Today’s a giant day for Doctor Who followers, because the sequence—presently working within the hole between Jodie Whitaker’s thirteenth physician, and Ncuti Gatwa’s fifteenth by dipping again to good ol’ David Tennant for a handful of episodes—launched the primary of three specials meant to bridge the hole. Fans are already dissecting and filtering via all of the comedic moments, callbacks, and running-around—with-yelling bits of “The Star Beast,” which reunites Tennant with long-time companion Catherine Tate for the primary time since 2010. But the franchise itself has additionally handed out a few new teasers to commemorate the second, which coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of the sequence total, together with releasing a video that includes the present’s new theme tune and title sequence, and a fast teaser trailer for Tennant and Tate’s subsequent journey.
And whereas we might, in a much less charitable temper, recommend that the brand new title sequence nearly solely consists of photographs of the TARDIS flying via leftover bits of the cosmic portals from each single Marvel Cinematic Universe film as some form of ill-judged homage to Disney’s new position in releasing the sequence internationally, the brand new model of the basic theme tune does really feel fairly good/suitably epic. (The title sequence additionally politely credit Pat Mill and Dave Gibbons, whose 1980 Doctor Who comedian e-book the episode adapts.)
Meanwhile, the teaser for the following particular, “Wild Blue Yonder,” is extraordinarily quick, though it does recommend that the following journey on the nostalgia tour goes to be to Doctor Who’s “horror TV for teenagers” facet, all the way in which right down to some units that look clearly lifted from Alien. (Or, at the least, one of many many Doctor Who episodes which have ripped off Alien over time, even when the present’s set builders have gotten an opportunity to point out off of late with a brand new TARDIS set.) The particular will air on December 2 on Disney+, with the third installment arriving on December 9. (And then Gatwa takes over the job along with his personal premiere episode, on Christmas Day.)
