Friday 24 December 2010

The End

Well that's it. Doctor Who is over. it's been an amazing  with different storys and amazing charcters. Each series has also been unique and brilliant. I'd just like too say a big thank you to anyone who watched the it and i can't wait too see what Steven Moffat does in 2011. Doctor Who will go on forever.


Anyway it's been an amazing and it's been an honour working on the show. Doctor Who is on tomorrow with A Christmas Carol and then will return in April with the first part of Series 6.

S.13 World's End Part 2

Wednesday 22 December 2010

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Wednesday 8 December 2010

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Wednesday 1 December 2010

Episode Synopsis and Cast List

Episode Synopsis

The Dying Future: The Doctor and Amy arrive on the Ood Sphere just as the planet enters dark times but they soon discover that a women has a dark prophecy for The Doctor.

The Master Plan: The Doctor and Amy arrive on Gallifrey to find only a few time lords. Amy gets a tour of the planet while The Doctor talks about old times to an old friend but an old enemy is also waiting.

World's End Part 1: The gang travel to Earth where they meet a women who joins there journey to world's end and as they go on their journey they come across trouble and unleash The Chosen One.

World's End Part 2: The Chosen One is destroying the universe while Davros carrys on with his plans. With the gang slowly falling apart it's left up to The Doctor to save the day but with drastic consequences.

Cast List
The Doctor: Matt Smith
Amy Pond: Karen Gillan
Ashley: Cheryl Cole
The Duchess: Keira Knightley
TBA: Robert Pattinson
TBA: Hayden Christensen
The Visionary: Brid Brennan
Davros: Julian Bleach
Sontaran Leader: Christopher Ryan
Daleks: Nick Briggs
Ood Sigma: Paul Casey

Friday 19 November 2010

Monday 15 November 2010

Saturday 4 September 2010

Doctor Who: Latest Trailer

Well the latest trailer for the up coming Doctor Who specials was realsed early today and showed us some of what we can expect in the new series.

The trailer started off with images of Galifrey which shows that Gallifrey will return in the specials and that the Time Lords will most likely appear in some shape or form. We also saw The Tardis pulling The Earth just like in "Journey's End". This is as of yet unknown to how it fits into the plot. The Ood Sphere and the Ood along with the Elder Ood also made an appearence and because they appeared in the trailer a fair bit it is rumored they will have a complete episode 2 themselfs. Skaro and the Daleks also made an appearence and looks like they could very well be the main villian of the finale. The Judoon made a breif appearence but again it is yet unknown how they fit into the story. The Sontarans will also return which could see them in at least one episode.

Some of The Cast was also confirmed.
Matt Smith as The Doctor
Karen Gillian as Amy Pond
Keria Knightley as A Time Lord
Cheryl Cole as Ashley
Julian Bleach as Davros
Brid Brennan as The Visionary
Christopher Ryan as Sontaran

Doctor Who The Dying Dream airs on the 11th of December while The Master Plan airs on the 17th of December and Worlds End appears on the 20th and 24th of December. Part 1 on the 20th and Part 2 on the 24th. Thank you for Reading.

Doctor Who: September Trailer

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Finished

Well today saw the final episode be completed. Callum has now finished with Doctor Who and concentrate on TMNT. He is now looking to see if anyone wants 2 take over in his place and take over the blog. The Final episode will be shown Christmas Eve 2010. Thanks for reading.

Thursday 15 July 2010

Doctor Who Winter Update

Well Steven Moffat's Series 5 has finished and a trailer with footage from previous series has been shown advertising World's End in December and now we are now back bringing news to you about what's happening.

Filming started in the middle of April which was filmed for Episode 2: The Dying Future. The episode has had several changes made right up till the end of June. Filming started for Episode 3: The Master Plan on the 28th of June and lasted a week which has Keira Knightley and Hayden Christien. The Daleks are also in the episode which is 13 Minutes long. World's End Part 1 was filmed last week and has now been finished and it lasts 23 Minutes. All trailers have also been made for the episode's.

World's End Part 2 started filming today and was meant to be finished for tomoz but because filming has started late it has been set back a week which could also upset the TMNT filming schelede.

