Today we begin a new experiment extending the reach of the Tour. I'm filling in for the regular admin at moff_era_daily! this week and so it seems an ideal time, what with this being the off-season as it were, to try something we've been tempted to do for quite awhile, which is to post one completely random picture from the Tour a day.
The Tour has had for many years a Randomizer function built into it for looking at whole story galleries. This new effort, with the exception of this first week to kick things off, moves the random function down to the individual image level.
This week to begin we'll confine ourselves to the Matt Smith era in keeping with moff_era_daily. Here we go…
We'll crosspost these for a few days but after that these can be seen here.
Never accuse us here at THT Worldwide of being on top of current events. In news that's probably about two weeks old, someone has given Matt Smith "the Simpsons Treatment." Interesting how little animation was required to Simpson-ize him.
Upon first viewing of The Big Bang here at THT Worldwide, the consensus in the room was that while we liked it, we also wondered aloud if the general public would "get it." We then undertook a second, more defined, viewing sharpened all of the marvelous detail that had been laid in not only in the story, also through the season. Although the change in tone from 
Matt Smith was faultless once again. The Young Man with Old Eyes shone both when speaking to Amy strapped into the Pandorica and when telling a sleeping 7-year old Amelia to love Rory and have a good life. The Piggly-Wiggly Timey-Wimey-ness to get the Doctor out of the Pandorica in the end amounts to something of a cheat, but it was carried off with such panache by Smith that it didn't matter in the end.
So here we are… at the precipice of a season-ending (triple) cliffhanger. There are so many story threads dangling, not just from 
There was one unusual thing in this episode however that took the THT Brain Trust (temporarily) right out of the story, and it touches on a Tour pet peeve. Matt Smith has, relatively speaking, quite an asymmetrical face. It's always bothered us when stills are released in publications that have clearly been reversed, mostly to keep drawing readers eyes towards the center of a page. Peter Davison images are infamous in this regard. In 
Another week, another 3-hand character piece. This time however instead of being the change agent, Amy was pushed to the sidelines and it was the Doctor who moved the plot along. While it was feared that Richard Curtis' comedic history would undermine 
In a season where nods back to "classic" Doctor Who have been more in vogue than at any point since the series came back, it's odd that the more unconventional stories of this season like Amy's Choice and this weeks Vincent and the Doctor have risen to the top of our 2010 Dynamic Ratings Table. Neither change-of-pace episodes or pseudo-historicals are new to Doctor Who, or nu-Who for that matter, and like any Doctor Who they rise and fall on the strength and execution of the story. In this regard Love & Monsters completely misfired while The Unquiet Dead worked wonderfully. And much like The Unquiet Dead, the subject matter has much to do with art and artists.