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It is that time again, where your favorite actors and producers fly thousands of miles to San Diego’s Comic Con to not tak about the new season of your favorite show ….

Okay, so that is not exactly true but its pretty close.

For an update of what was mentioned at this year’s event scroll past the spoiler break.

After seeing this fan made video, I agree, Can the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who be here yet?

Over the weekend, The Offical Doctor Who Convention aired the first trailer for Series 7. Now, thankfully, this trailer is avaliable for everyone.

So, what do you think? Maybe this is how the non I Daleks will come back?

Jenna-Louise Coleman

In this age of social media, and the 24 hour news cycle, it is almost impossible for a television show to surprise its audience. Sure, as fans, we all say we do not want to be spoiled, but in reality, when you love a show, you cannot help but be curious about what is going to happen, you cannot help but seek out spoilers.

As a result, producers, like Steven Moffat, do their best to control the release of these spoilers. But, try as they might, no one can keep such a big secret as who the companion will be. That is why it was no surprise to find out that Sophia Myles will be coming back to Doctor Who as the new companion …. Wait! What? No, strike that!

For months, smart money had it that Sophia Myles was coming back to reprise her role from The Girl in the Fireplace. In fact, Sophia had been recently spotted near where Doctor Who was filming on location. Moffat created Reinette, so putting two and two together, this should have been easy. But wait we all forgot, like The Doctor, Moffat lies.

Well okay, maybe that is too strong of a word, but Moffat is aware of what fans know, or think they know. Who is to say he did not ask Sophia to come to Spain, just so that today’s announcement would have an extra punch. However it happened, I am thrilled to discover that I did not see this coming. The new companion is going to be Jenna-Louise Coleman.

Jenna was recently in the new Captain America movie, which I think shows she is comfortable with fantasy, sci-fi and special effects. Who exactly she will be playing on Doctor Who, is still a secret, and hopefully will remain so for at least a few more weeks.

There is a universal phenomenon in fandom. It is generically called retroactive continuity, but it has many names. It is the effort to make sense of a story or plot point so that it will fit existing continuity. It is an odd phenomenon, because it compels fans to find some way to save their favorite show from plot holes you could fly a starship through. In Doctor Who fandom, I call it, the Rose Colored Glasses of Rassilon, and it is in full force when fans review The Doctor Who television movie from 1996.

Recently, I experienced this phenomenon while recording a podcast for The Articles of the Shadow Proclamation. Over its nearly 50 year history, Doctor Who has never been absolutely faithful to continuity. Just ask a long term fan how many origins there have been for the Loch Ness Monster or when exactly the UNIT stories took place. So why does the 8th Doctor movie cause so many headaches? I think it is because, for the longest time, this was the entire run for this Doctor, and as such people looked very closely at the movie trying to figure out all they could about this regeneration, and where the show might have gone had the movie spun off into a new series. The show had been cancelled, or on a protracted hiatus for quite some time, and fans really hoped this movie meant the show was coming back.

I should probably take a moment here and declare that I really like this movie, especially Paul McGann’s 8th Doctor. Oh and don’t get me started on how cool the console room is. That said it is hard to ignore some of the film’s oddities, like The Doctor being half human, or The Master turning into some sort of snake. So like any good fan, I try and focus on the good things, and try my best to make sense of everything else.

The thing that struck me though is that over time, the cannon of Doctor Who has found a way to absorb some of those ’96 television movie oddities. For example, the gold pixie dust energy which revived Grace appeared to come from nowhere. The TARDIS can choose to bring people back from the dead? in 1996 this was wacky but here in 2012 we have countless examples of similar gold energy being used by the TARDIS to do all sorts of things, including giving a monster a second chance at life. Oh and all of a sudden being half human is not so crazy. After all, a half human Doctor does exist with Rose in another dimension.

Maybe it’s those rose colored glasses I am wearing or maybe in an appropriately Timey-Wimey way, the cannon of Doctor Who is healing itself. The Doctor’s Wife episode was a much better explanation as to The TARDIS’s sentience, and therefore it is so much easier to think that perhaps Idris was behind the odd resurrections. As time goes by, the wacky aspects of the 1996 television movie seem less and less wacky.

Okay, this is not a perfect process. Where was that semi truck full of chickens going in San Francisco at that time of night? At least Doctor Who Cannon seems to weather curve balls better than other shows. If only us Highlander fans could be so lucky.

Ever come across a news story that makes you do a double take? Well I came across this article, and just for a moment I thought of The Doctor. As you can see, it is possible to have multiple hearts and not be a Timelord.

Over the past few weeks, there have been more news about the upcoming series of Doctor Who. So far the only thing we know for sure is that the new series will have at least 14 episodes. This is counting the next Christmas special. So really all we know is the new series will have about as many episodes as all the other normal series. However, recently former 7th Doctor and Ace actors were interviewed and they mentioned how they would like to come back to the show for the anniversary.

As you can see, there is the suggestion that past actors could come back, not as The Doctor, but as other characters, like a villain. I can see the appeal of doing this, as many of the actors do not exactly look like they use to. However, for the most part this is really on a problem for Tom and Colin Baker, the 4th and 6th Doctors. The current show has already presented the 5th Doctor, and with a little makeup, McCoy would look like he did in the TV movie. We do not know when The 8th Doctor regenerated so really there is no big problem for McGann.

Personally I think it would be great for the 7th Doctor to show up in something other than a video image.

Okay so it is only a trailer and for a movie that will not come out for another year, but I think you will all agree, this little teaser trailer was one of the best pieces of cinema in 2011.
So why are we talking about The Hobbit on this site? Simple, Sylvester McCoy, the 7th Doctor, plays Radagast the Brown in the upcoming Hobbit films.

Here is a special treat for everyone. The BBC released a prequel episode for the upcoming Christmas special.

So what do you think? Pretty exciting no?

Unlike some Doctor Who mini episodes created in the past for Children in Need, this year’s instalment breaks the fourth wall just a bit. Check it out.

So WHO is going to have the winning bid for The Doctor’s clothes?