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Rory’s Choice

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Sep 112011
 

Wow.  Just wow.   The Girl Who Waited is this year's Amy's Choice, the sneaky little, and very personal, mind-bender which brought the series regulars into sharp relief.  Those who have had reason to be annoyed with Amy and Karen Gillan surely have nothing to talk about after a bravura performance this week.  This was definitely an episode which was all about the journey, not the destination, but this particular journey was impeccably shot and directed by Nick Hurran.

There were echoes of other stories rampant throughout The Girl Who Waited, we we're perhaps a week early with our comparisons to The Mind Robber, but we also had thoughts of New Earth and even The Lodger.  Matt Smith was forced by the plot to be almost entirely reactive (would this be the Doctor-lite episode perhaps?) but this was an story for Darvill and Gillan to shine, and they gleamed as brightly as those hospital rooms the story took place in.

The Tour executroids rated The Girl Who Waited as the second best of the season to date (we kept A Good Man Goes to War in place at the top for it's centrality to the two-season continuing arc), but it could still move up depending on how the last 3 episodes play out.

Lots of caps this time around. The images however are unusually limited to the usual suspects seen elsewhere on the web.

 Posted by at 8:34 pm

The Mind Scrobbler

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Sep 042011
 

At first glance Night Terrors bears some superficial resemblance to Fear Her, that strange concoction from David Tennant's first year, but here at THT Galactic Central we were more struck about how it seemed to be more of a macabre version of Patrick Troughon's surreal The Mind Robber.  That's high praise indeed.  God knows it was a far sight better then Gatiss' last outing.

As usual Matt Smith was superb but then all of the cast, including George, was just great.  Lots of images this time around, mostly from the location shooting availabilities in Bristol.  We also experimented with a new technique for producing super HQ caps which we think worked well.

Images and caps for Night Terrors are now online.

 Posted by at 7:14 pm

Blond Ambition

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Aug 282011
 

A curious thought arrived here at THT Worldwide whilst watching Let's Kill Hitler.  The story itself was bumping along quite nicely, what we as longtime fans of the show and of Moffat's stories in particular have come to recognize and expect.  What we were struck by now just how ambitious this style of storytelling is and has become. 

Moffat himself has said as much in the days leading up to the premiere of the back half of this disjointed (as the calendar goes) season.  But he's also clever enough to know that you can't keep stringing along the audience for this type of show, so, in the main he gave out answers in Let's Kill Hitler and resolved questions which go all the way back to Forest of the Dead.

Let's Kill Hitler was basically River's story, despite some of the wackier, shall we say, smaller elements that carried the story along.  But the larger story of the past season and a half was fully in play here, even if the sometimes serendipitous events, and people, that kept this timey-wimey distilled romance moving both forward and backward, couldn't have possibly been predicted when Moffat took the reins back in 2009.  We hope the general audience is staying on board since we fully trust that the fans are.  And isn't it nice to say that because that means that new Doctor Who is in the air.  As fans we should cherish it because we fear we're about due for another drought.

Images and caps for Let's Kill Hitler are now online.

 Posted by at 8:30 pm

Consider the Horse, of Course of Course

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Aug 212011
 

Here we are at the precipice of more new-Who, and lucky us we are getting two premieres this year (of a sort naturally).  The Tour saunters along as it always has getting ready for the batch of new episodes by running out a site-wide update, the first in four months, this time adding 14,000 images (including lots and lots and lots of new screen caps) raising the overall image count to 131,500.  For a bit of perspective it took 5 years just for the Tour to get the first 10,000 images together, and here we're dropping 40% more, lucky lucky you.

As always you can cheat a bit for finding what's new by going to The Master List.

Now we turn our collective attention the the new run of stories.  We'll be here to see the relevant story images and caps after each story has aired.  Let's get going…

 Posted by at 11:17 am

Curiosity has always been my downfall…

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Aug 102011
 

You know how it goes… You have the summer to get things done and then with the clock ticking down, something catches your eye and resets your previously carefully laid plans. 

With that said, the previously announced site-wide update will now be delayed a week while the THT Brain Wizards experiment with a few things on the back end of the site, plus we know from previous experience these things always, always take longer than intended.  Best to be upfront about it know than white-knuckle a rushed final product, it if works at all.

Time will tell. Always does.

 Posted by at 5:48 pm
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