Monday, 4 April 2011

Doctor Who Follow-Up to the Screening of ''Impossible Astronaut''/''Day of the Moon''

The screening for "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon", as mentioned in this interview, has just ended. And BBC entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba—who only today announced the title for Episode 7, the mid-series finale—was there to give everyone a few more spoilers about Series 6!

It's quite a long one, and if you don't want the links to Lizo's tweets or my introductions to each one, simply scroll through and read the italics.

He mentioned a new trailer with Cybermen included!
"Great two parter. Scary and exciting in equal measure. New trailer too. With Cybermen, more fighting with Amy. Extra pirate stuff..."
But Lizo refused to give too many spoilers.
"BTW so many things happen in two episodes. Try and stay spoiler free. So much stuff can be given away that will lessen enjoyment of ep."
What are the questions we'll be asking this series? 
"Very strong eps, american stuff looks great. New monster(s) very terrifying. Story poses lots of questions, some of which not yet answered."
He implicitly suggests that Amy isn't the one to die in the two-parter.
"In new trailer Amy fighting roboty looking things that look slightly like the ones in I Robot. And the Dr says 'Yo ho ho' in the Pirate bit."
Now, here's the real surprise. Contrary to what we've all been thinking, the cliffhanger for Episode 7 isn't the biggest surprise this series. What does Lizo mean when he says . . .
"Episode 6 has biggest cliff hanger says [Steven Moffat] bigger than 7!"
. . . and this?
"Matt says they read Ep 6 and all said OMG when they reached end!"
Lizo continues, telling us how long this is going to last.
"The Silence Will Fall storyline will cover all 13 eps says Steven."
Alex Kingston gets a shout-out from Lizo.
"Alex Kingston says weirdest theory she's heard about who River is is that River's the Doctor."
And is Matt Smith leaving the series this year, you might ask Lizo? The brackets are a correction.
"Matt says The Doctor isn't a part he's planning on giving up [anytime] soon."
Now, what sort of spoilers will leak out from this event?
"And [Steven Moffat] has asked press and audience not to give away major spoilers, and one in particular. Gets round of applause!"
Lizo hears what is to come in 2013.
"Re 50th anniversary [Steven Moffat] says 'yes, there are thoughts'. But says nothing more than that."
If and when Lizo tweets anything else that's interesting about the screening follow-up, we'll post it right here! Thanks to Fraz for pointing this out to us!
April 23rd: It begins.

3 Comments:

Liquidizer said...

But, episode 6 is Matthew Graham's second part 'Gangers'.. if that's a cliffhanger, and episodes 7 and 8 are cliffhangers.. doesn't that make a 4 parter?

Walt said...

Ha just got it: doppelgängers

Tom said...

Didn't most classic serials end with some sort of cliffhanger for the next serial?