Who Is The Doctor 2

Robert Smith

Description

Who Is The Doctor 2 is a guide to the new series of Doctor Who starring Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and Jodie Whittaker. Every episode in series 7 to 11, as well as the 50th anniversary specials, is examined, analysed, and discussed in thoughtful detail, highlighting the exhilarating moments, the connections to Doctor Who lore, the story arcs, the relationships, the goofs, the accumulated trivia and much, much more. Designed for die-hard Whovians and Who newbies alike, Who Is The Doctor 2 explores time and space with the Doctor and chronicles the imagination that has made Doctor Who an iconic part of culture for over 50 years.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Popular culture

Informations

• Publié par: Ecw Press
• Date de parution: 16 avril 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781773054704
• Langue: English

Extrait

Who Is The Doctor 2
The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who — The Modern Series
Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?



Contents
Introduction
Series Seven (2012–13)
7.00: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Matt Smith
7.01: Asylum of the Daleks
7.02: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Karen Gillan
7.03: A Town Called Mercy
7.04: The Power of Three
Arthur Darvill
7.05: The Angels Take Manhattan
7.06: The Snowmen
7.07: The Bells of Saint John
Jenna Coleman
7.08: The Rings of Akhaten
7.09: Cold War
7.10: Hide
7.11: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
7.12: The Crimson Horror
7.13: Nightmare in Silver
7.14: The Name of the Doctor
The 2013 Specials (2013)
2013.01: The Day of the Doctor
2013.02: The Time of the Doctor
Series Eight (2014)
8.01: Deep Breath
Peter Capaldi
8.02: Into the Dalek
8.03: Robot of Sherwood
8.04: Listen
8.05: Time Heist
8.06: The Caretaker
8.07: Kill the Moon
8.08: Mummy on the Orient Express
8.09 : Flatline
8.10: In the Forest of the Night
8.11–8.12: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
Series Nine (2015)
9.00: Last Christmas
9.01–9.02: The Magician’s Apprentice / The Witch’s Familiar
9.03–9.04: Under the Lake / Before the Flood
9.05: The Girl Who Died
9.06: The Woman Who Lived
9.07–9.08: The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion
9.09: Sleep No More
9.10: Face the Raven
9.11: Heaven Sent
9.12: Hell Bent
9.13: The Husbands of River Song
Series Ten (2017)
10.x: Friend from the Future
10.00: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
10.01: The Pilot
Pearl Mackie
10.02: Smile
10.03: Thin Ice
10.04: Knock Knock
10.05: Oxygen
10.06: Extremis
Matt Lucas
10.07: The Pyramid at the End of the World
10.08: The Lie of the Land
10.09: Empress of Mars
10.10: The Eaters of Light
10.11–10.12: World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls
10.13: Twice Upon a Time
Steven Moffat
Series Eleven (2018)
11.01: The Woman Who Fell to Earth
Jodie Whittaker
Chris Chibnall
11.02: The Ghost Monument
11.03: Rosa
Tosin Cole
11.04: Arachnids in the U.K.
Bradley Walsh
11.05: The Tsuranga Conundrum
11.06: Demons of the Punjab
Mandip Gill
11.07: Kerblam!
11.08: The Witchfinders
11.09: It Takes You Away
11.10: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
11.11: Resolution
Appendices
The Night of the Doctor (2013)
The Doctor’s Meditation (2015)
Recommended Resources
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright


For Shannon Dohar and Joy Piedmont: the best of friends and the best of fans
— GB
For Gina, for friendship and support when I needed it most
— RS?


