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- Moffat’s Scottish Agenda?
- James Marsters Engaged - Right Cinema
- Bertinelli 'happiest when with fiancé'
- Miley Cyrus: 'I'm not going to college'
- Tamzin Outhwaite: "I'm a total homebody"
- Dominic Lawson: Spare me lectures from deluded actors - Independent
- Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato split?
- Gosselin 'introduces girlfriend to kids'
- Gaiman talks Who
- Sean Hayes to host Tony Awards
- Video: Full 'Big Brother' funeral trailer
- Slipknot bassist Paul Gray found dead
- Rip Torn avoids DUI charge
- Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who - Radio 1
- Lindsay Lohan dad happy with court call
- Spears 'wowed' by Twitter followers
- Ronan Keating returns to family home
- Bret Michaels: 'I'm not 100% yet'
- Simon Monjack 'put off heart surgery'
- Loving Home for a Dalek?
- Jesse James 'wanted to get caught'
- BBC iPlayer choices - Saturday 22 May - Telegraph.co.uk
- Angel Coulby Royally Brings GUINEVERE To Life on MERLIN - Newsarama
- Rihanna: 'Young girls don't need to diet'
- Doctor Who: "The Hungry Earth" Review - IGN
- Channel 4 rapped over BB 'retard' comment
- 'Spandex' nominated for Eagle Award
- Simon Cowell defends Duchess of York
- Neil Gaiman on writing for Doctor Who
- ESPN nabs international football rights
- Gerard Butler may have been lost in crowds on Dubrovnik holiday - Croatian Villas
- Neil Gaiman describes writing Doctor Who
- Final BARB ratings for Amy’s Choice
- Doctor Who Magazine #422 cover revealed
- Brand X Files: 'Lost' finale explained? Kendra's porn tape payday. Rand Paul ... - Los Angeles Times
- Scottish FA announce new sponsor - The Spoof (satire)
- The Hungry Earth Reviewed
- Win Tickets to the CATS Awards - WhatsOnStage.com
- The Long Line of 'Law & Order' Spinoffs and Spoofs - PopEater
- Amy's Choice - Final Ratings
- Post Game TV Recap: DOCTOR WHO S5E6 - The Vampires of Venice - Newsarama
- Neil Gaiman delivers his Doctor Who episode - io9
- Gaiman’s Fairytale
- TREND OR TRAGIC: Karen Gillan goes metalic! - Sugarscape
- Rory on Vampires
- Everything old is new again: TV adaptations on the Big Screen - JustPressPlay
- BBC Worldwide - Record Profits
- Doctor Who Season 05.08 - The Hungry Earth Micro-Review - Popzara (blog)
- Dr Who fans' delight as Daleks invade city - ChronicleLive
- Christine Bleakley and Karen Gillan's red carpet style - StyleList UK
| Posted: 24 May 2010 04:16 PM PDT Journalist, TV critic and die hard Who fan Paul Whitelaw has written an open letter to Doctor Who head honcho Steven Moffat pleading with him not to let the 'Scottish Agenda' get in the way of the nations favourite program. Whitelaw's comments poke fun at the media's current predilection for "agenda setting" in Who.
This isn't the first time accusations of agenda setting have been thrown at the Who production team. During Russell T Davies' reign, he was attacked for introducing homosexual and bisexual characters into a children's television show.
The full, amusing letter can be read at ScottlandOnSunday.com and goes onto lambast Who's series arches, its flying Dalek army finales and list his own bizarre suggestions for bring menace to mundane household objects and everyday occurrences (Personal favourite: Davros hiding in a nursery ball pit.)  | ||
| James Marsters Engaged - Right Cinema Posted: 24 May 2010 01:52 PM PDT
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| Bertinelli 'happiest when with fiancé' Posted: 24 May 2010 12:08 PM PDT Valerie Bertinelli's trainer says that she and fiancé Tom Vitale will be "a great married couple". 
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| Miley Cyrus: 'I'm not going to college' Posted: 24 May 2010 11:22 AM PDT Miley Cyrus says that she believes you can go back to school at any age. 
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| Tamzin Outhwaite: "I'm a total homebody" Posted: 24 May 2010 10:58 AM PDT Tamzin Outhwaite says that she loves spending time in her Crouch End cottage. 
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| Dominic Lawson: Spare me lectures from deluded actors - Independent Posted: 24 May 2010 10:00 AM PDT
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| Posted: 24 May 2010 09:53 AM PDT Joe Jonas reportedly ends his relationship with Camp Rock co-star Demi Lovato. 
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| Gosselin 'introduces girlfriend to kids' Posted: 24 May 2010 09:32 AM PDT Jon Gosselin allegedly introduces his rumored girlfriend to his eight children. 
