Dimensions In Time 2: Gallifreyan Boogaloo
Everyone remember to visit this site tonight to get your first glimpse of the new Doctor Who in action. I have to admit, I’m curious – and Anthony Stewart Head declaring David Tennant “the best Doctor Who since Patrick Troughton” in an interview is almost like throwing down the gauntlet.
Addendum: Having now watched said mini-episode, I have to say it was rather enjoyable. I was surprised that it was as relatively dramatic as it was (it’s still hard to erase the thought of Dimensions In Time from my mind) and not more light-hearted, but whatever gets the pledges and donations in to the worthy chartity in question, that’ll work for me. The hopping bit made me instantly flash back to Tom Baker and Ian Marter skipping rope in Robot, and ya know, if you’ve going to evoke the spectre of a past Doctor, you can probably do much worse than deliberately go for something that makes the viewers think of Tom Baker.
Now there’s just the interminable wait until the unspecified-interval-after-Christmas-when-I-get-a-tape-of-the-Christmas-special-from-Canada. Here’s hoping that the ability to watch this special online isn’t just a one-off fluke. I’d plunk down a little bit of money to watch new Doctor Who adventures immediately after they air – I think the BBC would be stunned at how much money they’d make from outside their own territory with such a service.… Read more
