Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

Just seen it now. Woo.

"Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane" was the "What if Sarah Jane wasn't there" in SJA. Jane Asher and Sarah Jane swap lives. They were best mates as kids, and Jane Asher died in a horrible accident on a school trip to the seaside. it was great.

Get rid of Tennant will BBC pick new Doctor from following:
Token Tory
Footballer
Current ILM indie strawman
Non-specific Z list British celebrity
13th century monk
Lembet Opik
Somebody else with mild-to-moderate hilarity input
Someone who's in an ad
C4 list show regular strawman
President of USA

Caught up on the final few torchwood's and they were a little anti-climactic compared to last season's finale or the middle of this season. Didn't even have any footage of Captain Jack runnning off to the sound of the Tardis. Not seeing them should have no bearing on enjoyment of Who.

they killed off 2 main characters! (one we like, and one we don't for balance)

I rather like both of them, or rather I liked both of them post one of them becoming a moody zombie. Will have no bearing on who though. Was anti-climactic in comparison to Jack sucking the life out of the giant devil via it's shadow.

^fuck them for killing off Tosh instead of Ianto.

Just watched this week's DW Confidential - when did Billie Piper start talking like a sloane? I've seen her being interviewed before, and I'm pretty sure she didn't used to talk like Keira Knightly. Who has she been hanging out with?

dude from Lewis

She wasn't lithping during Confidential either. Weird.

She has said in interviews she has forgotten how to be Rose. Glad to see she's deserving of whatever they paid her to get her back.

haha srsly! i watched a couple of rose eps yesterday and really found new appreciation for the character of rose (and her chemistry with the doctor) - but also felt weird b/c in this wk's ep she really isn't that character, in looks and demeanor and speech! i mean, time & dimension-switching changes a person, but...

Her mouth was too big.

Not big enough for her teeth.

it's what being a call girl does to you

Just saw that trailer. Hot patooties, as the cool kids say.

Waiting until Sunday morning, Aus time, is killing me. And the next week will obviously be worse.

("children of men" wwii remix + "run lola run") * mental time war set in a capriciously evil fortune-teller's hutch = awesome!!!

"THIS" says the u.ni.t. commander, holding up a glass of water, "...is for dehydration"

loved the what-ifs - i have always wanted to see an short doc about the consequences of a greengrocer's stand that's smashed in a high-speed urban car chase

haha so rose's earlier "slinkiness" was her forgetting how to act

i thought piper (probably subconsciously) was imitating tate, except when she was consciously trying to pull off a breathy, cool "l.a." steez

by the way, if you're interested in stories about the stars winking out in the face of an inexorable, mysterious darkness dust, you might enjoy the red brain by donald wandrei

HAHAHA guess who's rumoured to be guest starring in the Christmas special?

(Give you a clue - it will be really shit)

Doctor Who fans are gripped by a new mystery - what has happened to Billie Piper's voice?

But a show insider suggested Piper had "taken a while to get back into character" and may have forgotten what Rose sounded like.

She used to sound like Billie Piper before she started talking all la-di-da.

Matt you haven't really narrowed it down with that

from WikiP:

around three weeks before filming (Piper) decided to rewatch some of her old episodes to refamiliarise herself with the role

NEVER EVER DO THIS, IT WILL DRIVE YOU MAD AND MAKE YOU INCAPABLE

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You sound like you speak from personal experience, Tracer. Or do you just mean that you've been driving mad and incapable by watching old Billie episodes?

I do. I guess it could work for some people but "copying yourself" is a particularly difficult way to act.

Billie's not exactly had a massive acting career to get lost in though, has she?

(I'm guessing Matt's rumour is the one about a tall blonde flavour-of-the-month, if so, hahaha, if not, please stop it with the terrible rumours, people!)

SEASON 5 SHOCK

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Actually I was thinking you meant Boris, but I guess he's not particularly tall.

I have no idea what that picture or associated comments mean.

Picture is of the model Agyness Deyn; Boris (Johnston) is the mayor of London. Pick your rumour accordingly.

and henry holland as the new doctor

PLOT OF THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - Boris is wanted by six different alien races because at the end of this series you catch him sneaking into the wreckage of Skaro to steal a miniature sonic exterminator holder once owned by Davros.

So tomorrow's ep is going to have to squeeze in five actors' names before the logo spins out of the vortex. And that's even assuming PC fringeface isn't getting ideas above her station.

Finally saw the trailer (whilst sitting next to a Dalek in the BBC lobby no less), I couldn't be more excited.

i'm sure it will be fun but there'd better be some sort of decent twist to what looks otherwise just like a Daleks Invade Earth Again rehash. i would also like to see Capn Jack exterminated so that he can pop back up again and the subsequent "what the?!" exclamations by Daleks.

Can we get odds on fishface or Ianto getting exterminated.

Wait the Torchwood cast is in this, too??????

What are the odds that Martha ends up in Torchwood btw?

I was streaming a bit of S3 the other day, and I think I was quite kind about Martha's acting at the time because of the fitness, but it really is atrocious.

I thought she was fine! (The acting was decent, too.)

Martha has already been in torchwood, on secondment from UNIT.

Jack and fish face have been seen in one of the trailers. Ianto is just speculation. (I am bucking for Owen to come back as a radioactive zombie ghost)

Yeah, I know she did a guest spot but considering they're down two team members (including their medic), I'm curious as to whether she'll become a full-time member.

this is kinda SPOILERY but interesting:

How difficult was it to perfect the voice of the deranged Dalek Caan?
Briggs: "Well, it was a great challenge, a bit like when we did the Dalek Emperor in the first series. When Russell [T Davies] introduces a character like that, there is a whole chunk of stuff in the script that describes the voice. He did the same for Dalek Caan, which gave me a real key into what I could do. Then I evolved all these different theories about Dalek Caan's neurons firing in the wrong direction in his brain. He can't tell when he's happy or sad, his emphasis is very strange and he finds things funny when things aren't funny. He's a kind of soothsayer really. His mind is almost pure."

Ianto's in the trailers for the next Doctor Who, there's a clip of Gwen shushing him and then the two of them firing machine guns at something that's trying to enter the Hub. I don't know if it's spoilery to say what they're shooting at, but it's pretty clear from this trailer what it is.

Also, if you slow down that trailer, you'll notice at one point they show the return of a certain S1 character that we haven't heard anything about in a while.

HAHAHA YES

Harriet Jones? Clocked her right away when the "next week" bit was on after Turn Left. Or is there someone else in that I missed?

Not reading thread for fear of spoilering but OMG OMG OMG OMG

OH MY GOD!

I'M SHAKING.