The New Doctor
The replacement for Dvid Tennant has been announced and in their typical style it is a surprise. A 26 Year old relatively unknow actor who in effect is the youngest to ever play the role.
Cliff hanger, no cliff hangers, everything and anything can happen.
Rose is back and reunited with The Doctor, but during their classic run to each other’s arms moment the Doctor is attacked by Dalak. Jack, the ever faithful, captain, teleports in and destroys the Dalek. The Doctor is taken to the Tardis by Rose, Donna and Jack where we see him start to regenerate.
Torchwood is under attack by the Dareks and Sarah Jane Smith appears about to be exterminated by two Daleks….
Well, the Doctor regenerates and pushes the regeneration energy into his hand, the one that was cut off. He is him, unchanged. The regeneration energy has been contained..
Jackie, roses mum and Mickey materialise and save Sarah Jane Smith. Torchwood is trapped in a time bubble that holds the Dalak in place.
In the Tardis, Rose, Donna and Captian Jack are delighted that the Doctor is ok. Amidst their celebration, the Tardis is transported to the Dalak crucible at the centre of the planets.
There, the Doctor and Rose walk out and Donna remains for a second. As she walks out the Tardis doors close on her. Panic the doctor blames the Dalaks, Donna is terrified. Both are trying to get the door open. The Dalak says, ‘this is Time Lord trickery’ and declares that the Tardis must be destroyed. A door opens beneath it and it falls…. the Tardis falls into the core of the Dalak’s base. The Doctor realises it will be destroyed and there is nothing he can do.
Meanwhile, Jackie, Mickey and Sarah Jane Smith surrender to the Dalaks as all humans are being transported to the Dalak’s base to test their weapon.
The Tardis is being ripped apart, Donna is being thrown around. She falls to the ground and sees the Doctor’s hand… The case breaks and the regeneration energy flows into her. Then the hand glows and out of it grows another Doctor, although… Naked… Which she observes. The new Doctor acts fast and makes the Tardis dematerialise….
The original Doctor and Rose think both the Tardis and Donna are dead.
The Doctor and Rose are then transported down to the vault where Davros awaits…
Mean while, Jackie, Mickey and Sarah Jane Smith have been usurped under a large green glowing device. The Dalaks are getting ready to test it. A lady falls and Sarah Jane and Mickey take the opportunity to run for cover. Jackie, kind hearted as she is, helps her up, the machine starts up. Before it is fired Jackie is able to use her teleportation device to teleport to safety. The remaining people start to disintegrate and turn to dust.
Back inside the vault Davros has appeared to gloat of his triumph, he explains this triumph is over reality as the 27 plants create the ‘Reality Bomb’ which will break down the bound between atoms and cause everything to cease to be.
The new Doctor and Donna are safe in the Tardis that is in stealth mode so the Dalaks cannot detect them. They realise it was the result of the regeneration energy and the transference to Donna and back to the hand creating a part human part Doctor Timeload…they observe the effects of the test of the ‘Reality Bomb’ and the new Doctor and the original Doctor realise at the same time what it is… The new Doctor realises that he could use Davros’s passion for the Dalak race against him. If they could get a probe to him they could us the energy to destroy the Dalaks.
Mean while, the mystery of the osta hargon key is revealed. There is a nuclear self destruct created in the Earth and the key fires it. Also, Sarah Jane Smith has a Warp Star, as Jack says, an explosion waiting to happen. Both of them tell Davros this via a communication, but after several protests from the Doctor at their actions the Dalaks teleport Martha, Sarah Jane Smith and Jack (with Micky and Jackie) to the volt.
Davros orders the firing of the “Reality Bomb”, in true Davros style, manic and crazy!
The countdown is on… But the Tardis reappears, no-one including the Doctor can believe it! The new Doctor runs out and tries to get to Davros but that hand, the hand that always pushes a switch to make evil happen has evil it’s self. Lighting, electricity fly’s from it and throws the new Doctor away. Donna runs out, grabs the probe and shouts I got it but I don’t what to do with it. She too is hit and is thrown back….
All is lost - all are down. The countdown goes down, down to zero… Nothing happens.. Shock everywhere..
