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Friday, 8 April 2011

Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon Teasers and Hints

Hello. With only a few weeks remaining until Doctor Who returns in Series Six, the website SFX has released some hints and teasers after watching the screening which happened a few days ago. So here they are, nothing majorly spoilerific but it's quite interesting to see:
  1. Neither episode starts as you’d expect
  2. Both episodes open magnificently, especially episode two which is a patented Moffat-montage special
  3. The gay agenda is back!
  4. The monsters (whose mere name would be a spoiler) are brilliant, with a truly chilling MO. They should rate up there with the Weeping Angels as one of the new series’ greatest creations. They look great, but it’s the idea behind them that is truly chilling
  5. There is an Easter Island gag
  6. The Doctor dances… with some unexpected film stars
  7. There are lots of Americans with guns gags
  8. There are two fez mentions
  9. It’s very, very dark and spooky at times. Wait till you see the scene in the Whitehouse toilets…
  10. At least three Moffat tropes are put into action again
  11. There is the startling return of a familiar special effect… twice
  12. There is the curious return of a familiar prop
  13. The Utah footage is quite simply stunning, but there’s not as much of it as we’d expected
  14. There are some quite beautiful, cinematic sequences
  15. Rory gets to wear some specs
  16. Amy reveals a secret
  17. The President’s nose dominates any scene it’s in
  18. The special effects are downright magnificent
  19. Matt Smith takes his portrayal of the Doctor up a gear
  20. The Doctor looks very embarrassed at one point
  21. The first time we see the Doctor, he’s naked. Sort of…
  22. The monsters have some important dialogue, so it’s a bit of a shame their voices are not terribly clear at times
  23. The first episode is a little talky and surprisingly character-led when you’d expect a barnstorming opening; the second episode kicks off storming that barn and keeps storming it
  24. Having said that, the character led-moments are often quite exquisite
  25. It’s funny, it’s wildly inventive, it’s fiendishly clever, it’s surprising, it’s audacious, it’s uncompromising and it’s quite unlike anything else on television
  26. There’s lots of timey whimey stuff, and not just in terms of the science fiction – more so, we’re referring to some of the storytelling techniques involved, with lots of flashbacks, sudden jumps and montages
  27. However, it’s so packed with ideas, you can’t help thinking some important elements are undeveloped. There are enough great concepts here to fuel five or six episodes, which is a good thing in many ways, because it keeps the energy fizzing and the plot surprising, but they do all fight for room a bit. We’d certainly liked to have seen more about the monsters’ background and had the dénouement clarified, among other things
  28. You can’t help thinking there are a lot of moments when kids are going to turn to mum and dad go, “Why did that happen?” and mum or dad will go, “Erm… shhhh, I’m concentrating!”
  29. You may suffer from revelation fatigue by the end of it. And a lot of things – perhaps a couple too many – are not wrapped up in the story itself, but are ongoing mysteries to be sorted out later. This show is getting like Lost, designed to be picked over on the internet! Let’s hope it doesn’t take seven years to get some answers
  30. The final, final, final scene, though, will ensure you’ll carry on tuning in to find out what happens next… or maybe in the story after next. Or maybe next season…
Also, some viewers were allowed to view the episodes due to winning a competition. One viewer who was lucky enough to watch it was Tom Colman who gave eighteen hints on Doctor Who TV, another doctor Who site (highly recommended). So here they are:
  1. The death of a main character occurs within the first 10 minutes of The Impossible Astronaut
  2. There is a proper funeral for the person who dies
  3. The Silence – if you look away from one, you forget you ever saw it…
  4. There is a cheeky reference to Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead
  5. River shows that she can work the TARDIS better than the Doctor, again.
  6. The ‘TARDIS’ from The Lodger makes an appearance and that isn’t the end of it
  7. The Doctor is disappointed about not receiving a Fez
  8. President Nixon helps the Doctor out of a few scrapes
  9. The swimming pool is mentioned again
  10. Fish Fingers and Custard
  11. The Doctor’s body is a work of art
  12. River slaps…and kisses the Doctor
  13. The tally marks are self-inflicted
  14. The Silence will return after the opening two-parter
  15. Who’s the daddy…?The Doctor messes with Apollo 11There is a perfect prison mentioned and seen!
  16. Day of the Moon ends on 2 cliffhangers.
 So, this is extremely interesting but we will have to wait to see if it will live up to its incredible expectations...

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