Saturday, 20 February 2010

Doctor Who teaser trailer

Earlier this evening, the BBC showed a new teaser trailer for the upcoming series of Doctor Who. It starts with the Doctor and Amy lying on some grass at the top of a hill at night, looking up at the stars. Amy asks 'Who are you?' 'I'm The Doctor,' he replies. Amy just has time to ask 'Doctor Who?' when light erupts from the grass around them and they are first thrown up into the air and then fall back into a vortex of swirling blue light. They hear and see a Dalek (hard to tell if it was one of the retro-style ones seem in the New Year trailer although it does seem to have a swivelling centre section). 'Trust me,' he says, pushing her away as she shouts (not unreasonably given the circumstances) 'Why?' He grasps a weeping angel which explodes. Still falling, they grab hold of each other and suddenly, we are back with them lying on the grass as The Doctor says 'All of time an space, everywhere and anywhere, every star that ever was. Where do you want to start?' They look at each other. The face of a strange lizard-like creature then explodes through the grass between them and the new logo appears.

The trailer did not adopt the 'clips from the upcoming series' approach used in the one shown on New Year's Day, seeming instead to be trying to build anticipation and differentiate the Eleventh from the Tenth Doctor. As a trailer, it is less interesting than the New Year one as we get to see less, but it does perhaps hint that there will be some change of tone.