More SIN from DJ SIN

UPDATE! Special video of the nights events by MARC BOXEN! Enjoy!

The wondrous DJ Sin rocked the Saturday out with not just some music, but a mystery Hyperloom prize - THE STEAMWING! The winner was Splinterpaw Wycliffe! Well done!

Work on Ben continues!

Work on Big Ben continues. Just thought I'd throw you a visual update as to how it progresses. Welcome Area is also getting a refit. As always, watch this space!

Big Ben: Reborn!

Remember the destruction of Big Ben earlier today? If not, let me refresh your memory with a video from Calisto Llewellyn:



Well work is under way to rebuild already! Take a looksie!

The End of Big Ben and the dawn of a new one..

Out with the old Big Ben in the Doctor Who Zone, and in with a new one. We felt, being somewhat turned on by big bangs, this would be a moment to record. So here we have the distruction of old snowy Big Ben, soon to be replaced with a new non-snowy one of a similar ilk! Enjoy! Thanks to Tristan Avedon for the video!




Take a glance at the unperturbed fat Tennant in the foreground...

Another SINful night at Time Lords!

Thanks to DJ Sin for his work tonight - and to everyone who came along!

New London: Mountains of Dumb,

New London gained a moutain tonight! Erect in the air like... a big hill. But bigger.

The view of New London from the mountain top. And what must you do on a mountain top?


TARDIS lobbing!


Down goes a Thomas!


Kat scores one in the TARDIS park (so did I, but I just didn't get a photo of it)

It's getting closer!

Coming soon from New London Systems...

Spring is in the air, the Doctor's TARDIS is in the pond..

All change at the Doctor Who Zone! Spring has arrived! Be gone snow! And 'ello Cribbins!

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Sheepless nights? We hope so.

DJ Sin rocks Gallifrey into 2010!

DJ Sin will now be hosting regular Saturday night slots at the Time Lords club in the Doctor Who Zone's Gallifrey zone. We'll make sure these are noted on the blog! If you have time - come on down and join in the fun - a lot of new people down tonight!

Kasterborous.com reports on their new offices in The Doctor Who Zone!

To read more (and see some pictures) click here. There are a couple of special extras planned between Kasterborous.com and TheDoctorWhoZone - watch this space!

Something is still coming..

It's getting closer...

Watch this space!

Kasterborous.com gets its office in The Doctor Who Zone!

More work to be done! You can visit it by heading to The Doctor Who Zone! Check out Kasterborous on the net at www.kasterborous.com!

Something is coming...

Something is coming to New London Systems...


Watch this space!

Kasterborous.com speak on The Doctor Who Zone!

We are thrilled that Kasterborous.com now uses The Doctor Who Zone as a base in Second Life. And the editor's first visit has been reported on their website. We have a base for Kasterborous.com in the sim which is almost complete! We will be using Kasterborous.com as The Doctor Who Zone's main news source, meaning we'll be pointing you their way for RL Who articles more often than not and focusing on Second Life Who here!

The Immortality Gate comes to The Doctor Who Zone

The Immortality Gate! Built by Hoipoloi Gurbux this stand alone feature is unique to The Doctor Who Zone. Visit it via this link!

Regenerations all round!

Kat's showing a little wear and tear...


All better after a partial regeneration! Meanwhile, Babob is going through his own Regeneration cycle...



Get this freebie at the Doctor Who Zone Freebie Shop!

Citizen D and his new Toclafane comes to the A1 Mall

Citizen D, who many sci-fi Second Lifers will know for his astounding Star Wars series of Astromech droids has enthusiastically joined the Doctor Who Zone and the A1 Sci-Fi Mall presenting his first Doctor Who product - the Toclafane!

This great little follower has different states (even opens up like in the show) and can follow the user, run a preset route of follow any local avatar - plus there are lights and effects to be played with. Citizen D's followers are always recommended as unlike many SL followers they don't bounce around your face as SL's physics grab them. Well worth a look!

His stall is parked just outside the New London Systems store on the ground level of the A1 Mall. Click this link to take you to Citizen D's products!

11th Doctor Crash Landing?

