Cold Blood, the review

THE STORY: A very good and suiting completion to the story that started in The Hungry Earth. This part of the story seemed more fulfilling and adventurous then The Hungry Earth, but that episode was mainly for building tension and setting the story out. As I said before, these stories could have been more creepy. The way that the masked Silurian's look is so menacing and creepy, so much more could have been done with that. Overall I was a brilliant story, and lived up to the expectations that were left by The Hungry Earth.


THE DOCTOR AND AMY (OH AND RORY):  All three of the usual cast were on top form this week, more so The Doctor, just for those final few scenes, truly sad. The lack of Amy in the last episode was made up for in this episode, a very strong and worth while story for Amy. And Rory, oh poor Rory.


THE ENEMY: Once again, the Silurian's was brilliant. A lot more menacing and scary in this episode, but still not reaching there full potential of creepiness. Still they are great, and new envisioning of a classic enemy, one that will hopefully appear a few times over the Moffat era.


THE BEST BIT: The scene where Alaya's body is brought back to the Silurian city, an amazingly powerful scene.


THE WORST BIT: Not really the worst bit, but Nasreen could have been a better character, some of the lines she said were quite cheesy and just annoyed me.


THE MOST INTERESTING BIT: The meeting over the sharing of the planet.

RATING 4.5/5

What did you think of the episode?

This Saturday, Cold Blood 19:00

On Saturday 29 May, BBC One, 19:00, It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony... or the start of its final war.

The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet and he tries desperately to ensure Alaya's prediction of a massacre does not come true. Meanwhile, what fate will befall the captured Amy and can Tony and his friends be trusted?

Blog Fan Series. UPDATE #4 Competition

In the second series of the Into the vortex Doctor Who series, you will be able to have the chance to create your own enemy for The Doctor face in a special episode titled "Forget"
Your enemy must be good foe for The Doctor, and make it difficult for The Doctor to defeat them. The enemy must have: a name, a home planet, a weakness, a discriptions of what it looks like, and it's importance in the story. 


To make sure that your enemy fits with the story, here is a little synopsis of the episode:

People come in and out of our lives, most of them we forgot. But what if forgetting meant they never exsisted? The Doctor is thrown into chaos when a mysterious enemy begins to mess with his timeline, and those of his companions. Time is running out as people begin to forget The Doctor. 

RULES (well more guildlines):
1) Only one enemy per person,
2) A person can only enter once.
3) The enemy must be new and orignial.
4) The enemy must be something that we can recreate
5) The enemy must fit in with the story
6) Be sensible
7) Make the monster fun and exciting, something different
8) Idea must be your own!


Just have fun with this, let your imagination run wild, dont hold back on an idea. Make sure that you read everything, so that you understand.


Competition closes 1st July 2010. The winner will be annouced 10th July 2010. 


either comment on this post, or in the cbox to enter. 

good luck!

Final figures for 5.7 Amy's Choice  reveal that it was watched by 7.55 million viewers. The episode was watched by 7.06 million on BBC One, and a  additional  0.49 million watched on BBC HD. The overnights for the episode were 6.2 million and you can see there is a moderate increase.

Blog Fan Series. UPDATE #3 titles and synopsis'

1. The Unexpected Doctor
With The Doctor suddenly regenerating, in the blink of an eye, he is on the search for the truth. But the truth leads him to a old friend, Cassie Smith. Now The Doctor must prove to Cassie he is The Doctor, and save her from certain death as The Veilman arrives. But can he save himself first?

2. Judgement of the Jaradis
The Doctor takes Cassie to see the wonders of the human race in the 42nd century, taking her to the first ever man made planet. But there isn't anyone on the planet. A planet for human to live on, and there's no one. The Doctor must go into the heart of the planet to find out the truth, and find what has been waiting for him for centuries.

3. Drone of the 80's
Cassie is taken to the past as she sees her mum in her teens, the 80's, an era Cassie has always wanted to go. But why was the 80's so remembered for its music, what is the truth behind the melody?

4 & 5. TBA
TBA (Episodes evolving CSSC)

6. The Misplaced Souls
The Doctor, Cassie and, new companion Tom perpare for the worst as they discover a horrid truth behind the nature of the Trees of Earth. Now the Doctor must make one of the most difficult decisions of his life, but does this mean that Cassie and Tom will lose theirs?

