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DOCTOR WHO: 'The Snowmen' Gets A New Prequel Minisode!! + Changes To Opening Coming!!
BBC has issued another prequel to The Snowmen, this year's DOCTOR WHO Christmas Special.
The last episode found Vastra - the hottest lizard lady on or off this planet - encountering a rather Darkish Doctor.
This new installment, seen below, continues her tale. Or, should that be tail? Do lady Silurians have tails? The literal, reptilian kind, I mean...
The Snowmen transmits on BBC One and BBC America Christmas Day!!
Also, today we learn that The Snowmen will being forth a new title sequence and theme arrangement for the show! More details HERE!
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Dec. 17, 2012, 4:54 p.m. CST
Wonder if new opening will last the remainder of series 7?
by Michael_Jacksons_Ghost
Or will the new opening be the same as series 5,6, and the beginning of series 7, just changes with font designs?
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The Doctor has enough fun friends. Never really cared about the trashcans with plungers, or the silly Cybermen. He needs better enemies that aren't props.
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Dec. 17, 2012, 5:21 p.m. CST
cant wait till jj abrams takes over the series and sux all of the soul right out of it
by walt
time for the brits to experience what raping of one's childhood feels like
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Thank god. Murray Gold's version of the theme for the Smith era is just embarrassingly awful.
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Kinky!
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With Amy gone and Moffatt's preachiness going beyond subtlety, I'm outta here. Cheers, mates.
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http://tinyurl.com/c7mj5bn - For who-ever is interested. My god, that was the lamest pun I've ever done... oh noes ... now I'm rhyming... *back to bed*
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Oh wait, Moffat's straight, and they're women. It's only the 'gay agenda' if the writer's gay and the character's are male. Bitching aside, I'm cautiously optimistic about the christmas special. Yes, the snow men look beyond stupid, but since most of the focus will undoubtedly be on Clara/Oswin/Souffle Girl it just might fly.
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Try concentrating on the story for a change, eh? I don't particularly care if the logo's got Christmas decorations on it and there are sleigh bells in the music, just try producing a decent story for a change. Oh, wait, it's a Christmas episode, so it's bound to be even worse than usual. Sentient, evil snow and kissing companions. Christ on a bike.
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Even the rubbish ones. Besides, I've got a good pre-50th vibe about this year's edition. The board has been cleared, the pieces are being rearranged, and a new game will shortly begin.
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I liked it when the Doctor when round calling in favours off a few characters he'd met before but I don't want to see them again. Hopefully they're not in the full episode... I really liked the Christmas episode with the opera singer in the freezer. And the Christmas Invasion and the Runaway Bride. The others have varied between dull, forgettable and embarrassing. I often persuade non-Who fans to watch on Christmas Day for a taste of what they've been missing. They don't normally come back for any more.
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I've never understood that. Of course, these people can still watch the episode and come back and say 'there you go, I told you it was rubbish', but to say so beforehand? Baffling. All part of modern society's need to bitch and moan about everything I suppose.
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As if the US is the ONLY place that you grew up with Star Trek. Fucking ignorant is what you are. Thank JJ for making Trek fun to watch and energizing again. We did experience that with Moffat taking over. He made it more expansive and fun. I bid you a fuck off. -Namaste-
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...might be silent in about a week. Or not? Well, this is and always will be AICN. Where all shades and colours of mankind gather to praise and bitch, to love and hate, to giggle and moan... I'm eagerly awaiting th Christmas Special. This Half A Season was not enough Who for 1 year. See, I'm already moaning about not enough Who. Though I love Who! ;-)
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So say we all.
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Great characters wonderfully performed. But is this latest snippet the opening of the episode itself? If not, I find myself curious how the actual story will re-introduce them (then again, the episode itself is presumably going to focus on the new companion rather than our old friends?)
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Just as hope and anticipation from the faintest whisps of news can become a self-sustaining joy, so can doubt dig deeper and deeper pits from the tiniest of irritations. Expectations are subjective. No matter how well and how consistently something delivers, the dream of what could be can still begin to overshoot what's possible. It's hard, very hard, when desperately trying to gather eyeballs and generate excitement, to also weave in a little restraint, to pull down expectations that have gone too far or to make an honest invitation to people who have become cynical about having their emotions engineered by marketting. Since last year's special evoked Narnia references, let me give a shout out to a wonderful scene from C.S.Lewis's "The Last Battle", at the finale of the Narnia series where a group of dwarves are seated at a banquet and cannot see a great feast before them, thinking it only stale bread and foul water. Ignoring Lewis's religious allegories, I feel the scene speaks deeply to the self-reinforcing subjectiveness of our joys and despair. Don't hate the haters. Just accept that sometimes people become trapped. If everyone could find bliss on a whim, the entertainment industry wouldn't need to exist in the first place.
