The Day of the Doctor: Gallifrey Falls No More

WELL...this changes everything.

Or does it?

My Predictions for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special #SaveTheDay

"Original British Drama"
Those may not be the first words to come to mind when you think of Doctor Who, but they are the first words in the show's official 50th Anniversary Special Trailer.

As this is a post fraught with spoilers, click here to read at your own risk:

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The Last Great Time War?

I assume that many of you are like myself and really kinda want to know more about the Last Great Time War. Well, I have news for you! While I was poking around and wasting time on Tumblr (follow us: TARDIStyle.tumblr.com), I stumbled upon a fan comic. It's called "Time War" and can be seen here.

I was unable to contact the person running it, which I would have liked to before I promoted them here, but such is life. If you are that person, please contact me! See my bio on the right-hand sidebar.

That is the first entry to the comic, an as you can see, since it is internet-based, that allows them to use the GIF format to animate the comic. Its got some really sweet stuff and I highly recomed you read it! Cheers.

"The Name of the Doctor" 7x13

Original Air Date: 18 May 2013

As I sit in my hotel room in Atlantic City, I listen to Chamelion Circut's "Regenerate Me" and think about this Saturday's episode.

Usually, I churn out the post to go with the new episode, but this week, like last week ("Nightmare in Silver") I needed a few days to process what in the name of the holy TARDIS of Gallifrey just happened.

Time Lord/Weeping Angel Theory

SO, here is one theory about the Weeping Angels.
Remember in "End of Time", there was that woman who was ment to be the Doctor's mother?
<---her?

Well, then you probably remember how she had her eyes covered like a Weeping Angel.

Here is the cool theory I found:

"I heard that the reason they made her put her hands like that was a Timelord form of disgrace. And that she was stuck in limbo forever, until her and the other disgraced Timelords became the first weeping angels. Monsters forced into feeding of time energy, as it used to run through their veins. Now their veins were stone they need to get it other ways."

-RiverTheDetective on tumblr 

If you can navigate around that grammatical train wreck, good for you.
It makes sense. Pretty much right after we see her face, the Doctor sends them through the Untempered Schism back to Gallifrey during the Last Great Time War. No one ever said that they made it back or what happened once they got there. This theory would say that they were thrown to the dawn of the universe and evolved into the angels.
What do you think?
Comment!

"Gridlock"

Original Air Date: 14 April 2007

Shut up, Sally Calypso.
Martha...don't ask about Gallifrey. Just don't. You butt face. No, you can't go there.
Oh, look! It's Captain Jack!
They took Martha! Aw HELL naw.
Yay, cat people!
And the Doctor's all like: Imma go car jumping.
Ohh. Macra. Giant crabs.
Quick! Get the duck tape! The Face of Boe's container is breaking!

I was so excited. Just for a second, just a second, I thought we were going to find out about the Last Great Time War.

Old Who, New Who

I'm not really sure if you can call yourself a Whovian if you haven't watched any of the classic series. You don't have to like them, you just have to give them a try. I've made my way through all the on-demand Netflix episodes, and I will definitely say that the revival episodes are much more exciting.

Of course, there are the big differences  There are the things that they really can't help, like the quality of the film itself and the special effects and alien costumes being silly (yes, I know, they were great for their time), but there are also stylistic choices that don't appeal to me. The relationships the Doctor has with his companions in the classic episodes, and this gets more prominent the further back you go, are more of a mentor/protégé(e) relationship as opposed to the friend/friend relationship that we see in the revival. There are some points that the classic Doctors are just plain mean to the companions, especially the female ones. As a girl, I cringe a little bit when I see it. It's probably more of a sign-of-the-times thing, but I'm not going to get in to gender politics now.

The element that really makes the difference for me is the personality and psychological makeup of the Doctor himself. He's a bit more stable in the classics. With a character of this nature, that has been redesigned literally from the inside out more than ten times, there is going to be huge changes from actor to actor. Perhaps it is that the art of television is evolving. The overall "strangeness" of each doctor is a character choice for each individual actor, but I think that the actors now feel more at liberty to go all-out with the Doctor's idiosyncratic behaviors. Is my theatre arts major showing?

Christopher Eccleston set the stage for this with his Doctor. Fresh off the front lines of The Last Great Time War, the ninth Doctor is drowning in survivor's guilt. With Tennant's Doctor, I'd go so far as to say that he's developed some serious PTSD, especially after the ordeal with Rose. His psychological state is still in one of decompensation, and it has to be if he is in fact going to become the Valeyard (and I really do want to see him become that), but he is more emotionally static as Matt Smith. Is my psych major showing?
None of this is to say that I don't like the classic episodes, because that's not true. While I favor the revival, I appreciate the classics.

The Doctor's Greatest Enemy

The Doctor has three great enemies  the Daleks, of course, the Cybermen, and the one people leave out, himself. He is his own worst enemy.
Both the Daleks and the Cybermen have been enginered to be emotionless. The Doctor has his emotions-900 years of emotions. Those traits are at the core of their greatest weakness.

A Dalek

The Daleks are a race bent on exterminating all things not Dalek. They’re little ugly one-eyed octopus looking things inside a robotic casing made of Dalekanium They are not impossible to escape—its just extremely very not likely. The creator of the Daleks took out their emotions to make them better fighters.  

A Cyberman

The Cybermen, on the other hand  are not alien. Sure, they were created in an alternate universe and fell through the Cardiff rift, but they are native, so to speak, to Earth. They are humans who have been “upgraded” by having their brains put into a metal suit and having emotions neutralized, because the man who created them found emotions to be too painful.

David Tennant as The Tenth Doctor

The Doctor’s most dangerous enemy is what attracts us to the show. Not only are we watching a man fight threats beyond our imaginations, we are watching a man fight himself. The Doctor is the last of his species. Although he is an alien, he is exquisitely human. He looks like a human (or, as he puts it, humans look like Time Lords as Time Lords came first) Being a Time Lord is “a sum of knowledge, a code, a shared history, a shared suffering” (The Doctor’s Daughter). Being a Time Lord was having a connection with your people that all humans long for. (People=members of the same species, relatively generic, human=Homo sapien) The Doctor had all of that, and he blames himself for its destruction in The Time War. He had it all, and now he has nothing at all. He grasps out for a companion all the time, knowing that they can stay with him forever, but he cannot stay with them forever: at the start of the most recent revival (2005), the Doctor is already 900 years old. That is where The Curse of the Time Lords comes in--"[they] don't age. [They] regenerate. But humans decay. [Humans] wither and [humans] die. Imagine watching that happen to someone you... [Humans] can spend the rest of [their] life with me. But I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on, alone." He is truly and utterly alone in the world.