We will bring you more news when we have it. Thanks for Reading.

Sunday 27 June 2010

Saturday 26 June 2010

The Big Bang

Following on from the cliffhanger of "The Pandorica Opens", the universe appears to end as the Doctor is placed in the Pandorica, a prison designed for him by his greatest foes, leaving only the Earth, the Moon, and a sun-like light source in a black void. The Auton version of Rory still tends over Amy's lifeless body after he shot her, but is surprised when a future version of the Doctor, using a Vortex Manipulator, temporarily appears and gives him his sonic screwdriver and instructions to open the Pandorica. Rory does so, recovering the Doctor and placing Amy inside where she will be restored and held in stasis. Rory stays with the Pandorica, guarding it through nearly two millennia, while the Doctor uses the Vortex Manipulator to jump forward in time to contemporary time. There, he provides hints to young Amelia Pond—Amy's younger self who has dreams of a star-filled sky—to go to a natural history museum where the Pandorica is on display while Rory, now a security guard, still watches over it. Amelia is able to open the Pandorica, releasing the healed Amy. Amelia soon disappears as the universe begins to collapse further.


The Doctor reunites with Amy and Rory, and uses the Vortex Manipulator to pass his screwdriver to Rory in the past, and to rescue River Song from a time loop from the destruction of the TARDIS. They discover a stone Dalek has also been released by the opening of the Pandorica, and, while fleeing from it, the Doctor surmises that it is a fragment of the old, star-filled universe that is stored within the Pandorica. They soon meet another version of the Doctor, twelve minutes in the future, who has been shot by the Dalek; the future version of the Doctor whispers something to the current version, and then passes away. The Doctor, Amy, Rory, and River continue to flee from the Dalek as the Doctor explains that if they can transfer the remnants of the old universe simultaneously to every point of the collapsing universe, they may be able to restore the old universe. The Doctor is then shot by the Dalek, and jumps back to the past, while River mercilessly kills the Dalek.


It is shown that the future Doctor did not die after jumping back in time twelve minutes, but instead used the opportunity to get his earlier self to create a distraction, allowing him to program the Pandorica to fly into the sun-like source—the remnants of the explosion of the TARDIS—in order to restore the universe. When Amy, Rory, and River return, the Doctor explains that Amy, having lived near the cracks in the universe all her life, has the ability to recall people that were consumed by the cracks back into being once the old universe is restored, and that he will be trapped in the voids between universes once the cracks close. The Doctor then pilots the Pandorica into the TARDIS explosion.


The Doctor finds himself rewinding through his life as an observer. Amy is able to hear him, however, and he tries to tell her to remember what he told her when she was seven. ("Flesh and Stone") Arriving on the day he met Amelia Pond ("The Eleventh Hour"), he finds the young girl asleep outside, waiting for his return. The Doctor carries Amelia to bed, and tells her a story about a daft old man who had borrowed a really blue magic box that was brand new and ancient at the same time. He then steps into the crack in Amelia's bedroom wall, sealing the cracks completely. Amelia lives out her life with the family that she had remembered back into existence, including her mother and father. On her wedding day to Rory, she feels as if she is forgetting something. When she sees River Song with her diary, its cover fashioned after the TARDIS' appearance, she suddenly remembers the Doctor's story of "something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue", and upon its recollection, the Doctor and the TARDIS are restored. The Doctor joins in the wedding celebration.


After the wedding, the Doctor gives River the Vortex Manipulator to return to her time in the future. River sadly warns the Doctor he will soon learn who she truly is, and that it will change everything. Aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor explains to Amy and Rory that there still remain unanswered questions about the destruction of the TARDIS, but before they can contemplate that, the Doctor receives a telephone call alerting him to the presence of an escaped Egyptian goddess on the Orient Express in space. Rory and Amy decide to join him, and the three leave on their next adventure.