7. People in the deep
On an desolate planet The Doctor  and his companions discover a weapon that must be destroyed before it explodes, creating massive a black hole. But the inhabitants of the planet aren't so willing to let go of the weapon.

8 & 9. Flicker & The Dead Waters
In a impossible house is trapped a deadly race, that have been locked away from the universe so that they are never found. But The Doctor and his companions have just found the house, and have walked into a trap that not all of them may survive. As The Dead Waters come, The Doctor must get out of the door.

10. Fade
The Doctor loses touch with reality as he fades from one world another. As one world is with his companions but he is about to die, and one in places his been before with his companions, but he is alone, both begin to seem less real as The Fade toys with The Doctor's mind, and threaten his existence in time.

11, 12 & 13 The Red Sky, From The Abyss, and Day of the Doomed
The last day of light has gone, and the doors of the Abyss have opened. The Doctor faces death as the most dangerous revenge plot unfolds. The one The Doctor fears the most has been set free, and is going to destroy The Doctor's world bit by bit. Humanity faces it's darkest day as the Abyss' shadow covers earth.

Tell me what you think?

THE STORY: A great story, which had me captivated from the word go. The return of the Silurian's was brilliant, although I felt the story could have been more of a scary one. It seemed to lack a certain "wow, that was creepy" factor which I love in Doctor who. Hopefully this will be picked up in "Cold Blood".


THE DOCTOR AND AMY (Oh, and Rory): The Doctor was on top for in this episode, the best we've seen him so far. Amy wasn't really in the episode much, but her scenes were brilliant, a lot of scares for Amy this week. The part of her being "eaten" by the Earth was just genius, brilliantly scary genius. Rory seems to be a little less involved in this episode, as it many focused on The Doctor, but his scene's were brilliant, more serious then before.


THE ENEMY: The Silurian's were actually one of the best enemies we have seen this series. They are such a clever idea, and I love when classic enemies are brought into the new series. The Silurian's are so menacing, and a little creepy. Only thing I would say is that they don't have the third eye, which slightly disappoint me.


THE BEST BIT: The Doctors retort to Rory as his complains about the sonic screwdriver, "Oi! Don't diss the sonic!"


THE WORST BIT: The engagement ring scene, didn't seem needed. But it may be important later.


THE MOST INTERESTING BIT: The Doctor's conversation with Alaya, it was such a captivating and strong scene.

Rating: 3.9/5

What did you think of the episodes?

Blog Fan Series. UPDATE #2

Plans for the fan series have moved on a little over the past few weeks. A synopsis for the series has been put together:
The Doctor is suddenly thrown into a whirlwind of adventure as he regenerates in the blink of an eye, without warning. The search for the truth leads The Doctor to meet an old friend, the clever and  brilliant Cassie Smith. 

Together the are going to go across the stars, throw time and space, going into dangers unknown. 

What happens to humanity in the 42nd century? Why is everyone so into music in the 80's? What is the truth of the trees of Earth? What lurks in the deep? Who is Experiment CSSC? Why is The Doctor scared of a silent dripping tap? And What is Abyss?

Tonight: The Hungry Earth

The Hungry Earth
Saturday, 22 May 18.15, BBC One

It's 2015 and the most ambitious drilling project in history has reached deeper beneath the Earth's crust than man has ever gone before - but now the ground itself is fighting back. And when the Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in a tiny mining village it's not long before they find themselves plunged into a battle against a deadly danger from a bygone age.

Here are Digital Spy's ten teasers for this episode:

1. Amy and Rory are expecting to arrive in Rio when The Doctor mistakenly lands them in a Welsh village in the year 2020. Yes, it's just an excuse to see Amy in a tiny skirt for the next two episodes but let's agree to overlook that.

2. Immediately The Doctor senses that there's something unusual with the ground below them. There's something wrong with the grass, too.

3. Pay attention to the script very early on in this episode. A lot of the lines will have added poignancy after the story is done with.

4. The Doctor loves a big ****** *****.

5. Nasreen Chaudhry (Meera Syal) is heading up a team that has drilled further into the Earth than anyone has before, 21km deep. Unfortunately her drilling has disturbed something below...

