The twelfth Doctor is...

Well its not Alex Vlahos like I wanted but its Peter Capaldi. 

I can't say I am thrilled if I'm being completely honest. Whilst I am not a massive fan of the 'ship whouffle' (Clara and Eleven) but I just cant help but feel that the relationship between them will be slightly awkward, at least in the first episodes. However, he could end up having a relationship like Donna and 10 which would be awesome because the Doctor needs a new best friend. I find it slightly odd that he has already been a pretty significant character in the Fire Of Pompeii in series 4, I wonder if they will address this or just sweep over it, I'm not sure. I will keep my judgement until I have seen him in action but he's definitely not who I would have chosen but who knows he could end up being my favourite Doctor yet.

When life gives you lemons

Obviously the most imminent thing that I am looking forward to is my trip to London and of course seeing Colin Morgan (*internally screaming*). Honestly I cant believe that this has come around so quickly, I remember when it was like 200days until when we first booked the tickets but nope its only 4 days until London and 5 days until the Tempest(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

Then on September 1st I am meeting Alex Vlahos at Cardiff Comic Con! I am so excited because I have paid to have a photo with him so I know 100% that I will be meeting him! Its great because he is my favourite Merlin knight.

Then two days after that I am starting sixth form (well, if I get the results I need from my GCSEs). I am looking forward to sixth form more than any other year because I finally get to meet new people and hopefully make new friends because the schools in the area combine their sixth forms to let you have more range of subjects. Also I am looking forward to doing subjects that I like and not doing them because I am forced to (Maths, science, I'm looking at you). 

Then possibly the most exciting thing possible that is happening this year... Florida in October! Honestly, I don't think I have been more excited for a holiday ever. When we booked this holiday I think we had about 412 days until or something like that and I thought it would never come around, but it is and I couldn't be more excited. I am also looking forward to buying a Mr Potato Head, Sully and Mike toys and Despicable Me Minion along with many other things I am sure. Despite my age I'll never grow up.

After Florida, it doesn't end there, oh no, I am then going to a Doctor Who convention on the 23rd of November with my friend Molly in London. It will be the last Doctor Who convention that will have Matt Smith as the current Doctor and hopefully we will get to see him if not meet him and all of the older Doctors as well! Very exciting stuff!

I have also decided that whilst I am on summer I will continue to post whenever I want but when school starts back I will probably only post once a week, probably on a sunday, just so you know.

Doctor Who Experience

Today my Dad took me to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff Bay; I'd been wanting to go for absolutely ages and it certainly didn't disappoint! The interactive part just before you go into the museum section of the Experience was pretty good. It's definitely got some of its ideas from America and their type of attractions but for the younger children I am pretty sure that this part of the experience would be their favourite. I even got to fly the TARDIS which I'm not sure many people could say!

After the interactive part of the tour you go into the museum part where they have all sorts of amazing WHO related props, outfits and models. I've compiled some of the photos I took into small collages because other wise this post would go on forever!

"Don't Blink" 

The Weeping Angels

Cybermen

"EXTERMINATE" 

Daleks

The First to the Tenth Doctors outfits

Various monsters/creatures

The Eleventh Doctor and the various TARDIS'

A Doctor is nothing without his trusty companions

I of course couldn't go to a Doctor Who exhibition without making some purchases and so I brought a small Dalek to put on my bookshelf (well, after I've stopped being a five-year-old and playing with it), a small Cyberman (which was only a £1 in one of those little machine things), a fridge magnet for my dad and a TARDIS poster.

If you are ever in the area and you are a Doctor Who fan, I strongly recommend you take a visit, its well worth it!

Who-Ology book review

First of all: if you are any sort of Doctor Who fan then buy this immediately. This book is full to the brim with facts, figures and funny quips from all 50 years of Who. For someone who is a fan of the show but doesn't have access to the older Doctor Who episodes, this book enables you to get closer to the past regenerations and learn just as much as if you were to watch the episodes.

 I'm going to let it speak for itself and show you a few pictures from the book.

It goes through all eleven Doctors and gives you general facts about each man. Including what they did before Who, date of birth, first and last regular episode of Who, etc.

This was interesting because it shows you exactly who is in his family and for a man who thinks he's alone he certainly has a decent size family. 

This is my favourite page in the book: it shows you all of the first and last words from the Doctor, I personally think that these two sentences from each magnificent Doctor captures their personality and the way the captured and made their Doctor different from the others extremely well.

So there are a few pictures of pages from the book; but so as not to spoil it completely for you, I will give you the advice to go out and get it straight away. It also would make a pretty amazing present for any Who fan: past or present.

Who I want as the twelfth Doctor

As I'm sure you have heard by now that Matt Smith is leaving his role as the loveable Doctor in hit BBC series Doctor Who. Whilst his exit from the show is causing an emotional breakdown in the fandom, people are now speculating about who will fill his awfully large size 10 shoes.