Saturday 19 June 2010

The Pandorica Opens

The Doctor and Amy Pond travel to the oldest planet in the universe where a legendary message turns out to be another "calling card" of Dr. River Song. Following the coordinates from the message, they arrive at Roman Britain in 102 AD and find River posing as Cleopatra. River explains that she has received warning of the destruction of the TARDIS from a painting by Vincent Van Gogh ("Vincent and the Doctor") that in 1941 reached Winston Churchill and Professor Bracewell ("Victory of the Daleks"). Churchill had attempted to warn the Doctor himself, but the TARDIS instead connected his call to River; she subsequently escaped from prison and encountered Liz 10 ("The Beast Below"), who had Van Gogh's painting in her collection, and then used a Vortex Manipulator to transport herself to the oldest planet then to the coordinates in the painting. The Doctor realises the painting and destruction of the TARDIS may be connected to the "Pandorica", a fabled prison for the universe's deadliest being, and rationalises that it must be stored in a memorable location, the site of Stonehenge.

At Stonehenge, the Doctor, Amy, and River find a passage to an underground area, which the Doctor terms "Underhenge". Inside, they find the Pandorica, a room-sized metal box outfitted with every type of lock imaginable. The Doctor and River become concerned when they discover that the Pandorica is opening from inside and transmitting a message across time and space, drawing many of the Doctor's foes to Earth. River warns that "everything that ever hated [the Doctor] is coming tonight". The Doctor refuses to flee and instead enlists the help of some of the nearby Roman soldiers, led by a mysterious centurion who volunteers.
Back underground, while Amy questions the Doctor about the
engagement ring she has found, the pair are attacked by the debris of a Cyberman's suit trying to find a new host. The Doctor is stunned and Amy sedated with a flechette. She runs away and is rescued by the mysterious centurion, who turns out to be Rory Williams. The revived Doctor is baffled to find Rory alive, since he is supposed to have been erased from history by the crack in the universe ("Cold Blood"). Rory is even more confused and says he simply remembers dying one second and being a Roman soldier the next. Rory tries to connect with Amy using the engagement ring that he had left aboard the TARDIS, but she is still unable to remember him.

As more enemies gather in orbit, the Doctor temporarily delays the aliens and instructs River to bring the TARDIS to Stonehenge. Although shown to be an expert TARDIS pilot ("The Time of Angels"), River now finds the machine impossible to control and gets locked on course for Amy's house on June 26, 2010 - the very date the explosion is to happen ("Flesh and Stone"). Whilst she ventures outside, the scanner screen suddenly cracks in the familiar shape, while an ominous voice declares "silence will fall". River finds huge foot prints in the garden and explores Amy's bedroom, still full of representations of the Doctor and the TARDIS. She also finds elements such as Pandora's Box and the Roman soldiers within Amy's drawings and books. She relays this to the Doctor, who starts to worry they might all be imaginary constructs taken from Amy's mind to entrap him, and believing their own cover story until they are activated. Amy meanwhile has an emotional conversation with Rory who is attempting to get her to remember him. The TARDIS begins to malfunction dangerously. Upon discovery of the date to which River has been taken, the Doctor orders her to get out of that timezone, but the TARDIS is now controlled remotely. He urges her to get out, as the TARDIS engines are supposed to shut down automatically when no one is on board, but she finds herself locked in.
Suddenly, Rory and the 'legionaries' with the Doctor are activated: they are Autons. 'Rory' remains with Amy, struggling to retain his human consciousness and stop himself from killing her. Shortly after she remembers who he is, he loses control and shoots her. Meanwhile, the other Autons capture the Doctor and take him to the now-open Pandorica, which proves to be empty. Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen and others arrive and reveal that they have formed an alliance and built the Pandorica as a prison for the Doctor, as they believe he is about to destroy the universe. The Doctor pleads that they have made a mistake and the TARDIS, not him, is about to destroy the universe but the Daleks refuse to believe that anyone else can fly the TARDIS.

River frantically manages to hot-wire the TARDIS door, but finds her way blocked by a stone surface. She declares, "I'm sorry, my love," as the TARDIS goes critical and explodes. Rory is still cradling the lifeless Amy. The Pandorica closes on the Doctor, and a dramatic reveal shows explosions surrounding the Earth.


