Episode Review: The Eleventh Hour

 The Eleventh Hour is an episode from series 5 featuring the first appearances of Amy, Rory and the first proper episode with Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor. Easter 2010, Steven Moffat has just taken the helm of the best sci-fi show ever. How does he start his tenure? With a trip to the countryside of course.

 Firstly, I love that Doctor Who moved away from London to get the companions, with the previous companions all being Londoners. Similarly, I think it's great that the Doctor met a young Amy before meeting older Amy. This episode sets up mystery about the whole of Amy's time in the TARDIS; mysteries like - why doesn't Amy remember the alien invasions of previous years?

 To the episode itself. It's great to see the Doctor having to sort something out in a limited time, without his two beloved toys. The Doctor himself says, "No Sonic! No TARDIS!" before saying the a very cringey line, "Who DA Man?" Amy is also brilliant in this episode. After meeting the Doctor again, she is angry, upset but most of all, happy! She is secretly so pleased that her imaginary friend was real, this is reflected in her excitement to fly away with the Doctor at the end.

 My favourite line of the episode: "I'm the Doctor. Basically, run."

The Day of the Doctor: What to Expect

With the 50th anniversary special getting closer and closer, I take a look at what the special episode will bring. So, sit back and read a relatively spoiler-free preview. 

The Time War

 Yes, it's been coming hasn't it. Throughout the revived series we have had glimpses and snippets of the Time War but finally we will find out the truth. The Time War story should fit perfectly with John Hurt's Doctor who looks to be a very dark and mysterious. The Episode should tell the story of what happened in the years when the Doctor was away. So, the Time War means...

Daleks

 Of course. The Daleks had to make an appearance. The greatest foe of not only the Doctor, but the Time Lords. The Daleks were getting rather tedious through series 2-5 but Mark Gatiss' "Victory of the Daleks" and the Moff's "Asylum of the Daleks" revived them and made the creatures deadlier than ever before.

The Zygons

 A rather odd choice for the special. The Zygons have only been seen once before on Doctor Who in the 1975 story "Terror of the Zygons". The Zygons are shape-shifting creatures that escaped to Earth in the days of the Fourth Doctor. David Tennant has said that they are his favourite monsters to ever have featured on the show.

A Celebration with a Dark Storyline

 Steven Moffat is so brilliant that he'll be able to deliver an awesome celebration episode with an epic story. Since the loss of Amy and Rory, Matt Smith's Doctor has grown darker by the episode and as he ends his tenure and Peter Capaldi's reign begins. Expect secrets. Expect loss, death and sorrow.

U.N.I.T.

 It has been revealed that the Unified Intelligence Taskforce and Kate Stewart will be making a return for the first time since "The Power of Three". U.N.I.T. are rumoured to be featured in the scene where the Doctor floats down to Trafalgar Square - clinging to the TARDIS. 

And Finally...

Queen Elizabeth I

 We know there's something between the Doctor and Liz I ever since we saw her alarming entrance at the end of series 3 episode "The Shakespeare Code". A younger version of her will be portrayed by one of the stars of hit comedy "Gavin and Stacey", Joanna Page.

So there we have it. Whatever happens, this episode will be awesome.

Know The Companion: Martha Jones

 

Fact File

Companion of: Tenth Doctor

Origins: London

First Appearance: Smith and Jones (2006)

Aliases: Samantha Jones, Greyhound 6, The Woman Who Walked The Earth

Parents: Francine and Clive Jones

Finest Hour: Last of the Time Lords

 

Martha is often overlooked by fans when asked who there favourite companion is. Martha was always going to have a hard job replacing Rose but I think she did it very well and I was happy to see her return in Torchwood and later, Doctor Who (Twice!).

 

Adventures With The Doctor

 Martha first met the Doctor at the Royal Hope Hospital when it was stolen and taken to the moon by the Judoon Platoon to extract the Plasmavore from the establishment. Martha helped the Doctor save everybody so they could return home. After this, the Doctor promised her one trip - they went to 1599 to meet William Shakespeare and save him from some rather nasty Carrionites. The Doctor then took her to the future - to New Earth; here she witnessed a traffic jam longer than the one on the M6 on the last week of summer and the death of the Face of Boe. On the way home they stopped off in Manhattan, 1930, to all but destroy the Cult of Skaro.

