficult of think of many Doctor Who stories that leave the audience with so much to chew on once the credits roll.
Why can’t Doctor Who always be like this? Well, because you can’t do serious-minded meditations on pacifism and the nature of human existence every week - sadly, one suspects plenty of eight year olds (a vitally important part of Doctor Who’s audience - just as much as the adult viewers who yearn for greater “intellectual depth”) will have been bored rigid by much of this two-parter, despite the addition to the mix of those wonderful killer scarecrows to the mix. But mostly because no programme can reach these heights of perfection very often. On the rare occasions when pieces of television like this come along, you just have to savour every moment of them. Best line: "He's like fire, and ice, and rage. He's like the night and the storm and the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful." Ian Berriman

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BBC refutes cancellation rumour
TV Series News
June 3, 2007 • Posted By R. Alan Siler
The following has been reported by United Press International: LONDON, June 1 (UPI) -- The BBC dismissed rumors that the popular British show Doctor Who would be axed as "idle speculation."

Filming is scheduled to begin for the fourth season of the BBC Wales-produced program next week and BBC executives said they have a long-term commitment to the award-winning program, the Western Mail reported Friday.

Speculation was high that writer Russell T. Davies, who revived Doctor Who in 2005, was scrapping the show to concentrate on other projects. Davies and other senior staff working on the series were said to be thinking about handing in their resignations, news reports indicated.

"We are a long way away from even thinking about series five when the current series hasn't ended and we have yet to start filming series four. But the BBC has a long-term commitment to Doctor Who," the program's creators said in a statement.

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Saturday June 09, 2007
Doctor Who 3.10 "Blink"


Written by: Steven Moffat
Directed by: Hettie MacDonald
Rating:
Very soon there will probably be hordes of British children poised to develop cornea damage as they walk home from school straining to keep their eyes open. If, like us, you always hated morbid Victorian churchyard statues, you've now been given an extra reason - this is easily the most terrifying New Who episode.
Steven Moffat has a knack for conjuring iconically fearful situations. 2005’s gas-mask wearing child asking “Are you my mummy?” in that hollow voice, while the bombs fell, felt like an evil stir-fry of dark childhood nightmares. And now he’s managed to chill us once again with stone angels who move when you’re not looking. That befanged figure moving through the flickering darkness of a cellar towards the camera, arms outstretched, surely gave a shiver of pure dread to everybody, let alone the kids. We love the idea of a quantum-locked villain that can’t move while being observed - it’s a superb creation, on the borderline between genius and "Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal" lunacy.
Some facts for the recently traumatised: the premise of a girl called Sally Sparrow communicating with the Doctor across time is drawn from an earlier short story Moffat wrote, called "What I did on my Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow", although this did not feature the weeping angels. Check it out in the 2006 Doctor Who annual. So that's a couple of episodes this series based on adaptations of a writer's older stories (compare Paul Cornell's "Human Nature") and it's a tradition that ought to continue, if these recent episodes are anything to go by - all classics. Also worth knowing, for those puzzled by the fact that the Doctor was curiously absent, is that this episode was deliberately Tennant-lite to enable him to film another episode at the same time.
However, unlike last year's "Love & Monsters", another high-concept story where the Doctor is peripheral to the main action for practical reasons, the Time Lord remains a stronger presence throughout, even when he's not on screen. The concept of the Doctor and others leaving messages across time is very cute (there are shades of Back To The Future when Sally receives a letter delivered to a certain place on a certain day). The fact that the Doctor knows what to say to Sally, because she wrote it down and gave it to him, surely qualifies as one of those causal loop paradoxes that time travel enthusiasts are always banging on about. Ah well, forget it, it's Who, where timey-wimey is a great big wobbly ball. As an aside, if there's any justice in the world, there will be an Easter egg of the Doctor's dialogue on the next BBC DVD of this series. Are you listening, 2Entertain?
Oh, and if we're talking about justice, then we want to see Detective Inspector Shipton get his own Life On Mars-style spin-off show set in 1969. Cool and likable, his personality dominates the scenes he's in. We're not really struck on the droopy Nightingale brother, but Shipton (Michael Obiora) and Sparrow (the gorgeous Carey Mulligan) immediately leap out as memorable characters, charmingly acted with witty, yet natural, dialogue.
The episode feels outside the current run of Who stories, and is devoid of this series' leitmotifs. No Saxon, no romantic asides for Martha, no "Mr Smith". The Doctor does slyly say, "I’m rubbish at weddings – especially my own" but apart from that reference to himself, his character (and that of Martha) shows no development at all. It's almost possible to imagine any of the ten Doctors contributing to this adventure. This timelessness will no doubt work in its favour, as it goes down as one of the finest, scariest, cleverest Who episodes ever.
All we need now are t-shirts that say: “The angels have the phone box.”
Best line:
“Sparrow and Nightingale – it so works!”
“It’s a bit ITV.”
David Bradley