Saturday 12 June 2010

The Lodger

The TARDIS lands in Colchester rather than its intended destination, the fifth moon of Sinda Callista, and the Doctor finds himself stranded there with Amy left in the TARDIS. Meanwhile, passers-by are seen being lured into a nearby house by various voices seeking help, from the intercom at its front door. The door opens and they ascend the staircase to the first floor, entering the room which lies there; flashing lights are seen and screams heard emanating from the room.

The Doctor turns up at the house and rents a ground floor room from the flat's owner, a shy call centre worker called Craig Owens. Although Craig finds him odd, The Doctor quickly woos him and moves in. The Doctor tries to blend in his new environment with guidance from Amy, with whom he still manages to communicate through an earpiece. He also gets to know Craig who is locked in a platonic relationship with a colleague called Sophie and tries to manoeuvre them into declaring to each other. This backfires and Sophie decides to leave for an exotic destination.

The Doctor has become aware that the first floor room may not be all it appears to be, as a strange damp patch is spreading on the living room ceiling, but thinks using his sonic screwdriver might alert whatever is up there and is instead building a crude apparatus in his room. His experiences on Earth are punctuated by increasingly frequent "time-loop" events, in which his own time is separated from those around him, who are unknowingly involved in repetitive events. This also affect Amy in the TARDIS.

Craig touches the damp patch on his ceiling and is seriously poisoned. The Doctor revives him and goes to replace him at work while he recovers. Craig, however, far from being grateful, becomes jealous of the increasingly popular Doctor, since Sophie in particular has expressed enthusiasm, and tells the Doctor to leave the house, throwing his £3000 deposit back at him. While the two quarrel, Sophie turns up at the house and gets called upstairs by the voice from the first floor room. To save time, the Doctor reveals to Craig who he is and what he is doing... by head-butting him. Craig is overwhelmed by all the information, but the two hear screams upstairs and rush to intervene. Spotting Sophie's set of keys on the door, they realise that she is the one in danger. Amy meanwhile, having studied the house's plans in the TARDIS's database informs them that the building is supposed to be only one storey tall.

The Doctor and Craig enter the "upstairs flat" to save Sophie and discover that someone has been trying to build a TARDIS, which is now trapped on Earth and is disguised by a perception filter. Its pilot is an emergency AI hologram who is able to appear in the form of the various victims it has attracted, as well as Craig's seldom-seen neighbour.

After the Doctor and Craig prevent Sophie from being forced to activate the ship's console, the hologram informs the Doctor that as the ship has crashed and the crew was killed, it has rebuilt itself and attempted to fly away by luring in humans to act as pilots. However the human minds weren't sufficient and burned out, leaving only husks. Recognising the Doctor as a suitable pilot, the ship tries to pull him in. Knowing he cannot pilot the ship safely and he would destroy the entire solar system in the process, the Doctor realises that the ship had only lured in people who wanted to escape or leave somewhere, which is why it hadn't attempted to lure Craig, or Sophie, until the Doctor motivated her to leave. After finally admitting their love for each other, both Craig and Sophie touch the panel's activator, causing the engines to shut down and the ship to implode. The Doctor, Craig and Sophie escape in time to see the top floor of the house turn into a spaceship which then disappears.

Afterwards, the Doctor says his goodbyes to Craig and Sophie, who give him his set of keys to the flat as a parting gift. Back in the TARDIS the Doctor travels back in time a week and instructs Amy to leave the note in the newsagent's that directed him to Craig's flat in the first place. However, whilst rooting in the pocket of his discarded blazer for a pen, Amy discovers the ring Rory had given her before he was erased from time and becomes visibly unsettled. The crack from her bedroom appears once again, this time in the wall behind Craig's fridge, and glows ominously.


Saturday 5 June 2010

Vincent and The Doctor

The Doctor has taken Amy to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where they admire the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The Doctor discovers a seemingly alien figure in a window of the painting The Church at Auvers, and decides they must travel back in time to speak to Vincent. In 1890, they find Vincent at a cafe in Arles, a lonely man with a bad reputation, but opens up when he notices Amy. They discover that recent deaths, victims ravaged by some type of beast, have been blamed on Vincent, and the two decide to help Vincent.

