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Feature sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition Change sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition is a funny phenomenon. All things must end and change is inevitable. Change has long been a part of Doctor Who ; from the moment that William Hartnell laid down on the floor of the TARDIS console sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition room and regenerated (or as it was then, renewed ) into Patrick Troughton, audiences realised that few things in Doctor Who were ever going to remain constant. When David Tennant announced in late 2008 that he intended to bow out of the show at the end of the series of specials in 2009, the massive fan-base that he had built up were aghast; Tennant sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition took over from Christopher Eccleston sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition at the end of the first series, and the BBC were completely taken by surprise at just how phenomenally popular he would become. Kids loved him, chicks dug him and there was a genuine niceness to the character that was seemingly missing from Eccleston sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition s take on the Doctor. As well as Tennant leaving the show, executive producer Russell T Davies, along with producers Julie Gardener, Phil Collinson, had also decided that it was time to move on, so when Doctor Who came back for a new full series, there would be many differences afoot. The BBC took the unusual task of unveiling the new actor to play the character nearly a full year before he would appear on television. Speculation had put three actors in the frame and the public was almost frantic to see who was going to step into David Tennant s trainers. On the third of January, 2009, twenty-six year old Matt Smith was officially announced as the Eleventh Doctor, much to the consternation of hard-core fans, who were not impressed by the young age of Smith and even less so by his appearance, which many people liken to a character in a certain Mary Shelley novel, or more cruelly, Rocky Dennis... Over the course of the year, the negativity only seemed to build against Smith and very little seemed to leak out whilst production was underway. Only little clips recorded on camera-phones and the odd audio excerpt found their way into the public domain, and these were still muddying the waters of opinion. Confidence started to build when Smith s costume was unveiled, as it showed some of the more unconventional aspects of the character which hadn t really been seen since Paul McGann played the Doctor and echoed sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition Patrick Troughton s outfit. During the final moments of The End of Time Part II , which was broadcast on New Year s day, 2010, British audiences got their first official glimpse of the Eleventh Doctor, but many people had their doubts about Matt Smith s portrayal during the final scene, as it seemed to echo the manic nature of the Master s regeneration near the end of series three. Thankfully, this was merely a result of the regeneration, and the Eleventh Doctor finds his feet almost from the outset of series five. Karen Gillan was brought onboard to play companion Amy Pond. There are some who would point out that whilst RTD was accused of having either a Welsh agenda or a gay agenda during his time on Doctor Who , others have started to accuse new executive producer Steven Moffat of having a Scottish agenda. Could this be merely a product of an overactive imagination, or is there an ounce of truth in it? Either way, the casting of Gillan was a masterstroke, as she embodies everything that is good in the best companions and also adds a few nice little touches of her own into the mix; oh, and she also does the best bug-eyed look of astonishment or horror since Anneke Wills. Other changes that have taken place include the Doctor getting a new sonic screwdriver and the TARDIS sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition having a complete overhaul, including a new exterior that looks remarkably like the one seen in the Peter Cushing Amicus... sorry Aaru films. There is also a new logo (which incorporates the TARDIS into the logo) and a new and slightly more sinister version of the theme, which we aren t great fans of. Also, we want to go on record as saying that the concept of the TARDIS being repeatedly hit by lightning bolts in the time vortex is remarkably childish, but now we ll get on to looking at the episodes themselves... The Eleventh Hour Following straight on from The End of Time Part II , The TARDIS is plummeting towards Earth, with the newly-regenerated Doctor hanging by his fingernails on the threshold of the door. The TARDIS inevitably crash-lands in a back garden in the rural community of Leadworth near Gloucester in 1996, and a little girl named Amelia Pond takes the Doctor inside and attempts to feed him the foods that he craves in his post-regenerative state. The Doctor enchants young Amelia and notices that a strange crack in her bedroom wall is the protrusion into our dimension of an escaped convict who goes by the name of Prisoner Zero. The Doctor disappears sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition in the TARDIS, off in search of Prisoner Zero, promising Amelia that he would be back in five minutes but young Amelia learns a hard lesson that five minutes is relative to the Doctor and she does not meet him again until more than a