Planet Gallifrey: regeneration

Tuesday, October 6

Doctor Who filming, 05.10.09

I'm so stupidly excited, I may just explode...

Hehe! New filming has made things very very fun!
So, its still for episode one as this lovely clapperboard tells us:
NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THIS YET: Steven Moffat's Series 5 is called Series 1. - Mac.

And its also NOT set in Scotland as this lovely flag tells us:
An England flag

And also apparently its a time travel story. Part of being set in 1996, when Amy was 8, the other part in 2010 when she is 20. Although this is unconfirmed.

A newspaper heading from the 90's

And what we have is Smithy and Karen on set, Smithy wearing Ten's clothes (which are ripped) and Karen wearing a very sexy police outfit. And shes definitely a policewoman and not a stripper or going to a hen night... apparently... (according to people who were at the filming)


There was also an icecream van and a Fire Engine too.

Now to put the scenes into some sort of coherent order. Remember, this is all just guesswork!

Scene 1
Here we have what looks like a very early on meeting of Amy and the Doctor. Here's an amazing video from Skarofighter:

Dialogue goes something along the lines of:

The Doctor: Why aren't there any ducks?
Amy: (Waves hand dismissively) Oh, you know...
The Doctor: Then how do you know the Ducks talk!
Amy: ... Is it important if it's a duck pond?
The Doctor: Ungh...The method's not done yet. I'm not ready for all this! I'm not done!

So it looks like he's only just regenerated very recently.


Scene 2
The scene involved the Doctor and Amy hurrying up a lane, and running across to the icecream van. Then the Doctor ran off, jumped over the flowerbed at the side of the White House, and ran inside. Amy ran after him, but took the more conventional route through the front gate.

As they came up the lane, the Doctor shouted something about a "cricket bat" and someone thought Amy said something about "12 years of therapy". Someone else reckoned they thought the Doctor said he was having food cravings.

Another line that was heard but unplaced was:
I've got 20 minuets to save the world and the Post Office is closed!


Scene 3
Apparently a scene was filmed where the the sun disappears. Amy was heard to be saying: "What's happening, why's it going dark?"

As well as this scenes were recorded of transfixed extras gazing skyward and pointing their mobile phones.

And it looks like this superb video from Ahremsee fits into this scene:

Doctor: Welcome to the end of life on earth.
Amy: Are you just going to sit there?
Doctor: Why shouldn't I just sit here? Oh, here they come, the human race ... down a video phone ... I saw it and I missed it!
Amy: You told me you had a time machine.

Scene 4
Towards the end of the shoot, the crew changed the local clock to 11.30

The new scene they were filming (although a short one) has been reveled to be scene 43

They filmed a zoom close up of Matt. The camera was on a track and they pushed it towards Matt quite quickly. It stopped just short of him and after a few minutes he put on a shocked/panicked face and jumped to one side out of camera shot:

And thats it!
Another interesting point noticed was that there was also an unknown doctor in scrubs and a fireman with a large dog (called 'Bolsey') who weren't ferried away like normal extras. So perhaps they have a larger part in the episode.

You can see more AMAZING photos here:
Alun.Vega's Flickr account
Mugim0e's Flickr account
Scooty's Photobucket account
SFX.co.uk

A HUGE thanks to Alun.Vega, Scooty, ahremsee, Eeeyun, ParadoxMachine, Thal Footsoldier, PMount, JTimmy and everyone else who reported. I salute you!

Saturday, September 5

Final Words...

Old news, but it seems this bit got lost in the limbo/transition period of Jess' absence.

As reported at io9, RTD may have sneakily put in the final words of the Doctor into the "Letter from the Doctor" page in the latest Storybook.


Woop! And now Jess is going to go speculation mad. Hooray!
The words that can be picked out are as so:

DON'T FORGET ME
(the Doctor's last words?)

ONE LAST LOOK+++GOT TO SEE
(referring to a companion?)

CANT BE ALIVE! NO! THE GATE+++
(Gates of Elysium mentioned in S4 finale)

++E WATER! GET AWAY FROM THE WAT++
(Waters of Mars)

SCANNING, BUT IT MUST+++
(something TARDISy?)

+++NTHEON OF DISCORD, TARGETING HER, NOT HER, NOT MY WONDERFUL SAR+++
(referring to Sarah Jane?)

+++RISTINA! OUT THERE ON THE MIGHTY 200! 
(referring to Christina and the bus)

KNOCK FOUR TIMES
(ooh! The Prophecy!)

I LOVE A BIT OF CHRISTMAS! EVEN WITH THAT CYBER KING. FUNNY, THAT+++
(Referring to The Next Doctor)

CURSE, NOT A BLE+++
(a curse not a blessing?... regeneration?)

SAYING GOODBYE - SO MANY GOODB+++
(the Doctor visits companions?)

RIDING THE TARDIS, RIDING THE EARTH, ALL OF US! THE CHILDREN OF TIME!
(Journey's End?)

NO, NO DON'T DO THAT, DONT+++
(Tooth & Claw/Shakespeare Code/TUATW)

NO SPOILERS!
(Silence in Library/Forest of Dead?)

KICKING EDGAR ALLEN
(The Doctor reminiscing about Edgar Allen Poe?)

+++IS ENDING SOON
(You're song is ending soon)

PROFESSOR SONG? SONG? SONG!
(Silence in the Library/Forest of Dead?)

CAMPTOWN RACES???DOODAH, DOODAH
(hahaha!)

+++GATHA CHRISTIE, ONLY TALKING ABOUT YOU THE OTHER D+++
(The Unicorn & the Wasp)

+ONT EVEN BLINK!
(Blink)

+++CAPABLE OF EVERYTHING HE WAS CAPABLE+++
(referring to companion/Doctor/Master??)

LIED TO YOU BECAUSE I LIKED IT, I COULD PRETE+++
(Gridlock)

GOOD OLD J.K!
(Shakespeare Code)

SAFE, SHE'S WITH HER FAMILY
(Talking of Rose in Utopia?)

LOVE TRAVELING WITH YOU 
(Referring to a companion?)

DID YOU MISS ME?
(Christmas Invasion)

HELLO! OOH, NEW TEETH 
(Christmas Invasion)