The Doctor and Amy stay at Vincent's home overnight, where he confesses that his works to have little value to anyone but himself, but believes the universe is filled with more wonders than one could imagine. When Amy is attacked by an invisible beast that only Vincent can see, Vincent paints an image for the Doctor, who identifies it as a Krafayis, a vicious pack-predator that has been abandoned on Earth. The three prepare to depart to stop the creature, the Doctor promising that after they have dealt with it, the Doctor and Amy will be out of Vincent's way; this causes Vincent to break down into tears and shuts himself in his bedroom. When the Doctor approaches him, Vincent says that everyone leaves him in the end, forgotten and hopeless. The Doctor attempts to empathise with him, but Vincent becomes upset and orders him to go. As the Doctor and Amy leave to face the creature on their own, Vincent reappears, determined to assist them. As they leave towards the church, Vincent confides in Amy that if she can "soldier on, then so can Vincent van Gogh", aware of sadness and loss that Amy cannot detect.

At the church, Vincent begins to paint the church watching for the beast to appear. Several hours pass before he spots it, and the Doctor proceeds inside on his own, warning Amy and Vincent to stay outside, and hoping to stun the creature with his sonic screwdriver. Vincent convinces Amy to go inside with him. Vincent catches sight of the beast stalking the Doctor, and warns him in time, sending the Doctor and Amy into hiding inside a confessional. Through Vincent's descriptions of the Krafayis' actions, the Doctor realises the creature is blind, and thus why it was left behind by its pack. Vincent attempts to defend himself from the creature with his easel, but the creature ends up impaling himself on it. The Doctor attempts to sooth the creature as it dies, while Vincent is able to explain its actions as from fear and frustration at its lack of sight.

Outside, the three rest on the grass, and Vincent explains how he sees the night sky, deep blue, framed by swirling air, and the Doctor recognizes the inspiration of Vincent's works. The next day, the Doctor and Amy prepare to leave, and Vincent tells Amy that if she should ever leave the Doctor, to return and marry him. The Doctor offers to show Vincent something, and takes him in the TARDIS back to Musée d'Orsay in 2010. There, the Doctor initiates a discussion with an art historian, Dr. Black, within earshot of Vincent; Dr. Black gushes about Vincent's work, and states him as "the greatest painter of them all". Overjoyed at hearing this, Vincent hugs Dr. Black and kisses his cheeks in gratitude. The three return to the past, where the Doctor and Amy say their final goodbyes to Vincent, now a changed man. Amy remains unsure of Vincent's marriage proposal, saying she's "not really the marrying kind".

As they return to 2010, Amy hopes they have influenced Vincent to live a long life and paint many more works. However, back at the Musée d'Orsay, she finds that Vincent still committed suicide at 37. The Doctor explains that life is a mixture of bad and good, and their brief encounter with Vincent added some good with their life, as evident in subtle changes in the displayed works: the face no longer appears in The Church, and now, Vase with 12 Sunflowers bears the inscription, "For Amy".




Saturday 29 May 2010

Cold Blood

This second part starts with the Doctor and Nasreen walking along a bridge in the Silurian civilisation, as the Doctor marvels at the technological advances they have made since he last met them. They find themselves in a corridor covered with plants long thought extinct, and find an entrance. As soon as they walk through it, an alarm goes off and the pair are inevitably captured by the Silurian soldiers where they are taken to the same lab Amy and Mo are in. Amy is about to be dissected by the Silurian doctor Malohkeh, but he is called off moments before doing so by the alarm triggered by the Doctor and Nasreen.