 Back on Earth, the duo went to Professor Lazarus' experiment and witnessed him 'change what it meant to be human'. Lazarus' plan failed though and he ended up a monster that was stopped by some rather rubbish organ playing by the Doctor. After weeks of speculation, Martha became the Doctor's companion and they travelled to save a crew from falling into the sun in "42". The Doctor and Martha then had to hide in 1917 to escape the Family of Blood, in doing so the Doctor had to become human and Martha was left on her own. The pair then got trapped in the 1960s - zapped back by the Weeping Angels but were saved by Sally Sparrow.

 Martha met Captain Jack for the first time in "Utopia" and they formed an amazing friendship as she later joined his Torchwood team. They evaded the future-kind but the TARDIS was stolen by the Master, leaving them with only Jack's vortex manipulator. The gang then went home to England where the mysterious Harold Saxon, the new PM, turned out to be the Master. Martha's family was taken, so was the Doctor and Jack. So, she walked the Earth, spreading an idea about the Doctor to stop the Master's plans. After the ordeal, Martha left the Doctor because she couldn't travel with him anymore because she needed to help her family. She later joined Torchwood, followed by U.N.I.T. and appeared in three more episodes of Who: "The Sontaron Strategem/ The Poison Sky", "The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End" and briefly in "The End of Time".

SORRY!

 



 

I'm so sorry for not posting for ages! I have been busy with the start of term and everything so...

 

 

Here's what's coming up so, so soon:

 - Day of the Doctor: What to Expect

 - Know the Companion: Martha

 - Eleventh Hour Episode Review

 - What Makes the Silence So Intriguing?

 

That is coming up but for now I can only offer my apologies. SORRY!

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50th Anniversary Title and Length Revealed... then taken down!

 Today the Title and total length of the 50th Anniversary special episode was revealed and then taken down by the BBC. The Title will be 'The Day of the Doctor ' and will run for 75 minutes.

 The deleted article read:

The BBC has announced a raft of programmes to mark the 50th anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who.
A 75-minute special called The Day Of The Doctor will star the soon-to-leave Matt Smith and David Tennant.
Smith said: “Hope you all enjoy. There’s lots more coming your way.”
Other highlights include a BBC Two lecture by Professor Brian Cox on the science behind the hit show and the drama An Adventure In Space and Time, written by Mark Gatiss.
The one-off programme stars David Bradley, of the Harry Potter films, as William Hartnell – who was the first Doctor in 1963.
BBC Four will introduce new audiences to Hartnell, with a re-run of the first ever story. The four episodes are being shown in a restored format, not previously broadcast in the UK.
BBC Two’s flagship arts programme The Culture Show is to present Me, You and Doctor Who, with lifelong fan Matthew Sweet exploring the cultural significance of the BBC’s longest running TV drama.
A 90-minute documentary on BBC Radio 2 will ask “Who Is The Doctor?” – using newly-recorded interviews and exclusive archive material to find an answer – while BBC Three will be home to several commissions.
The anniversary episode sees the return of the Daleks For those less familiar with the show, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide will provide a handy primer.
Danny Cohen, Director BBC Television said: “It’s an astonishing achievement for a drama to reach its 50th anniversary.
“I’d like to thank every person – on both sides of the camera – who has been involved with its creative journey over so many years.”
Smith has already started filming his final scenes as the Doctor, which are due to air in this year’s Christmas episode. His replacement, Scots actor Peter Capaldi, was announced in August.
Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer on Doctor Who said: “50 years has turned Doctor Who from a television show into a cultural landmark. Personally I can’t wait to see what it becomes after a hundred.”

Know The Companion: Rose Tyler

 

Fact file

Companion of: Ninth and Tenth Doctor

Origins: The Powell Estate

First Appearance: Rose (2005)

Aliases: Bad Wolf, Dame Rose of the Powell Estate

Parents: Pete and Jackie Tyler

Finest Hour: Bad Wolf

 

Rose is a fan's favourite and is widely regarded as 'The' companion for the new era of Doctor Who. Rose used to work in a department store, she had a very brief encounter with the Doctor there - she was told to run before he blew up the whole building.

 

Adventures with the Ninth Doctor

 After successfully defeating the autons, the Doctor invited Rose to travel the universe with him; at first she declined but then changed her mind and went off with him.

