[EleventhDoctor]

That picture....

:O

[DoctorWho]

Dat Promo Pic.

[brucewaynegretzky]

Oh snap. If Daleks kill Amy, they go back to enemy number one.

I wouldn't be surprised to see just that happen for exactly this reason. Daleks have been less menacing lately. That needs to end.

[Error]

in this modern Doctor Who no companion has been outright killed, if Amy is killed that would be kind of huge.

[DoctorWho]

I wouldn't be surprised to see just that happen for exactly this reason. Daleks have been less menacing lately. That needs to end.

in this modern Doctor Who no companion has been outright killed, if Amy is killed that would be kind of huge.

The Dalek episode is the first of the next series. I don't see this happening, at least in that episode, considering we've seen Amy in trailers for the next few episodes.

[CorrisD]

Very cool teaser image.
But I thought the episode where amy leaves involved the Weeping Angels, whatever happens, I hope it is dramatic and it would indeed be awesome if they just out right killed a companion.

[DoctorWho]

Watching Wheels on Meals, a Jackie Chan film from 1984, for the first time in years. I never noticed that Benny "the Jet" Urquidez was rocking The Doctor look 25 years before it was cool. He was too busy kicking Jackie Chan's ass to make a big deal of it.

11 reminds me a bit of Buckaroo Banzai in look.

[Seraphis Cain]

[Fuzzy]

New t-shirt.

http://www.nowherebad.com/


Also, a couple of avatars for whoever wants them.



I try to stay out of this thread when the show's not on but with it so close to starting again I'm getting excited.

[bengraven]

Amy...

[Exterminieren]

I double post with a reason: AVATARS. Get 'em while they're hot.

Sol-diddly-old.

[Fiction]

Is that the real promo pic? Wow, if so we haven't seen the Doctor that injured in....ever.

[JonathanEx]

Confirmed! Hi-res: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/tv/isite-...ll_01_16x9.jpg

Is that the real promo pic? Wow, if so we haven't seen the Doctor that injured in....ever.

Him jumping through the glass roof in End of Time?

[Quick]

Confirmed! Hi-res: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/tv/isite-...ll_01_16x9.jpg

Wallpaper'd.

[xKilltheMx]

Totally agree. Tennant and his era are good, but Smith is great.

Lies and slander. Tennant blows Smith out of the water.

[brucewaynegretzky]

Lies and slander. Tennant blows Smith out of the water.

Yup.

[godelsmetric]

I prefer Smith to Tennant. He's more Doctor.

[piratepwnsninja]

Yoink! Thanks!

[rudieboy77]

It took an entire series before I started to like Smith as the Doctor, but I think he is doing a fine job.

[King of the Potato People]

Tennant Doctor allowed Ursula to live as a pavement slap. He loses by default.

[Fiction]

Confirmed! Hi-res: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/tv/isite-...ll_01_16x9.jpg Him jumping through the glass roof in End of Time?

That was just a couple of scratches. This looks way worse.

But yeah, he was pretty injured there. I think I meant visibly damaged.

[xKilltheMx]

It took an entire series before I started to like Smith as the Doctor, but I think he is doing a fine job.

This.







But Tennant is still better.
*flies away on Marthas back*

[Fiction]

*eyes high res shot*

What the hell is dangling from Amy's foremost finger? Is that like, a giant ring?

[Spiffy_1st]

I'll be really disappointed if Amy doesn't die. They can't hype up the death of a character in promos and then not kill them two seasons in a row.

[brucewaynegretzky]

I'll be really disappointed if Amy doesn't die. They can't hype up the death of a character in promos and then not kill them two seasons in a row.

Her dying is the only way I'll be ok with her sticking around for this long.

I've said it a bunch of times. I expect either the Doctor or companion to change around ever 1.5 seasons. 1 season is preferable. By the time Amy is gone she'll have overstayed her welcome by an entire season as far as I'm concerned. Her death would sort of make up for that in the sense that it "takes away" more. Otherwise she just never moved on like every other companion.

[PhoncipleBone]

Confirmed! Hi-res: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/tv/isite-...ll_01_16x9.jpg

HOLY SHIT! Now THAT is how you sell Doctor Who returning. Not only do you get a bad ass picture, but you get lots of Daleks, and potentially the death of Amy Pond!? But where is my man, Rory? Do they kill him permanently, or is Rory the explosion in the background as he fucks up Daleks six ways from Sunday?

[gabbo]

Her dying is the only way I'll be ok with her sticking around for this long. I've said it a bunch of times. I expect either the Doctor or companion to change around ever 1.5 seasons. 1 season is preferable. By the time Amy is gone she'll have overstayed her welcome by an entire season as far as I'm concerned. Her death would sort of make up for that in the sense that it "takes away" more. Otherwise she just never moved on like every other companion.

Companions and Doctor's can stay as long as the story works with them. Amy has run her course, long live Rory and Craig!

[PhoncipleBone]

Companions and Doctor's can stay as long as the story works with them. Amy has run her course, long live Rory and Craig!

The only way Rory survives and Amy dies is if Rory just rampages across the universe kicking ass to avenge Amy's death. At least that is how I want it.

[Htown]

Her dying is the only way I'll be ok with her sticking around for this long. I've said it a bunch of times. I expect either the Doctor or companion to change around ever 1.5 seasons. 1 season is preferable. By the time Amy is gone she'll have overstayed her welcome by an entire season as far as I'm concerned. Her death would sort of make up for that in the sense that it "takes away" more. Otherwise she just never moved on like every other companion.

