Six words

[DarkHorizon]

Remember this?

The title of David Tennant's penultimate episode has still not been revealed, but according to Davies it will be six words long, the longest title yet.

Well, with the trailer at the end of The Waters of Mars, I wondered how The End of Time was six words long...

The Beeb have now answered that.

It has been officially revealed that the title for this year's momentous Christmas Special is:
The End of Time, Part One

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Seriously? I both love it and hate it! I hate it because it's anticlimactic, but I love it for the Classic Who feel.

 

[StCoop]

Lots of people (including me, yay!) had guessed it was Davies having one last joke and that that would be the title, though.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

I'm not surprised. I think it's fine to be honest.

Still, missed a trick in my opinion. Given the Doctor's situation and impending collapse of it, could have gone a play on the original Tennant six-worder:

"Don't You Think He Looks Tired?"

 

[23skidoo]

Lots of people (including me, yay!) had guessed it was Davies having one last joke and that that would be the title, though.

Especially when that was the title used on the trailer that aired at the end of Waters. Still, it was a funny joke. And I agree RTD missed a bet by not calling it "Don't You Think He Looks Tired" (it certainly applies!). I wonder if he thought about including a reference to this in the script? It would make an interesting bookend to The Christmas Invasion.

Alex

 

[Samurai8472]

New "The writers tale" to be released

And The Writers Tale gets updated with 300 new pages of content when it gets released as a Paperback on 14th January 2010.

 

[biotech]

I'm not surprised. I think it's fine to be honest.

Still, missed a trick in my opinion. Given the Doctor's situation and impending collapse of it, could have gone a play on the original Tennant six-worder:

"Don't You Think He Looks Tired?"

That would be excellent

 

[23skidoo]

I read the first Writer's Tale and thought it was excellent, and it filled in a lot of blanks for me in terms of why certain decisions were made (including the fact the decision for Billie Piper to come back was made before she left, and the fact the decision to take a year off was made long before Tennant had made any plans on leaving the show). I'm looking forward to the expanded edition.

Alex

 

[Lonemagpie]

According to RTD the script was written under the title The Last Days Of Planet Earth, and those were the six words he had in mind when he wrote in DWM - it got changed late last month, but conveniently still fits the six words if you include the Part One.