 Together they travelled to the End of the World and to Victorian times to meet Charles Dickens before returning to London in her own time where she had been missing for a year. Whilst in London, the Doctor and Rose had to fight off the Slitheen in Downing Street. They moved on quickly, stopping a surviving Dalek and visiting Satellite 5 to stop the Jagrafess. Afterwards, Rose requested a visit to the day when her father, Pete, died. Rose stopped her father's death from happening, creating the Reapers - pterodactyl like creatures that killed innocent humans. Pete saved the day though, jumping in front of a car to reverse what had happened. They continued their adventures, saving the gas mask people in the Blitz, picking up Captain Jack Harkness along the way, and capturing a surviving Slitheen to put to justice.

 In Bad Wolf  the Doctor, Rose and Jack where blasted into Game Shows - Rose was vaporised in a horror edition of  'The Weakest Link'. It turned out that she had been teleported to the Dalek fleet where she met the Emperor. The episode ended with the Doctor and Jack flying straight at the Dalek ship. In The Parting of the Ways Rose was rescued by the Doctor and Jack before being taken back to Satellite 5 before being transported home. Rose went to great lengths to get back to the Doctor, she absorbed the time vortex and got back to him before she destroyed all the Daleks. But the power was too much for her, she began to burn; the Doctor took all the power, forcing his regeneration. 

 

Adventures with the Tenth Doctor

 She continued her adventures with the Doctor's next incarnation: stopping the Sycorax, the cat sisters at New Earth, helping Queen Victoria with a werewolf before being knighted, meeting Sarah Jane Smith at a school and defeating clockwork fighters in the 51st and 18th centuries. Their travels took them to a parallel universe where Rose met a different version of her father, parallel Pete, and trapped Cybermen in factories all over the country. They left Rose's boyfriend, Mickey, behind in the parallel universe before visiting coronation England, a far away space station orbiting a black hole, when the Ood made their first appearance and helped the Isolis at the 2012 Olympics. They returned to 21st century London to find strange Ghosts, occupying the Earth. The people behind the Ghost's were Torchwood and in fact they weren't Ghosts, they were Cybermen. The metal monsters took control and looked like they were going to upgrade the Universe before the Cult of Skaro arrived, a group of four Daleks - the most imaginative ever created. The two foes fought in an epic battle before the Doctor, with the help of his parallel friends, sucking them into the void. Rose ended up trapped in the parallel world after trying to stay behind - sealing them off from the Doctor forever.

 

Rose's Return

 At the end of series 4, Rose returned to help the Doctor, Donna, Martha, Captain Jack and Sarah Jane fight off Davros and the Daleks. She ran across collapsing worlds to find the Doctor, on the way meeting Donna and helping her put the past back to the way it should've been. When she finally met the Doctor again they were captured and taken to the Dalek crucible where the human Doctor and the Doctor-Donna saved them and destroyed the Daleks. Rose was taken back to the parallel world where she would live with the human doctor, to make him better.

 

The 50th Anniversary

 Rose and the Tenth Doctor shall return on the 23rd of November.

 

 Coming soon:

 Know The Companion: Martha

 Why We Need Two-Parters

 Eleventh Hour Episode Review

BBC Three to air 'Doctor Who Greatest Moments' Show

 

 

Excerpt from Digital Spy:

 

 BBC Three is planning to air a show celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who. The digital station is thought to be putting together a "greatest moments"-style programme, with comments from fans of the series. Comedian Tom Craine will take part in the special. He announced on his website: 

 "Delighted that I'll be appearing as a guest on a forthcoming BBC3 show celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who. Wouldn't put it past me to have a few stern words to say about the Daleks."

The show will air as part of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary celebrations in November alongside a feature-length episode and a docu-drama "An Adventure In Space And Time" created by Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss.



Top 10 Saddest Who Episodes 2005-present (Part 2)

5. The Angels Take Manhattan

 Another episode where we had to witness more beloved companions leave. Amy and Rory were perhaps my favourite companions, I loved the connection between them and the Doctor - it was like family. The episode it self was quite good, I enjoyed the return of River Song and the weeping angels. There were a few sad parts such as when Amy and Rory jumped off the roof and of course when they got zapped back in time.

