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

urgh alan davies, no

It's not going to be Dexter Fletcher, shut up Pete.

Fiona Gillies! Great choice, very pleased.

Nope, himself:
http://www.thestage.co.uk/images/pics/20759.jpg

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that terrible bloke that took over from Richard Coyle in Coupling?

no he'll take on the role of the Doctor AFTER Coyle, obv

One hundred years ago, the universe's greatest library was sealed off, leaving only one warning: "Count the shadows". But now, the shadows are moving again. As Russell T Davies's Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama continues, the Doctor and Donna must uncover the terrible truth behind the Nodes and the horrifying Data Ghost, to find the library's secret.

Data Ghost!

http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/eightieszone/Rentaghost3.jpg

don't go into the server room

DATA GHOST

This could go either way.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/monsters2/images/340/happinesspatrol.jpg

i thought The Happiness Patrol was amazing at the time, apart from the Doctor's spoon jam

I thought every McCoy story was amazing at the time, I was nine.

maybe you were right

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1879/careymulligan01afd8.jpg

Dear Moffatt please make this girl a companion okthxbye.

If the rumours of Warreen Ellis writing are true, I'd fear for Sally to turn into a chain-smoking goth. With a bluetooth implant...

Warren Ellis? Oh, fuck, no! He'll make the Doctor a chain-smoking arsehole with a bluetooth implant who talks exactly like an idealised Warren Ellis (and every Warren Ellis hero EVER).

Neil Gaiman could write a good Who or two I reckon. Better than Ellis certainly, it's not really his style at all.

mid-season trailer. Bits of the next ep, Rose with a blaster, some folks in spacesuits walking around menacingly, and lookee lookee who pops up(sorta) at 0:46 in.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HiAFD6ODllI

the 'stars going out' idea is totally cool

NEVER EVER DATA GHOST

this is NSFW http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/f/f3/Catherine_Tate_Fan_Art.jpg

OK so I might be waaaay behind the curve here but LOL crepey fan tribute videos.

the 'stars going out' idea is totally cool

Yeah they are totally doing the stolen Earth thing.

Good lord I did not need to see that, Herman.

Stars going out a very good idea. Also a stolen idea, but hey.

So, we're getting Davs for sure. Good stuff.

I know no one does, but I unfortunately saw it posted over at the ex southern lord doom/drone forum so I had to post it here so Dan spits out his coffee when he sees it.
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Davros is in the trailer?!

we're not telling

Thanks but I saw it and don't remember seeing him. Need to see it again.

Of course it's fucking Davros. If was anyone else, Rusty would have run out characters to make a big splash with in his last season finale.

Incidentally I rewatched both Blink and The Girl In The Fireplace this afternoon and realised Moffat's series will be incredible because:

a) He is FUCKING BRILLIANT at devising monsters that are terrifying to children. And I don't mean killer robots with drills or whatever, I mean monster under the bed, statues that kill you. He just GETS what is and isn't scary.

b) No one else has nailed the 'Doctor with actual human emotions' thing as well as Moffatt did in the Girl in the Fireplace, except maybe Paul Cornell and that doesn't really count. He kissed Madame du Pompidour and on no point in the previous thead did anyone go "Oh no WANK!", which must count for something.

c) Doctor needs to do more zinging. The most consistently entertanining relationship in nu-Who has been between the Doctor and Mickey. I want to see him be more of a cunt to people.

Just because we get an important-seeming zoom-in on the bottom half of a Dalek while the top half is wreathed in shadows doesn't mean it has to be Davros. It could, for example, be a rolling Dalek TV tray, carrying an assortment of Dalek snacks.

So earlier this week I was committing Who treason and thinking the Moffat two-parter might be the first of his episodes to crash and burn, what with the dodgy-sounding "Data Ghost" and the moony-eyed girl in the trailer and "Count the shadows" sounding like he was aiming for classic "Don't blink" status and falling down the melodrama well instead. But then someone posted what looks like the pre-credits scene on YouTube and it looks pretty awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lJw74sHFY

haha. "Who treason." We'll have to save that one.

It could, for example, be a rolling Dalek TV tray, carrying an assortment of Dalek snacks.

Haha, I just woke up my gf laughing at that. She'll be pissed at me in the morning, but 'twas worth it.

Incidentally I rewatched both Blink and The Girl In The Fireplace this afternoon and realised Moffat's series will be incredible

Funny, I rewatched The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances yesterday. A+++
Agreed he understands a child's/anyone's nameless dread better than any of the other writers, plus he makes with the lolz - more so during these two episodes than the whole few series of Coupling it seemed.

He can do Sapphire & Steel style creepyness well, which is why I'm confident the living shadows of his 2-parter won't dissappoint.

ps. was also reminded that Ecclestone was great.

Oh, yeah, that's Davros.

Yeah that trailer makes the next episode look great. Looks like he might be doing another elaborately structured dual timeline thing as well.

me: "Looks as if Davros is coming back to Doctor Who!
wife: "Is that the guy in the wheelchair?"

So I wonder if they went ahead and got Ben Kingsley for him, or dug thru the old rollodex to get Terry Molloy.

Hey, lookee this, somebody's wiki has already been updated:

It has been heavily rumored that Terry will reprise his role as Davros at the ending of the fourth series of the new Doctor Who. Interest was fueled even more so at the release of a "mid-series" trailer on 24 May 2008[1] which features a Davros-like silouette at the end of the trailer. This reprisal has not yet been confirmed by the BBC.

xp haha

Julian Bleach has got the past of Davros. Been common knowledge for a few months.

"part"

for a given value of common.

Well, quite. YOU ALL HINTED NO SPOILERS.

Yeah, wtf?

weird second guessing now. as they have effectively publicly spoilered davros for anyone paying attention, and rose's return was signalled from the off -- what could they be keeping back?

they signposted the master too last year, but springing him out in utopia was quite well done. not that it wasn't totally secret, but it wasn't trailed publicly either/ they went to some effort to emphasise the 2, not 3, part finale.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2007/03/02/btchas.jpg

http://bp1.blogger.com/_AkrZ09GYiws/RyB9W10kuBI/AAAAAAAABvg/OakYbJbl8RE/s400/frankenstein_itv.jpg

http://www.pomegranatearts.com/project-shockheaded_peter/images-gallery/shp_magnifying.jpg

Hmm.