Saturday 24 April 2010

The Time of Angels

Doctor River Song, after investigating a vault located on the starship Byzantium, sends a message on a home box, a futuristic black box device. 12,000 years later, the Doctor and Amy receive the message whilst visiting a museum which has collected the home box as an archaeological artefact. The Doctor arrives in the nick of time and catches River as she depressurises a section of the Byzantium. River orders the Doctor to follow the ship. The 3 of them pilot the TARDIS after the Byzantium, where it crash-lands on the planet Alfava Metraxis. There, River signals a group of soldiers from the Church, lead by Father Octavian, who teleport to the planet before asking the Doctor what he knows of the Weeping Angels.

The soldiers set up a base camp and the Doctor, Amy, and River watch a 4-second looped camera recording of the Weeping Angel in the vault onboard the Byzantium. The Doctor and River leave, leaving Amy alone in the room with recording. She turns back to the monitor and sees that the Angel has moved inside the recording, facing her. She attempts to shut off the screen by the plug and a remote, but looks away again and causes the Angel to move closer towards her. She backs off towards the door as it bares its teeth. Amy screams for the Doctor as the Angel suddenly emerges from the monitor. Meanwhile, River and the Doctor are looking through a book of information about the Angels, written by a "mad-man" who had encountered the Angels before. Inside the book, there are no pictures of the Angels, puzzling the Doctor. He then notices a passage on the Angels's image: "That which holds the image of an Angel, becomes itself an Angel". He then realizes Amy is in great danger. The Doctor cannot get the door to the viewing chamber open and River cannot burn through it with her weapon, due to the Angel causing the doors and power sources to be deadlocked. All the while the Doctor reiterates to Amy not to blink while he and River try to force their way in. He also tells Amy not to look into the Angel's eyes as the book says that the "eyes are not windows to the soul, but more like doors through which one may enter". As Amy looks into the Angel's eyes unknowingly, she remembers what the Doctor said about the images of Angels and pauses the recording on a skip in the tape. The Angel vanishes, as the recording was paused on something which was not the image of an Angel, saving herself.

The soldiers, the Doctor, River and Amy, move into the "Maze Of The Dead", a stone labyrinth with dead people buried inside the walls. The entire place is dark and full of worn and aged statues. The group attempt to track down the Angel, who is believed to be hiding amongst the statues to avoid detection. In the process, three soldiers have their necks snapped by the Angel. This worries the Doctor, as that is not their normal way of killing. The Doctor then realizes that every statue in the maze is an Angel, worn and deformed after being starved of potential enemies. Now that the group is here, this Army of Angels is waking up. The Angel that nearly killed Amy is also affecting how she perceives things, such as her hand turning to stone and stone dust coming from her eye when she rubs it. The Doctor deduces that she looked into the Angel's eyes despite what he said whilst Amy claims she tried but couldn't look away.

The Angel from the Byzantium uses the conciousness of one of the soldiers to communicate with the Doctor as the other Angels close in on all sides. The Angel taunts the Doctor over the fact he is seemingly doomed and that the soldier they are using to talk through died in fear, despite the encouragement the Doctor gave him earlier. This provokes him to act. He takes a gun from Father Octavian as he threatens the Angels. He tells them that he is the one thing that no-one should put in a trap if they value their continued existence and the episode ends on a cliffhanger, as the Doctor shoots out the gravity globe illuminating the Maze.


Saturday 17 April 2010

Victory of The Daleks

The TARDIS materialises in the Cabinet War Rooms during the Second World War, one month after Winston Churchill called for help at the end of "The Beast Below". The Doctor is greeted by the Prime Minister and recounts their past experiences. An arriving Luftwaffe squadron approaching London allows Churchill to show the Doctor his latest weapon, a high-precision energy weapon controlled by the "Ironsides", designed by Professor Edwin Bracewell, a Scottish scientist. At the Doctor's request, Churchill and Bracewell show the Doctor an Ironside, in reality a British-army-green-coloured Union Flag-wearing Dalek. Despite the Doctor's protests about the Daleks' omnicidal past, Bracewell insists that he invented them and they are docile and readily performing menial tasks such as serving tea. The Doctor tries to ask his companion Amy Pond to tell Churchill about their invasion of the Earth in "The Stolen Earth", and is visibly unnerved when Amy has no recollection of the incident.

Intent on proving the Daleks' evil, the Doctor interrogates Bracewell and learns that the Daleks were one of several futuristic inventions. In response, the Doctor repeatedly strikes a Dalek with a heavy spanner and recalls his battles with the genocidal race and finally exclaims "I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!". The Dalek finally acknowledges this sentence prompting him to transmit this "testimony" to a Dalek ship orbiting the Earth while all the other Daleks turn hostile. Bracewell protests claiming he created the Daleks causing the latter to proclaim "No. We created you." and destroy his hand, exposing him as an android.

