Today’s Doctor Who short story was this gorgeous little thing. It’s narrated by Caitlin Blackwood, aka young Amelia!
“Except Rory.”
I love this so much. It is absolutely damn perfect. Thank you, everyone involved, for not forgetting Amy!
This day ten years ago The Eleventh Hour aired and I met Amy Pond for the first time. To this day she is not popular, but I love unpopular women.
Happy anniversary to Amy, the reckless, violent, messed-up, anxiety-laden, so very dear companion of my heart.
God I forgot how punch-you-in-the-heart this episode was. Even the little fake ident the BBC guy whipped up made me sad.
Lots of people involved in the making of this episode livetweeted it – Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Tony Curran, Bill Nighy and Richard Curtis (from Emma Freud’s account). They shared lots of great, funny stuff! And then some serious stuff. Honestly the whole thing reads like a joint interview when you put it together, so I DID put (a lot of it) together-
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It is very pleasing to see so many Doctor Who things on there, especially Mickey, since he’s one of my favourite characters in anything and all. But even better is #CLAPFORNHS!
Clap, and keep clapping once all this is over.
Some tidbits from Russell T Davies about the making of Rose today:
I’m glad RTD doesn’t know what the computer thing is about either, because people used to say it was obviously implying Mickey was cheating on Rose, and that made me sad.
And here’s the “sequel” which was released afterwards! Listen all the way to the end…
Yesterday Chris Chibnall released a little Doctor Who story and today Russell T Davies released one. You can find them here –
She saw the ground and calculated her own velocity. Ooh, this is going to hurt, she thought. Even with a soft landing. And it probably won’t be a soft landing. She crossed her fingers and hoped she was heading for an open air trampoline factory.
and here!
The Doctor falls. Every atom around him is sucked upwards, towards the fire, but he alone is capable of falling, saved – or damned – by the Moment’s shadow. Above him, he feels the Time Lock solidify, sealing off the war from reality, and as his body tumbles out of existence, into plasmaspace, then foulspace, then beyond, the Doctor leans into the fall, head first, arms wide, diving into infinity.
(Davies’s one isn’t canon-compatible anymore, but who cares. Also his one comes with a snazzy mockup Target cover.) Apparently there’ll be something else released tonight as well, so that’s nice.
This is so lovely. (I’m keeping that comment embedded because it pretty much sums up my thoughts.)
Following the extraordinary success of the global rewatch of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary story, The Day of the Doctor, on March 21, DWM’s Emily Cook has set up another rewatch. Rose, the opening episode of the 21st century incarnation of Doctor Who, will be the next episode, airing on its 15th anniversary, 26 March, […]
Russell T Davies to live-tweet Rose — Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy & Horror!
Hmm, I very much enjoyed the Day of the Doctor watchalong but I’m not sure I can be bothered with Rose simply because… I don’t like it. I wish I did, it was my first Doctor Who episode ever after all, but oh man its flaws have become so pronounced over the years.
(Also the 26th is a Thursday, and there is lots of good TV on Thursday evenings including Noughts & Crosses, so…it’s not like I don’t have other things to do.)
We’ll see. I will be interested to know what Russell T Davies thinks about it now though.
It went live just before everyone hunkered down to watch Day of the Doctor! It was not what I expected!
I love it so much.
The actual BBC announcer also did a special announcement before 7 ‘o clock and I love that too.
Day of the Doctor continues to be one of the greatest Doctor Who episodes to date.
…I mean, Noel Clarke met Jodie Whittaker.
God, he hasn’t aged a day, maybe he’s a time traveller as well.