Introduction
“We are here today because Doctor Who is the greatest show on television. We really mean this, by the way. That’s not hyperbole.”
That was the opening line of the first volume of our Doctor Who episode guide — Who Is The Doctor — which was published way back in 2012. Eight years later, we’re back for a second volume, and . . . yep. We still mean that.
Doctor Who has now been on for 37 seasons across 56 years. (That’s 26 seasons of the Classic Series from 1963 to 1989 and 11 seasons of the Modern Series that began in 2005) and has broadcast (at the time of writing) 313 stories. You would think with a show this long-lived that you would need a book just to understand what’s going on . . .
Nah.
This is all you need to know about Doctor Who : it’s about someone called the Doctor, who travels in a time machine disguised as a blue telephone box and battles monsters.
The rest of it — the Doctor’s ability to regenerate their form into someone new (male or female), the Doctor’s home planet, the Doctor’s companions — that’s stuff that goes into Doctor Who for sure, but you don’t need to know about those things to enjoy it.
Because that’s the thing about Doctor Who : it’s fun. Pure, unadulterated fun. The kind of fun that comes from travelling through time and space in a machine that’s bigger on the inside than the outside. Fun television shouldn’t require a Ph.D. or even an entrance exam. You shouldn’t need a book like ours to understand Doctor Who .
But we think this book can make watching Doctor Who even more fun for you.
Who We Are
This book is a co-authored affair, written by two friends with very different ideas about Doctor Who , television drama and, indeed, life. If you haven’t met us before, this is who we are. (If you have, welcome back.)
Here are six facts about us . . . one of them is a lie. (You can find the answers in the Acknowledgements.)
Graeme Burk (GB) I’ve been watching Doctor Who since I was a 14-year-old entranced by the killer mummies in “Pyramids of Mars.” I’ve written a number of books about Doctor Who , edited a fanzine about Doctor Who and currently co-host a podcast about Doctor Who called Reality Bomb . I once told Sophie Aldred that Ace was tied with Leela as my favourite Doctor Who companion. I hosted a game show on public access cable TV as a teenager. I contributed to the memoir of Doctor Who ’s creator, Sydney Newman, and even found new evidence that Newman came up with the original idea of Doctor Who . Colin Baker once kissed me on the mouth on my birthday.
Robert Smith? (RS?) I’ve been watching Doctor Who since I was a five-year-old entranced by the giant fly in “The Green Death.” I’ve written and edited a number of books about Doctor Who , Star Trek , Buffy the Vampire Slayer and zombies. I share a birthday and am exactly the same age as one of actors who played the Doctor. I’ve been attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, got kidnapped in Senegal and was bitten by a lion in South Africa. I once accidentally created an entire academic subdiscipline and in doing so won a Guinness World Record. Colin Baker once told me he loved me.
About the Book
We review 66 stories (including three mini-episodes) that comprise Series Seven through Eleven of the modern version of Doctor Who . Each of them has a guide entry, which includes the following categories:
The Big Idea What the story is about in 45 words or less.
Roots and References These are the things in literature or pop culture that might have influenced the writing, design or production of the story, along with references directly cited by characters in the episode.
Adventures in Time and Space Doctor Who has been around since 1963; you’re bound to find a reference or two (or 13) to past Doctor Who continuity in a story. We cover everything from the Atraxi to the Zygons.
The Story Arc Effect Series Seven to Ten of the Modern Series are each driven by an ongoing story arc — from a repeated meme to the development of a story. We’ll explain how a particular episode fits into that series’ arc.
Unfinished Business During Series Eleven, there was no story arc, so we track instead the ongoing character developments within the ensemble cast.
The Doctor and the Companion A statement on the progress of the relationship between the Doctor and the central companions.
Monster of the Week Doctor Who is all about the monsters. We talk about who or what they are.
Stand Up and Cheer The great moment in the story . . .
Roll Your Eyes . . . and the one that made you cringe.
You’re Not Making Sense That moment in the story that made you go, “WTF?!”
Interesting Trivia Intriguing bits of behind-the-scenes information, facts about the Doctor Who universe and queries about the story. Or stuff that we found fascinating and think you will too.
Cool?/Don’t Be Stupid?/Aw, Brilliant? The bottom-line critique by one of the authors.
Second Opinion The co-author contributes their own critique. Sometimes there’s blessed agreement. Sometimes there’s an unholy brawl.
The Psychic Papers
This book also includes histories of various elements of the series, including its mythos, monsters and production. These entries will offer complete histories and may include spoilers for Classic Doctor Who stories and mild spoilers of other Modern Series stories. If you’re reading this guide while watching the episodes for the first time, consider yourself warned.
Oh My God, It’s Back! It’s the Unbelievably Geeky Part
We include this section in the introduction for all our books. If you’re not a hardcore fan, don’t worry about any of this stuff; you can skip to the end of the introduction. If you are hardcore, we’re happy to argue with you, oh serious nerd. (We speak as one of you.)
We get that there are all kinds of intricate debates about matters pertaining to Doctor Who . (Here’s one: was Sara Kingdom a companion?) Ultimately, this guide reflects the thinking of its authors. (Our answer to the above is yes.) Moreover, there are some things we had to make a call on for the sake of consistency. Here’s a list of things to keep in mind. We continue with the stance from Who Is The Doctor that the post-2005 version of Doctor Who is effectively a new TV series, albeit one linked by continuity and heritage to the 1963–89 Classic version. Thus we call the 2014 season of Doctor Who “Series Eight,” not “Season 34.” This is pretty much how it is seen by most fans, the press and the BBC’s own official home video boxsets. (We also follow the British convention of calling a season a “series” in this context.) We tend to include anything that has been broadcast on BBC1, which is why we’re including the mini-episode “Friend from the Future.” Anything t