Seems to be a crashed TARDIS in the Doctor Who Zone's ice rink? Cracking!

Audience Appreciation for End of Time and Time for more SL fun!

More statistics! The question of how good End of Time Part 2 has been an endless debate in Second Life. Well thanks to RTD - whether you liked his work or not, whether you admired his art but didn't agree with his vision, everyone has to agree he has singlehandedly brought this show back from the grave! Now let's see if "Le Moff" can take the show to even greater heights!

Anyhow, this is The Doctor Who News Page's compound of data on the audience appreciation for the episode, this is a data on how much the audience enjoyed the episode, not the amount of people who watched it.

The Appreciation Index, or AI, is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the programme. A figure of 89 is incredibly high, especially for a programme with such a large audience. The show scored well on all indicators, with viewers marking it as a high-quality programme which they made a special effort to watch. It scored highest with the female audience and with those aged 35-55. The End of Time - Part Two is the highest scoring of the five specials. Only the last two episodes of Series Four have scored higher on their first transmission. Earlier in the day, the repeat of The End of Time - Part One, with its lower audience of 2 million, scored an AI figure of 90.

Source: The Doctor Who News Page

On a lighter note...


Looks like there's a TARDIS in trouble out there... plus more End of Time fun! Spinning and smoking!


The Master Energy Effect is a fun freebie available from the Freebie shop in New London. Come down and get yourself one! Crackle and cackle like the Master - also includes his electro jump! This little freebie comes to you from Laredo Lowtide and Rowan Thursday.

End of Time Aftermath: Regenerations, Gallifrey falling and overnight ratings!

What's this falling down upon New London. Either the sky has a cyst or we're looking at Gallifrey falling!

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Regenerations by Rowan Thursday

It was the same. The very same trickle of golden light. Not the same hand- not the same body, in fact, but most assuredly not the same hand... and yet... it was the same light, the same convulsion of the cells, the same boiling tumult of the intracellular organelles as they faced the same choice... live, or die.

The offending hand balled into a fist and punched the control console hard enough to send shockwaves of fresh pain shooting up his arm, and make the engines' rhythms shift uneasily. What was the point of any of it? Years ago- how many- who could say? He was never terribly good at keeping track of it- years ago he had stood here, just here, so brave, so terribly brave. He had given his life for her- no, he had saved her life, his Rose, brought her back from the brink... and then, just as he believed all was ended, that they were *safe*... he had seen the light. The light he had known would come, but dared to hope would not. He had dared to hope he'd got away with it, that was what it amounted to.

"He will knock four times..." his voice shook with bitterness.

"You stupid old, blundering, blithering, blistering fool!" The words snapped into an angry scream, and he lashed out at the air, spinning, then almost falling. Not long now. He *had* made it back into the Tardis. He would *not* die in the street, crumpling in the snow. No... that was past.

The Ood... had... their song had... He shook his head. It was growing hard to concentrate. For a moment then... the pain was welling up again. Had he really seen the things he'd seen? Dreamed his dreams? In a moment... in a moment he would be gone, and some fresh faced bright eyed *alive* monster would be dancing round his console, flying *his* Tardis, off for new and exciting adventures. "Damn you..." he sank to the floor, feeling bile rise in his throat and choking it back. "Damn you to hell...." It feels like dying, that's what he'd told the old man. No. It felt worse.

Everyone... will.. "Miss me for a day... but then it changes, it becomes a joke. He gets told 'Oh, I liked you better the way you were..' but nobody grieves, nobody's *sorry*!" he crawled across the floor, choking. He would die on his feet- for death it was. "Nobody... the Doctor goes on, the Doctor always goes on... but, *I* don't!" He grasped the edge of the console with one shaking, numb hand. Already he was beginning to burn. He could no longer look directly at that treacherous, tell tale hand that had been the first to show the onslaught. Matter becoming energy- artron energy, breaking down, transforming genetic material into pure data, restructuring, recreating... a process which could not be controlled. There was no way to stop it, that was the problem, not once the dam was burst. Not until... a new man was born. Or reborn. Which was it? They said he was the same, underneath it all. They said he might change his clothes, but underneath it all he was always the Doctor... but now... oh, yes, this new Doctor would remember everything he had remembered... eventually, and no doubt, shaped by the same experiences, the same thoughts thought with a similar mind, he would still be 'himself'... but... but...

