Friday, April 11, 2008

I just read this report about the filming of this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, and there were some nice sort of spoilers. See...I like spoilers for shows, but not the kind that reveal dialogue or anything that's too...too much? I like having info that's kind of like seeing a trailer for the episode, to wet my appetite for it, and I try to avoid anything more graphic than that. The spoilers I just read involved the setting of the story, and the apparent villains of that story. If you don't want to know these things, then stop now. And I must point out, that these spoilers do not reveal if the 10th Doctor is involved in this special or not.

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The setting for this year's Christmas Special is in a Victorian setting, rather than the modern day setting of the previous 3 specials (or at least the segment that was seen being filmed isn't modern; maybe there's more to it than that?). And the villains are the Cybermen! And these are the newly designed Cybermen, last seen in Part II of the 2nd Season Finale! There are rumors of them working with other entities known as Cyber Wraiths, but that's not confirmed. The title is still unknown, and probably won't be revealed to us until "Journey's End" airs in late June or early July. But in the 30th Season of Who, which is bringing back so many villains and characters from the Whoniverse, it's kind of nice to know that the Cybermen could make it to the party.
;-0)

Season 30 of the Whoniverse, by my reckoning, includes Season 4 of the new Who, Season 2 of Torchwood, and Season 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

And I know I've listed all the returning faces and races before, but there have been some changes since that list, so here we go again, with returning faces and races in season 30 of the Whoniverse:

each name is followed by the season they were introduced.

01 Owen Harper
Season 29

02 Toshiko Sato
Season 27

03 Gwen Cooper
Season 29, though it's possible she's connected to the Gwynith character from Season 27's "The Unquiet Dead".

04 Ianto Jones
Season 29

05 Captain Jack Harkness
Season 27

06 PC Andy
Season 29

07 Rhys Williams
Season 29

08 The Weevils
Season 29

09 Sarah Jane Smith
Season 11

10 Butterfly People of Arcateen V
Season 29 - Mary's race from "Greeks Bearing Gifts".

11 K9
Season 14 or 28 (depending on how you look at it). The character of K9 was introduced in Season 14, but that character left the series and was replaced with K9 Mark II. Then that character left the series and K9 Mark III was introduced in a spin-off pilot episode, and returned in "The Five Doctors" & "School Reunion", but was killed in the latter. Then the Doctor replaced him with K9 Mark IV, which is the character we see in at least 2 episodes of Season 30.

12 The Slitheen
Season 27

13 Donna Noble
Season 28

14 The 10th Doctor
Season 27

15 Sylvia Noble
Season 28

16 Wilfred "Gramps" Mott
Season 29

17 Rose Tyler
Season 27

18 Martha Jones
Season 29

19 The Ood
Season 28

20 The Sontarans
Season 11. They were introduced in the same story as Sarah Jane Smith.

21 The Graske
Season 28. Technically they were introduced in Season 27, but that appearance makes no sense in that season, and so I've included it in Season 28 to make it all fit better.

22 The Hoix
Season 28 (unnamed race from "Love & Monsters")

23 Mickey Smith
Season 27

24 Jackie Tyler
Season 27

25 The Daleks
Season 01

26 The Cybermen
Season 04, though this version of them first appeared in Season 28.

27 Davros (rumored)

28 Harriet Jones (rumored)

29 The Judoon (rumored)

We also see photograhs and references to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Harry Sullivan, the classic Cybermen, The Judoon, Martha Jones's family, Harold Saxon/The Master, the origins of Torchwood (as seen in "Tooth & Claw"), Margaret Blaine (aka Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen), and lots of other neat things from the past.

Sounds like a kick ass season to me :-0)

And I want it all NOW!

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