 

4. The Family of Blood

 In a previous article I reviewed the two-parter: Human Nature/ The Family of Blood. In this article I explained how tear jerking this episode is and focused on two key parts of the episode: when John Smith has to turn back to the Doctor and he doesn't want to and the end at the war memorial. The setting and the time period of this episode made the story feel very real and captivated the audience. I love this episode because we get to see a completely different side to the Doctor - a human side.

 

 

 

3. The Forest of the Dead

 

 In this episode we were introduced to a major character in the Doctor's life, at the time we maybe didn't get the emotional impact of this episode but having seen her in Matt Smith's tenure we understand how hard it was for River. It was hard for her to look into the Doctor's eyes and see no recognition. It was not hard though for her to give her life to save the Doctor.

 

 

2. Doomsday

 

 Just beaten to the top spot. Doomsday is the saddest companion departure episode in my opinion because Rose was the first companion I, and many other fans, saw. Her connection with the Doctor was brilliant and they really had something very special. The episode was very sad at the end when the Doctor and Rose thought that they would never see each other again.

 



1. The End of Time

 So the number one spot goes to the departure episode of David Tennant. I really enjoyed the two part episode, the story was good and I was really happy to see the return of the Master. I like how the Doctor said farewell to all his companions and friends without them actually knowing what is happening. But the saddest part is where he had to regenerate alone. I will always remember those final words, "I don't wanna go." This is the saddest Who episode.







Top 10 Saddest Who Episodes 2005-present (Part 1)

10. The Doctor Dances

 Some people may disagree here but I not only thoroughly enjoyed this episode, I found it very moving. When you see Nancy's interaction throughout both parts of the story you can tell that there is a very special connection.
 The end scene of this episode was very powerful too. When the child and the mother reunite it's a very special moment.

 

 

 9.  Planet of the Ood

 Despite being comical, this episode has very sad parts to it. Firstly there is the Ood in the prison cell holding their brains; what's great about this scene is Donna's emotion - she realises that these creatures want to be free and the song they are singing is an extremely sad one. Also there is the part where the Ood are freed and can join each other in their telepathic web.

 

 

 



8. Vincent and the Doctor

 I really love this episode because it sums up not only Vincent Van Gogh but also Amy Pond really well. Amy shows such sympathy and compassion towards Vincent and he shows love to her also. The final scene in the gallery is tear jerking too when the tour guide explains why Van Gogh is 'The Greatest Painter Who Ever Lived.'

 Then there's the creature they are fighting. It isn't until the very end when you see how scared and lost it is do you realise that it only wants to get back to it's family. It's for these reasons that I have put this episode at the number 8 spot.

 

 

 

 

7. Cold Blood

 

 The second of three Matt Smith episodes in my list. I thought the first 40 minutes of this episode were quite standard to be honest until that shocking twist at the end where the crack in time took Rory from the world. I was completely mortified when Amy forgot him - it was painful to watch.

 

 

 

6. Journey's End

 

 In the final episode of series four we said goodbye to Donna, hello to Rose and then 45 minutes later we said goodbye to Rose. Unlike Martha and Rose before her, there was no love interest from Donna towards the Doctor but this in some ways made saying goodbye to her even harder. After the Doctor-Donna was born, the audience knew it was the end for Donna because no human could have that sort of DNA in them. What made her leaving even worse though was the fact that she couldn't remember a thing.

 Then there's Rose. She returned to the Doctor's life much to the delight of the Whoniverse, but after the human Doctor was created she needed to make him better and that meant going back to the parallel universe. It did end happily for her though as she was able to spend her life with the human doctor. The person who the episode was hardest on though was the Doctor - he was left with nobody.

 

 

 

Come back tomorrow for Part 2 where the saddest episode will be revealed...



2013 Christmas Special - What to Expect

So, in the series 7 finale we got a glimpse of Trenzalore where, according to Dorium, the eleventh doctor will fall. Now that we know that the eleventh doctor will regenerate at Christmas we have to assume that the episode will take place at Trenzalore at a considerably earlier time than when he visited in The Name of the Doctor. But what can we expect from Matt Smith's finale?

A Battle

In The Name of the Doctor we saw the surface of Trenzalore, it was full of graves and barbed wire indicating that a lot of people had lost their lives there. Perhaps the Doctor will rally his troops to fight the enemy. But who will the enemy be?