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A beautiful sentiment beautifully expressed. DW rewards people who bring their imaginations to the party. To fail to imagine is to fail to see.
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Image on the official site and also on Blogtor Who. Looks great - a mixture of classic console with a few hints of McGann's console. Love it.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 7:41 p.m. CST
This year's special looks to be much better than last year's
by DoctorTom
At least if we can judge by the prequels. It feels like the spark is back for a Christmas story (small S on story - I don't think we're getting Moffat riffing off that movie yet, but I'd triple dog dare him to try). I saw the picture of the new TARDIS console room, and I get the feeling it's going to do double duty in the 50th anniversary special. It looks a lot like it could be a default setting for the desktop pattern. Maybe the rumors about a young first Doctor will pan out.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 8:57 p.m. CST
Funny...someone mentioned JJ Abrams - Just saw the 1st 10 min. of "Into Darkness", w/ Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith) in...
by obijuanmartinez
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Dec. 18, 2012, 9:32 p.m. CST
It still bugs me that they didn't update the Silurians...
by ProfWimsey
Intelligent dinosaurs would be warm-blooded and feathered. They didn't know that in 1970, but they knew it by 2010! Vastra should have a feathery crest, and probably a fuzzy face, too.
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They're reptiles evolved into the dominant lifeform at that time.
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But this year's I will pass on. Yes, the scaley dyke turned me off. Deal! Plus, the first episode of Who I ever saw was the one with the Christmas Carol theme, complete with Amy Pond (and unfortunately, Rory too). Hated Rory. Third wheel, when the heat was between Amy and the Doc. Then I saw "The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe" and lost my nut over it. FANTASTIC. It hurts to say goodbye to the Doctor. But I'm not seeing anything in this new ep to prompt me to pay Amazon to watch it. Ah well. Nice while it lasted.
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Dec. 19, 2012, 3:55 a.m. CST
My heart sinks further with each Christmas special that's made.
by Johnny Wishbone
Inter-species lesbianism? Victorian-era humans being totally at ease with aliens? Evil snowmen?? I for one am growing tired of this self-indulgent tripe, riddled with in-jokes and nods & winks as to how clever a writer Moffat is. If you want to write an intelligent "Victorian" era story, please see "The Talons Of Weng-Chiang" first as that's the bench-mark, and it didn't patronise the children (or adults) who watched it. Is it any wonder this story is being broadcast at 5:15 in the afternoon? It's clearly been aimed at 3 year-olds, those who don't appreciate good sci-fi and die-hard "Who" fans who won't hear a bad word against their beloved show.
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Dec. 19, 2012, 6:05 a.m. CST
Nice to see Scrooge has been rallying the troops, this week.
by Captain Howdy
If anyone else knows of something more suited to, (or deserving of), an hour of your televisual time on Christmas Day, feel free to enlighten us. I'll be sure to stick it on TiVo and watch it after Doctor Who.
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Dec. 19, 2012, 6:14 a.m. CST
Many humans have naturally naked faces. Why shouldn't Silurians?
by veteran_of_mu
I imagine Vastra has pubic feathers. And I imagine they tickle.
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Dec. 19, 2012, 6:17 a.m. CST
Plenty of episodes haven't been 'aimed' at me or my ilk. So what?
by V'Shael
If this Xmas special doesn't appeal to me at all, that would be my comment, and leave it at that. If everyone else thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and I don't, I'll scratch my head curiously, but again I won't be trying to convert anyone. As it is, I have high expectations just for the new companion, and low expectations because the Christmas episodes have always seemed like an excuse for the writers to indulge in a little more cheese than usual, and to wave away plot holes with a little more legerdemain than I'd like.
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Is it possible that you just made Madam Vastra even more sexy? Yes, I think it is.
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*blank stare at the screen* ok, that's ... that's enough Internet for me today.
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The era of Moffat worship is slowly coming to an end. Thank the Lord the great charlatan is finally being found out.
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www.facebook.com/doctorwho <p> Proper retro console! I actually kinda love it!
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Oh boy.
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