Malohkeh had used a palm-sized device to lock Amy's hands into the cuffs and had placed it in his pocket. But while he is distracted by the alarm, Amy pickpockets him and steals the device. Amy quickly unlocks the clamps around her arms and frees Mo. As they walk around trying to find a way out, they stumble upon a chamber where the Silurians are keeping Elliot alive, but sedated, for observation. Mo, Elliot's father, is enraged and determines they need to find weapons to protect themselves and later get his son out. They then find two contiguous chambers, each with a Silurian warrior inside, although they appear to be immobile. Amy deduces that they are hibernation pods, with each warrior standing on a transport disc that can take them to the surface. Since they don't know how to work the transport discs, they take the hibernating Silurians' weapons instead to have something to fight with while looking for another exit.

In the church, while the group are awaiting the Doctor's and Nasreen's return, Ambrose notices her father's injury from Alaya's sting, so she goes to Alaya's room and implores her to give her the cure. Alaya responds that she has no desire nor need to tell her. Angered, Ambrose picks up a stun gun to pretend to threaten Alaya. However, Alaya begins taunting her by asking her where her son is, and how she is too much of a coward to use the stun gun even to protect her family. Angered and worried about her family, Ambrose does stun her, at first lightly to get the information, but when Alaya still refuses, she shoves the stun gun into her stomach with greater strength, killing her. The others run in, shocked, for keeping Alaya alive was probably the only way to achieve a peaceful resolution.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Nasreen are clamped onto the operating tables, where Nasreen is knocked unconscious. The Doctor is kept awake as the Silurians attempt to 'decontaminate' him for analysis. The Doctor, however, is unusually finding the decontamination painful, and yells out in between cringing at Malohkeh that he is not human. After Malohkeh checks and notices the Doctor's two hearts, he turns the machine off and uses a rod similar to the Doctor's sonic Screwdriver to wake up Nasreen. Another Silurian, Restac, Alaya's sister and the Silurians' military commander, enters, however, and is adamant that they be destroyed. She takes the Doctor and Nasreen to a conference room, which turns out to be the Silurian court, and informs them they will be executed. On the way, the Doctor explains some of the Silurians' history: that they went into hibernation when their astronomers predicted a solar catastrophe approaching Earth. When the Silurians ask how he knows so much about them, the Doctor explains he has encountered their kind before. Initially delighted that others of their species survived, the Doctor angers them by explaining humans wiped out those who woke before. Restac views such an act as justification to destroy humanity.

Just as Restac is about to fire, Amy and Mo arrive, armed with the Silurian guns. They are soon overwhelmed by the dozens of Silurian guards, however, and are about to be executed as well. Back at the church, Rory and the gang have wrapped Alaya's body in an orange afghan, when a screen on an unplugged computer turns on, revealing Restac who shows them the others as hostages. The Doctor reminds Rory that if they bring Alaya back, the Silurians will leave them alone, but Restac refuses and announces that the first to be executed will be Amy, aiming her gun as the screen switches off completely, leaving Rory in shock. Malohkeh attempts to reason with Restac as he believes that the Silurians and humans are compatible with each other and so war is unnecessary; however, she simply orders him to leave. Nevertheless, Amy manages to survive because Eldane, a Silurian above Restac in rank, arrives after being fetched by Malohkeh and orders for them to be untied.

The Doctor proposes that the Silurians hold talks, with Amy and Nasreen as the human race's representatives, to try to figure out a peaceful way for the Earth to be shared between the species. They are making progress, as Amy suggests that certain areas of the planet that are inhospitable to humans could work for the Silurians. In exchange, Eldane proposes that all Silurian technology can be used to both species' benefit. As they have found common ground, Eldane is open to the idea of exchanging them for Alaya, so they open another communication link to Rory and the others in the church. They agree to bring them down to the Silurians' habitat for the exchange, and it appears as if it will all work out. Meanwhile, Restac and a number of troops storm into Malohkeh's lab and execute him for betraying her cause.