The Silence

We still have many unanswered questions about the Silence for example: Was it them that took control of the TARDIS? or What does 'Silence Will Fall' actually mean? Expect Steven Moffat to answer and ask questions in this episode.

A Longer Episode

David Tennant's final episode took place over two-parts but because Moffat doesn't like two-parters but maybe a longer episode will be on the cards, whether that is an hour or an hour and a half remains to be seen.

Emotion

David Tennant's final episode was a tear jerker. I guarantee that you will start welling up at the end of the Christmas episode.

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Story Review: Human Nature/ Family of Blood

Human Nature/ Family of Blood is a two-part adventure from series 3 and I have often thought that it was just an episode like any other (I was only 8 when it first aired), but watching it again recently I have found that actually it is one of my favourite Who stories. I think it would quite easily make my top 5 stories.

Many regard series 3 as a whole to be quite ordinary, perhaps this is because Martha had been introduced after replacing Rose Tyler who is widely regarded as Tennant's main companion. I think there is more to series 3 though and this double episode holds such a special place in my heart.

I love this story because we get to see a completely different side to the Doctor - a human side; the Doctor being human is something that had never been explored before so it was great that they took 90 minutes to do just that. Paul Cornell, the writer of the episodes, had actually written a novel in 1995 called Human Nature  which was the same storyline but for the Seventh Doctor. Russell T Davies read the novel and was instantly hooked so in 2007 he asked Cornell to adapt the story for Tennant's Doctor and make it into a two-part episode.

I think one thing that worked in Cornell's episode really well was that there were so many characters that were brilliant; there was Joan Redfern, Baines, Latimer, Jenny and of course Martha and The Doctor/ John Smith. I have only welled up five times in Doctor Who: When Rose said farewell to the Doctor in Doomsday, when David Tennant said his final words "I don't want to go" in The End of Time, when Amy and  Rory got zapped by the angels in Angels Take Manhattan and the remaining two were in Family of Blood. The first was when John Smith was seeing his potential life with Joan and the second when Latimer was at the war memorial and saw The Doctor and Martha. 

I believe that this story will never be forgotten and I see it as maybe David Tennant's greatest hour (and a half) because we saw in this episode just how good an actor he is.

What did you think of this episode? Leave a comment...

Doctor Who vs. Sherlock - The Moffat Era

Two Heroes. Two Programmes. One Show Runner.

Steven Moffat.

Steven Moffat is a busy man, not only does he have one hit BBC show to run, but two. Juggling two shows like that must be hard, this is perhaps evident in the fact that there have only been six episodes of Sherlock and Doctor Who now has a bigger gap between series, but which show is better.

Sherlock

In 2008, Moffat gave himself a very difficult task, even by his standards - recreate England's favourite detective. After three 90 minute episodes Sherlock had become a fan's favourite, Moffat and co-creator Mark Gatiss (who also plays Mycroft, Sherlock's older brother) had achieved the impossible. After that series 2 was commissioned, confirming the show's popularity.

Despite being in it's modern day setting, Sherlock still maintains a lot of the traditional style and values of Conan Doyle's classics. Moffat and Gatiss were very successful in bringing in a brilliant cast with the likes of Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs and Benedict Cumberbatch. Something that has been done very well in Sherlock is the visuals, for example in A Study in Pink when he examines the pink lady's body and what he's thinking appears as single words on the screen. Overall, I have really enjoyed Sherlock and I can't wait for series 3. 

Doctor Who

Also in 2010: Moffat took the reigns of Doctor Who and had 47 years of history to compete with. I have to say that I think the 5th series was the best of the three Moffat has done; I did enjoy the other two and Asylum of the Daleks is one of my favourite episode of Moffat's tenure. Like Sherlock, Moffat gets 10/10 for casting with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill and Jenna Louise-Coleman. 

                                                                    

 

Unlike Sherlock, Doctor Who has taken a different turn to the original series with the bad guys becoming more unconventional and the Doctor becoming a different man completely. What I have really enjoyed about Doctor Who in recent years is the ethical sides of different episodes and how it touches on issues in our world. I think that Doctor Who just edges it over Sherlock - this is maybe because there are a lot more episodes for us to judge the success on. I think that Moffat is a brilliant runner for both shows and I look forward to more of the programmes I love.

