Saturday, June 23, 2007

Introducing Mister Saxon...

In tonight's episode of Doctor Who ("The Sound of Drums") the whole of Britain falls for the charm of one MP. Forget Tony Blair or Gordon Brown, in the NuWhoniverse the name on everyone's lips is - of course - Harold Saxon. His name has been appearing in both Doctor Who and Torchwood (there's a Saxon poster in "Captain Jack Harkness") for almost a year; and at last tonight the trap he's prepared throughout time and space begins to snap shut...
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"SAXON IS YOUR MAN" (HELL, ANY MAN IS JACK'S MAN...)
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"The Sound of Drums" sees the Doctor and Martha, accompanied by Captain Jack Harkness, investigate Saxon and his deadly plans for planet Earth. Russell T Davies calls tonight (the second of a three parter) truly "epic" in scale, and compares it to an espionage adventure. There's rumours of old friends returning, and hints that we'll learn something shocking about Captain Jack.

Whatever you do tonight you can't afford to miss "The Sound of Drums". It airs on BBC One at 7:15pm, and is repeated tomorrow at 8pm on sister channel (and former Torchwood home) BBC Three. Why not discuss the episode here and tell us how you think the third season of Doctor Who will end next week?

Afterwards there's a chance to see John Barrowman on Doctor Who Confidential - which this week is a special focusing on 35 years of the Doctor's arch nemesis, the Master! And don't forget that John Barrowman is also a guest on the new BBC One panel show "Would I Lie To You?" at 10pm. Set those VCRs now!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was a good episode but its a shame nothing, not even a laser screwdriver tops a sonic one... BTW is saxons wife an alien or not...

curls said...

The highlight for me was seeing the US president get his just desserts. Now if only our real-life president could suffer a similar fate, because personally I think the Master could do a better job.

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JimmyD said...

Loved the episode but I didn't pick up on the rumor of old friends returning nor did I learn anything shocking about Jack. Was the shocking bit regarding the Doctor finding out about Jack and Torchwood? CAN. NOT. WAIT. FOR. NEXT. WEEK!!

Peter Pan said...

Jimmy ... was the sky being torn apart, the Doctor incapacitated and The Master about to take on the world not shcking enough for you? Man - you have thrill issues dude! (just teasing)
Roll on next week!

Anonymous said...

Great episode! The only thing that I didn't like was that Jack's explanation about his relationship to Torchwood seemed to contradict what he'd described in "Captain Jack Harkness" to Tosh, but maybe that was just me?

Anonymous said...

Loved the episode...really, really awesome. But does anyone else think that the Doctor has started being a bit more, ummm...I want to say nasty but that's not quite right, just slightly off since Jack has been back.

Anonymous said...

he's been a bit 'off' because he secretly wants to confess his love for him...

:-)

Anonymous said...

oooh, like that idea abs0n!!
would make good storyline!