It was taken during the recent Radio Times Cover Party. Look at Karen and David. Priceless!
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Showing posts with label Amy Pond. Show all posts
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When Amy Pond meets the Tenth Doctor Who
Awesomest. Picture. Ever.
It was taken during the recent Radio Times Cover Party. Look at Karen and David. Priceless!
[via Life, Doctor Who and Combom]
It was taken during the recent Radio Times Cover Party. Look at Karen and David. Priceless!
[via Life, Doctor Who and Combom]
Official Synopsis for Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
The official synopsis from the BBC for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special titled A Christmas Carol is out!
Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way The Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser, in a festive edition of the time-travelling adventure, written by Steven Moffat. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?In the meanwhile, you can also watch the first trailer here.
[via BBC Press Office]
First 2 episodes of Doctor Who series 6 to be filmed in the US + spoilers
And so it's official: The TARDIS will land in the good Ol' US of A to film parts of the first two episodes from series 6 of Doctor Who!
Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Artur Darvill, and the entire cast and crew will leave Wales around mid-November to film the opening episodes of Series 6 in Utah. Though it's not the first time a Doctor Who story has taken place in the US, it will be the first time the series is actually filmed there.
In 1996, Doctor Who: The Movie, which featured the Eight Doctor played by Paul McGann and whose story took place in San Francisco, was actually filmed in Canada.
Written by Steven Moffat, the first two episodes, deemed to be a ''spectacular'' two-parter, will mark the return of everyone's favourite mysterious Doctor Who person ever -- River Song!
This is the press release that reveals the basic plot for the story:
DOCTOR WHO TO FILM IN THE U.S. FOR THE FIRST TIME[via BBC America]
Upcoming season's first two episodes to be set in the U.S.
The BBC announced today that season six of Doctor Who, which delivered record ratings for BBC AMERICA earlier this year, will open with a spectacular two-parter set in the U.S. and penned by 'Who supremo' Steven Moffat.
In the special two-parter co-produced with BBC AMERICA, key scenes will be filmed in Utah for a story set in the late '60s in which the Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves on a secret summons that takes them on an adventure from the desert in Utah - right to the Oval Office itself.
Production on episodes one and two of the new season starts in Cardiff this month and Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill will then travel to America in mid November to shoot pivotal scenes. They will also be joined by Alex Kingston who reprises her role as River Song.
Showrunner and lead writer, Steven Moffat, said: "The Doctor has visited every weird and wonderful planet you can imagine, so he was bound get round to America eventually! And of course every Doctor Who fan will be jumping up and down and saying he's been in America before. But not for real, not on location - and not with a story like this one! Oh, you wait!"
Piers Wenger, Head of Drama BBC Wales and Executive Producer, added: "Steven's scripts generally inspire us to go that extra mile - this time we're going that extra four thousand. Thanks to our friends at BBC AMERICA and to the continuing ambition of our lead writer and production team, the first two episodes of Matt Smith's second season as the Doctor are going global and look set to become Doctor Who's most action-packed and ambitious season opener yet".
The new season follows on from the Doctor Who Christmas special guest starring Katherine Jenkins and Michael Gambon which is due to premiere at Christmas. Season six will start airing on BBC AMERICA in spring 2011 and has been split into two blocks, with the second block airing in autumn 2011. By splitting the series Moffat plans to give viewers one of the most exciting Doctor Who cliffhangers and plot twists ever, leaving them waiting, on the edge of their seats, until the autumn to find out what happens.
2010 has been a breakthrough year for the Doctor Who franchise across all platforms since BBC AMERICA became the official home of the series. The series reached the number one spot on the "Top TV Seasons" chart on iTunes and now Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Season hits stores on Blu-ray and DVD on November 9.
Doctor Who was co-commissioned by Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning for BBC One and Jay Hunt, Controller of BBC One and will be produced by Marcus Wilson (Life on Mars) and Sanne Wohlenberg (Margaret). Steven Moffat is Lead Writer and Executive Producer (Sherlock Holmes) with Piers Wenger, Head of Drama, BBC Wales and Beth Willis (Ashes to Ashes), also Executive Producing.
Filming is taking place in Cardiff until March 2011.
HIGH quality pics from the filming of Doctor Who series 6 episode 3
Today, SFX has posted some VERY high quality pics from the same filming. Though most are similar to what we saw yesterday, there are a lot of different ones and the quality is really, really good.
Just click on the pics below and enjoy!
Steven Moffat Teases Series 6 ''enormous, game-changing" cliffhanger
In an article with Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat revealed that:
"There will be a huge cliffhanger... that we wouldn't normally do at the end of a series of Doctor Who because it would be too long before it came back. [It is] an enormous, game-changing cliffhanger for the Doctor, Amy and Rory. It will change everything for them."He also promised that there will be revelations involving the Doctor's friendship with Amy Pond in upcoming episodes.