My main contender and favourite is Alex Vlahos 

He made it onto the scene by playing Mordred in Merlin and since has been in several other small series or side projects. He is set to be in a production of Macbeth and he has also recorded new episodes of The Confessions of Dorian Gray, the popular BBC radio production, as well as an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. 

However, I think seeing as he lives in Wales (where a lot of the series is filmed) and is a fantastic actor who is still relatively unknown as Smith was at the time of his casting I believe that Vlahos would make an excellent new Doctor: plus he just kind of has that Doctor-ish look about him doesn't he?

One thing for certain though I definitely do not want a woman to be the next Doctor; I know all the feminists want this to happen but honestly I think it would ruin the whole dynamic of the show. Also seeing as Jenna-Louis Coleman is staying on as the companion to have a woman be the Doctor their relationship just wouldn't be the same. Another possibility is a black Doctor; whilst colour doesn't matter to me, I don't see why there has to be a black Doctor and why there is so much pressure on the casting agents for the BBC. At the end of the day they will pick someone with amazing talent regardless of their colour. I think that the BBC should really think about casting someone relatively unknown like Vlahos so we are not tied down to other personalities or prejudgement before we even see his/(possibly her's) first episode. Either way I physically cannot wait until that announcement is made about who will be the next in a long chain of incredible Doctors all popular for their different personalities. Maybe this is what the show needs: a new Doctor to breathe a new ray of light on the show.

My opinion on Doctor Who

*This article is inspired because of this article here* whilst I cant honestly say I wholeheartedly agree with the article. There are parts that I do sadly agree with; I say this because I love Doctor Who I honestly do, however, when I say that I am talking more so about the earlier series (1-4). I watch it every week that it is on and I will be buying the series when it comes on out on Itunes. That being said, I cant honestly say that I am 100% happy with the direction that Doctor Who has taken in the past few years. I want to clear one thing up, I don't think that Doctor Who is sexist just because the companions follow the Doctor around. Isn't that the whole point of the companion role? The Doctor is supposed to be a hero and I don't see what is wrong with that.

My biggest problem with Matt Smith's Doctor is that he doesn't seem to have any emotion and in fact the reason why the finale of the seventh series was so good was because it showed the Doctor showing emotion like the good old days of Nine and Ten. He connected with the audience which I don't think he has done all series and to be perfectly honest I haven't liked this series very much. Its left me feeling bored and deflated whereas older episodes left me feeling exhilarated and as if I had been travelling at 100 mph. I don't believe that it is Matt Smith's fault I think its more so the scripts fault.

The best thing about the old companions (Rose, Martha and Donna) is that they had their moments of weakness but they all aided to help save the world on numerous occasions. Amy and Clara haven't had this kind of moment of saving the world but only moments of weakness and being the damsel in distress or in Clara's defence she obviously helped to save the Doctor but that's about as far as her heroic efforts go. Doctor Who used to be about the saving the universe with the help of his friends from inside his little blue box. His life definitely wasn't at the heart of every single episode in a series.

Another thing I am not keen on is River Song. Her storyline into the Doctors life was ridiculously and unnecessarily complicated. I dislike her character a lot and I hate that she is married to the Doctor; they don't show nearly as much chemistry as Ten did with Rose for example and if the Doctor is supposed to be married to her then I would have expected fireworks. I hate that River can fly the TARDIS, because I'm sorry but that's the Doctors job. I just generally don't like her and think she is an annoying character who thinks that she is better than the Doctor.

The kids in this series were also pretty shocking. They were completely and utterly stereotypical which made them one dimensional and boring. You didn't feel connected to them at any point during the 'Nightmare in Silver' episode and just thought that they were pointless and with hundreds of thousands of children all over the world who would kill to be in an episode of Doctor who it makes me question why they chose these two children above anyone else.

I watch Doctor Who more so out of routine but I do still get excited about episodes only to get disappointed 45 minutes later. I feel that Moffat sometimes writes some cracking episodes but then the amount of not so great episodes completely outnumber that. Its upsetting to see that Doctor Who has gone downhill because it really has. Take my dad for example, he has watched Doctor Who since he was about 5 years old and has been an avid fan ending after series 5. He now doesn't have the time of day for it because he doesn't like the writing and the monsters and boring and repetitive and I must say I agree with him.

The episodes are as I say repetitive and too confusing, Doctor Who is supposed to be a children's programme and to be honest I'm sure that grown adults find it confusing and hard to follow. I just miss the old fun Doctor Who where the companion was just as important as the Doctor and who was just as badass and fearless as him. I loved when The Doctor showed emotion and learned from the companions, rather than now when he is the only main character and the companion is just someone he takes along for a ride. (Also why do none of the new companions actually travel with the Doctor all the time? (Like Rose and Donna and Martha did).

