This will make sense only to Doctor Who viewers:
Click the pic for enhanced magnitude. (CHT TARDIS.)
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Hamlet Without the Prince?
The Sarah Jane Adventures (the Doctor Who spinoff whose star, Elisabeth Sladen, recently died) is reportedly going to continue without the title character. I’m not sure how they’re going to do that or how I feel about it.
The Sound of Silence
This is a fanmade Doctor Who trailer for series 6. It nicely connects last season’s central puzzle with this season’s.
It also reminds us that the lyrics from the Christmas Special’s song are creepier than we realised at the time.
Silent Runs the Doc, Part 2
Okay, this isn’t exactly a Doctor Who spoiler, since technically it’s about last season. But if, after watching episodes 1 and 2 of this season, you go back to last season and watch for evidence of, um, potential Silence-related phenomena, it turns out to be possible to compile quite a list, and those scenes now make much creepier viewing. I’m not convinced by every item on the list, but I am by most of them – and listen in particular to the sound you hear right after the one for “The Beast Below.”
Silent Runs the Doc
“I can fix that. It’s easy, really.”
Tonight’s part 2 of the Doctor Who premiere was terrific – though to avoid spoilage for those who haven’t seen it yet, I’ll refrain from further comment for now.
For those who have seen episode 2, here’s a prequel for episode 3:
Pirates! Makes one wish for Captain Jack H. to meet Captain Jack S. …
Heading into more spoileriffic territory: if the casting info in this chart is correct, we know which characters will be recurring this season, and in what episodes.
I’ll relegate the chief revelations to the comments section. If you’re spoiler-averse, stay away.
SPOILER WARNING:
R.I.P. Elisabeth Sladen
Sadly, longtime Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen has died. She played Sarah Jane Smith, one of the most popular of the Doctor’s companions (and the most popular prior to the 2005 revival). Debuting in 1973 as 3rd Doctor Jon Pertwee’s last companion, she went on to play 4th Doctor Tom Baker’s first, and would return to guest-star on the revived version of the show alongside David Tennant in 2006. Since 2007, she has starred in the spinoff series Sarah Jane Adventures, making a success of a fairly unusual project by mainstream media standards: a science-fiction series whose principal character is a woman in her 60s. The show was halfway through filming its fifth season at the time of her death.