Moffat also teased that:
"You will see the Doctor's life change forever, you will gasp in astonishment at the true nature of his relationship with Amy and you will cry out in horror as Rory Williams stumbles to the brink of a tragic mistake."Doctor Who is set to return to BBC One this Christmas.
[Via Digital Spy]
Doctor Who Series 6 Episode 3 Filming Pics Galore!
[via Life, Doctor Who and Combom]
BBC Confirms Guest Stars for the Doctor Who Christmas Episode!
Production starts today (Monday 12 July) on the 2010 Doctor Who BBC One Christmas Special in which the thrilling adventures of the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) and newlyweds Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) will continue in a fun-filled and heartfelt festive story.[BBC Press Office]
In the grand tradition of Doctor Who Christmas specials, this year the show has once again attracted stellar guest stars as veteran actor Michael Gambon (Harry Potter, The Singing Detective) and opera diva Katherine Jenkins, in her first acting role, join the Time Lord for what might be his most Christmassy adventure yet!
And so, Amy and Rory will be joining the Doctor in the Christmas fun, the first time since the 2005 Christmas episode The Christmas Invasion, which marked David Tennant's first episode as the Doctor.
The addition of Michael Gambon for the Christmas episode is an awesome casting coup, and I can't wait to see which character the actor will play. Apparently, he and Katherine Jenkins will play major roles in the special episode.
Doctor Who - Series 5 Review
Wow, Series 5 of Doctor Who has come and gone a week now, and I'm already really missing it.
So after 13 episodes, viewed and reviewed, now is the time to look back on Steven Moffat's first year as Doctor Who showrunner and see how it stands up.
Series 5 was really particular because it was brand new on so many levels; just like Series 1 was in 2005. Series 5 boasted a new showrunner, new Doctor, new Tardis, new companions, new screwdriver, new theme song, new directors, and some new writers. Everything was new.
Lets start with first things first, the big man himself:
When Steven Moffat took the reins from Russell T. Davies as the new Doctor Who showrunner, everyone just let out a big sigh of relief.
After all, this was the man who provided new Who with some of the most iconic episodes of the new era with The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink, Silence in the Library and Forests of the Dead!
So there was a lot of expectations riding on the Moff’s back but I think that ultimately, Steven Moffat managed to pass the test with flying colors, making series 5 one of the most complex and mind bending series of Doctor Who yet. His crafting of the entire season (and I believe at the minimum the next one as well) is inspired and had many fans scratching their heads to try and understand what was happening.
Not only that, but his decision to pick Matt Smith as the new Doctor was an inspired one, in my opinion, which brings me to:
The 27 year old actor had a LOT to prove in the wake of David Tennant's departure. Smith was following in the footsteps of the most popular Doctor ever, and surely it must have felt like a huge task for the young actor to rise up to.
Everyone doubted Moffat's choice; everyone thought Matt Smith was too young and perhaps too green for the role. After all, hadn't Moffat already admitted that he wanted someone a bit older to play the role?
Well lo and behold, not only has Matt Smith proven that he could hold his own as the Doctor, despite being the youngest actor ever to play the legendary Time Lord, but he did so admirably.
Smith was savvy enough to know that his performance shouldn't be a copy of Tennant's and it certainly wasn't. Where Tennant's Doctor exuded a certain assurance mixed with manic energy and a lot of verbose skills, Smith's Doctor is quieter, more subdued, and with a streak of something that's just a bit off; you never exactly know how he will react. Even physically Smith has his Doctor walk and stand a different way. The actor developped his own mannerism for him, including a lot of 'fingering.'
Still, for me, Matt Smith has yet to offer an iconic performance much like David Tennant did in Midnight, which is the perfect example of Tennant's acting abilities.
I can see that Smith hasn't been offered that chance yet because it's still “early days” for him, but I'm certain that there will be an occasion when Steven Moffat (or any other Who writer) will make use of his already impressive acting abilities.
But make no mistake, Matt Smith absolutely shines as the Doctor and he's been absolutely brilliant in all the episodes of the series so far.
Now lets move on to the companions:
Though I do like Karen Gillan, and she's really pretty (I don’t know what else to say ha ha), I think she's not quite yet there as an actress. She needs more years to mature, because I feel that she has the same bland and surprised expressions over and over again in each episode.
One problem I had with Karen's performance was that I just couldn't quite connect with Amy, which we the viewers are supposed to do. After all, the companions are our windows into the Doctor's world.
