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Wow, I really enjoyed Doctor Who last night! I've been looking for all the recaps and documentaries and related stuff. There's something called the Culture Show that did a special called "You and Me and Doctor Who" which was way better for a behind the scenes look back over the years than the glitzy docs that have been on with the clips and the potted histories. This delved into the writers, the special effects sound people, even a bit of gossip about various actors and production staff.

This article gives a pretty good summary of the storyline.
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Ah well, I was thoroughly satisfied with the anniversary episode and all it's little nods to history and to the future. John Hurt nailed it like I knew he would. Looks like he enjoyed it, too. I'm sure he just thinks of it as another job but i did see him in an interview saying he'd never done anything like it before.

I'm looking forward to the next Doctor. I enjoyed Matt Smith but I still like the idea of an older man in the part after two younger ones. It will be interesting to see what the personality is like. I hope he will still have an undercurrent of humour but he'll probably be a bit sterner and will not be as clown like as 11 or manic as 10 and 11. Maybe he'll be a little closer in temprement to 9 though less dark as he will know he didn't disintegrate his home planet.