"Will I? I... don't... want to go." His voice cracked, and he felt tears start in his eyes. No... he would go back, he wasn't ready... all of them, he could see them one last time, he could... but his body was afire now, raging and seething, he could feel himself being torn apart, and the pain was rising, but not faster than the terrible fear.

"Neither did I." He was leaning against one of the coral pillars, arms folded, drumming long, large fingers on the sleeves of a leather jacket that had seen fire and war in its time. Head hanging slightly forward, looking at the dying man from underneath heavy brows. "I can't answer your question," he sighed, his voice soft with a compassion which belied his features. "About whether we're one man, or thirteen?"

"I did my best!" The burning man reached out to him. "I wanted to..."

"Listen to me." The man by the pillar clasped the burning man by the wrists, fearing no hurt, not any more, and stared into the burning eyes as they blazed gold in a face which twisted and shimmered into shapeless golden light. "I don't know what happens next. I don't think anybody does and maybe that's right, maybe that's how it should be. Maybe we're all still here, somewhere deep inside, or maybe we're just the one person who thinks we're many, or maybe I died and you're dying and it will really be a new man standing there in a few seconds who just thinks he's us... but whatever happened, remember them.. and remember the life you've lived. Our life- our lives- whichever it is- they're different to anybody else's in the entire universe- and your life was different to mine, will be different to his. Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing. That's the exciting thing... and you know what?"

What? He could not reply, there was nothing left to reply, not even in thought, only the tiniest flicker of awareness remained, writhing and changing and flowing and ebbing through the burning chaos. Enough to understand.

"We were both fantastic. Fantastic!"

Then came the new dawn, and eleven men- or one- rose to their feet and realised that their Tardis was on fire.

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END OF TIME OVERNIGHT RATINGS

Ratings..... as reported by The Doctor Who News Page. They say it better than I could:

"10.4 million people watched the final part of The End of Time on BBC One yesterday, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The programme got a 35.5% share of the total television audience and was the second most watched programme of the day. EastEnders once more took the top place with 11.6 million, the programme benefiting from the Doctor Who inheritance. The later showing of Coronation Street on ITV1 had 9.8 million viewers while its earlier placing got 8.6 million, with Doctor Who beating the soap in the period they were head to head. Doctor Who peaked with 10.87 million watching between 7:45 and 7:50pm.

The rating makes the Tenth Doctor's regeneration the most watched regeration in the series' history.

Doctor Who was also available on BBC HD where a further 389,000 watched the episode.

On BBC Three Doctor Who Confidential had 1.1 million watching with and additional 76,000 on BBC HD, one of the highest ratings for the series and the second highest multi-channel programme for the day.

2 million viewers watched the lunchtime BBC One repeat of The End of Time Part One, where the programme comfortably won its timeslot"

They do have a host of statistical data so pop over to their news entry to check the specifics.

Source: The Doctor Who News Page

Trailer for 2010 series of Doctor Who

Second source will work for international viewers.

First News Round Up of 2010

News from the hungover-news desk.

Blogtor Who have found an extract of the End of Time Part 2 commentary on the Official Who Site. Couldn't spot it myself so its well hidden! Follow the link!

David Tennant's LAST interview before leaving as the Doctor! Have a look on the BBC news site - that leads us into the grump bandwagon against Tennant... read on!

Mail gets on the "Too Much Tennant" bandwagon. I wouldn't mind this topical complaint about the amount he's appeared on the BBC in the last few weeks if he was just appearing on chat shows and plugging Doctor Who. But he's a popular personality in his own right, who is big news for ending his role as an iconic character and people are interested in HIM - so where's the issue? He's not just been plugging the show, he's been presenting, acting, taking part in odd festive events. He won't be doing it much longer! Well, it makes a story, so if you want to listen to the Mail opinion whine, here we go.