Day of the Moon puts the young executroids here at THT Worldwide in a bit of a quandary. Just to be clear, we liked the story, quite a bit as it happens. But we're a little worried that the Moffat-ization of the storytelling is going to become impenetrable to casual audiences. As fans we follow, even obsess over this kind of thing, that's why you're here.
Having just finished with six season of Lost last year, there was no reason during that last year for anyone to watch that show who hadn't a thorough acquaintanceship with a very knotty backstory. The latent fear is we're heading into the same weeds here, although we suspect that moving to a run of stories from other writers will see a deemphasis on the overall arc for awhile.
As for Day of the Moon itself, what's not to like?. This was a visually dense story, as our caps demonstrate. Some questions were answered, but of course it will be the open strands which will draw the most interest.
- How will Amy usher in the Silents?
- How can Amy be both preggers and not?
- What is the relationship between River, Amy, and the little girl?
- We're the Silents really raising that girl, and does that mean that although they be manipulative, they may not necessarily be evil?
- Although Amy said she missed shooting the girl, doesn't the clearly cracked visor mean that she compromised the suit and inadvertently killed her anyway.
- Will the Doctor know her as a Time Lord when he sees her again?
A couple of other last thoughts… River is the new Captain Jack (The Moff introduced him after all) and Mark Sheppard is consistently awesome.
Images and caps for Day of the Moon are now online.
What is it about Doctor Who and spacesuits? It's hard not to think of 
Clearly Moffat takes his season openers more seriously than RTD did, and comparisons to previous years end-of-season arc cliffhangers feel right in terms of tone. We're all on board again, and isn't that nice to say.
Here we are sitting on the eve of another season, one which promises thrills and scares and views of the Western scrub brush, pirates, and probably an unpublished surprise or two. The publicity build-up has been considerable, perhaps even massive, and by extension says that Doctor Who is in the best shape it has ever been.
Indeed it was.
Everybody and their brother will have something to say today about the passing of Elisabeth Sladen. I myself had a sharp intake of breath upon reading the news not only due to it seemingly coming from out of the blue (I had no idea she was battling cancer) but also because she just seemed so ageless. It's sometimes easy to forget she was Jon Pertwee's last companion (look at how young she seems to be in that picture to the right) because she spent so much more time (it seemed) with Tom Baker. Certainly that run of stories are what I'll always treasure the most.
And yet she always seemed to elevate the material around her, a quality which kept her fondly remembered and kept her association with the program very current indeed.
Although you might think we here at the Tour should be used to it by now, the week leading up to a new season is one of immense anticipation for us, and we suspect you as well. One of the ways we get ourselves ready is to put forward a clear-the-decks site wide update. This one covers every corner of the site and adds approximately 6500 images while raising the overall image count to just under 112,000 images. As always to find out where the changes landed go to 
mages for each story will only appear after the story has been transmitted on BBC1. Caps for the episodes should appear the day after.
Nothing like a jaw-dropping trailer for whipping fans into a froth, 
As for The Tour, we're getting ready to drop a house-cleaning site wide update during the weekend of the 16th-17th to prepare us to plunge headlong into the the first half of this split season. After that we'll be in-season mode for a while.