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"Doctor Who" Trailer for (The Rest of) Series Six

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (29)

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Although the last few series of “Doctor Who” have tended to run all in subsequent weeks, give or take a holiday here or there, the BBC decided to go all American on the series this summer, with an almost 3 month hiatus between the first and second halves of the series. The bad news is that this is an evil that I forbid to be repeated in future series. The good news is that we get a mid season trailer.

Here it is, looking fantastic, if only because Hitler gets punched in the mouth:

I may have squealed, but you can prove nothing.

I’m liking that we’re seeing a lot of alien worlds and spacecraft in this trailer, which if one can work up a complaint for the series, it is that it sticks close to Earth more often than one would expect an immortal alien with access to all of space and time. And of course there are the little glimpses of the angels, the mystery of River Song, and general running in every direction because there can’t be Who without running around.

(source: Deadline)









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Comments

What? No "Great blog. I really love reading your thoughts and opinions." Man spambots are getting LAZY.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at July 25, 2011 10:21 AM

A part of me's going, "Hahaha, killing The Doctor for good. They wouldn't do that."

Another part of me is going, ".. would they? ;-;"

Posted by: duckandcover at July 25, 2011 10:24 AM

Ugh, not James Corden.

Posted by: Renton at July 25, 2011 10:27 AM

Doctor Who is the BBC's most financially successful show worldwide. Do you really think they are about to kill off The Doctor for good?

My fear is that they're going to sell it to a pay cable channel. Torchwood is the beta test.

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 25, 2011 10:39 AM

River Song is Eyepatch Lady?

Also, is that an Obama doll?

SO MANY QUESTIONS!

Posted by: nix at July 25, 2011 10:41 AM

I don't care... SQUUUUEEEEEAAAAAAL...

Ahem, sorry for that, but I might have to watch this trailer a couple of times a day to get my DW fix.

Posted by: thesis_hell at July 25, 2011 10:41 AM

Duckandcover: They already DID kill the Doctor, remember? First 5 minutes of the first episode of this season. The rest of the season is just leading up to "how do you get there from here?"

Posted by: BWeaves at July 25, 2011 10:42 AM

Would it even be possible that she could kidnap herself? All to thwart the man she loves who she may or my not end up killing?

The sheer amount of paradoxes (paradoxi?) makes my head hurt.

Posted by: nix at July 25, 2011 10:44 AM

P.S. I'm betting that it's a Flesh Doctor that is killed by the astronaut, because the Doctor has the Flesh goo aboard the TARDIS from Amy Goo (and possibly some extra from Baby Goo). Anyway, that's my bet and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 25, 2011 10:44 AM

Gotta agree with BWeaves. Especially since they bothered to establish the whole thing with traveling in the TARDIS making the flesh versions real. the only thing that gives me pause with the theory is that it may be too obvious or easy for them to go in that direction.

Didn't they also kill the Doctor in series 4 by the way? Yeah it was in an alternate timeline where Donna had turned right (I think. I forget which direction she was supposed to go.) and never met the Doctor. But he CAN die, and it DOES occasionally happen, even though it's not been permanent.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at July 25, 2011 10:50 AM

I must be the only one who was CERTAIN (for about 5 seconds) that Hitler was played by Gary Oldman. I nearly shat my pants. Alas, I was incorrect.

I, too, shall watch this every day in anticipppppppppppppppppppppppation.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at July 25, 2011 10:53 AM

Er. Spoilers I guess for that last one, but I'm not sure how many people are interested in the Series 6.5 trailer without having seen Series 4. Sorry if I spoiled it too much for someone.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at July 25, 2011 10:56 AM

The problem I have with the possibility of it being a Flesh Doctor is a) it's far too easy and b) he started to regenerate. Are we saying the other Flesh Doctor could have regenerated when he faced off with that...weird mutated woman flesh thing I forget the name of? I'm hoping for more anyway.

Posted by: Carrie at July 25, 2011 11:39 AM

I deem that trailer to be above satisfactory. The creatures! The running! The dramatic choral accompaniment for the score! Bring on the new episodes!

Posted by: DarthCorleone at July 25, 2011 11:53 AM

Would Doctor Goo even have the regeneration glow when shot by the Impossible Astronaut, even though I suspect he may have escaped from the creepy goo-monster earlier? How much do I love Rory for being the one to punch Hitler? Why did I never realize what I needed in life was Samurai Pond? WHY IS RIVER WEARING THE EYE PATCH WHEN WE KNOW SHE ISN'T WEARING ONE IN HER FUTURE?

For all the answers, tune in next time: Same nerd time, same nerd place.

Posted by: Sefa at July 25, 2011 11:55 AM

You made our day in the Stinky household. The not-so-little ones piled in my lap as we watched the trailer TWICE on the iPad.

I am not worried about the Doctor dying (although I like to stir things up, fret, gasp). Like SoJo said, even if he does kick it, there's always a regeneration/paradox loophole.

Posted by: Stinky at July 25, 2011 11:57 AM

I'm just glad to know that Moff has actually been going somewhere with the Eyepatch-Lady-Looks-A-Whole-Lot-Like-River thing. I was beginning to think he just really liked devious, curly-haired women. Do you think it'll be a disguise/infiltrate situation?

