Doctor Who/Torchwood news
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Okay, I’ve been remiss in getting the Doctor Who news out lately. ‘Cause I know you all depend on me alone to let you know what’s going on with that show. I mean, seriously, where else would you go? BBC? Any of the completely sci-fi focused blogs out there that cover this stuff by the minute? psshh… that’d be crazy.
Anyway… here’s what’s come across my radar.
First, a minor point: when the new season starts with Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor next year, the credits will change. I’m not just talking about the actor’s name being different, I mean the style of the credits will change. In fact, they’ll be reverting back to the old style, classic Who credits where the titular character’s face appears on screen. I imagine they’ll also change the music slightly, as they tend to do from time to time. Same theme, different arrangement. I think that’s one way that the new Stephen Moffat-led show is tipping its hat to the classic series.
In a behind-the-scenes photo from the Christmas special this year, we get a reveal of a guest actor and a possibly major spoiler harkening back to a guess from earlier last year. In fact, this is such a major spoiler that I’m going to use the Spoiler Guard.
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So, interesting stuff there. I can’t wait!
On the Torchwood side of the house, we’ve got the newest trailer (which by now has been out for a few weeks) and a release date on BBC America (which will coincide with the channel’s switch to HD programming).
Told over five consecutive nights starting July 20 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, the series re-joins Captain Jack (John Barrowman), Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) and Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) as they are still coming to terms with the death of two of their closest friends. Yet despite their pain, they know they have a job to do. This time they are faced with their fiercest threat to date – one which throws the future of Torchwood and the entire human race spiralling into danger. Battling against the odds, do they stand a chance of saving mankind?
Here’s the trailer:
That grabs me a little bit more than the original trailer, but not much, sadly. There is just enough of a hint, though, that I think the show will be good and the trailer’s where the failure lies. Maybe it’s just high hopes. We’ll see in July.
Finally, we have a piece of Who related news that makes me sad on multiple levels:
Wales’ Sebastian Neale loved “Doctor Who.” How much you ask?
Enough to have a “Doctor Who” themed funeral. The 26-year old fan recently passed away. But instead of the standard funeral, Neale had a “Doctor Who” themed one, including having his casket look like the exterior of the Doctor’s TARDIS.
Attendees to the funeral were greeted by the a line from the fourth Doctor story, “Pyramids of Mars,” saying, “I’m a Time Lord, I walk in eternity.” And the usual comforting words from scripture were replaced with William Hartnell’s first Doctor speech from “Dalek Invasion of Earth” and later re-used in the prelude of “The Five Doctors,” saying, “Someday I shall come back, yes I shall come back. Until then there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”
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