decade has passed. The adult Amelia now calling herself Amy has spent much of the intervening time obsessing about the mysterious Raggedy Doctor who made such an impression on her as a child and now works as a kissogram. After an initially bad reaction, with Amy knocking out the Doctor and handcuffing him, she teams up with him to save Earth from Prisoner Zero. The Eleventh Hour was written by new Executive Producer we refuse to use that naff US term Show-Runner Steven Moffat, who was responsible for some of the best stories from New-Who (the best of which was probably the series three Doctor-lite one, Blink ) and he certainly sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition gets series five off to a fresh start. There are many instances of Moffat s twisted ability to take seemingly mundane things and distort them into fantastical or sinister concepts the crack in Amy s bedroom wall is an ingenious variation on the monster-under-the-bed chestnut and Moffat s humour runs through the script like a stick of seaside rock. Matt Smith effortless confounds his critics by turning in an assured performance that recalls some of the more whimsical aspects sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition of previous Doctors, specifically Patrick Troughton, and is certainly capable of pulling off the more dramatic aspects of the role. When the Doctor finally pulls himself together after his regeneration and after a montage of all the previous Doctors he confronts Prisoner sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition Zero and Smith is pretty impressive at that. Karen Gillan is very good as the adult Amy Pond; Steven Moffat has created one of the most believable companions in New-Who . Pond is a woman who has learnt to fend for herself and is intelligent and resourceful; she retains the sense of wonder from her childhood and has a desire to see the universe. Oh, and she also does a fabulous bug-eyed look of horror and/or surprise. Special mention must go to actress Caitlin Blackwood, who portrays the young Amelia Pond she is just wonderful to watch and she plays off Matt Smith so well that you can really see something of the future chemistry that the characters will have. The Eleventh Hour serves as a great introduction to Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat s tenure on Doctor Who. The extended running time (it clocks in at around an hour) gives the story more time to breathe and allows Smith more time to develop the character sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition in stark contrast to Tennant s first story, The Christmas Invasion , where he spends most of the time comatose. The Eleventh Hour is not without sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition its flaws the whole silence will fall motif that runs through this series seems somewhat forced (Moffat has used a cryptic three-worded phrase before count the shadows , anyone?) and the confrontation with Prisoner Zero was somewhat by-the-numbers in terms of its writing rather than performance, but it was nice to see brief clips of all the previous Doctors to help tie the original series and the new one together. The Beast Below The Doctor and Amy materialise aboard sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition the Starship UK, a vast interplanetary craft that contains the remnants of the United Kingdom, who escaped sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition deadly solar flares in the 29th Century. Whilst investigating the reasons behind sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition a crying child, the Doctor and Amy realise that all is not what it seems, especially with the sinister Smilers, who appear to be protecting a secret from the population sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition of the ship. Whispers of the Beast Below cause our heroes to start investigating and they discover that something very large and awfully angry is lurking in the bowels of the vessel, but they realise that all is not what it seems and that the Doctor and Amy realise that they have an opportunity to put right a cruel wrong. The Beast Below personally speaking, of course is probably the weakest of the stories in series five. Written by Steven Moffat, much of it seems as though it has been done before in New-Who and science-fiction in general. sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition The whole concept of an alien environment that has twisted sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition shades of the present day was seen in the series one dog The Long Game and the idea of an alien life-form being tortured by humanoids in order to serve them was almost identical to the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot story, Encounter at Farpoint . An idea for Doctor Who that had been kicking around since the early eighties sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition was entitled Song of the Space Whale and had been rejected and re-pitched several times before eventually being buried. It would appear that the idea finally found someone who had an interest in such a concept and was included in Doctor sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition Who after thirty years. Whilst sports equipment apparel tickets nutrition on their travels, Moffat introduces the future head of the monarchy, and she isn t white - no problem with that, and that s not a particularly great leap, seeing as our present monarchy is Teutonic in origin anyway. Liz Ten as she