Also, did anyone else feel like Moffat was just taunting us with "Haven't you figured that one out yet?" -- NO WE HAVEN'T, you big jerk. We're still wildly speculating!

Posted by: esme at July 25, 2011 12:54 PM

I might have just made that banned squeaking noise.

Posted by: Lauren at July 25, 2011 1:22 PM

Three points:
1) Yes, I think the Doctor-ganger would start to regenerate. As I said earlier, they went through the trouble of establishing the TARDIS's ability to make the gangers "real." Maybe you think it should only work on human gangers, but in a series such as this, they can pretty much techno-babble their way out of anything.

2) I still think this may be too easy of an option. I wouldn't even mind it if they pushed us toward that conclusion for the whole second half of the season, only to rip the rug out from under us with some kind of twist.

3) SoJo eh? Not bad...

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at July 25, 2011 1:26 PM

Nifty!

* I suspect a Flesh-Doctor would become unstable but look as if it were about to regenerate. I don't think it could actually regenerate, mind you... only appear as if it were about to. We already have a spare half-humal Doctor running around so I don't expect any Doctors made from Flesh to remain, one way or another. Regardless, it seems plausible that a Flesh Doctor could have appeared to be about to regenerate. We didn't see him/it succeed, after all.

* The Doctor that was killed shouldn't be Flesh though. That's just too damned obvious. This show tends to play with obvious solutions then not use them. I hope they continue that trend here.

* @ SoJo (yeah, that is decent): yup, we... no, wait.

*********
SPOILERS! FROM TWO SEASONS AGO YOU LAZY GITS.

In the episode "Turn Left", we see how time would have been changed if Donna never met the Doctor. He would have died in their very first adventure together, when he was all caught up in drowning the Racnoss and she made him stop and leave. Without her presence... the story ends pretty quickly.

The moral, of course, is this: if a space-beetle attaches itself to your back and tries to rewrite time by convincing you to turn right, always turn left. And also: never take Jackie Tyler's advice about anything at all.

Well, there could be other morals, I suppose.


THUS ENDETH THE SPOILERS.
*********

* Holy crap, River has the eyepatch! I have no idea what that means. I LIKE that I have no idea what that means.

Posted by: foolsage at July 25, 2011 2:21 PM

Also... something unexpected. The guy asking if the Doctor is going to kiss him... that's Craig, from "The Lodger". That's the guy who rented out his spare room to the Doctor a while back. I didn't think he'd reappear.

Posted by: foolsage at July 25, 2011 2:27 PM

Whatever happened to that spare hand The Doctor had lying around the TARDIS? I know it was used at least once before to get him out of a pickle. Did we ever see where it eventually ended up?

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 25, 2011 2:54 PM

I believe it grew into the time lord/human hybrid doctor.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at July 25, 2011 2:58 PM

Yes, the spare hand turned into Rose Tyler's Happy Ending (I reread and that and ew. But I'm keeping it.) And Jack is off doing his own thing in America (which means, if they want to keep the story lines at all related in the same 'verse, they have to keep the doctor OFF Earth in present time for a while) so not really sure who could help save the doc except the crew we've already seen.

Two things: they never did resolve what caused the explosion that caused the crack in time. Unless I missed that. I mean, yes, the TARDIS was the explosion, but what caused the TARDIS to explode? Second thing, River has always said that their timelines go backward, so that every time they meet, she knows the Doctor less and he knows her more. There is a chance that the first time she meets the Doctor is when she is eye-patch lady, and it has been hinted that she is the one that kills him. I'm still waiting for that to happen.

Finally, and unrelated: um, Rory is "living plastic." Right? I didn't miss that? So, um...how did "living plastic" get Rory pregnant?

Posted by: TheHobo at July 25, 2011 5:03 PM

If you mean, how did "living plastic" Rory get Amy pregnant, I believe Rory was turned back into a human when the Doctor reset the universe. And their wedding night came after that.

Posted by: Lauren at July 25, 2011 7:27 PM

I will be eternally grateful to BWeaves for adding the expression "Amy Goo" to my vocabulary.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 25, 2011 9:16 PM

Yes, that is what I meant. Thanks for clearing that up! Somehow, I thought he was still Roman Rory, thus still living plastic.

Posted by: TheHobo at July 25, 2011 10:14 PM

@TheHobo: What caused the Tardis to explode? Well, it hasn't been fully explained yet but appears to have been the Silence. We hear "Silence will fall" after the Tardis is taken over in "The Pandorica Opens".

The first time the Doctor met River, from his point of view, was in "Silence in the Library", which was also the last time she met him from her point of view, as far as we know (that is to say, in overall continuity, River remains "dead" and in the library; we keep meeting earlier versions of her, and have not returned to "save" her). River Song's timeline is largely backwards from the Doctor's but not entirely, else they'd never be able to successfully compare diaries, or rather there'd be absolutely no point because they could never share a frame of reference except in the very middle of their relationship.

Posted by: foolsage at July 26, 2011 11:58 AM

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Posted by: weekend at August 6, 2011 6:47 AM