6. The Earth is pretty hungry. Ravenous in fact. It consumes Amy and it's still got the munchies!

7. Shameless! Plug! For! Sherlock!

8. The Doctor: "Silence. Absolute silence."

9. When The Doctor comes face to face with a Silurian, she claims to be the last of her species.

10. The Doctor: "Nobody **** today."

Series 5 complete episode titles

5.1 The Eleventh Hour
5.2 The Beast Below
5.3 Victory of the Daleks
5.4/5 Time of Angles/Flesh and Stone
5.6 Vampires of Venice
5.7 Amy's Choice
5.8/5.9 The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood
5.10 Vincent and the Doctor
5.11 The Lodger
5.12/13 The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang

The Hungry Earth Clips

On Saturday 22 May 18.15, BBC One, It's 2015 and the most ambitious drilling project in history has reached deeper beneath the Earth's crust than man has ever gone before - but now the ground itself is fighting back. And when the Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in a tiny mining village it's not long before they find themselves plunged into a battle against a deadly danger from a bygone age.

100

100 POSTS!

Thank you to everyone who has helped to get to this point, mainly:

Mr Dalek

Blink

Combom

MacMachiavell

R Coral

Jockie

Vortex

Doctor who online

The Doctor Who website

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Thank you to all of you, These are the people who have helped and supported most. 

Here's to another 100 posts, won't be too long until then

Back from the crack

The Blog is back!
There won't be a review of Amy's Choice this week, because it is too late. But, it was a great episode, 4/5 I think.

Somethings wrong

At the moment I am having difficulty posting things, hopefully this will all be all sorted soon. But there won't be many posts from me at the moment. Extremely Sorry.

Amy's Choice Overnight ratings

The episode 5.7: Amy's Choice achieved an overnight figure of 6.2m viewers, with a 33.0% audience share, this figure is including both the BBC One and BBC HD channels as the episode was simulcast.

Final BARB ratings will be available in the next 10 days.

An update

Just a quick update on events:


Still waiting for the usual Digital Spy teasers, but they haven't appeared as of yet. All the preview videos should be up soon on Youtube and the BBC website, so they will be posted soon. 


The latest scripts for the Blog Fan Series are being written and planned. More information on them soon, when available. 


My new blog, http://georgeswritersblog.blogspot.com/ , was created earlier this week. The blog is mainly a diary of how the writing of the fan series is going, and some random ramblings. So please follow that blog, would be greatly appreciated. 


That is all for now, more to be posted tomorrow. 


George

Flesh and Stone, final viewing figures

The final viewing figures for 5.5: Flesh And Stone have been released by BARB. The episode was watched by a high 8.50 million viewers.These figures make it the Eighth most watched show of the week. 

New Blog

I've just created the New blog.
I would really really really appreciate it if you followed this blog, as the fan series is really important to me.
The Blog is mainly about what is going on behind the scenes of the fan series, and everything that happens whilst I'm writing the scripts and being producer.

Hopefully you'll follow this blog. And tell me what you think.

http://georgeswritersblog.blogspot.com/

Vampires of Venice viewing figures

5.6: The Vampires of Venice, the episode achieved an overnight figure of 6.2m viewers, with a 30.6% audience share.
Doctor Who was the most watched programme on BBC One for Saturday. (Including BBC HD ratings)
Final BARB ratings will be available in the next 10 days.

Crack of the week

Although it was a certified crack, it was the closest thing we got to one this week, and with all the talk of the silence, I think this needs to be it.

THE STORY: A great romp to really sink your teeth into (pun intended). A great return for Toby Whithouse to the world of Doctor Who. The story just had you drawn in from the moment The Doctor jumped out of the cake, truly amazing. And the Vampire, well weren't they just cracking, although they weren't actual vampires, they were alien fish, but still a good enemy for The Doctor. 

THE DOCTOR AND AMY (oh, and Rory): The addition of Rory just made things a whole lot funnier. Great one liners and fantasy. The Doctor shone in this episode. Matt Smith is The Doctor, no questions asked. He is able to go from gleefully winning against the Vampires, to upset when Gallifrey is mentioned, and then inquisitive about the silence and cracks in time. Amy Played a vital part in this episode, but she was slightly pulled back by the ties of Rory, which sort of put the dynamic of The Doctor and Amy on hold. 

