Some Interesting Pics From The Day Of The Doctor (Spoiler Warning)

 

"You were The Doctor on the day it wasn't possible to get it right."

The Eleventh Doctor

By now you've no doubt seen the two trailers released for The Day Of The Doctor - if not then I urge you to check them out here and here. There's lots of exciting stuff to keep us talking over the next few weeks - there's the fact that the updated Zygon costumes look great (but still somehow just a little bit worse that the originals), there's the question about how Clara got hold of a vortex manipulator, whether or not that Time Lord posse was being led by Timothy Dalton's Rassilon, whether that was Bad Wolf Rose and - most important of all - the question as to what the hell Eleven is doing with that Fez?

But the most interesting part, for long-term fans, is the short scene we see of the two Doctors being questioned by what appears to be two Kates. Check out the board in the background:-

Yep, that's a minor cameo from not only Ace, but also Mel and Kamelion - surely the two characters one would least expect to be celebrated come the 23rd.

As to the other big... well... moment in the trailer, where John Hurt's Doctor heads to a shack in the desert to activate what appears to be The Moment, well, The Telegraph has revealed some filming pics from that scene today, the most interesting of which is this:

And doesn't The Moment look like a rose...

This scene seems to show all three Doctors joining forces to activate The Moment - could it be that they have forgiven Hurt's Doctor, and are choosing to share his burden rather than letting him become the "forgotten" Doctor? The above quote certainly seems to hint so.

In the same publication, Steven Moffat had the following to say about the episode (and it looks like we won't be picking up where The Name Of The Doctor left off after all...): "He's [John Hurt] from The Doctor's past, and The Doctor did not expect to see him again. We pick up, as it were, months later [After the events of The Name of the Doctor]. So you'll get an update on what Clara's been up to, a little bit about what The Doctor's been up to. Very, very roughly, I suppose, and with apologies to Charles Dickens, it's the A Christmas Carol structure - there's the ghost of the past, the present and the future. There's plenty of inter-Doctor rivalry and, as The Doctor's 50th birthday present, we're establishing a whole new Doctor right there in front of you."

The talk of "the future" is fascinating - Moffat clearly says that Hurt is a past Doctor, as is Tennant, and Matt Smith is obviously "the present"... What else has Moffat got in store for us?

It's not all about The Day Of The Doctor, though - Radio Times have revealed a couple of lovely pictures from An Adventure In Time And Space, one showing "Ian" and "Barbara" with the Menoptra from The Web Planet, and the other - in a true fanpleasing moment - reveals William Russell's cameo in the docudrama.

An Adventure In Time And Space airs at 9pm on BBC2 on the 21st November, and is immediately followed by a showing of An Unearthly Child on BBC4.

The Day Of The Doctor airs at 7:50 on BBC1 (with a worldwide simulcast), and is immediately followed by Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty on BBC3.