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Ik had 't al op een ander forum gepost, maar ik moet 't hier ook even kwijt.. Die laatste ep was briljant. En de Doctor & Martha zaten er zelf nauwelijk in!
De blonde was cute en de angels.. Br..! Dat halve gesprek op de DVD's was ook leuk gedaan..

Volgende week Captain Jack..

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op 30-06-2007 brengt Memphis Belle serie 2 van de Nieuwe doctor Who (seizoen 28 als je naar het hele beeld kijkt) uit in Nederland evenals een 4 titels van de Klassiek Doctor Who serie met Davison (bekend als Tristan uit All creatures great and small)

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Saturday June 16, 2007
Doctor Who 3.11 "Utopia"



Written by: Russell T Davies
Directed by: Graeme Harper
Rating:
A trip to the end of the universe (what, no Milliways?) is just a distraction from "Utopia"'s main purpose; to set up the two-part series finale and say hello to a pair of old Who alumni. Of all the episodes since Doctor Who's 2005 return, this is without doubt the most minimally plotted, but thanks to a barnstorming final 15 minutes and a generous dose of revelations, it leaves you with a massive grin on your face - until you contemplate waiting an entire seven days for next Saturday's outing.
The end of time is a miserable place that shares the aesthetic of old Who’s ubiquitous quarry planets. As pointy-toothed refugees from the Mad Max set (the Futurekind) hassle the last humans in the universe, kindly scientist Professor Yana (an excellent Derek Jacobi) is putting the finishing touches to a rocket bound for "utopia". And that really is it. Over the course of an infuriatingly slight story, we see hints of a nearly extinct insectoid civilisation (represented by Yana's blue assistant, Chantho) and simmering tensions between man- and Future- kind, but nothing that resembles a genuine Who plot.
So why the four stars? "Utopia" is all about the bigger picture, an episode more concerned with expanding Who lore than providing a standalone chunk of Saturday night TV - and in that respect Russell T Davies really hits this one out of the park.
Captain Jack Harkness, the first of the two aforementioned returnees to the Who-niverse, is back in the cocky, womanising action man mode we missed so much in Torchwood, and is rewarded with more backstory than an entire series of the Who spin-off could muster. Seems he's spent the past 138 years trapped on Earth, contemplating his new-found immunity to death and waiting for the Doctor to materialise (it's no wonder he was always so miserable when hanging around with Gwen, Owen, Ianto and Tosh).
But there's more to Jack than just 21st century angst. The sight of Harkness running through Cardiff Bay to hitch a ride on the TARDIS prompts the Doctor to hit the ignition switch - the sequence doesn't quite fit the continuity of Torchwood's closing seconds but we'll not quibble about that here - and it's immediately clear that something's not quite right. Not much frightens the Doctor, but apparently Jack does: "You're a fixed point in time and space, you're a fact. That's never meant to happen. Even the TARDIS reacted against you, tried to shake you off. Came all the way to the end of the universe just to get rid of you." So that's why they left him behind at the end of series one...
Come the final credits, however, the arrival of an old foe makes sure you've almost forgotten Jack was there at all. Hindsight makes it easy to say an actor of Derek Jacobi's calibre was never likely to just play a non-descript, benign scientist (he's certainly a step up from Eric Roberts), but Professor Yana's metamorphosis into that most famous of renegade Time Lords proves a Master-class (sorry) in handling a major reveal. First it’s the sound of drums rattling around his brain; then the recognition of objects from his Time Lord past; and then the identity-masking watch that Martha recognises from “Human Nature”/”The Family of Blood”, reawakening long-forgotten memories and that Roger Delgado laugh. It’s a sequence of events destined to be played back and discussed for years.
The instant Yana (You Are Not Alone - geddit?) looks inside the watch, Jacobi is transformed; the face is the same, but the eyes overflow with evil, adding extra gravitas to his triumphant “I. Am. The. Master!” His subsequent regeneration into a gleefully maniacal John Simm (“I know that voice,” says Martha, ominously) and escape in the TARDIS sets up the series closer we’ve been anticipating all these weeks. With the Doctor, Martha and Jack trapped millions of years from home and the Master on the loose, this is the kind of cliffhanger Who was made for. Not a great episode in the traditional sense, but as the first part of a trilogy (The Fellowship of Doctor Who?) it makes you tingle all over. Vote Saxon? See you at the polls next week...
Best line:
"Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat where I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me. I don't think."
Richard Edwards

