Series 3: What we KNOW so far (spoilers)

[Milky Tears]

I worked it out when I discovered he was playing Professor Yana.

ETA: The Sunday Times' 'Utopia' review seems to confirm the Episode 12 casting spoilers mentioned in my last post:

"After the brilliant weeping angels episode, this excellent series appears to have gone off the boil. Last week's story was simply treading water and building up towards this two part climax. Mcfly, Ann Widdecombe and Sharon Osbourne all guest, which should make any sensible adult hide behind the sofa."

Will there be a Widdecombe/Slitheen gag? Will she handbag Simm?

[Milky Tears]

Lizo reviews 'The Sound of Drums':

CONTAINS SPOILERS!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/ne...00/6763787.stm

Is that in Ireland?

It looks like it's his last review this series.

[SiHart]

Is it wrong to be excited about these cast members?

Sharon Osbourne - Herself
McFly - Themselves
Ann Widdecombe - Herself

Si xx

[Dirk Gently]

It's wrong if there do more than appear on a TV screen somewhere.

[Milky Tears]

They all appeared in Tuesday's ten second "Vote Saxon X" trailer.

[Jon Masters]

Don't know how much to make of this, but the Gallery on the BBC site for Sound of Drums has a picture of a lady next to John Sims saying 'The Saxons'.

Does that mean the Master has done the unthinkable for a timelord and got jiggerty with a laydee ?

[Milky Tears]

Lucy Saxon is hot stuff!



Alexandra Moen got her kit off in Five's Tripping Over.



'THE SOUND OF DRUMS': SOME MORE MAGAZINE SPOILERS!! (TV Times, TV and Satellite Week and Closer)


TV and Satellite Week...
"But as the Doctor discovers to his horror, Saxon is in fact his longtime nemesis the Master, a renegade Time Lord who is controlling peoples minds through a mobile phone network. After Saxon wipes out the Cabinet and kills a prying journalist, he announces the arrival of an alien race, the Toclafane, who he has secretly enlisted to destroy the Earth. Armed with his own deadly sonic screwdriver and a stolen Tardis, Saxon then orders the police to hunt down the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack, who face a desperate race against time as they try to prevent his plot to decimate the planet."

From Closer...

"The Doctor is transformed into a feeble old man whilst billions of aliens are let loose..."

You can probably work out most of the plot from the spoilers above and some of those Fear Factor comments.

[Pip Madeley]

Does that mean the Master has done the unthinkable for a timelord and got jiggerty with a laydee ?

Doesn't surprise me, Eric Roberts got in bed with that poor woman in the TV movie, and snogged Grace, and Delgado seduced Pitt in 'The Time Monster'...

[Carol Baynes]

Doesn't surprise me, Eric Roberts got in bed with that poor woman in the TV movie, and snogged Grace, and Delgado seduced Pitt in 'The Time Monster'...

I'd do him, the silver tongued rogue.

I mean, I would if I was that easy!

[Darren]

Would it be reasonable to assume that...

...The Master changes the Doctor into John Smith, and kills the Doctor by destroying the watch.

Resulting in the severed hand regenerating into Tenth Doctor MkII

Or regenerating into the Eleventh Doctor?

[Pip Madeley]

Bit unlikely, I'd say.

[Darren]

Or the hand will regenerate into a face.

[Milky Tears]

Looks like MissDeadline has finally been Busted:

http://missdeadline.blogspot.com/200...octor-who.html



Luckily, Spoiled Rotten claims to have MAJOR MASSIVE QUITE BIG SPOILERS FOR 'THE SOUND OF DRUMS':
http://spoiledrot.blogspot.com/2007/...-sound-of.html

Can it be true?


ETA: Others who have seen the episode claim the above review also contains a few big fibs.


The usually reliable funky_peanut_pup returns to OG with their review of Episodes 12-13:


eps 12/13 sort of reviewed.NO real spoilers as far as I know

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Just seen both this morning ( and not via preview tapes).I have no reason to believe they are online anywhere and even if I had a copy ( I don't) wouldn't know how to upload/download/share a file if my life depended on it so please don't send me 5 billion PMs asking for it. I'm a luddite when it comes to these things
I have been really busy this year and haven't seen that much of series 3 and haven't checked in here much so I have no idea what is generally known.Therefore comments will be even vaguer and more tantalisingly cruel than ever.
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(just in case).Don't think I'm giving anything away but if you progress beyond here its your own fault.

