IT. BEGINS.
US trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBw2IWuOA0&feature=player_embeddedUK trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK_7S_EpnBk&feature=player_embeddedJohnston comments that the chief difference is that the UK version focuses on the point-of-view character and the US version focuses on the godlike hero.
Main thing that struck me: his voice is deeper and stronger than I expected. Definitely a plus; the Doctor needs to be able to alternate between whimsy and gravitas. And as I've said before, I love the idea of the much older Doctor who River Song described being the youngest of all in body.
There's plenty of other news to go 'round. I quite like the one from
The Scotsman.
Maybe this isn't new but it is my view: Doctor Who is a fairy tale – not sci-fi, not fantasy but properly a fairy tale. And I don't mean Disney-style where the endings are changed and everyone lives. Doctor Who is how we warn our children that there are people in the world who want to eat them.
And more of that interview from Digital Spy:
main snippet,
bonus cut.
(I quite like his comments on what he'd do if there were a multi-Doctor story for the fiftieth anniversary: he mostly dismisses it, but notes that it would be interesting to focus on the fact that it's the same man experiencing the same events from different perspectives. He went for a straight causality loop in Time Crash, but I'm confident he could make a damned complex and layered time-travel story stretched out over a couple hours. Plus I'd love to see 4, 9, and 10 share a stage, but I'm just daydreaming as far as that goes.)
He also rather strongly implies that River Song's relationship to the Doctor is NOT what everybody expects. What everybody expects is, of course, the Doctor's wife.
Meantime: there's a
Wii game coming (and a DS release as well), the Beeb's released
one last Tennant adventure as an audiobook, and the comic's still running. Lee DOES spend a bit too much time on fanwank for my tastes (though I quite like Martha telling Magombo that UNIT has a long history of science advisors giving orders to their superiors), but it's a solid enough story. I'm just not sure how satisfying it'd be to people who don't recognize namedrops like Adric, Turlough, or even Malcolm.