OFFICIAL PICSPAM FRIDAY POST: SERIES 6 PREVIEWS (PART TWO)
OFFICIAL (LATE) PICSPAM FRIDAY POST: SERIES 6 PREVIEWS (PART TWO)
Onwards, gentlebeings! Now for everything in the previews that didn't come from The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon. As before, I'm grouping by episode to the best of my knowledge, and please feel free to correct me or fill in the gaps.
Episode 3: Untitled (the pirate episode) by Steve Thompson
Our pirate ship! This was filmed in Charlestown, St Austell, and was witnessed by approximately everyone and their mom. (It is going to be so weird watching this episode, knowing just how many people were there watching it being shot.)
Lily Cole as what is basically the villain of the story; I think the pirates believe she's a siren, and whatever she actually is, she certainly seems to be masquerading as one. Dunno how big her role actually is, but as far as I'm concerned she can just float there looking motherfucking gorgeous and be perfect for the part. It's like... she looks just unusual enough to be perfect as a nearly-human humanoid, if that makes any sense.
Touching her apparently makes you dead. And she'll entrance you to do it like a siren would, too. Judging by filming reports, only the Doctor and Amy were immune to her. (Yes, that means Rory had to be restrained.)
Hugh Bonneville as Captain Avery (this is, supposedly, a link to the First Doctor serial The Smugglers) inspecting a gun with some of his crew surrounding him. Those are some pretty bitchin' red gloves. Just saying.
Lily Cole, about to zap another pirate. I'm kind of wondering why no one tried to restrain him. Then again, dude was sort of huge. And Team TARDIS--and therefore us--have to witness the zapping in action anyway. (There's video of this scene being filmed on teh Tube.)
Seriously. Holycrapgorgeous.
Hugh Bonneville again.
The Doctor smashes out a window in the captain's cabin with a rifle. I have absolutely no idea why.
I'm placing this screencap as being from episode 3 for three reasons: one, dude looks like a pirate; two, he's got a crown hooked on his arm and I'm pretty sure our pirates had some treasure on board; and three, he... looks like he's on a ship? However, filming at Charlestown didn't include any sort of pirate gun battle on the ship there.
Episode 4: The Doctor's Wife by Neil Gaiman
That is one magnificent troll of a title, IMHO.
I got nothing. I'm also not going to repeat what my husband said it looks like. Some people have suggested it's the Zero Point mentioned in the Dream Lord's teasers in The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who. Maybe it's the entryway to Idris' universe which, according to the early DVD release synopsis, is "a bubble universe at the very edge of reality". (Cue everyone going HOLY SHIT IDRIS IS ROMANA AND THEY'RE GOING TO E-SPACE)
Judging by the light here, the Doctor is looking out at whatever that thing in the previous screencap is. Maybe it spat out that glowing cubey thing a few screencaps down.
How not to drive your TARDIS. If it complains this much? Time to pick another destination, yo.
Maybe he's bound and determined to get there because of whatever he's holding here, though. It seems to be some sort of beacon or homing device or message bearer or IDEK. Maybe it's whatever hasn't been seen since The War Games, as Gaiman has said this episode includes.
Amy wants to know where they are.
The Doctor answers (and I'm presuming this is his actual answer, and not something from another scene entirely that they decided fit for creating some ~suspense) "Somewhere we've never been."
Judging by what we can see of the environment there, I'm going to guess that this is when they (finally) land on the junkyard planet.
The Doctor and Idris on the junkyard planet, which I expect is a reverse angle on the next screencap.
That's some pretty damn impressive CGI work, IMHO. (Does the wreck on the left hand side remind anyone else of the Space Jockey's ship from Alien? No? Just me?)
The Doctor, running through what looks like a lot of junk and pulling Idris with him. (HOW MUCH DO I COVET THAT DRESS, I WANT TO COSTUME IT SO BAD.)
Rory and Amy running down a TARDIS corridor (yes, that is a TARDIS corridor, by all available evidence)...
...only to get separated...
...by the old closing hatchway trick.
Also, there's a green-eyed green-bulbed Ood. I find myself wondering if it isn't maybe a physical manifestation of the voice that we hear taunting the Doctor. (The voice, by the way, belongs to Michael Sheen.)
Separated from Rory in the TARDIS, Amy sees something she doesn't like.
I mean really doesn't like. Some are speculating that Michael Sheen's Voice (who, according to a reliable source, is called The House) intentionally separates Team TARDIS and then taunts them with paranoid shit. Why, I don't even know. So apparently in addition to the plot of whoever/whatever Idris is, Gaiman has also written the space equivalent of The Shining. LOVELY.
"Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords." "Fear me. I've killed all of them."
Aside from the fact that this pretty much guarantees whatever The House is existed before the Time War? Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrned.
I'm going to admit something here: the first couple of times I watched this particular trailer, I was so focused on that big glowing ball of looks-suspiciously-like-regeneration-energy that it didn't even register that Rory and Amy were IN THE OLD CONSOLE ROOM. Shit was duly flipped when I passed someone shrieking over it on Gallifrey Base. I knew there was supposed to be an old console room in this episode but for some reason it never occurred to me that it would be Nine and Ten's! And something/someone does supposedly regenerate in this episode, probably Idris.