This is the age of the Doctor Donna, there is donna, standing by a consul.. She explains some technical reason, Davros tried to zap her again, she presses a few switches and he gets shocked.. Then Davros orders her extermination, and she again flips some switches and the Dalaks have no weapons. Everyone is triumphant! The Dalaks are helpless.. The Doctor’s ask how… It was a two way biological l Meta crisis she calmly explains! .. When Davros shocked her it made he become part Donna part Timeload.. The Doctor Donna
She says she will send the planets home, and says, did you know I was the best temp.. 100 words per minute!
She starts at the controls like a typewriter. Brilliant was my thought at this point…
All is over, but the new Doctor starts the feedback and destroys all the Dalaks.. mass genocide
The original doctor is not impressed and Davros, from behind burning rubble shouts to the doctor… “Remember, you did this!”
There is a twist at the end that I think I will leave a mystery as I want to leave something for you to discover as this is a brilliant episode…..
The end for now….. 
(sorry for the delay in this review)
Doctor who’s arch nemesis has returned, the Master? No, the Dalaks, yes and no, DAVROS!
What joy to see the crippled hand moving towards a switch, slowly, what does it do, something dreadful, it must be something hideous. This time one of those switches has Stolen the Earth, and 26 other planets.
The Doctor and Donna Noble, are desperately trying to save the Earth - even going to the shadow proclamation for assistance, intergalactic police.
But they are not alone in their efforts, Torchwood with Captain Jack, Yanto and Gwen (please Dalaks do us all a favour here!) As well as UNIT headed by .
Martha Jones, also Sarah Jane Smith and Rose Tyler are trying to save the world. These companions and friends of the Doctor are coordinated by, the former Prime Minister.
They all coordinate every telephone in the world to call the Doctors mobile, through the power of the rift of Torchwood in Cardiff.
The Doctor is coming warns a twisted and damaged Dalak, who we later found out rescued Davros from the time war!
The Doctor follows a teleportation trail to an empty region of space and it is only the telephone signal that leads him to Earth.
He has a video conversation with Torchwood, Unit and Sarah Jane Smith… The signal breaks and a familiar voice comes over the screen… Davros ..the Doctor is speechless and shocked.
The Doctor speeds off to Earth whereby he lands and sees Rose, he runs to her and a Dalak attacks. He is hit and taken back to the Tardis… We see him start to regenerate …
Continues next week
This Doctor Who episode is centred around Donna, with the Doctor not having many lines. A complete contrast to the episode last week that was primarily the Doctor.
A question: What if you had turned right instead of left, what if you had missed that train, what if…
It is a theory that for every choice we make, we create a series of infinite possibilities, a series of infinite parallel dimensions.
So the big ‘what if’ is what if the Doctor died! What if he was unable to stop the Titanic from crashing into London? What if the Adepos where not stopped?
This is the brilliant thing about sci-fi, you don’t have to talk about it, it can happen. And happen with a giant beetle, in true classic Doctor Who style!
This all starts as we see Donna and the Doctor arrive as what appears to be a Chinese style market, obviously in the future, they both look to be having a great time. Donna is beckoned into a fortune tellers tent. The fortune teller asks her to tell her about her past so that she can see her future.
Donna explains how she met this man, and when she recalls she has a vivid flashback. The fortune teller makes her describe a point in time when she would not have gotten the job that led her to meeting the Doctor. As this happens a scurrying is heard and we see a large beetle like creature on Donna’s back!
The next thing is Donna sitting in her car, her mother saying to her to turn right to go and get a job at a shop and she wants to turn left to go to the job that eventually leads her to meet the Doctor. Instead of turning left she turns right.
She never meets the doctor, which means he dies as she does not pull him out of the building two Christmases ago before it is destroyed.
With no Doctor, all the events the Doctor has prevented happen. The Sontaran’s attack, the Titanic crashes into London and the adipose consume most of the United States.
Donna is left in this altered reality. Although there are two distinct bizarre things that keep on happening…
People keep on looking at her back, some people do, looking like there is something strange on it.
She keeps on seeing a blonde lady, who helps her and her family escape the tragedy of the Titanic crashing into London. The blonde lady is Rose Tyler, she is there to save The Doctor and every Universe in existence. Donna doesn’t believe her at first, but it is only when all of the stars start to extinguish does Donna go with Rose.