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| Posted: 24 May 2010 09:30 AM PDT Fantasy author Neil Gaiman discusses writing for the sixth series of Doctor Who.  | ||
| Sean Hayes to host Tony Awards Posted: 24 May 2010 09:28 AM PDT Sean Hayes will proceed Neil Patrick Harris as the host of the 64th annual Tony Awards. 
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| Video: Full 'Big Brother' funeral trailer Posted: 24 May 2010 09:25 AM PDT The full-length Big Brother 11 funeral trailer is revealed by Channel 4. 
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| Slipknot bassist Paul Gray found dead Posted: 24 May 2010 09:03 AM PDT An employee at an Iowa hotel finds Slipknot member Paul Gray's body. 
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| Posted: 24 May 2010 08:55 AM PDT Rip Torn escapes conviction for drunk driving after completing alcohol education classes. 
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| Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who - Radio 1 Posted: 24 May 2010 08:33 AM PDT
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| Lindsay Lohan dad happy with court call Posted: 24 May 2010 08:15 AM PDT Michael Lohan says that he approves of any ruling that will help to keep his daughter out of jail. 
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| Spears 'wowed' by Twitter followers Posted: 24 May 2010 08:04 AM PDT Britney Spears thanks fans for pushing her to the most-followed spot on Twitter. 
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| Ronan Keating returns to family home Posted: 24 May 2010 07:51 AM PDT Ronan Keating is reportedly desperate to save his marriage after his affair with a backup dancer was revealed. 
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| Bret Michaels: 'I'm not 100% yet' Posted: 24 May 2010 07:40 AM PDT Bret Michaels says that he is still not "100%" after his recent health troubles. 
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| Simon Monjack 'put off heart surgery' Posted: 24 May 2010 07:29 AM PDT Brittany Murphy's husband Simon Monjack apparently knew about his need for a heart bypass months before his death. 
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| Posted: 24 May 2010 07:03 AM PDT Wanted: Loving Home for a Despot Killing Machine. Science fiction writer Grant Robinson is looking for a Van Statten to take his prize Dalek of his hands.
A quick glance at eBay shows that the available full size replicas are on sale for at least £4,450 where as a replica model of the Russell T Davies-era Daleks on thisplanetearth.co.uk start at £2,895. Mr. Robinson, who after suffering a debilitating stroke aged 11 immersed himself in all things Science Fiction, writes under the name Ronan Strobing has written three self published novels: To Avenge the Father, Terror Reigns Again and his first SF novel, Revenge of the Scimitar.
So if anyone has a Dalek shaped hole in their lives head over to thisislincolnshire.co.uk for more details, or if you need a TARDIS at the bottom of your garden (and lets face it who doesn't?) head over to thisplanetearth.co.uk for their full catalogue. All three of Grant Robinson's books are available on Amazon  | ||
| Jesse James 'wanted to get caught' Posted: 24 May 2010 06:55 AM PDT ABC releases another clip from Jesse James's interview with Nightline. 
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| BBC iPlayer choices - Saturday 22 May - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 24 May 2010 05:34 AM PDT
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| Angel Coulby Royally Brings GUINEVERE To Life on MERLIN - Newsarama Posted: 24 May 2010 05:22 AM PDT
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| Rihanna: 'Young girls don't need to diet' Posted: 24 May 2010 05:16 AM PDT Rihanna advises girls to avoid drastic diets because being size zero is "not practical". 
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| Doctor Who: "The Hungry Earth" Review - IGN Posted: 24 May 2010 05:11 AM PDT
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| Channel 4 rapped over BB 'retard' comment Posted: 24 May 2010 05:03 AM PDT Ofcom raps Channel 4 for airing the word "retard" during Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth on E4. 
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| 'Spandex' nominated for Eagle Award Posted: 24 May 2010 04:46 AM PDT Martin Eden's gay superhero comic Spandex is nominated for an Eagle Award. 
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| Simon Cowell defends Duchess of York Posted: 24 May 2010 04:39 AM PDT Simon Cowell brands Sarah Ferguson a "trooper" after she showed up at a charity gala for children. 
