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Tuesday 20 September 2011

Who: Closing Time Preview

This year's penultimate episode of Doctor Who before its big season finale marks a departure for the series. For the first time since the sci-fi's return in 2005, Episode 12 is not the first part of the finale, but a standalone episode. In fact, Closing Time is nothing less than a fully blown sequel to Gareth Roberts' excellent 2010 story The Lodger, and so once again stars James Corden as Craig Owens and Daisy Haggard as Sophie. Plus, an old enemy returns...
TIME TO SPARE- The first thing you should know is that some time has passed since last week's story, The God Complex- 200 years to be precise. You know what that means...the Doctor is at the age and time for his death by Lake Silencio in Utah. He's making one final stop, though, to see his old friend Craig, who's now had a baby and is living happily with Daisy.
TIME TO WORK- As with playing football and working in an office in The Lodger, the Doctor's going to try something new on his house call, which happens to be working in none other than a toy shop. Why's he there? If you ever watched the classic series, you may remember the Cybermats, mobile accomplices of the Cybermen who look quite toyish. And speaking of the Cybermen...
TIME TO FIGHT- Back after their brief cameo in A Good Man Goes To War, the Doctor's old adversaries have a new evil plot for the Time Lord to save the Earth from before he tries to save himself. But what have the Cybermen got planned?
TIME TO TRIGGER THE FINALE- No, that's not as good a sub-title, but still! Although Steven Moffat has chosen to do a one-part finale, there are still going to be major elements to lead us into Episode 13 here in Closing Time. Hints? I don't know much, but the Radio Times have revealed the cast list features Karen Gillian as Amy Pond, Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams, Alex Kingston as River Song and Frances Barber as Madame Kovarian (the Eyepatch Woman), and they've told us to expect some questions to be answered at the episode's end, so perhaps we're going to be just as surprised as we were at the Ponds' departures in The God Complex...?

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