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Saturday 20 Mar 2010
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Digital Spy reviews Doctor Who: Dreamland PDF Print E-mail

Sunday, December 6 2009, 06:00 GMT

By Ben Rawson-Jones, Cult Editor

The DoctorMove over Mulder and Scully! The Doctor is in Roswell's Area 51, armed with his sonic screwdriver and plenty of one-liners in this highly-watchable and undemanding animated adventure. About the length of your average television episode, it breezes along at a breakneck pace and never fails to entertain, despite some fairly bland companions and each character having about two facial expression settings.

Writer Phil Ford crams plenty of amusement into The Doctor's dialogue, and one can sense David Tennant's glee as he rattles them off throughout the adventure. Lines like "you never know when you might need to escape in a box" go down a treat, along with The Doctor's momentary confusion that The Reds are more of a Mancunian footballing threat than a nuked-up Soviet one.

It's also just as well that The Doctor drops in a reference to Aliens early on, as the story rips off pays huge homage to James Cameron's mighty movie with the Viperox Queen laying her egg pods underground. 'Dreamland' plunders other past material, too, but does so with enough gusto and pace to get away with it. However, the lightweight nature of the two makeshift companions Jimmy and Cassie isn't quite so forgivable, as neither makes an impression.

Animation allows a wider visual scope than the television series could feasibly realise, and this is taken advantage of through the exhilarating opening UFO chase and crash - and the epic sequence of the freshly hatched Viperox bursting through the desert terrain from their underground lair. Also, the 'camerawork', or whatever the animation equivalent term is, avoids many static shots and nicely roves around the landscape to give the action more of a dynamic feel.

Cassie RiceOn the visually negative side, the characters suffer from a severe lack of facial movement - even by animation standards. There's certainly an incongruous juxtaposition between Tennant's energetic vocals and The Doctor's expressions - which closely resemble Roger Moore doing his wooden eyebrow raising in the James Bond movies.

An over-reliance on the Sonic Screwdriver frustrates at times, but the story comes together in a satisfying manner and contains a range of well-worked cliffhangers. The emotional and moral nature of the revived Doctor Who is also well represented throughout, via the depiction of the two warring alien species and the repercussions of their conflict.

Overall, 'Dreamland' is certainly a worthwhile endeavour despite the flaws, and boasts fine vocal turns by Tennant and the imperious David Warner as Lorz Azlok. Anything that easily kills some time until 'The End Of Time' is most welcome indeed.

Original article here.

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The full interview of Georgia at the Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21 North American Convention is now available as an audio podcast.

Doctor Who: Podshock Episode 187 is now available for subscription through iTunes, or for download from the Gallifreyan Embassy's website.

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A new Doctor Who audiobook was released by BBC Audio on Wednesday 3rd March 2010. Entitled "Doctor Who: Autonomy", it is a 10th Doctor Adventure adapted from the book by Daniel Blythe and is narrated by Georgia.

An older audiobook - Red Dawn - is being offered for purchase and download from Big Finish.

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In Their Own Words Volume 6 is the latest in the Doctor Who Magazine Special Editions to cover episodes of Doctor Who through the years 1997 to 2009. This, of course means that the 10th Doctor epsiode The Doctor's Daughter is included in the publication, featuring Georgia as Jenny.

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City of Spires

Doctor Who : City of Spires, the Sixth Doctor audio adventure from Big Finish has released some details about the 2CD set. The CD story goes on sale on 30th April 2010 and stars Colin Baker as The Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jaime and Georgia Moffett as Alice.

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Dreamland DVD

Dreamland, the Doctor Who animated adventure is released on DVD. The two disc set comprises of the 45 minute Dreamland adventure, plus the three part documentary Doctor Who Greatest Moments.

The DVD is released on Feb 1st in the UK and May 4th in North America and is available through the Online Shop.
 
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The latest issue of The Doctor Who DVD Files (Issue 24) was released on December 2nd 2009 by G.E.Fabbri. The issue focuses on The Doctor's daughter Jenny, who, of course, was played in the story by Georgia. The DW DVD Files Page has more...
 
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Syfy has acquired the basic cable rights to U.K. series "Merlin", with all 26 episodes of the first two seasons to be shown in April 2010.
 
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Georgia is to star with Will Mellor and Clive Mantle in a new sitcom made by ITV Studios for BBC Three. The Sitcom - called White Van Man - centers around Ollie, an aspiring restaurateur whose dreams are dashed when his father suffers a heart attack and he has to take over the family painting and decorating business.

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Georgia has appeared in Merlin as Lady Vivian. The Merlin Section has the episode details, the Merlin Gallery and Merlin Video Sections have screencaps and short video clips from the episode.

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