The Doctor runs to the TARDIS, telling Amy to stay behind as it is too dangerous. He then materialises in the Dalek ship. The Doctor pretends to be brandishing a TARDIS self-destruct control (a Jammie Dodger biscuit), so that the Daleks do not exterminate him. The Daleks reveal that one ship survived the destruction of the Dalek race in "Journey's End," and that it went after the last remaining Progenator Device, a capsule containing pure Dalek DNA, from which the Dalek race could be rebuilt. The Doctor figures out that they built Professor Bracewell because the Progenator Device did not recognise them as Dalek, since these Daleks were grown from Davros's DNA. If the Daleks became part of the army, Winston Churchill would lure the Doctor in, and the Doctor would confirm them as Daleks. The Progenator accepted this as proof, because the Doctor is the Daleks' greatest enemy.

The Daleks then tell the Doctor to leave, or they will destroy London. The Doctor says they do not have that power. The Daleks then fire a ray turning all of London's lights on, making them an easy target to the incoming Luftwaffe bombers, and rendering London's blackout efforts ineffective. Then the Progenator completes its process, and creates a "new paradigm" consisting of 5 "pure" Daleks (identified as "Scientist, Strategist, Drone, Eternal and the Supreme"), larger, more imposing, and presumably more powerful than their antecedent, which disintegrate the original Daleks, who willingly offer themselves for extermination. In the Cabinet War Rooms, Amy and Churchill realise they can use Professor Bracewell to fight back against the Daleks. Stopping him from committing suicide, they convince him to help them send some modified Spitfires to the Dalek ship, equipped with Dalek laser cannons and anti-gravity technology. The Daleks discover the Doctor has not really got a self-destruct device, just as the Spitfires begin their attack. The Spitfires destroy the Dalek transmitter, assisted by the Doctor. The Daleks then tell the Doctor to stop the attack on their ship or they will destroy the Earth using an "oblivion continuum" bomb concealed inside Professor Bracewell.

The Doctor hurries back to Earth, in order to stop the detonation but leaving the Daleks to escape. He reveals the bomb inside Bracewell, realising that the only way to stop it exploding is to convince Bracewell that he is a human, not a bomb. He tries to remind the Professor of all his memories and how they hurt, but he cannot seem to stop the countdown. As the Oblivion Continuum approaches detonation, Amy steps in and asks him if he has "ever fancied someone [he] shouldn't". While dwelling on this, the countdown retreats to zero, cancelling the detonation. The Doctor immediately dashes to stop the Daleks, but he is told by the Professor that they have escaped. For a few moments, he feels that he has lost, but Amy reminds him that he saved the Earth.

After bidding farewell to Churchill and his staff, the Doctor remains puzzled that Amy did not remember the Daleks from the events portrayed in "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End". As the TARDIS dematerialises, a crack with a light shining through is seen behind the spot where it stood, as in the previous episodes of this series.

Saturday 10 April 2010

The Beast Below

The Doctor and Amy encounter the Starship UK, a colony ship from an Earth that evacuated following devastating solar flares, containing all of the United Kingdom except Scotland, who wanted their own ship. On board, the Doctor attempts to comfort 12-year-old Mandy, whose silent tears are unacknowledged by the other passengers because, as the Doctor surmises, they already know what is wrong.

Amy follows Mandy and encounters a "hole" guarded by a keep out sign. Entering, she finds a tentacle-like creature and retreats to be confronted by four hooded figures, another of whom had previously reported the Doctor's presence to a masked woman. As the Doctor explores the engine room, the same masked woman appears to him. Introducing herself as Liz 10, she confirms his suspicion that the ship is flying without engines.

Amy regains consciousness in a voting booth. Here, as all adult travellers on the ship experience every five years, she is shown the truth behind Starship UK and then has to choose whether to "protest" or "forget" what she has seen. Amy chooses to forget, but not before recording a message to herself to get the Doctor back to the TARDIS and away from the ship. Amy does not inform the Doctor of this, and as he is unable to view the message due to not being human, he simply presses the "protest" button. This causes himself and Amy to be sent down a chute to the lower regions of the ship.

The Doctor and Amy land in the mouth of a large beast, which the Doctor causes to vomit and expell them to an overflow chute. Refusing to press a "forget" button and open the door to the main ship, they are attacked by two Smilers, the robotic creatures who keep watch over the ship. They are rescued by Liz 10, who reveals herself to be Queen Elizabeth the Tenth. She explains that she has been investigating the creature's infestation of the ship for her entire reign, working undercover against her own government.

The Doctor, Amy, Liz 10 and Mandy are then taken to the Tower of London, which is situated in the bowels of the ship, for investigating the beast. There it is revealed that the ship is powered by the last Star Whale, goaded by a ray penetrating its brain. The Doctor and Liz 10 are outraged at the cruelty being unleashed onto the star whale, the latter demanding it be set free. Hawthorne, who had been guarding the creature in the Tower, reveals that Liz 10 ordered the situation in the first place.

In a video message, Liz 10 explains how the British people faced destruction when Earth was devastated by solar flares. The Star Whale appeared as a "miracle", and they captured it and used it to power their space ship. Liz 10 has to decide whether to forget, as she has unknowingly done every ten years for centuries, or abdicate, thus freeing the star whale and destroying the ship.