After the communications link is closed, Ambrose, still distrustful of the Silurians and worried because Alaya is in fact dead, decides that before going down, they should set the drill to go off in 15 minutes, which would destroy all oxygen in the Silurians' habitat. As the group arrive with Alaya's corpse, Restac returns with many more warriors, who she has woken up from hibernation, intending to stage a coup. When she sees that Alaya, her sister, is dead, Restac loses control and orders her warriors to kill all the humans, starting with Ambrose. As the Silurians open fire, the Doctor deters them by breaking down their weapons with the sonic screwdriver, as all the humans and Eldane lock themselves in the lab. There, they realise that they have very little time before the drill impacts the surface of the Silurians' habitat and they all die. The Doctor decides that they should use the Silurian technology to send an energy pulse through the tunnel network to destroy the drill before it demolishes the Silurian civilisation. However, doing so would cause an underground collapse, so they will need to escape before the drill is destroyed. They need to get from the lab to where the Doctor and Nasreen left the TARDIS, but the Silurian army is blocking the way. Eldane tells them that he can stall the army by activating 'toxic fumigation'; a safety system that warns everyone to return to hibernation before a toxic gas is released, for only those stubborn and violent enough to follow Restac will die. The Doctor approaches Eldane and promises that in a thousand years, the Silurians and humans should attempt living together once again, for he will ensure that the humans are the best they can be by then. He approaches Elliot and asks him to create a myth, story or religion that can inform all coming human generations of the Silurians and how they can cohabitate peacefully one day in order to promote this plan.

As the safety system is triggered, Tony yells out in pain. Alaya had previously suggested that he should have been dead soon after she attacked him, but the Doctor finds that instead of killing him, the spit from Alaya has triggered a mutation. The Ambassador tells them that Tony can be put in a chamber to stop the infection, but the process takes much longer than the 15 minutes they have before the drill impacts. To this, Tony responds that he will stay behind, and everybody else clamors to get to the TARDIS. The Doctor realises Nasreen is not moving, as she informs him she will stay behind with Tony, to study the Earth and help the Silurians co-operate with mankind when the time comes. As the Doctor is taking so long, Amy returns to get him, prompting Rory to wait for Amy and the Doctor as well.

Ambrose, Mo and Elliot quickly get onto the TARDIS, but before Amy, Rory and the Doctor go in, they all notice a crack in the wall, just like that in Amy's bedroom as a child. The Doctor surmised that the cracks in the universe must have been formed by an explosion and insists on reaching into the other side to see what it holds, because explosions often leave shrapnel. He takes something out and looks at it in horror. Just as Rory, Amy and the Doctor are about to finally go into the TARDIS and take off to safety, Restac, dying due to exposure to the toxic gas, appears and shoots at the Doctor. Rory pushes him out of the way and takes the blast, dying in Amy's arms, confused because they had seen a future version of themselves across the hill from where they 'parked' the TARDIS in the beginning. The energy from the crack in the wall soon begins to absorb Rory, and the Doctor recalls what he said to Amy in the forest at the 'Byzantium': that if the time energy catches up to you, all evidence of your life is erased, as if you had never been born.

Since the drill is moments away from killing them, the Doctor pries a sobbing Amy away from Rory's lifeless body, locks her in the TARDIS and takes off, watching Rory's body dissipate into the crack. However, Amy implores the Doctor not to let her forget Rory, so he prompts her to clutch onto all the memories of him so that he can live on in her mind. Unlike with the Byzantium and the Weeping Angels, Amy will not remember Rory just because she is a time traveller, as he is part of her own personal history. For a moment, it looks as if Amy remembers. However, the TARDIS jolts, causing Amy to lose her focus, and she is not able to hold onto memories of Rory, so he is deleted from existence. The Doctor finds Amy's engagement ring on the floor of the TARDIS.

They arrive at the surface just as the drill explodes. Ambrose thanks the Doctor, since he could have let the Silurians kill her for killing Alaya. The Doctor responds that an eye for an eye is no way to live, and that she should seek some sort of repentance by making sure that her son really is the best humanity can be, in preparation for when the Silurians end their hibernation in a thousand years. Amy and the Doctor return to the TARDIS to leave, and they spot someone across the hill again, except this time, it is only 'future Amy', and no Rory. Amy does remark that for a second she thought she saw someone else as well, but lets go of the thought. On her way back into the TARDIS, Amy makes a remark to the Doctor and uses the term "you boys".

The Doctor lags behind to examine what he pulled from the other side of the crack: a burnt piece of the TARDIS.