I will never understand this.

Maybe because Doctor Who is essentially the only UK show I watch on a regular basis, but I'm used to characters sticking around for multiple 20 plus episode seasons before they leave a show.

I cannot wrap my mind around the idea that people 20 episodes is too long for a character to stay on a show. I don't get it.

[GameplayWhore]

in this modern Doctor Who no companion has been outright killed, if Amy is killed that would be kind of huge.

They wouldn't advertise her death a whole series in advance.

The only way Rory survives and Amy dies is if Rory just rampages across the universe kicking ass to avenge Amy's death. At least that is how I want it.

I truly hope you and Moff are of one mind here. Ragemode Rory is something this universe needs. I think he'd made for an awesome fall-from-grace villain.

I prefer Smith to Tennant. He's more Doctor.

Tennant plays it like a sexy human. Smith plays it like an out-of-place alien. Interestingly, since the Doctor's human alter-ego is named Smith, this means that Tennant is more Smith than Smith.

[mclem]

in this modern Doctor Who no companion has been outright killed, if Amy is killed that would be kind of huge.

Astrid?

They wouldn't advertise her death a whole series in advance.

I suspect if they were to kill off a major companion, they'd look to Earthshock as a model. As I understand it, the death in that wasn't known of in advance - indeed, the death doesn't even conclude the series! Indeed, that's the approximate model they used in modern Who for Rory's unexpected death in the Silurian two-parter.

[PhoncipleBone]

I truly hope you and Moff are of one mind here. Ragemode Rory is something this universe needs. I think he'd made for an awesome fall-from-grace villain.

He would, but I don't wanna see him go bad. If the Daleks are the ones that kill Amy, just have Rory marauding across space exterminating all Daleks. Make them afraid of The Centurion. The way to make him a fall from grace villain is just to have him go too far and essentially commit genocide in the name of vengeance, and The Doctor has to stop him.

[GameplayWhore]

Astrid?

Don't you really have to have been in the TARDIS once to be considered a companion?

He would, but I don't wanna see him go bad. If the Daleks are the ones that kill Amy, just have Rory marauding across space exterminating all Daleks. Make them afraid of The Centurion. The way to make him a fall from grace villain is just to have him go too far and essentially commit genocide in the name of vengeance, and The Doctor has to stop him.

Oh, come on, "The Centurion" is the perfect name for a recurring Who villain! :D

[EleventhDoctor]

This. But Tennant is still better. *flies away on Marthas back*

[PhoncipleBone]

Oh, come on, "The Centurion" is the perfect name for a recurring Who villain! :D

Oh, it is. The Doctor shows up on a planet. Wanton destruction and death. He finds a few survivors and asks what happened. All the person says is "Centurion...", and then dies.

[maharg]

Don't you really have to have been in the TARDIS once to be considered a companion?

Some people use the opening credits as the guide. If you do that, Astrid counts.

Also, I think he at some point offered to take her with him. Obviously she didn't get a chance, but that's another plausible justification.

Not that I think it's a good thing if she is, or even a bad thing. I think all of the 80s companions were roundly terrible (yes, even Ace, though to a lesser degree than the others) but I wouldn't say they aren't just because of that.

[Future Foundation]

Some people use the opening credits as the guide. If you do that, Astrid counts.

Astrid, and pretty much everyone from the 08-10 Specials. In fact, I was looking through Ten's Wiki (I know, I know), and they've got pretty much every relevant ally as a "Companion".

[teiresias]

I dunno, that promo image really screams "The Parting of the Ways" to me. If you just photoshopped Eccleston and Piper's faces on the bodies I'd swear to you they were on Satellite Five and the phrase "Bad Wolf" was scrawled on the wall behind them.

[PhoncipleBone]

I dunno, that promo image really screams "The Parting of the Ways" to me. If you just photoshopped Eccleston and Piper's faces on the bodies I'd swear they were on Satellite Five and there were the words Bad Wolf on the wall behind them.

Seeing as how that was one of the most perfect send offs in the new series, I would be fine with that. It was fantastic.

[Exterminieren]

Just an aside; Eccleston has been cast as the villain in the new Thor movie.

[PhoncipleBone]

Just an aside; Eccleston has been cast as the villain in the new Thor movie.

While fantastic (Ha!), I still would have preferred Mads Mikkelsen as the villain. Just because Mads is a badass.

Either way, excited for Thor: The Dark World.

[mjc]

I kinda like seeing the Doctor get roughed up like that. Doesn't happen too often.

[GSR]

13 minutes to trailer, right? My body is ready.

[The Giant]

Trailer is live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7YGoVyRSik

So awesome.

[Future Foundation]

Trailer is live. So awesome.

"Who killed all the Daleks?"

"Who do you think?"

So ready. I am so damn ready.

[Exterminieren]

My body wasn't ready.

Dat I Am The Doctor.

[piratepwnsninja]

Trailer is live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7YGoVyRSik So awesome.

I need it! Give it to me!

[King of the Potato People]

Awesome, the budget looks like its gone up.

[Quick]

Trailer is live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7YGoVyRSik So awesome.

"Who killed all the Daleks?"

"Who do you think?"

Fall 2012, please come now.

[Exterminieren]

Noticeable: The new paradigm Daleks have been given a makeover.

Even more noticeable: They're buried under a metric fucktonne of Proper Daleks. :D