The recent series has seen the Doctor on the hunt to try and save his real name from ever being identified, this story had the ability to be amazing: So far it hasn't been. I understand that it has all been in the run up for the fiftieth but come on! add some excitement! Doctor Who isn't about him, its about saving the planet and those far beyond our planet!

I think that Moffat should just stick to writing Sherlock because he does a stellar job doing that but I wish he had left Doctor Who alone. I feel as if this is a really negative review and I am sorry for that but I wouldn't for a moment make you think that I don't love Doctor Who because I certainly do although I do feel as if its going through a rough patch. But I will continue to watch because its Doctor Who and its bound to get better again sometime soon I just hope I don't have to wait 2000 years like Rory did.

Doctor Who

After a recent purchase of the first 4 series and the return of Doctor Who back on TV I have decided to make an entire post dedicated to the show. I am going to show you my opinions of the Doctors and their companions but please note although I realise that Doctor Who has been going on for 50 years and there have been other doctors whom I'm sure were fab I haven't actually seen the older episodes so I will only be talking about the 'modern day' Doctor Who starting with....

The 9th Doctor

played by Christopher Eccleston (2005)

When fans talk about this doctor they refer to him as the doctor who was full of 'sass' with his no messing around attitude. His devotion to Rose was clear and although he isn't my favourite doctor he certainly kicked off the new series of the 'modern day' Doctor Who and set the bar (which was reached) for the next person to fill his shoes. 

Rating: 7/10  

The 10th Doctor

played by David Tennant (2005-2010)

Certainly a fans favourite and the longest running doctor so far, Tennant is the best doctor in my opinion and him and Rose were the perfect partnership, I loved that this doctor showed emotion and fantastic acting ability who was able to make you laugh and cry in the space of about two seconds. In my eyes no one will compare to him, and that final episode The End Of Time has defiantly gone down as one of the saddest episodes in TV history. 

Rating: 10/10

The 10th Doctor

Played by Matt Smith (2010-present)

The present doctor has certainly had a huge job to replace David Tennant and I think he has done a wonderful job bringing to the character a new lease of life. My favourite thing about the way Smith portrays the doctor is how one minute he is completely serious and the next minute he is acting like a three year old hyped up on sugar, he's completely bonkers and completely loveable. 

Rating: 8.5/10

And of course none of these doctors ever travelled alone for very long. 

Rose Tyler

played by Billie Piper (2005-2006, appearing again in 2008 for 6 episodes and again in 2010)

Rose is the pairing of the century with the tenth doctor and her final episode 'Doomsday' is also another in the history books for saddest goodbye. She was the original companion and was clearly devoted and irreversibly in love with the doctor however, she didn't fall behind in the doctors shadow and was the most compassionate of the companions in my eyes.

Rating: 10/10 

Martha Jones

played by Freema Agyeman (2006-2008 appearing again in 2010)

My least favourite companion purely because she flirts with the doctor even though he clearly isn't over Rose and when I watch it I am still hung up on Rose and therefore I would have always hated the companion that came next. However, I do think that she is exactly what the doctor needed to help him get over Rose but she will never be able to replace her. 

Rating: 5/10

Donna Nobel 

played by Catherine Tate (2008-2010)

Catherine Tate is surprisingly my favourite companion, I think she is by far the funniest and the most independent she is fiercely loyal but stands up for what she thinks is right. The doctor needed Donna more than he could say as she was someone who was there for him with no romance involved she was just a best friend.

Rating: 10/10

Amy Pond

played by Karen Gillan (2008-2012)

"The girl who waited" I really like Karen as a companion because again she wasn't in it romantically for the doctor because she loved Rory, so I think the doctor sees her as a sister or a best friend someone he can rely on who will be waiting for her. Of course her final episode was not only super scary because the angels are the single most terrifying things (minus the Dorocha in Merlin) but extremely heart wrenching because she finally made her choice between Rory and the Doctor.

Rating: 9/10

Rory Williams

played by Arthur Darvill (2008-2012)

Very much the same as with Amy he is a friend to the doctor and his love for Amy is clearly obvious in the way that he waited 2000 years for her. I think it was good for the doctor to see a real relationship and learn about it through others, it was also interesting to see a male companion.

Rating: 7/10

Clara 'Oswin' Oswald 

played by Jenna-Louise Coleman (2012- present)

Now Jenna has only been in four episodes but her current series is airing as we speak so therefore I am going to reserve my judgement on her until this series is over, however, and I do hope I'm not jinxing myself by saying this but she looks set to be a fantastic companion and maybe a possible love interest for the doctor which he hasn't had for a few years...who knows? (except Moffat) 

Rating: To be decided

So that is my opinion on the main cast of Doctor Who, of course there have been several other minor roles like Wilf and Mickey etc but I'm not going to go into them too far, so for now I will leave you with some pictures found on tumblr of random moments of the previous stated, enjoy!