Saturday 22 May 2010

The Hungry Earth

The Doctor, Amy and Rory land in the small Welsh village of Cwmtaff in 2020, as opposed to their intended destination of Rio de Janeiro. The Doctor quickly notices a major mining operation is occurring near to the village, and proceeds to investigate with Amy. They discover that the mining operation is a project by Doctor Nasreen Chaudry and her assistant, Tony Mack, investigating the appearance of minerals that have not been seen for over 20 million years (which the Doctor had also noticed in the form of patches of blue grass). Meanwhile, Rory, who went back to put Amy's engagement ring in the TARDIS for safekeeping, is mistaken for a police officer by local resident Ambrose Northover (Tony's daughter), and her son Elliot, who explains that the dead are being removed from their graves, but there is no sign of disturbance on the surface, which could only mean the bodies were taken from below...

At that moment, an earthquake hits the mining facility, causing parts of the ground to open. Tony and Amy fall into the cracks and while Nasreen is able to pull Tony free, something beneath the ground drags Amy under. In the aftermath, the Doctor explains that the minerals were a warning to keep away and that when they started drilling, the ground 'fought back'. The Doctor realises that the ground has been bio-programmed to attack whenever it perceives a threat, which should be impossible as he remarks humans will not develop such technology for millenia. At that moment, an alarm goes off; the drill, having gone down 21 kilometres has breached into a network of underground catacombs, and three unknown entities are heading up. With only twelve minutes until the unknown attackers reach the surface, the Doctor orders the pair to take safety in the local church, where they meet up with Rory, Ambrose and Elliot, by which time the attackers have erected an energy barricade to prevent escape and turned day into night for their own benefit. In private, the Doctor tells Rory what has happened and promises to get Amy back.

The Doctor has the group barricade themselves in the church and sets up a network of cameras to let him know when the attackers arrive, but problems arise when Elliot leaves to collect headphones from his house, as the attackers- strange reptilian humanoids- have arrived and take him. Ambrose and Tony run out to try and rescue him, but another one of the creatures attacks, lashing Tony with a venomous forked tongue before being subdued and captured by the Doctor and Rory. The Doctor deduces that these attackers are a new species of an old enemy; the Silurians. At that point, the energy barricade dissipates and daylight returns; the Doctor explains that the Silurians have retreated, as now both sides have hostages to bargain with.

The group imprison the captured Silurian in the church's cellar and the Doctor goes to interrogate it. The prisoner, a female member of the warrior caste called Alaya, reluctantly explains that her tribe had hibernated beneath Cwmtaff for eons, but the drill was perceived as a threat to them and the warrior caste were reawakened to deal with the threat. The Doctor explains that the humans didn't mean any harm, but Alaya aggressively snarls that the Silurians will not tolerate mankind (whom she derogatively refers to as "apes") on what they still view as their planet. The Doctor tries to warn her that mankind will fight back if threatened, but she is confident of the Silurians' victory over humanity.

The Doctor explains the Silurians' history to the group and that he intends to go underground and negotiate with the Silurians, and tells them that Alaya must be kept safe if they are to bargain with them. Tony (who appears to be suffering from the effects of Alaya's venom) comments that they should be studying the creature by dissecting it, but the Doctor refuses, saying that if Alaya is harmed, the Silurians could view it as an act of war. The Doctor and Nasreen, who having studied the earth all her life wants to see it for herself, descend in the TARDIS, while the others speak to Alaya. They try to assure her they don't mean any harm and that she will be kept safe, but she replies that they will kill her, triggering an unwinnable war between humans and Silurians. She also remarks that she knows who will kill her, even if they don't.

Deep underground, Amy awakens strapped to an examining table. Next to her is Ambrose's husband, Mo, who was taken earlier by the Silurians. He apologises, explaining that the Silurians intend to vivisect them, as a Silurian in scrubs advances on them with a scalpel. The Doctor and Nasreen arrive in the catacombs, the Doctor explaining that they are unlikely to find more than a dozen Silurians, but falls silent as they enter a cave and find an immense Silurian civilisation, stretching for miles underground before them...