THE ENEMY: Brillant. The "Vampires" themselves were scary and creepy and a lot of fun, whilst the Fish creatures, the Saturnynian's, were scary and strange, but didn't get enough time on screen. I would have also of liked to see the males under the water, a whole army of them would have been brilliant. A great enemy, that should defiantly return at some point.

THE BEST BIT: Rory and The Doctor discussing the kiss with Amy. Rory "Did you kiss her back", to which The Doctor replied "No, i kissed her mouth".  A classic moment.

THE WORST BIT: The Doctor climbing up the tower, the FX on this weren't as good as usual. This was the only thing that ruined it for me. 

THE MOST INTERESTING BIT: The conversation with The Doctor and Rosanna, very compeling and interesting. A battle of minds, always going to be brilliant. 

RATING: 4/5

A lot is about to happen

The review of the latest episode of Doctor who, "The Vampires of Venice" will be posted later today. As well as an edit to the previous post about the latest episode titles, as that post had to be done at my cousins.
Also, I will be posting the latest viewing figures, and the latest on the cracks.

Plus
I will be adding a new blog tonight, which will be a basic blog about me writing, planning and creating the new blog fan series. It would be really, really appreciated if you would follow this blog when it is created, and the fan series is really important to me and I really want it to work.

New Episode titles revealed

On Doctor Who Wiki, the last 3 episode titles for the 5th series of Doctor Who have been revealed
1.10 Reality Check
1.12 The Pandorica Opens
1.13 Enemies of a Time Lord

Vampires of Venice 8 May 18.00, BBC One

OnSaturday The Doctor takes Amy and Rory away for a romantic break but terror awaits in 16th century Venice. What secrets are held by the House of Calvierri and who is the mysterious Rosanna?

Time of Angels final viewing figures

The final viewing figures for 5.4 Time of Angels have been released by BARB. The episode was watched by a high 8.59 million viewers.These figures make it the Eighth most watched show of the week. The overnights for the episode were 6.8 million and you can see there is a staggering increase. 

Blog Fan Series. UPDATE!

Episode plot details shall be posted soon, once a few of the writers have sorted them out.


Check back soon for more details.

Vampires of Venice: Ditigal spys 10 teasers

As per usual, Digital spy have posted there 10 teasers for the next episode of Doctor Who, this week its "Vampires of Venice" 

1. Rory is halfway through his stag do when The Doctor arrives to collect him. And it's quite an entrance.

2. On entering the TARDIS, Rory doesn't really say what The Doctor wants him to.

3. The First Doctor makes an appearance.

4. The 'vampires' like Amy. Who can blame them? She's delicious!

5. "Where are you from? Did you **** ******* the *****?"

6. Ever wanted to see The Doctor get electrocuted? Luck's in.

7. "Some tiny. Some were as big as the sky."

8. What's 10,000 in number and waiting in the water?

9. Amy enjoys a massive snog with either Rory or The Doctor. Right in front of the other.

10. "All I can **** is... *******."

Blog revamp

Some of you may have noticed that I have changed that banner and the layout of the blog, as well as updating the post banners.

Tell me what you think

Karen Gillan on The Graham Norton Show

Karen Gillan is a guest on The Graham Norton Show tonight at 10.35pm on BBC One.

Graham is joined by Hollywood actress and singing star Jennifer Lopez, who talks about her glittering career and latest film The Backup Plan; Doctor Who's new assistant Karen Gillan discusses life in the TARDIS; and QI and Jonathan Creek star Alan Davies is in the comedy chair. Plus, there's music from Ben's Brother.

TIME OF ANGELS:

(5.4: The Time of Angels) achieved an overnight figure of 6.8m viewers, with a 36.7% audience share. Doctor Who was the ---- watched programme on BBC One for Saturday. (Including BBC HD ratings)
Final BARB ratings will be available in the next 10 days.

FLESH AND STONE:

(5.5: Flesh And Stone) achieved an overnight figure of 6.9m viewers, with a 34.5% audience share. (Including the BBC HD ratings)
Final BARB ratings will be available in the next 10 days.