The Doctor realises that Amy chose to forget about the Star Whale so he would not face the choice between humanity and the alien. He then decides to render the Star Whale braindead, ending its suffering but still saving the humans on-board. Amy, however, sees the Star Whale's fondness for children and realises that its torture was unnecessary; it appeared to the UK's citizens in order to help them. She forces Liz 10 to press her "abdicate" button, and after a brief period of turbulence the Star Whale continues to transport the ship.

Amy explains to the Doctor that she recognised the Star Whale's kindness as the last of its race as comparable to his own as the last Time Lord. About to reveal her imminent wedding to the Doctor, she is interrupted by a call to the TARDIS from Winston Churchill, who is face-to-face with a Dalek.


Saturday 3 April 2010

The Eleventh Hour

The episode picks up from the ending of The End of Time. The Doctor has just regenerated and is crashing back towards Earth. After narrowly avoiding a collision with Big Ben, the badly-damaged TARDIS crash lands in the back garden of the young Amelia Pond in the small village of Leadworth. Amelia takes him inside and helps him satisfy his strange food cravings (only being satisfied with fish fingers and custard) before taking him upstairs to show him the crack in her bedroom wall. The Doctor discovers it is not just a crack in a wall, but a crack in time and space itself, and on the other side is a prison run by the Atraxi. The Atraxi deliver a warning to the two: “Prisoner Zero has escaped," but before the Doctor can help further he is interrupted by the TARDIS’s Cloister Bell: if not stabilised the engines will incinerate. The Doctor needs to pilot the TARDIS into the future to stop the engines from phasing. He promises Amelia he will return in five minutes, and leaves. She packs and begins to wait for him.

The Doctor returns but discovers that, for Amelia, twelve years have passed. Amelia, or Amy as she is now known, is working as a kissogram and uses her policewoman outfit to "arrest" the Doctor when he first returns to the house. He explains to her that the Prisoner Zero whom the Atraxi referred to has been living in Amy’s house by placing a perception filter on one of the rooms. Prisoner Zero - a serpent creature with the head of an anglerfish - takes on the form of a comatose patient, currently in the hospital where Amy’s boyfriend Rory Williams works, and chases the two out of the house after the Atraxi’s message from the beginning of the episode begins to play through every television, radio and electronic device in the world, adding that the "human residence" will be destroyed should Prisoner Zero not give itself up; the Doctor realises that they are referring to the entire planet.

The Doctor deduces that they have twenty minutes before the Atraxi weapons power up, and therefore only that amount of time to save the world. However, he is unable to access the TARDIS while it is rebuilding itself, and the Sonic Screwdriver is destroyed when he uses it to try and attract the Atraxi. He also discovers that Amy has been creating dolls and drawing pictures of him since his crash twelve years ago. With others who know her thus convinced of his identity, he uses a resident’s laptop and Rory’s phone to transmit a computer virus around the world that sets all clocks and electronic displays to the number zero, therefore notifying the Atraxi of Prisoner Zero’s presence and allowing them to track it to Leadworth as the source of the virus. He explains to Amy and Rory that the "Multiform," or Prisoner Zero, needs a dormant host and can change into the shape of whatever the host dreams of. Therefore, Prisoner Zero has eight disguises because of the eight comatose patients at the hospital. In a standoff in the coma ward of the hospital, the snakelike Prisoner attempts to steal Amy's dreams and memories to use as a disguise--manifesting as the Doctor and Amy's childhood self--but the Doctor prompts Amy to instead think of the undisguised Prisoner (which she saw earlier at the house); thus, Prisoner Zero manifests as itself, and is recaptured.

Although the Atraxi are now leaving, the Doctor calls them back and dons his new outfit to have a meeting with them on the hospital's roof. He tells them that aliens have invaded before and to look up how they were defeated. The Atraxi discover who the Doctor is and promptly leave. The Doctor then returns to the TARDIS, which by this point has finished repairing itself. He leaves to perform test runs and then returns to Amy, two years late. He shows Amy the regenerated TARDIS (complete with a new sonic screwdriver), and she agrees to travel with him on the condition he returns her home for the next day, which unbeknownst to the Doctor is her wedding day.

No More News Till After Series 5

THERE WILL BE NO MORE NEWS ON WORLD'S END OR ANY OF THE CAST NEWS TILL AFTER STEVEN MOFFAT'S SERIES 5 HAS FINISHED AIRING IN JULY 2010.

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Friday 2 April 2010

Rumors For Episode 2

Rumors have been began for episode 2 of the last 4 specials which is called "The Master Plan" there have been several references to a Master Plan in doctor who history many times before. The first time it was used in Doctor Who was in the 1st Doctor journey which was called "The Daleks Master Plan" so rumors have started that the Daleks will appear in The Master Plan this could mean that the Daleks aren't the main enemy in the last 2 episodes or this could mean that the final 3 episodes make up a 3 part story.
Another time is during the 7th Doctor's tenue head writer Andrew Cartmel came up with this idea of this charcter called The Other which was created to add a bit of mystery to Doctor Who. He called the idea his Master Plan. So this could indicate that a time lord called The Other could appear in the final episodes.

However it could just be a thing that has happened and none of the above may apply to the final episdoes. All will be reaveled in the coming months though i'm sure.