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Saturday June 23, 2007
Doctor Who 3.12 "The Sound of Drums"



Written by: Russell T Davies
Directed by: Colin Teague
Rating:
Vote Saxon! Oh, you already have. Never mind, then.
So here we are: season three of Doctor Who hurtles into climax mode, bringing back one of the show’s essential villains for a 21st Century showdown. If we’re honest, John Simm’s casting as the resurrected Master was one of the great open secrets, stoking the less spoiler-averse among us for months now. But while we knew he was lined up for some arch nemesis action, we had no idea exactly what kind of Master the former Sam Tyler would deliver.
The portentously titled ‘The Sound of Drums’ answers that question, and Simm’s performance powers – if not dwarves - the entire episode. This is a very different proposition to the Master of old; out go the velvety theatrics and the Goatee of Death. This is a slick, frequently sick spin on the Time Lord’s Moriarty, every bit as contemporary as the Converse-clad, Kylie-quoting Doctor.
Simm is clearly having a hoot. There’s a pinch of Tony Blair in the shit-eating grin that launches us with a laugh and a shiver into the title sequence, a cartload of Jack Nicholson’s Joker in the scene where he gases the cabinet and, bizarrely, what appears to be a brief channeling of Simon Pegg (“I don’t know! It’s crrrrrrazy!”). It doesn’t take something as unsubtle as the Master munching on a jelly baby to tell us that this is very much a dark, cracked reflection of the Doctor himself, and Simm plays this side of the character with a ripely entertaining goblin charm. There’s even a mocking hint of sexual tension as he tells the Doctor “I love it when you use my name…” And somehow that’s even more unnerving than his old habit of reducing extraneous cast members to the size of dolls.
Naturally, Russell T Davies slips in a few fan-gasms along the way. The Master watches Teletubbies, demonstrating a taste for pre-school programming that’s survived countless regenerations (Roger Delgado’s Master tuned in to The Clangers in the Pertwee adventure The Sea Devils). He also paraphrases a famous line from the Tom Baker yarn Logopolis (“Peoples of the Earth, please attend carefully…” – a scaling back of his ambitions from “Peoples of the universe”, at least). And, finally, we get our first glimpse of Gallifrey in New Who, and a comic book-styled flashback to the secret origin of the Master, driven insane by the sight of eternity at a tender age(there’s a nice sense of Harry Potter-style mythology-building in seeing him as a kid).
Just like last year’s Army of Ghosts, this all plays as a bit of a set-up for next week’s episode, manoeuvering people into place for the Big Ending. But there’s good stuff along the way, from the sly Anne Widdecombe cameo that feels like something out of Brass Eye to the pure black comedy of the Master opening and closing the door on Vivienne Rook’s death-screams, knuckles clutched to his mouth in mock horror. Some effects triumphs too: Gallifrey is everything you ever dreamed it would be, and the final shot of the Death Star torture droid-styled Toclafane bombarding the Earth in their billions is spectacular and horrifying in equal measure. Martha’s family still feel sketchy compared to the Tyler clan, but kudos to Freema for giving Martha some balls in this one, telling the Doctor “I’ll do what I like!” You go, girl.
Oh, and there’s something deeply amusing about the Master sending the Torchwood team on a wild goose chase up the Himalayas. No doubt they came so hard they completely forgot where they were…
Best line:
“You’re on telly! You and your little band – which, by the way, is ticking every demographic box.” Nick Setchfield

[Hezingen]

Zaterdag begint Dr Who 10 minuten eerder. De aflevering duurt ook 10 minuten langer.

