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SFX has just posted the first 3 episode details from the new Doctor Who series for 2010.

Episode 1: "The Eleventh Hour" (by Steven Moffat) to be shown 3rd April 2010

Episode 2: "The Beast Below" (by Steven Moffat)

Episode 3: "Victory of the Daleks" (by Mark Gatiss)


Personally, I think Gatiss + Daleks = great episode.

I most certainly hope so :p

I'm also sure it's been too soon since a companion was 'lost' for it to happen again.

Machie wrote:
> Isn't she Amys real life cousin? I think they met for the first
> time on the Dr Who set too.

Yep, they're related :)

> When you guys say reset do you mean start all over again as if
> everything we've watched over the last 47 years never happened?

Just the events of the finale, it's happened on nearly every finale in Doc Who, huge build up for 85 minutes then 5 minutes of pressing a button and everyone lives happily ever after usually with no one ever mentioning or sometimes even remembering anything that happened.

Indeed. Though sometimes it can be done to good effect. I think the best use was actually in the first series when Rose used the Tardis energy on the Daleks.

The Daleks have made alliances in the past, don't forget and it's feasible that they all think they can do away with every other enemy once the Doctor is gone, so I don't see a problem with an 'uneasy unholy alliance' myself.

Second game episode downloadable on Saturday, right after the series finale.

Cybermen this time and they're promising a foe that hasn't been seen since the Tom Baker days...

Dreadful.

Just once, just once, I wanted an ending that didn't use a metaphorical reset button resulting in everyone forgetting everything that happened in the last 90 minutes.

What do we get? A literal reset button in the form of the impenetrable ultra secure, dead locked Pandorica being opened by a single flick of a screwdriver. Ultimately leading to Big Bang 2 with no one having any memory of what just happened.

It's the kind of lazy story writing you'd criticise kids doing their English Lit. GSCEs for.

Is it just me or have the writers dumbed down dr who, the previous seasons of the revamp with davis as head had very few loose ends, more or less everything was explained. In the latest ones there are many loose ends like why couldnt amy remeber the daleks? whose voice was that, etc, never answered.

All felt a little bit rushed tbh.

After having watched confidential, those questions will apparently be answered next season.

I feel like I'm watching Lost, and as I recall, I hated the end of that show :P

Pretty bad. I did like the part where Song killed the Dalek. MERCY?

Alfoncy wrote:
> Pretty bad. I did like the part where Song killed the Dalek.
> MERCY?

I disliked this bit more than I can put into words.

The whole episode felt like a trailer for season 2 (or, more likely the season 2 finale). The only part of the episode I enjoyed was The Doctor coming back at the wedding thanks to the story he was telling Amelia, however obvious and cheesy. It was also a nice touch to replay the scene in the 'forest on a ship' and the realisation that at the time we were seeing 'future' Doctor.

Let's hope the Christmas story is better than this...

Hi cant agree more, its all become a bit vague and can someone please tell me what the daleks would want with custom paint jobs? Dont make me laugh, historically the Dalek is a cold cruel unfeeling beast, somehow I cant imagine them being worried about how they look!!!