Donna is taken to a Unit base, where Rose is in control. The Tardis is there, looking like they are trying to reverse engineer the technology. Donna is shown the creature on her back. In true classic Doctor Who style it appears to be an oversized Beetle! It is explained that she needs to turn left not right on that fateful day, and she must travel back in time to do this, Rose tells her that she is going to die. Donna is determined that by going back she will prevent her death. She returns, she but she has landed half a mile away and has 10 minutes to get there. She is running, and realises that the only to make her past self turn left is to cause a traffic jam - she steps out and it hit by a van. As she drifts away, Rose comes up and tells her to tell The Doctor two words.
She regains control, she is in the fortune teller’s tent, and the creature has fallen from her back. The fortune teller is cowering.
Telling The Doctor about it later, he points out how strange it is how they bumped into each other again and also how she seems to be in several parallel realities recently..
Donna, then remembers more. She says there was a blonde girl, The Doctor says, what was her name, looking shocked! She never said, said Donna, but she did give me a message. ‘Bad wolf’..
The Doctor runs out of the tent, every sign post, says ‘bad wolf’, even above the Tardis! Donna asks what that is, The Doctor says; “The end of the universe!”
Next weeks – well it looks brilliant! As we have all of the (new) old assistants, Sarah Jane Smith and the Torchwood team including Captian Jack….
Midnight, the name of a distant world in a distant time. Where the light is deadly, it will vaporise you on contact and also not forgetting it there is no air outside either! Although this planet is made of precious gems, the majority of which are Diamonds, and a tourist company has built a tourist resort here.
This where Donna and the Doctor have gone, I assume as a well deserved pool holiday to recover from the Library.
At the start of the episode we see Donna sitting in a reclining chair at the beginning of the episode drinking a rather exotic looking drink next to a pool.
The Doctor, being an explorer of time and space just can’t sit there. He has to get out and absorb every moment. He is taking a transport to see a gemstone waterfall erupt all manner of delights. But, of course nothing goes according to planned.
The transport has an eclectic range of people, a family consisting of wife who not only wears the trousers but the overalls as well. A father forever struggling against the alpha (male) female to prove himself. A teenage son who has been forced to come along undoubtedly with the mandate that ‘you might just learn something’. In addition to them, there is a retired professor who has been on that very same trip for 14 times and believes he is the most impressive person in the world. His companion is a student/intern who admires him but has her confidence stiffened by his complete and utter disrespect for her intelligence. We have the hostess who is keen to please and create calm for her charges. Then we have, Sky Silvestry, who immediately feels like she should not be there or at least her intentions are not exactly in-line with anyone else. She reveals to The Doctor that she is recovering from a nasty break up and is trying to recover.
The scene is set and the transport, which has the appearance of a first class transcontinental cabin, sets off. The route has been planned by a computer and is guides by a pilot and co-pilot.
The journey is normal, long and uneventful until the event happens. The transport stops! For no reason. All the systems are ok.
With the help of psychic paper The Doctor is able to gain access to the cock pit, and they have a glimpse outside. An amazing crystal landscape lays before them. The co-pilot spots something moving, only he sees it and it is dismissed by everyone else.
Later, there is a banging from the outside. It is impossible, states the Professor, nothing can live there. Then a smash and the cockpit is ripped off, the pilot and crew are gone.
All is quiet. In the corner is Sky Silvestry huddled in a ball. She is quiet. Everyone asks her if she is ok. She starts repeating everything they say with pure accuracy. Panic grips the cabin, arguments are echoed by Sky Silvestry voice. The Doctor surmises that a being is trying to take control of them by stealing their voice and eventually it will be you who is repeating.
Then it is only The Doctors voice that is repeated, the sinister presence has detected The Doctors knowledge and power and has started a full assault.
The rest of the passengers turn on The Doctor and they are determined to throw him out into the deadly environment that even a Timelord cannot regenerate from.
The Doctors voice, stolen and controlled by the possessed Sky Silvestry, is recognised by the humble hostess who drags the distracted Sky Silvestry to an airlock and scarifies herself to save the passengers. The Doctor is released as the sinister presence is ejected.
Upon his return to the resort he is reunited with Donna to a hug and words of comfort.
For those of you not aware, when you have a Doctor Who that is scary, it is the result of the (as Russell T Davies) Says, genius of Steven Moffat. Like ‘Blink’ the story line about statues that moved when you did not look at them, the silence in the library is an episode full of suspense. Taking an everyday primordial fear and turning it into something that is a real threat. Russell T Davies explains his plan for the episode; it is to have a classic Zombie walk and a space suit full of these intelligent microscopic Parana’s moving towards the Doctor with its deadly shadow extending in several directions. He also says the show will be a success if just one child in the school playgrounds of the UK is mimicking the spaceman zombie.