Episodes 5/6: The Rebel Flesh/Gangers by Matthew Graham
Somehow, these people...
...turn into this. Reports suggest that this two-parter deals with a cloning experiment gone very, very bad.
Dude on the left sort of looks like Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Guards? I guess? It's been heavily suggested/hinted at that their armor looks a lot like Sontaran armor. On purpose.
A lone... clone. She seems to either be in some sort of distress or is breathing heavily.
Okay, seriously? Do not want closeups of that shit. Sup nightmare fuel!
Rory examining something...
...that freaks him the hell out. (also brb loling forever at his shirt)
The Doctor, Amy, and one of the clone people(?) seem to be beating on/trying to open a container, which we're looking out of. I'm reminded of Abigail's cryo chamber from A Christmas Carol. Maybe it's a cloning chamber? (I swear to god if it's Rory in there...)
Based on the fact that this set is obviously in a castle-like building, similar to the others seen in the screencaps for this episode, and that most of the filming for this two-parter took place in castles, I'm placing this here. Someone on Gallifrey Base suggested it was a clone bathtub. :D
Episode 7: Demons Run (working title) by Steven Moffat
I'm placing this screencap in this episode solely on the basis of the fact that the location looks exactly like the pictures that were taken of filming at Aberthaw Cement Works (I believe it was). Otherwise, I'm sort of flabbergasted. What is a guy who is clearly dressed in period clothing doing running around an industrial site with a modern handgun? (My mind immediately tried to draw a connection to the Death Zone on Gallifrey from The Five Doctors.)
The Maldavarium, last seen in The Pandorica Opens as the bar where River buys the vortex manipulator, here dark and empty. Screencap placed here because Dorium, the fat blue guy that River bought the vortex manipulator from, is known to be appearing in this episode.
Episode 9: What Are Little Boys Made Of? (working title) by Mark Gatiss
Apparently, this cabinet (or whatever it is) leads straight to hell. Stephen King's version of hell, even. (I'm uncomfortably reminded of It for some reason.)
I don't think we all float down here, either. (The titular boy of the episode, I'm assuming.)
Looking into his cabinet.
I'm speculating that this screencap belongs to this episode, because of the pattern on the wallpaper--maybe the Doctor's looking at that closet.
Giant fucking creepy Victorian-style doll.
Two giant fucking creepy Victorian-style dolls.
Rory and Amy are trying to hold a door shut...
Because that is trying to come through. I don't even.
Best faces ever, or best faces ever? The Doctor appears to have one hand on a giant nine-volt battery while the other hand is helping out Daniel Mays with what I think is a giant pair of kiddie scissors. Rory's got something reminiscent of a pole. And no one seems to be paying attention to the Giant Fucking Creepy Victorian Doll on the left.
This is a falling elevator...
...with a screaming Rory...
...and a screaming Amy inside it. What, so the entire block of flats is from hell, not just that kid's closet?
Episode 11: The God Complex by Toby Whithouse
Someone--looks to be the Doctor--peers through a peephole...
..and presumably see this on the other side. The fuck what?
It's a clown. In a hotel room. (This episode is set in a hotel.) (OKAY SERIOUSLY WITH THE SHINING SIMILARITIES THIS SEASON) Some people have wondered if this is David Walliams's character, although his character is supposed to be "mole-like" or something. I got nothing.
DO NOT WANT. (Placed here due to Doctor Who Magazine stating that the hotel from hell contains ventriloquist's dummies.)
I think this is the Minotaur, who seems to be trapped inside some sort of containment bubble.
It's coming through a window, and it's probably not happy.
I am, very tentatively, placing this screencap with this episode because... well... something's breaking a window and the Minotaur seems to like doing that.
Shit I Got Nothing For
Some French dude (I'm assuming he's French, the guys behind him look like musketeers) wants to know where the Doctor is. I have absolutely no idea what the deal is with this.
An extremely pissed-off-looking SS officer walks into what looks like a barracks. I also have absolutely no idea what the deal is with this. (Perhaps coincidentally, the filming currently taking place is set in Nazi Germany. Considering this screencap came from the Christmas teaser, that would be one hell of a gap between filming for related scenes.)
The Doctor runs through a very gray, militaristic-looking building. For some reason, instinct makes me want to place this in episode seven.
A hooded figure leading a horse drawing a carriage. Since the pirate episode looks to be our only true historical this year, I want to place this with episode three, but I'm holding off to err on the side of caution. (Does anyone have even the faintest idea what episode 10 is about?)
The Doctor gets blown backwards off... I'm not sure what you would call that. And I have no idea what's going on there. eclecticmuse was reminded of the scene in Star Trek: Generations where Soran climbs the gantries to welcome the Nexus. (I hope that's Gordon Seed performing that stunt there. Hi, Gordon!)
OH GOD I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING.
Screencaps made by me.
As a bonus, for those (like me) who are interested, the music from the full BBC trailer has been identified as "Tristan" by Two Steps From Hell (IwasrightIwasrightIwasright!) and you can listen to it here.