The Doctor From Gallifrey 

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The Almost People was fairly simple to explain. Essentially the Doctor and the ganger version of himself helped everyone else to escape to the TARDIS. Jennifer's ganger made a second ganger and tried to unite the other gangers to kill the human versions of themselves. They weren't having it and Jennifer turned into a horrific monster. By the time they all escaped in the TARDIS there was one version of everyone left, some human, some ganger. 

There was a shock ending though as it was revealed that Amy was actually a ganger. The Doctor melted her and we saw Amy being ready to give birth in some mysterious hospital-like place, being looked over by the myseterious eye-patch lady. What does it all mean?

It should also be noted that because the Doctor and his ganger switched places, Amy accidentally told the real Doctor that he was going to die. This may be important later on. 

We shall hopefully find out more in the next episode, A Good Man Goes to War. Can't wait!

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Wow,this series continues to be particularly good. In this episode the TARDIS lands at a factory where the workers use doppelgangers or “gangers” of themself to work with dangerous acid. This is created from a living substance known as the Flesh. A solar storm causes the gangers to become separated from their human counterparts yet they still have the memories and feelings of the real humans. The humans want to destroy their ganger counterparts and vice versa and the premise of a civil war began to build. The episode ended with a ganger of the Doctor appearing, which I found to be really unexpected!

It was a good episode with a fabulous cliff hanger. I enjoyed it perhaps more than some of the other episodes because it wasn’t overly complicated, it didn’t need to be. And Rory wasn’t killed in this episode which is unusual though he did joke about it. Very enjoyable and it is clear that the write of 2006’s “Fear Her” has greatly improved in that time!

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Neil Gaimon's masterpiece saw the Doctor recieving a message from a Time Lord who was apparently outside of the universe. On arrival the TARDIS' soul is put into a woman and it appears that the message was not from a living Time Lord but a message from a dead one. The asteroid they land on has a consious and is known as "House" who feeds of the energy of TARDIS'. When House learns that the Doctor's TARDIS is the last one in existence he steals it with Amy and Rory inside. He heads towards the universe and the Doctor and Idris have to build a TARDIS out of scrap to catch up. They land in the old control room only and House tries to kill them by deleting the room. They are transported to the main control room and the TARDIS leaves the body of Idris and returns to where it belongs, where it destroys House.

All in all, it was fantastic. The Doctor's relationship with the TARDIS became much stronger. We have always known that the TARDIS is a living thing rather than a machine but this episode took it into new territory. Surranne Jones was fantastic as Idris as was Micheal Sheen as the voice of House. Plus I liked seeing the TARDIS corridors and seeing the old control room one more time.

There was another bit of mystery with the TARDIS looking into the future and saying "The only water in the wood is the river". One presumes she means River Song. And the only issue I had was Rory being killed again, albeit it briefly this time. Rory is quickly catching up with the daleks in the number of times he has been wiped out but still comes back. But apart from that is was a cracking episode that fans will truly have loved!

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The Doctor, Rory and Amy arrive on a pirate ship to find that whenever someone gets a cut they are destroyed by a siren, who lures them with it's singing. At first the three aren't welcomed and Amy has to save the Doctor from walking the plank by having a sword fight. As the episode progresses it appears that the siren can travel through reflections and eventually the Doctor realises that they must let the siren take them as she is teleporting her victims rather than killing them. It turns out the siren is actually a doctor and is making these people better aboard a space ship. 

There is a tiny bit of story arc at the end too. Amy thinks about the Doctor's death and wonders about telling him. And the Doctor uses the TARDIS to scan Amy for a pregnancy test but the screen keeps flicking between positive and negative. What could this mean?

Well this episode was everything we would expect from pirates on Doctor Who. A bit of swash-buckling fun and an alien "preying" on pirates who actually turns out to be a force for good. It's not exactly that ground-breaking but it was fun and lighter than the previous two episodes of the series. Very enjoyable.

The BBC have now announced the future of The Sarah Jane Adventures after the death of lead actress Elisabeth Sladen a short while ago:

“Contrary to press reports today we can confirm that no new episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures will be filmed following the tragic death of actress Elisabeth Sladen in April, 2011. As a tribute to Elisabeth the six episodes that were recorded with her last year will be broadcast on CBBC at a date to be confirmed.”

I guess this is the best news we could here. We will be getting a fifth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures but it will not continue without Sarah Jane.

WARNING: This review contains spoilers. If you don’t want to know what happens, STOP READING. Come back later when you’ve watched the episode! 

OK so the story continues from The Impossible Astronaut. Canton looks as if he is going against the gang by leading the FBI to them. He traps the Doctor, "shoots" Amy and Rory and River jumps off a building to escape him. Turns out that Amy and Rory are fine and the TARDIS is in the prison with the Doctor. The Doctor then uses the TARDIS to catch River by having her land in the swimming pool. Amy is kidnapped by the Silence as her and Canton search for the girl. The five must hold a revolution against the Silence and do this by having Canton record the Silent telling him that they should kill all silence on sight. The Doctor merges this footage with that of the moon landing so that now every time a human sees a silent they kill them on sight. 

Oh and then there is that ending. The mysterious girl is in an alley in New York and tells someone who is there she is dying but is will be OK. She then regenerates meaning she must be a Time Lady, or at least part Time Lady.