‘Stay out of the shadows’ is what The Doctor warns us to do. So in the making of this episode shadows where used to create fear. Because how can you stop a shadow (the Vashta Nerada, as The Doctor later explains), the only thing to do is Run!
The location for all this fear is based upon a brilliant idea, you take somewhere that should be full of people, say a Library that is so big is requires an entire Planet and empty it! Oh, and the only information is from these creepy nods that have people’s faces that speak to you - real faces! And at the end of the actual episode (Spoiler) Donna is a nod, and we see the production technique to achieve this.
The locations used seemed destined for this episode, a reception that is the size of a concert hall and a wonderful old circle library that was not being used. One technical complication was the library had no books so the BBC had to buy fake books and put them in place, taking several days!
We also see some rather nice behind the scenes elements of the production, the game of cards that David Tennant wins but Catherine Tate kindly points out he is still three behind her!
Also, the scene where the girl is talking to the doctor through the TV, showing David Tennant sitting in the place of the TV saying his lines in reply to her off camera is a nice touch.
This episode, like all of the confidential allows the viewer to see different angles and elements of this brilliant series!
image from BBC copyright 2008
Silence in the Library, another episode that is written by Steven Moffet, this means the best of the best! From the outset it feels like a great episode. Whether it is the set that actually looks like futuristic library would do or the plot twist of the little girl who is a security camera? Confused? you will be!
The library is empty and all Donna and The Doctor have to go on is a message warning them to count the shadows. But what is stranger than a deserted library plant, yes I said planet, than someone from the Doctor future appearing.. Yes, a women who is rather familiar to him is leading an expedition to the Library knows him, she knows all about him.
Donna, who has stated that she does not ‘fancy’ The Doctor appears to be upset, disturbed. Possibly even threatened as she is just getting to know The Doctor.
Oh, the villain of the piece is .. darkness. I am not going to say to much on this as it is brilliant. Although, this episode is the first of a two part story line which leaves The Doctor facing certain death - nothing unusual there then!
A brilliant episode!
As many of you will know that many of the brilliant episodes of the current Doctor Who series have been written by Steven Moffett. It has now been revealed in Wired that Neil Gaiman, Author of Neverwhere, has been asked to write for the series. What joy that would bring, it is brilliant to see a series that has been so well written inviting yet another true artist to the fold! Please Neil, say yes!
(I have forwarded on this Blogs link to Neil Gaiman’s website so that he can see the support that the fan base has for this.)
Source and image source: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/05/new-who-boss-ex.html
To date, in the Doctor Who with David Tennant, we have had a whole array of Doctor who ‘classic’ badies. The Daleks, gradually appearing until they reached an invasion force. The Cybermen started as ghosts and ended up as a force to be reckoned with.
In the rest of season 4 we are to see further Daleks, at as the rummer mills suggest - Davros, the creator of the Daleks.
But, one major enemy I think we should see again is, the Black Guadian. The Black Guadian was the evil power behind the story arch, The Key to Time with Tom Baker. He was the opposite to the White Guardian, the keeper of balance in the universe.
I would love to see a large sorry arch based around him. I think, that Robert Linsey, from BBC ‘My Family’ would be a good as the Black Guardian as for the modern doctor who, an energy will be needed otherwise he will feel stuffy and outdated.
So, who would you choose to play the Black Guardian?
It is a trailer you ask, how on Skaro can you write a review on a trailer. Well, easily when the trailer gives you so many clues to what is to come.
There is the obvious, the return of Rose, the further inclusion of Martha Jones and of course the return of the bady sofas where made for, the Daleks.
But, what I am interested in is, the half obscured Dalek in the darkness. Yes… edge of seat time, equal to the Master, yes, the creator of the Daleks. Davros!!
Davros returning would be amazing - this is only a theory that is spreading like wild fire but what a wild fair he would be. Pure evil, the purity of the Dalek race.
My only fear, well apart from the Dalek’s themselves is Davros being out of character, I want a truly cruel Davros, sacrifice anyone, thing for the perfecting of the Dalek race!