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en 's ochtends rond half twaalf meen ik
Dr. Who animated -The infinite Quest- op BBC 2

Ziet er leuk uit.
Deze film is als webserie op het internet vertoond geweest, maar wordt morgen als 1 aflevering uitgezonden.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings..._4224_13075_45


http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/...19/46092.shtml

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Saturday June 30, 2007
Doctor Who 3.13 "Last of the Time Lords"



Written by: Russell T Davies
Directed by: Colin Teague
Rating:
Why do I always get the difficult ones to review? I say that not just because I'm required to write this in a stream of consciousness to hit a 9.00pm deadline to get it online, but because if any episode this season requires a second or third watch to judge it fairly, then "Last of the Time Lords" is the one. So, this is going to have to be gut reaction stuff.
Unfortunately, my gut's telling me it's got indigestion. It's telling me I've had a huge multi-course meal, full of rich, scrummy food and a few side orders of my least favourite vegetables that I still ate out of politeness, even though they made me gag a bit on the way down.
It was certainly epic in scope, and for the most part felt epic, and there was loads to enjoy. John Simm, astoundingly good as the Master; Freema giving her best performance yet; the brillant FX work; the typically sparkling RTD dialogue. Who didn't breathe a sigh of relief, though, when that cod fantasy-epic nonsense about the gun turned out to be a red herring, though on the other hand the "I do believe in fairies, I do, I do" resolution may have not have been any less "magical" to satisfy a lot of fans demanding a more hard SF approach in the show (personally, I liked the message it was trying to get across, but the shots of a ghostly Tennant floating down the steps did unfortunately look like something out of a panto).
Also, for a story that was so packed, there did seem to be a couple of pointless scenes stuck in either to give Barrowman something to do, or add some action while Martha went walkabout. A bit if a shame, as it would have been nice to see more of what the world was like under the Master's rule (though probably too expensive to realise).
Oh yeah, before I forget - a list of random influences that came to mind, inserted here inelegantly because I haven't time to be elegant: Flash Gordon (someone picking up the Master's ring), Superman: The Movie (Earth spinning backwards), Return of the Jedi (baddie on funeral pyre), Peter Pan ("I do believe in fairies") and The Lord of the Rings (didn't you want to hear the Doctor go, "My precious?).
Okay, the revelation about the Toclafane wasn't much of a surprise, but hey, wasn't the effect great when they opened the sphere? And the closing scenes with Martha didn't have anywhere near the emotional ooomph of Rose's departure (but then, we don't really believe she's gone for good, do we?). The Gollum Doctor was just a bit too cute and manga-ish to take seriously and Barrowman fans must be moaning about how little he had to do. Or the fact that Captain Jack may one day lose his looks... and limbs... and er, everything but his head, which will inflate to a size befitting his ego. Good gag, though.
Overall? Good solid fun, with some great performances and memorable visuals but possibly the least satisfying New Who finale so far.
Though I may change my mind... Reviewer: Dave Golder

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Tuesday July 03, 2007
Who should be so lucky


Rumours have been Spinning Around for weeks, but we decided we'd Got To Be Certain before we said anything; Especially For You, the Beeb has confirmed that Kylie Minogue will Step Back In Time for "a major lead role" in the Who Christmas special. Can't say we're that Shocked...
Hour-long episode "Voyage of the Damned" (written by Russell T Davies) is due to start shooting in Cardiff later this month, and will kick off where series three left off - with the bow of the Titanic making a big hole in the side of the TARDIS. RTD (who probably Wouldn't Change A Thing) said: "Doctor Who Christmas specials are always a joy and we feel very confident that this will be the most ambitious and best Christmas episode yet." Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi Kylie ends up on a boat in 1912, but the information is bound to be forthcoming if you Give Me Just A Little More Time. And that's your lot. Sorry - we'll put our greatest hits album away now, before we work out a way to cram in The Locomotion.

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Monday July 02, 2007
Martha returns to Doctor Who


On Saturday, Martha Jones bowed out of Doctor Who, departing in "Last of the Time Lords" - but giving the Doctor her mobile and promising that she'd see him again. And now the Beeb have confirmed that we don't have long to wait before she does.
Freema Agyeman will be returning to Who in the middle of the fourth series. Yayyyy! Although they don't say how long she'll be staying for, so for all we know it could just be a one-off appearance.
In the meantime, she'll be teaming up with John Barrowman again in three episodes of Torchwood (hmm... do you think she'll break it to Captain Jack that he's going to evolve into a giant head?), in a cunning move to bump up the ratings for the spin-off show. So Freema had better start practising her dirty cuss words. I was about to type something involving the words "rebound shag" and "Owen", but I disgusted myself, so I won't.
The Beeb have also confirmed that there'll be another, full-time companion for the Doctor, who'll appear in all 13 episodes of the fourth series - expect an announcement about this soon. If you're listening, guys, two words: SALLY SPARROW! We could happily watch her eating soup for 13 episodes...
You can discuss this story in this thread on our forum. Source: BBC Doctor Who website

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Catherine Tate zal de rol van compagnon op zich nemen in het vierde seizoen van Doctor Who, die overigens dan zijn 45ste verjaardag viert in 2008.