Another problem I had early on in the series was that she was always the one with the solution and I have to say that it irked me to no end. But after episode 3, things got a bit better on that front.
And isn't that funny that when I keep reading about her, it seems that all people can say about her character is that she's the sexiest companion yet? There should be much more than that to say about her.
She is my only little disappointment thus far but still, I feel that Amy definitely works best as a companion when she is with Rory.
I've said it before and I say it again: I LOVE Arthur Darvill's Rory Williams. Rory, the steadfast, loyal, and loving fiancee of Amy Pond. He doesn't fear standing up to the Doctor and calling him on what he does and how he does it.
And what a season it has been for the character! From dying to becoming an Auton replica to finally marrying the girl of his dreams after waiting for her for 1 894 years, Rory has gone through a lot. And we can expect more from him in series 6.
I think Arthur Darvill has simply made Rory one of my favourite companions ever, which is no small feat.
Alex Kingston had a tough, tough job to do. She plays a character we actually know nothing about, who may or may not be the Doctor's wife, and who is a complete mystery.
She does it admirably well and brings a lot of fun to the series. Though not a full time companion, her appearances in four episodes this season were fantastic, and I'm just really happy to know that we'll see more of her next series.
I don't know about you but I think that River Song may be one of Steven Moffat's best character creation yet.
I Looooooooove the new Tardis! So alive! So full of colours! And it got it's own little episode in which it was kind of the star with Amy's Choice!
Plus I have to say that in HD, it looks absolutely stunning. I think the Tardis had been due for a refit and the new version is very well done.
The Sonic Screwdriver
New Doctor, new screwdriver! It's bigger and it's got a green light! Did I say it's bigger? Again, clean thoughts everyone. But alas, it still doesn’t do wood or deadlocks.
The New Theme Song
I have to admit that at first the new, or should I say re-arranged, theme song was a bit jarring. But after only a few episodes, it grew on me and I was happy with it. It retained the same spirit as the original and it's a Murray Gold arrangement, so for me, WIN!
Series 5 was certainly great but I'm not saying it was perfect. There were good episodes, great episodes and less great ones.
Of the weaker episodes, in retrospect I have to point to The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, and The Hungry Earth as my least favourite ones. I don't think it's one or two things in particular that make these episodes weaker for me, it's more the whole.
The episodes that were surprising - simply because I didn't think I would like them that much - were Amy's Choice (simply awesome), Vincent and The Doctor (moving, with a standout performance from guest-star Tony Curran), and The Lodger (Okay, that whole almost naked scene did play in role in my liking it but it still was a fun episode. After all, when do we get to see the Doctor let his
The ones that have been brilliant were mostly the two parters written by Steven Moffat: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone and The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang.
The Eleventh Hour and The Vampires of Venice float somewhere in that happy place called great episodes but perhaps not instant classics.
Steven Moffat has said since the beginning that Doctor Who was a fairy tale. The whole atmosphere of the new series certainly reflects that; certainly even more so than the Russell T. Davies era. Some people thought that it would be a plot point, but it hasn't played out yet, and maybe it never will.
Series 5 also experienced a definite shift in tone and form – gone is the running (something that was mentioned a few times to funny effects in series 5), and gone are the long expositions that David Tennant often had to make as the Doctor.
It's evident that Steven Moffat wanted to dissociate his series from his predecessor's. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why the Doctor has never mentioned any of his former companions yet?
Sure, we had a lot of references to former Doctors, especially the first Doctor. But you would think that the Doctor would have mentioned Rose, to whom he had been so much attached, or even his best friend, Donna Noble, to Amy? Not so, not once. It's fine that Moffat wants to steer a bit clear of the Davies era but I also felt that the series seemed detached from the five preceding years because of it.
Series 5 also saw the return of old and new enemies alike. Victory of the Daleks, for example, brought back the Daleks in a new, but I'm not sure if it's improved, way. Only time will tell. The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone brought back the Weeping Angels in a big way for the first time since their introduction in Blink, and Moffat significantly extended the mythology of the very popular monsters. And the Silurians made a successful and long awaited return in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood. But who can forget The Pandorica Opens which brought back many of the Doctor's enemies in a visual extravaganza!
On the downside, the quality of the special effects has rather been a mixed bag; some of the effects were fantastic (just look at the last two episodes of the series to know what I mean), and others were more sub-par (for example prisoner Zero in The Eleventh Hour). I know that Doctor Who has experienced a budget cut from the BBC, but I hope that they will find a way to make the effects a bit better for the next year.
