Thursday, June 17, 2010

Pandorica BAFTA screening

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Things are really starting to heat up with 'The Pandorica Opens' début just right around the corner on BBC One and BBC HD. Make certain you have your priorities in order this Saturday evening.

Righto - onto the title of today's post . . .

We have some additional tidbits as to what to expect during the next show from a recent (Wednesday 16th June) screening of
'The Pandorica Opens' at The British Academy of Film and Television Arts. BAFTA hosted this special preview screening of the episode yesterday which was followed by a question and answer session with members of the cast and crew including Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.

Matt Smith has suggested that The Doctor may wear a new outfit when Doctor Who returns next year. Matt also made these comments after the press screening, when he was asked who came up with the jacket-and-bow-tie combination he has sported in the past series.


Next up . . .

Some teasers from Digital Spy from the screening -

1. Hello sweetie writ large. Literally.

2. "This is royal collection and I'm the ****** *****!


3. Cleopatra's comin' atcha!

4. Drahvins, Zygons, Draconians, oh my!


5. A nifty new Cyber-feature is revealed.


6. An unlikely alliance is formed.

7. The Pandorica opens. And closes.


8. We finally find out where those pesky cracks are coming from.


9. Death. A whole lot more death than you probably anticipated.

10. But don't despair, the last word of the episode is "love".



While we are on teasers, we might as well have some from SFX :

1. Steven Moffat’s on top form with a brilliantly crafted episode – the perfect start to a two-parter.

2. The Doctor and Amy visit the oldest planet in the universe, where the first words in history have a familiar ring to them.


3. The stakes are every bit as high as in an RTD season finale.


4. Characters from earlier in the series make surprise appearances before the opening titles – and we’re not just talking about the series recap.


5. There’s something funny going on at Stonehenge.


6. If you thought “The Lodger” looked like a money-saving episode, you soon realise where all that spare cash went.


7. There’s a scene in a bar rather reminiscent of the Star Wars cantina.


8. There’s an armada of alien spacecraft.

9. The Doctor gets to deliver one of his “Get out of here!” speeches.


10. There’s a brilliant scare involving a human skull.


11. You could market an entire range of action figures on the back of this episode alone.


12. Amy’s engagement ring is crucial.


13. It’ll make you want to go back and watch the whole series again.


14. Someone other than the Doctor pilots the TARDIS.


15. The Doctor and Amy face a foe reminiscent of fembots.


16. There’s a fantastic nod to The Thing.


17. The Pandorica does indeed open.


18. It also closes.

19. The episode ends in a cliffhanger so devilish that it seems utterly inescapable. It’s going to be a very, very long week.

20. 26 June 2010 is a very important date indeed – and not just because it’s the day of the series finale.

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