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Welcome to he third volume in the third series of the reinvented Doctor Who for the 21st century, starring David Tennant as the Doctor and his assistant Martha Jones, played by the delightful Freema Agyeman…
Writers: Paul Cornell and Steven Moffat. Directors: Charles Palmer and Hettie MacDonald Producers: Susi Liggat, Phil Collinson, Russell T. Davis and Julie Gardner.
On this disc there are three episode following the adventures and the dangers the occupants of the TARDIS encounter on what seems like a daily basis…
** BRIEF PLOTS **
* HUMAN NATURE (26th May 2007) (part 1 of 2 )
(An idea from the 1995 novel of the same name)
The year is 1913, just before the outbreak of the first world war, and John Smith is a teacher in the fictional Farrington boarding school… but this Mr Smith is no ordinary man, he is the Doctor, only not the complete Doctor as you know him…
With the Doctor trying to evade an alien group calling themselves 'the family' he has taken his Time Lord mind and placed it into a fob watch, making himself human to avoid 'The families' senses… pleading with Martha to never reveal his true identity until 'the family' die away…
With the Doctor now Human, his only connections with his Time Lord existence being his maid Martha and his vague dreams about a little blue box, space creatures and other strange alien which he jots down in a journal…
Unfortunately, 'The family' are closing in on the Doctor, landing in the small village and taking over the bodies of the locals to find the Time Lord before there lives run out…
With Martha knowing
what to do in most circumstances she feels powerless when John Smith begins to get closer to Joan Redfern, (played by Jessica Hynes), the school nurse… soon realising that she needs the real Doctor back to help her fight the threat of 'the family' as they approach there goal… but the regain the Doctors mind she has to locate the fob watch and convince Mr Smith that his life is not what he thinks it is…
Only Mr Smith is not for turning…
* (To be continued…)
* (Other characters in this episode…
Harry Lloyd - Jeremy Baines Thomas Sangster - Tim Latimer Tom Palmer - Hutchinson Pip Torrens - Rocastle Rebekah Staton - Jenny Gerard Horan - Mr. Clark Lauren Wilson - Lucy Cartwright Matthew White - Phillips Derek Smith - Doorman Peter Bourke - Mr. Chambers
* THE FAMILY OF BLOOD (2nd June 2007) (part 2 of 2 )
This episode is the continuation of Human Nature we still see the Doctor no longer as a time lord but as a human, albeit a clumsy and rather naïve human, called John Smith… holding a job as a school teacher in a boys boarding school evading a small group of aliens calling themselves 'the Family'…
As 'The Family' close in on the Doctors presence, using human bodies to transport themselves around earth, aided by an army of scarecrows, they are on the verge of achieving there goal… using the essence of a Time Lord to achieve Mortality…
With Martha still trying to convince John Smith that he is not who he thinks he is she realises that time is running out as the 'the family' go to war with the village…
Can Martha bring back the Time Lord and stop the people of Farrington from dying at the hands of the evil family?
* Other characters in this episode….
Jessica Hynes - Joan Redfern Harry Lloyd - Jeremy Baines Thomas Sangster - Tim Latimer Tom Palmer - Hutchinson Pip Torrens - Rocastle Rebekah Staton - Jenny Gerard Horan - Mr. Clark Lauren Wilson - Lucy Cartwright Matthew White - Phillips Sophie Turner - Vicar
* BLINK (9th June 2007)
With photographer Sally Sparrow, (played by Carey Mulligan), intrigued by an old house called Wester Drumlins, she soon uncovers its dark secrets as she peels away the wallpaper, revealing a long lost message from someone called 'the doctor'…
Undeterred, she returns with her friend Kathy Nightingale, (played by Lucy Gaskell) only for Kathy to vanish with out a trace, her only clue comes in the form of a letter from a Kathy Nightingale, sent to Wester Drumlins dated from the 1920s.
As Sally begins her investigations into Kathy's disappearance she soon realises that there is more to the house than meets the eye, uncovering the fact that over the years many abandoned vehicles have been found outside the gates of the old house… including a blue police box which no one can open…
Trying to put the pieces of the jigsaw together, including a selection of DVDs which all have mysterious messages from the Doctor and some rather evil looking stone statues, Sally realises the unbelievable truth as to what is happening in Wester Drumlin house…
Can she figure out the clues and reunite the Doctor with the TARDIS before it is too late? Or is the Doctor destined to walk the earth as everyone else?
*Other characters in this episode….
Finlay Robertson - Larry Nightingale Richard Cant - Malcolm Wainwright Michael Obiora - DI Billy Shipton Louis Mahoney - Old Billy Thomas Nelstrop - Ben Wainwright Ian Boldsworth - Banto Ray Sawyer - Desk Sergeant
** IN CONCLUSION **
Another great 135 minutes of entertainment and thrills as you follow the Doctor through time and space…
The first two episodes on this disc are well written and the story that it tells will leave you staring in awe. The entire 90 minutes seems like endless suspense as the doctor believes himself to be human, his only way back to his life as a Time Lord lies in the hands of his trusted companion Martha…
Tennant does his usual brilliant job as the Doctor pretending to be human, with the excellent Freema Agyeman really impressing the crowds with her ability to almost outclass the entire cast on the show… mesmerising the crowd with her smile and charm in front of the camera in every episode… improving greatly show by show.. I am in no doubt that introducing Agyeman as the Tennant companion was one of the best ideas that the Doctor Who creators ever had…she certainly has a lot more to offer in this show.
The last episode on this disc, Blink, is a little unusual and is a little confusing in parts. It is on the same lines as Love and Monsters, regarding the fact that the Doctor only makes a few brief appearances throughout… The show consisting mainly of other guest actors covering the majority of the episode, giving the Doctor and Martha little air time… It is a fantastic story though and the actors involved really do bring out the entertainment value to its limits… and with the villain in the episode being the strangest of creations it can become more silly than scary…
In all, two more memorable stories to watch over and over again, with much entertainment, thrills, suspense and a little romance…
* Would I recommend this….?
Yes I certainly would. It is brilliantly written and the acting doesn't spoil any of the story lines, giving the viewer 135 minutes of nerve tingling action from the crew of the Blue Box (although technically, the Doctor and Martha can not be classed as 'starring' in the episode titled 'Blink'…)
You can get a copy of this volume from www.amazon.co.uk for less than £13.00...
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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