Who's Back?

Well this is embarrassing, here was I saying I was going to jump start my blogging again and yet again I didn't get past the first week. However as some of you may have read, I have started blogging about my sponsored weight loss and as I am committed to updating that at least once a week, hopefully that will mean I’ll keep posting here too.

So its 1am on the 1st of September which means we are just a few hours away from the new series of Dr who. After over 9 months of waiting it’s finally back on our screens all be it for an all too swift 5 weeks. So I thought I'd kick of the new blog by speculating on what we might look forward to seeing, based on the full length trailer and to lesser extent the recent pond life series. If you haven't seen it you can watch the trailer here.

http://youtu.be/qrEUBl2pacU

When I first saw the trailer I picked up my note book and jotted down my initial thoughts because let’s face it I am a little bit sad. I'll turn to these notes now to produce a quick summary of the trailer.

Opening shot of all those daleks is exciting but also makes me nervous, dalek episodes in new who have been very hit and miss however it’s a Moffat episode and I trust him to do something interesting with them. Nice to see the special weapons dalek too. Dinosaurs on a spaceship? Direct riff on snakes on a plane that could go either way. The robots are from this episode too I think which may not help they could come across as too cheesy. I like the nod to Jurassic park the big game hunter instantly reminded me of Bob Peck (clever girl).
Looks like there was a historical character too possibly Cleopatra or an unknown Egyptian Queen/princess.

Back in America again a little bit disappointing. Not sure why they keep needing to placate an American audience by basing an episode there. Everyone in Britain can watch American shows without wanting them to do the odd episode in Swindon. Sorry side rant over. The Doctor mentions the master to Amy even though she wouldn't know who he was. Does this mean the master returns this series or does it mean they are playing games with us again; maybe the master is a different character all together. The weeping angels return and that cherub blowing out the candle is the creepiest thing I've seen in new who. The angels are still the best new monster hopefully they won’t be over done like the daleks have been.

There seems to be a man working along side the daleks? That seems an unusual move for them giving that they are the Nazis of space. I may have got confused over that one. River Song back again in a nice hat I'm thinking it may have been her who killed all the daleks though IMDb disagrees. The shot of character from possible west world/western episode looks like the love child of Kryten and the Terminator.

Pond Life

If you haven't seen the prologues to series 7 I suggest you check them out at either the BBC website or their YouTube channel. They are basically a little appetiser to whet our appetites ahead of today’s episode. Supposedly they show us what the Ponds have been up to while the Doctor has been away. You'll notice that each of the 5 episodes is set in a new month starting in April running to August. At an average of around a minute in running time there is not much in the way of story line but they are interesting nonetheless.

April

The episode shows the Doctor reconnecting with the ponds over an answer phone message; most interesting thing is that he’s escaping from the Sontarans by surfing on flames. It’s very much reminiscent of the impossible astronaut opening sequence trying to get the ponds attention.

May

A lot more interesting, the Doctor interrupts’ Amy and Rory in bed (not like that) although it turns out he's turned up too early in the time line. He tries to reassure them that history is safe while tiny snippets of the season 7 trailer are weaved in.

June

Ood on a loo, that’s more or less it. Rory discovers an Ood sitting on the throne. I've never liked the Ood very much so I hope they won’t be coming back.

July

More Ood, this time with more of an explanation of why he's there as the Doctor tells them he was travelling with the tentacle bearded extra terrestrial and he must have snuck off in his last visit to the Ponds house. Basically he becomes their butler and there is a montage of the Ood helping around the house.

August

The last episode feels a lot more like a nod to what we may be seeing over the next 5 weeks. Again the Doctor checks in with Amy & Rory this time though all appears not so well in the Pond house. The Doctor pops around to their house only to find them out. This is followed by a silent scene of Rory clutching a bin bag full of belongings followed closely by a crying Amy who seems to be mouthing the words "I hate..." It ends with her back at the house stating that she needs the raggedy man back in her life. I couldn't agree more.

So it’s not long now really looking forward to it. Hopefully I will get round to posting my review of Asylum of the Daleks some time on Saturday evening.

If you made it this far, well done and thanks for reading.