The episode was brilliant again. The filming that was done in America was beautiful and the story was very clever. I really like the way the Doctor managed to defeat the silence and the final battle in the imitation TARDIS where River kills a whole bunch of silence is fantastic. As is her landing in the swimming pool moment.  Plus there were some lovely romantic moments between the Doctor and River with them kissing at the end. 

But there are still many unasnwered questions, probaly more than before! We still don't know about the Doctor's death, whether he actually dies or not. The relationship between the Doctor and River is still unclear. And most of all, who is that girl? I am thinking we won't find this out for a long,long time but I shall be coming up with a full list of vaguely possible people later on. Let the speculation begin!

The Curse of the Black Spot trailer can be found here.

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As promised here is a list of wild possible theories about who the girl at the end of Day of the Moon is:

• Amy and the Doctor's daughter
• River and the Doctor's daughter
• River Song
• Jenny, the Doctor's Daughter
• A different daughter from the Doctor
• A time lady we have met before e.g. Romana, the Rani
• A former companion or something to do with them e.g. Rose or Donna
• The Master's Daughter
• Some descendant of the Susan, the Doctor's grandchild in First Doctor era.
• A survivor of the Time War (random Time Lady).
• Somone else..comment with anything else you can think of!

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Amy, Rory and River each get a letter telling them to go to the middle of the Utah desert. There they meet the Doctor who takes them for a picnic by a lake. All seems well until an Apollo astronaut walks out of the lake and kills the Doctor before he has chance to regenerate. His companions are of course devastated but then get rather confused when they meet the Doctor again. This is a younger version of the Doctor they had seen die and he takes them to 1969 to investigate a small child who keeps phoning President Nixon. During this investigation Amy meets a Silent and then forget about it but due to the Silent she tells the Doctor she is pregnant. The episode ends with Rory and River finding the TARDIS from “The Lodger” full of silence (how the plural works I don’t know yet!) and Amy shoots the astronaut only to discover a young girl appears to be inside. Roll credits.

45 minutes of amazing television summarised into four and a bit lines. This episode was certainly fast-paced and extremely exciting, much more than a usual opener of a series. But I guess this is the first time in New Who where we know all the characters at the start of the series. There are some really funny moments in it too with Matt Smith’s Doctor still having his child-like fun as well as a little flirting with River. The Silence are actually pretty scary, mostly because they can make people forget they ever saw them. All in all, it was incredible.

So many questions arise it’s ridiculous. Why is the TARDIS from “The Lodger” there? What happened to Rory? Did Amy really shoot a child? Is the Doctor really dead? And how did he age so much? And of course the series-spanning question, who is River Song? In the middle of a good two-parter you want to be able to watch the second half straight away and this episode certainly makes you want to! Just…wow!

You can watch the trailer for Day of the Moon here.

We were all sad to learn of the death of our Sarah Jane, Elisabeth Sladen yesterday. I felt that my words aren't enough so here are what the people who knew her had to say: 

The creator of The Sarah Jane Adventures Russell T Davies said: "I absolutely loved Lis. She was funny and cheeky and clever and just simply wonderful. The universe was lucky to have Sarah Jane Smith; the world was lucky to have Lis."

Steven Moffat, Doctor Who's lead writer and executive producer said: "'Never meet your heroes' wise people say. They weren't thinking of Lis Sladen. Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are in stories. But many years later, when I met the real Sarah-Jane – Lis Sladen herself – she was exactly as any child ever have wanted her to be. Kind and gentle and clever; and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way.

“There are a blessed few who can carry a whole television show on their talent and charisma – but I can't think of one other who's done it quite so politely. I once showed my son Joshua an old episode of Doctor Who, in which Lis appeared. 'But that's Sarah Jane,' he said, confused, 'In old Doctor Who. From years ago. How come she always look exactly the same?' It's not a comfort today, of course, but children will still be saying that 50 years from now."

Matt Smith said: "What struck me about Lis was her grace. She welcomed me, educated me, and delighted me with her tales and adventures on Doctor Who. And she also seemed to have a quality of youth that not many people retain as they go through life. Her grace and kindness will stay with me because she had such qualities in abundance and shared them freely. I will miss her, as will the world of Doctor Who and all the Doctors that had the good pleasure to work with Lis Sladen and travel the universe with Sarah Jane."

David Tennant said: "I just can't believe that Lis is gone. She seemed invincible. The same woman who enchanted my childhood, enchanted my time on Doctor Who and enchanted generations who have watched her and fallen in love with her – just like I did. I feel very honoured to have shared a TARDIS with Sarah Jane Smith, and I feel very lucky to have shared some time with Lis Sladen. She was extraordinary."

On his website Tom Baker said: Those sweet memories of happy days with Lis Sladen, the lovely, witty, kind and so talented Lis Sladen. I am consoled by the memories. I was there, I knew her, she was good to me and I shall always be grateful, and I shall miss her."

"I loved my time on the Tardis with her. I am proud to have worked with such an icon of the sci-fi world," wrote John Barrowman. "Your Doctor Who family are very sad and will miss you and your beautiful smile. She was a delight. Can't tell you how sad I am."

The premiere of the first episode of Series 6 of Doctor Who, The Impossible Astronaut, will be dedicated to Lis. I hope you will all join me in saying "Goodbye, my Sarah Jane".

It is with great sadness that I must report this but today Elisabeth Sladen, who has played Sarah Jane Smith for many a year, sadly died .The world has lot a fantastic woman and a wonderful actress. It appears she has had cancer for some time but details are scarce at this stage.

I shall be posting a full obituray at some point tomorrow evening to celebrate this amazing woman's life.