Overall it follows the RTD formula for finales (IMO).The resolution to the cliffhanger is **very** RTD and had my heart in my boots but thankfully the ep picks up pretty quickly.Episode 12 is mindblowing and 13 is weaker( which, for me, mirrors the last 2 series)
I was never a huge fan of John Simm or the Master but will have to buy a hat in order to eat it.He rocks!!!!easily steals every scene he is in..funnyfunny funny!what a great villain he has become.He is electric on screen and when he isn't in scenes I wanted to get him back.
comments/cruel hints/appetite whetters follow:
a scene from the Sea Devils gets a 21st century update
UNIT is namechecked
there are nods to Captain Scarlet,Phantasm,Shada ( I *think*),Teletubbies and loads more..
It all started when he was 8
There is a throwaway reference to Tom that was so audacious I laughed out loud
The Doctor's "other appearance" blew me away..took me a while to work out who the actor was.Amazingly convincing!!
CGI is for the most part excellent
Freema is better than usual
( all personal reactions- your mileage may vary)
on the whole much better than what I've seen of season 3- but I have seen very little of season 3
I won't say any more because
" if I told you the truth your hearts would break"( is that some sort of clue?

trust this remains obscure.I've tried to give zero spoilers and genuinely made an effort not to ruin it for anyone.My reasons for this post are
1) gloating like a pathetic child
2) whet the appatite in my usual way.
If this crosses any kind of boundary mods feel free to edit/delete.
see you next year
funky_peanut_pup

PS wait to see it properly.It genuinely is worth it.

[Milky Tears]

The ITV Teletext review isn't too promising (Page 133).

Lazy plot devices, John Simm hamming it up as Saxon and:

"As we get a glimpse of their home planet, the Doctor explains they were comrades as young Time Lords.

"I thought you were going to say he was your secret brother ," says Martha. "You've been watching too much TV," says the Doctor, breaking the hearts of message board speculators everywhere."

We're doomed!!

[Milky Tears]

Spoiled Rotten claims to have Spoilers for the final episode:

COULD BE MORE BIG SPOILERS/LIES!!
http://spoiledrot.blogspot.com/

Some big fibs last week!

[Milky Tears]

Saturday's Sun contains some new pics and spoilers:

CONTAINS SPOILERS!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...300168,00.html

ETA: We're doooomed!! OG is already heading for meltdown. Doctor Who has spectacularly "jumped the shark", etc, etc...

It'll be carnage on the forums tomorrow night!

[Lord President]

OG is already heading for meltdown. Doctor Who has spectacularly "jumped the shark", etc, etc...

It'll be carnage on the forums tomorrow night!

I've been waiting for an OG Civil War for a while, maybe it could outdo the legendary Time War!

[Milky Tears]

Good spot from this dude on OG last month:

In the video shop in Blink when it's being explained to Sally about the 17 videos, Larry is holding a green folder on which - very prominently - there is a sticker showing a cruise liner with what I think are the words "Cunard White Star".

Is this a link to ep 12, 13 which RTD has said (according to DWM) will have "somewhat nautical elements"?

It's the new "Bad Wolf", "Torchwood", "Saxon".

[Darren]

What we know so far...



...it's finished.

[Milky Tears]

...and Darren moaned about it for three months.

[Rob McCow]

that should have been a spoiler, James!!

[Darren]

...and Darren moaned about it for three months

Not every episode.

[Milky Tears]

Apologies...

it was only about a dozen.

[Dave Lewis]

Good spot from this dude on OG last month:

Originally posted by Panopticon
In the video shop in Blink when it's being explained to Sally about the 17 videos, Larry is holding a green folder on which - very prominently - there is a sticker showing a cruise liner with what I think are the words "Cunard White Star".

Is this a link to ep 12, 13 which RTD has said (according to DWM) will have "somewhat nautical elements"?


It's the new "Bad Wolf", "Torchwood", "Saxon".

I think if it's to do with anything, it's probably more to do with the Christmas special, as the White Star shipping line built the Titanic. Their great rivals were Cunard, although both companies merged in the thirties as they were both on the verge of going skint.

Facts!


Can we start the Christmas Special/Season four spoilers thread yet?