River Song's Timeline

A question often asked by who fans is: What order does River experience events in?
Today I shall answer this question using TV episodes and minisodes.

River's Timeline:

TV: A Good Man Goes to War

As a baby.
TV: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon

As a little girl in 1969 and 1970.
TV: Let's Kill Hitler

Set decades after Day of the Moon, but resolves the final scene of that story. River enrolls at Luna University.
TV: Closing Time
TV: The Wedding of River Song
TV: The Impossible Astronaut

The Wedding of River Song directly follows Closing Time. Her scenes from The Wedding of River Song at 2011 Lake Silencio take place near her future self. The Impossible Astronaut overlaps these events. River is imprisoned at Stormcage following The Wedding of River Song.
MINISODE: First Night
MINISODE: Last Night

In First Night and Last Night we see multiple River Songs from different points in her time stream. One River is from early in her timeline, on the first night of her imprisonment in Stormcage. The second River has been in Stormcage for not less than 5 years and not more then 6. The second River comments on the dress that the Doctor brings for the first River and asks him "does anyone agree to wear that dress?" River goes on to wear the dress in question first during the events of Day of the Moon and later for her date with the Doctor in Darillium. This places the events of The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon as more than five years into her prison sentence.
TV: A Good Man Goes to War

In A Good Man Goes to War we see River speak to Rory at Stormcage, and we later see River show up at the end of the Battle of Demon's Run. The River who speaks to Rory at Stormcage is likely an older River then the River at Demon's Run, as she knows when she appears and is able to reference Demon's Run in her diary.
TV: The Impossible Astronaut
TV: The Wedding of River Song

The Impossible Astronaut features the older River who sees her past self at the lakeside in 2011. The Wedding of River Song overlaps with these events.
TV: Day of the Moon

Part two of The Impossible Astronaut.
TV: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang
TV: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone

River is not yet a professor. She refers to the events of The Pandorica Opens to the Eleventh Doctor, who hasn't yet witnessed them.

TV: The Wedding of River Song 

(final scene)Immediately follows the events of Flesh and Stone.
TV: The Angels Take Manhattan

River has been pardoned from Stormcage and is now a professor.
MINISODE: Last Night

In Last Night we see multiple River Songs and multiple Eleventh Doctors from different points in their respective time streams. One of the Doctors is taking River to the Singing Towers of Darillium, which is the last time River sees the Doctor before Silence in the Library.
TV: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead

River dies in the Library, but has her data ghost uploaded to the computer.
TV: The Name of The Doctor

The River in this episode is the River stored in the Library's computer. This is the first appearance of River in her timeline after her death.

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Peter Who?

Background

Peter Capaldi: The Twelfth Doctor

So, after weeks of speculation and rumours, we finally have our 12th Doctor. The special programme revealed the identity of the next actor to take to the blue box. Many Doctor Who fans will be asking the question: Peter who?

Peter Capaldi, 55, is perhaps most well-known for his role as a spin doctor in BBC's The Thick of It and it's subsequent film In the Loop. The eagle-eyed DW fans will notice that Capaldi has actually appeared in the show before in the 2008 episode The Fires of Pompeii as Caecilius. Peter, who is Scottish, is also a film director.

The right choice? 

I am a huge fan of Matt Smith, he is probably my favourite Doctor because he controls every scene and brings a funny and serious image to the programme that millions of fans over the world love and to be able to do all of that at such a young age is truly remarkable. Bringing someone 25 years older into the frame to play the Doctor is extremely risky because the Doctors have been getting gradually younger over time. I believe that the one thing we will miss the most, that both Matt and David before him brought to the show, is a younger actor's physicality. If you focus on the paralinguistics of Matt Smith in the role of the Doctor you can see that he never stays still, he's always running, jumping, spinning, clapping and fixing his hair. With the Whovians getting used to a more active Doctor there is a lingering question: Can Capaldi keep up? And it may be even harder for him because Jenna Coleman, 27, will be playing the Doctor's companion for another series - is the age gap just too big?

However, you should never judge a book by it's cover and I really need to see Peter in the role before I make a conclusive judgement about him. For the sake of the show, I hope he proves me wrong. 

Final Thought: Remember we still have at least 2 hours of Matt Smith before he leaves the show, so don't cry until the 25th of December.

REMINDER: 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - 23RD OF NOVEMBER.