Happy 50th Doctor Who!

The day is upon us. Happy anniversary Doctor Who. He was my raggedy man in the 70's, and he came back for all of us. I watched Adventured in Space and Time and I thought it was absolutely brilliant. I love Mark Gatiss for it. I have gone on a journey this year through all of the Doctors, leading to an intense marathon this week of the modern series. Tomorrow morning my niece and her husband will come over. She used to watch with me when I was a teen and she was 8. I have recently reintroduced her, quite successfully, to the new version. We are going to watch The Name of The Doctor and the first, the original, An Unearthly Child.

We are the blessed. After that we head off to the cinema to watch in 3D glory. I don't know how I'm going to get to sleep. I'm wearing my T shirt that says You Never Forget Your First Doctor. To tie in with that idea I will wear my replica Tom Baker series 18 burgundy scarf, but not the one that's currently for sale. Over 30 years ago I approximated the colors and pattern of the scarf and begged my mother to crochet it for me. It look fantastic, not to toot my mom's horn. Best part is, instead of the 13 feet of the one for sale, this one is 18 feet! I didn't want it to just wrap around the neck, but hang down like his did. As a bit of bling I'll wear my TARDIS key. The best thing of all is my permanent accessory, my TARDIS tattoo. I've never been around other fans since I got it, other than friends.

So WTF am I doing still writing this?
I need to get to bed so tomorrow can begin!
I'll leave you with this darling 50th birthday cartoon
I can just hear John Hurt delivering his line while smacking on cake

2 Days To Go!!!

The Day Of The Doctor Prequels

Here are the two prequels we were promised before the 50th. Both excellent in their own way. The first one, "The Night of The Doctor," sets the stage for John Hurt, finalizing where he fits in with the other Doctors, while "The Last Day" gives us a glimpse into The War Doctor's first day in the time war. Someone said it looks almost like a setup for a game about the war, and I can see that.

The Night of The Doctor

The Last Day

You will notice I did not say SPOILERS. That's because these AREN'T  spoilers, they are prequels meant to be watched and to give us some information, most likely background, to prepare us for the 50th.

BEST Rumor All Week!!

This is out there on the internet but I am going to save you if you don't want possible spoilers by linking the article with this sentence, but the clues are here.

Where does John Hurt's Doctor fit ?

I currently have two working theories on where John Hurt's Doctor fits in the timeline. All this is outside the possibility that this is really Doctor #9.

The first idea is newest so not very formed, but fed some by some of the new pictures as well as an interview with Steven Moffat in SFX magazine. First here is what he said about the matter...

"There's a whole lot of stuff you missed! It's a nice thing to be able to say in the show, and for no one to be able to contradict you, that there were years that you didn't know about... we lied and lied, there's a whole big old chapter you didn't know."

So I got the idea that this was 10.5, or The Meta-crisis Doctor who stayed with Rose in the other universe. He could be aged, his Rose could be dead. They could be taking into account the deleted scene where The Doctor gave him and Rose a chunk of the TARDIS to grow their own. Like I said, I don't have much of it worked out. But now look at these pictures:

In every picture John is BETWEEN the other two. Now I used to have theories as to why the TARDIS had so much detruction when David Tennant regenerated, like him holding in the energy to say goodbye and just put it off created the explosion. But what if something else happened. That could still be The Doctor who ended the time war.

In both cases it would be a Doctor born out of anger. The most likely in my mind is still the most obvious one I mentioned at first, but some type of shocker would really be welcome.

Behind The Scenes Pics And Quotes

Okay this pic is from the trailer, but it shows The Doctor at "The Moment" we first heard mentioned in "The End of Time" and I included it because of an interesting behind the scenes pic that came out....

So first it looks like the moment is a plunger to be pressed, most likely creating the time bubble? Secondly, it looks as if the three of them press it. Consider a couple of quotes from the episode:

The Eleventh Doctor, "You were The Doctor on the day it wasn't possible to get it right."

The Tenth Doctor, "What we do today, we do not out of fear or hatred, but because there is no other way."

This picture pleases me because it all but confirms the interaction we will see between them all.

These next few are from the trailer and pretty awesome:

Dissecting The Special Trailer

So remember when I said a few minutes ago that I could hardly wait for the dissection of the trailer? Yeah, that didn't take long. I selected these images to show and point out some of the things that may have flown by too fast for you to notice.

The trailer begins in black and white, but quickly switches in an explosion of color that also brings elements of The Doctor's timeline. In the 2nd pic you can see Matt Smith's fez and the reboot's original sonic screwdriver. There is alos a mask I recognize but can't quite place yet.

Look close in this pic and you can see the modern TARDIS key as well as the Timelord chameleon arch fob watch. There is a blast coming from a Dalek that has shot a U.N.I.T. soldier you see off to the left. 

Quite an effective color reconstruiction of the first Doctor.

The second Doctor playing his recorder, with what I think is  fourth Doctor sonic screwdriver.

Excellent representation of Tom Baker's Doctor with the floating jelly babies.

This is an awesome shot of a young Sarah-Jane watching the third Doctor battle The Master inside his TARDIS. The background is of London with Daleks and 80's Cybermen.

The image of Sarah-Jane turns into Clara, with Sarah-Jane as the reflection in the globe. Clara's leaf floats behind her. I find this interesting, especially with Clara being named after Elisabeth Sladen.

Here they scrunched in the fifth, sixth, ninth and tenth Doctors. I'm thinking that's Davros shooting lightning bolts.

As the shot turns you also see an Auton, an Ood, a Dalek and Rose Tyler. Also you begin to see the eighth Doctor.

I don't know what to make of the figure approaching the tenth Doctor. It doesn't look like an Auton. But there's Bessie :)

Ten

They pass ten and show Doctor eleven on a stone tower with a Gallifreyan symbol on it. Is that the tower of Rassilon off to the right? The golden gate bridge is off the the left, San Francisco being the setting for the eighth Doctor's lone adventure.

As the debris still floats around you see elevens sonic screwdriver, The Master's laser screwdriver and the sonic pen from "Partners In Crime."

Matt grabs his sonic and goes into action...

Special 50 Years Anniversary Trailer

Here is the (as promised) fantastic trailer that celebrates 50 years of Who in one minute. Done very very well  and I can't wait to see the dissections of some of the images we see.