Doctor Who Series Three (because the other one died, you bastards)
 

American viewers: The new series of Doctor Who starts on July 6 in Sci-Fi, so if you don't want to be spoiled as to the shenanigans of Martha and the Doctor, stay the hell away of this thread for a month.

Without further ado, we commence.

As far as the season goes, I cannot believe how the quality of the episodes have reached (maybe surpassed) that of the first series. Somehow, Christopher Eccleston gave the program a magic that was lacking during David Tennant's first series as the Doctor, yet by this time he has managed to find his place in the show. Was it maybe the quality of the scripts? Because, let's face, everything with the Cybermen was, though fanpleasing, bollocks.

I say all of this because of what I've seen. If you ask me, I think that the only weak episodes of this series have been the Dalek ones. More recently, since The Lazarus Experiment, I believe the bar has been raised a little bit every time, including a human Doctor and living suns. With next Saturday's episode being penned by the mastermind behind The Empty Child and The Girl in the Fireplace, I can only expect even more majesty.

Then there's the ending: we know that Captain Jack will be back, and rumours about the Master still abound. What do you think about this series, especially the last two-parter? What do you think will happen? Discuss.

Yeah, I blinked...

Finally, a time paradox of sorts.

I have to say, whoever came up with the idea for those enemies was a bloody genius! Just seeing them all staring out of the windows was unsettling enough, then they all appear EVERYWHERE else as well! The concept was just brilliant and the way it was done was amazing.

"You're not watching it".
"Neither are you".

WHAM! It's there!

Great stuff, it's about time we had a decently scary episode, we haven't had one like that since Impossible Planet.

Remember people, "Don't turn your back on them. Don't even blink".

Oh and captain Jack's back next week!! Whooo!!

Just got finished with the episode and I really must say Doctor Who is on a roll with the quality episodes right now!
While I do think last weeks end of the two parter was better, this really was a great and awesome episode.
Stupid blinking...
Did anyone catch all the subtle changes that happened every now and then besides the angels?

And next week Jack is back for a 3 part season ender.
We shall find out if he shall ever get to make passionate love to the Doctor like he wants to!

Steven Moffat is the best. Proof that you don't need mindblowing CGI effects to create a really effective and scary piece of television.

That's all I have to say. Also: Mirrors.

Who's to say he hasn't already done it?

By the way, there's a character called the Professor next week. Any idea who could that be?

I watched the episode of Confidential after Saturday's episode, and they ended it seeming to imply who that might be.

The episode ended with a montage of past Doctors and such, but the very final clip was from Gridlock, and the Doctor telling Martha that 'I'm not just a Time Lord, I'm the last of the Time Lords', and then it cut to clips of next week's confidential, which had John Barrowman (Captain Jack) saying how the episode was going to 'change Doctor Who forever'. Seems like it was trying to heavily imply that some form of Time Lord or Time Lords were going to be in Utopia, which is odd, I'd of thought they'd of been saved for the finale. Especially if the surviving Time Lord/s is/are in Utopia...then that leaves the question of who the hell Saxon is...

I really like this season for speculation though. It seems better constructed that the previous seasons. Rather than just building up to a big finale with a subtle word drop (Bad Wolf or Torchwood), we've seen a lot more of this plot involving Saxon. They're not overkilling it either. They could easily have stuck a reference in the episode on Saturday, but didn't, which is nice. Unlike the slightly forced feeling Torchwood references last year.

Oh, and I agree with everybody who's praising Blink. One of the best episodes ever, surely!

Ok, let's just get this straight, Saxon IS the Master, it was confirmed by John Simms himself (you know, the guy who PLAYS Saxon?!). He is going to be in the last episode, perhaps the last 2, which are set in present day britain. We have seen clips of him to prove that as well. The last episode IS called "Last of the Time Lords". This clearly means that Simms is Saxon, and thus, the Master (the anagram proves that).

There are no other Time Lords in Utopia, even the Doctor said his people never went that far through time. If we also remember Boes last words he said the Doctor wasn't alone, that was the great secret he had discovered in his extra long life, but even HE never survived to the end of the universe, which is when Utopia is, so the time lord secret he knew about is likely to be completely unrelated to Utopia.

And really, why would they bring in MORE time lords before the finale anyway? It doesn't make sense to do so from a story telling point. The professor then is just another throwaway villian for next weeks story, nothing more, nothing less.

Boe was reffering to Saxon, Saxon is the Master, who appears in the finale of the season. Utopia happens AFTER Boes death, and so he would know nothing of it.

Simple really, I don't get while people are reading so much into everything.

First of all, could you provide a link to that confirmation by John Simm? Because, as far as the ones I've heard, he hasn't denied or confirmed anything other than him playing Mr. Saxon.

Also, what makes you so sure that the Master couldn't be in Utopia? Yes, the Doctor says that the Time Lords never got that far, but why exactly is the TARDIS going to that specific point in time? My theory is that Mr. Saxon is manipulating certain events from behind (like giving the Family of Blood the hint as to where they could find a Time Lord), including the TARDIS' sudden jump in time to that place at the end of the universe.

Now, what if the Professor really regenerates into the Master at the end of Utopia, as rumours say? Because apparently Graeme Harper, director of Utopia, has said that he oversaw a regeneration, though not the Doctor's.

I know: the Face of Boe didn't make it to the end of the universe. But an idea I've been having since Blink could explain as to why it/he/she said the Doctor is not alone: Time is nothing more than a big ball of wibbly wobbley timey whimey stuff, right? What if Blink was more than just a filler? What if it was placed during the season to make the viewers feel comfortable by the real climax of the story? That the Professor/Master/Saxon has been inevitably linked to everything in this season, from the Judoon to the Family of Blood.

As to why the Doctor couldn't detect Mr. Saxon as a Time Lord, I have another idea: the Chameleon Arch. My theory is that the Professor, after regenerating, will use it and become human, therefore leaving no trace for the Doctor to realize he is there.

All speculation, of course.

Simm confirmed he was playing Saxon, not the Master. He's refused to comment on whether Saxon is the Master or not.

But also, there are a LOT of rumours suggesting that Utopia leads directly into the finale. That in many ways, it's a three parter linked.

There were also rumours a while back that Jacobi's character would be buisness as usual in Utopia, until he's killed, and then he regenerates, giving away the secret. I paid no attention to this, but there was a shot in one of the trailers of the Doctor looking incredibly shocked while bathed in an orange light coming from off camera.

So it is possible that Utopia features the return of the Time Lords in some way in a lead in to the finale.

As for the Face of Boe, he could easily of encountered this survivor in time AFTER the events of Utopia (as he'd of witnessed the events of the finale BEFORE they happen to the Doctor, since they occur on modern day Earth).