The triumph of this series has, without a doubt, been its overarching story arc about the Crack and the Silence (the latter has yet to be resolved and according to Moffat it will be in series 6). It caused a lot of head scratching and probably a few brain aneurysms here and there because of it (just kidding). And the discovery that there was indeed a future Doctor running around at some point was also pure genius.
With a complex storyline and an ending that only partially satisfied the many questions people have had all season, Steven Moffat is firmly keeping us on a hook for a full and long nine months. Who is River Song, and who or what is the Silence will both be resolved in series 6 and will no doubt leave us pondering the possible answers in the meanwhile.
My rating for Series 5: 8.5/10
Doctor Who - Rory and Amy's Wedding Album!
Well this must be one of the most original things I've seen from the official site of Doctor Who yet.
The BBC has released pictures from the "wedding album" of Rory Williams and Amy Pond!
Enjoy!
Doctor Who 5.12 & 5.13 Very Spoilery Pics!
The Return of three very familiar ''faces.''
Below are very spoilery pictures from the upcoming last 2 episodes of Series 5 of Doctor Who, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang. You can see them after the break.
A battered Dalek. It appears to be in an exhibit of some sort.
The Silurians are returning and we also have some Weevils, who are rather ''indigenous'' to Torchwood (I can almost hear the Torchwood theme right now, haha).
The Sycorax are back! We saw them last in ''The Christmas Invasion,'' David Tennant's first full episode as the Tenth Doctor!
The Doctor facing the battered Dalek.
Rory!!!! I love Rory. Really happy to see him. But, hum, something's not right with Amy though.
Little Amy Pond is coming back!
Amy facing the Pandorica. Probably from the last episode, ''The Big Bang?''
Source
Thanks to Denyalle for the heads up!!
Amy Pond's Mother to Make an Appearance on Doctor Who
She will be played by actress Karen Westwood, and at this point the character is only listed as being ''Amy's mother.'' I figure that it could possibly be only a small role.
Also take note that nothing is officially confirmed yet.
[Source, Source, via Life, Doctor Who and Combom]
Doctor Who: Arthur Darvill Talks Rory and Confirms Smith and Gillan's Return for Series 6
In an interview given to Digital Spy, Arthur Darvill, who plays Rory Williams - Amy's fiancee, confirmed that both Matt Smith and Karen Gillan will indeed be back for Series 6 (Smith's return was a given since the actor signed a 3 series contract). However, Darville doesn't know if Rory will be back at all. Still, the actor got to say some interesting things about his character for Series 5.
Talking about Rory's inclusion as a companion, Arthur Darvill says that Rory is basically a bumbling companion and that he will spend most of episode 6 confused. For him, the events that took place in The Eleventh Hour were 2 years ago and he's moved on. Plus, the last time he saw Amy was probably only a day ago. He says that it will also take Rory a while to get into it, but Amy will bring out his adventurous side. The actor also adds that for Rory it's a sink or swim situation, and he has to paddle his way through it.
About Amy's relationship to the Doctor, Darvill says that Rory has always been jealous of the idea of the Doctor. Amy and Rory grew up together and Amy really did get Rory to dress up as the Doctor. He believes one of the reasons that Rory became a nurse was because it was one step away from being a doctor, and that it sort of fulfilled Amy's ideals. The fact that Amy ran off with the Doctor to have these adventures is hard for Rory to deal with.
[Digital Spy]
Clink on the link above to see the video interview for more.
Are you guys looking forward to seeing Rory travel as a companion with the Doctor and Amy?
Doctor Who - Did We See a Future Doctor in Flesh and Stone?
After someone brought this to my attention, and reading some reports online, I decided to go back and re-watch Flesh and Stone.
I do believe that we are seeing another Doctor here, one that comes from the future, perhaps from the season finale?
See the two pics above? He is wearing his tweed jacket. The jacket he has just lost to the Angels after he was grabbed by them and had to escape. The jacket that wont be seen for the rest of this episode.
This Doctor comes to Amy right after he has just left to go with River Song and Father Octavian to look for the primary flight deck. At first I simply thought he had come back to recomfort Amy. I had not really noticed he was wearing his jacket it was so subtle!
Listening intently to the scene, I was struck by the calm in this Doctor's voice. The sense of urgency is different. He tells Amy he needs her to trust him, and to remember what he told her when she was 7. She asks him what did he tell her? and he replies that's the whole point. This Doctor is still working out the significance of the crack in her wall.
Then in the scene right after, the Doctor is already with River and Father Octavian, no jacket in sight. He's simply in his shirt and suspenders.
There you have, more mysteries. Arrrgh Steven Moffat! What are you doing to my brain? This must definitely be part of the story arc. I don't believe this was a continuity error.
Any thoughts?