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| Neil Gaiman on writing for Doctor Who Posted: 24 May 2010 04:32 AM PDT Neil Gaiman on writing for Doctor Who News Dated: 24/5/2010 In an article published on the BBC News website, Neil Gaiman discusses writing for Doctor Who. The fantasy author Neil Gaiman has spoken of the divine power he felt while writing his TV episode of Doctor Who. The author of Stardust and Coraline has already submitted his story, which is due to air in 2011. "I don't know what it's like to be God - obviously," Gaiman told the BBC. "Until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS." He said: "Suddenly I got a very good idea of what it must feel like. I went: 'I'm writing it now this scene in the Tardis. I'm writing it!' And that was amazing, it was wonderful." Gaiman met Doctor Who show-runner Steven Moffat for a script read-through last week. He posted a picture of himself on Twitter - with Moffat and writer Richard Curtis - holding up a copy of the script. His fingers obscured the episode title. Gaiman said: "It's going to be shooting in August and we were going through it and figuring out ways that money could be saved and ways we could have some things happen faster. The author also commented on Terry Pratchett's recent comments in SFX Magazine that Doctor Who shouldn't be "classified as science fiction". "Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction," Gaiman said. "At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem..." Gaiman, whose Neverwhere TV series was shown on the BBC in 1996, said he'd had to spend a long time "being coy" before it was revealed he was writing a Doctor Who story. "Now I know what I can tell people: It will be on television - and it's in colour!" [Source: BBC News]  | ||
| ESPN nabs international football rights Posted: 24 May 2010 04:24 AM PDT ESPN acquires UK rights to 41 international football fixtures, including 16 Euro 2012 qualifiers. 
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| Gerard Butler may have been lost in crowds on Dubrovnik holiday - Croatian Villas Posted: 24 May 2010 04:23 AM PDT
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| Neil Gaiman describes writing Doctor Who Posted: 24 May 2010 04:15 AM PDT Neil Gaiman has spoken to the BBC about the initial thoughts that went through his head when he began writing his Doctor Who episode. “I don’t know what it’s like to be God – obviously,” he said. “Until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS. Suddenly I [...]  | ||
| Final BARB ratings for Amy’s Choice Posted: 24 May 2010 03:43 AM PDT BARB have today released the final figures for Series 5 Episode 7, Amy’s Choice, revealing that the story was watched by an official audience of 7.55million. 7.06million watched on BBC1, with an additional 0.49million tuning in in HD, making Doctor Who the 13th most watched programme on British TV that week, behind Britain’s Got Talent, episodes [...]  | ||
| Doctor Who Magazine #422 cover revealed Posted: 24 May 2010 03:33 AM PDT The cover for the brand new issue of Doctor Who Magazine – issue #422 – was posted on its official Facebook group earlier today. The artwork features the Doctor, Amy and the Silurians to mark the exclusive behind the scenes feature for the Chris Chibnall two-parter included inside the issue. There are also previews of the remaining episodes, including Episodes [...]  | ||
| Brand X Files: 'Lost' finale explained? Kendra's porn tape payday. Rand Paul ... - Los Angeles Times Posted: 24 May 2010 02:52 AM PDT
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| Scottish FA announce new sponsor - The Spoof (satire) Posted: 24 May 2010 02:41 AM PDT
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| Posted: 24 May 2010 02:14 AM PDT Gosh, that was jolly good. I'd been looking forward to this story for ages, ever since I caught my first glimpse in the series preview trailer of what I thought at the time would be a Sea Devil – a scene which will be in next week's closing part of this two-part story with the female Silurian holding a gun with a design very similar to those lamp-like weapons used by their sea-faring cousins. I wasn't disappointed with the execution of The Hungry Earth, either. Chris Chibnall's story was quintessential Doctor Who at its best that could have featured the third or fourth Doctor quite easily. A remote village where strange things start happening and The Doctor and companions wander in, being split up early on putting the glamorous girl into immediate peril with an indistinct monstrous threat looming over her while she is held captive. Meanwhile, The Doctor and second-fiddle male companion run around shouting a lot. Classic stuff! The sense of menace builds early in the story with a mysterious sink hole that appears out of nowhere and proceeds to swallow the night watchman. The Doctor and crew gleefully exit the TARDIS to what The Doctor declares is Rio…but turns out to be a village near to a "mining thing" as The Doctor calls it. "I do like a mining thing," he says and proceeds to head off in the direction of the drilling facility. Amy smiles and Rory frowns as The Doctor bounds off down the hill like an excited schoolboy. Rory gets conveniently left behind and is soon mistaken for a policeman with his "portable crime lab" by the son of the doomed watchman from the pre-credits sequence. Rory is obviously an intelligent and insightful chap so he could have played along with the policeman role a bit more convincingly than he did. I place the fault for this in the scriptwriter's hands, not Arthur Darvill who does a splendid job playing the fish-out-of-water Rory.
Meanwhile, at the "mining thing" the Doctor and Amy break in and soon find themselves under attack from the ground beneath their feet! The drilling has awoken something and it's fighting back. There are obvious comparisons here to classic series stories like Frontios (with the ground "eating" people) and Inferno (with its drilling project) but I believe that this story has the legs to stand on its own and beat off those comparisons. The pacing seems just right with the slow build punctuated by moments of frantic activity as the assembled crew find themselves trapped in the village surround by a force shield. A nice touch to have the light blocked out to induce a night-terror feel to the proceedings as the threat reaches them on the surface. When Tony gets stung by the Silurian tongue and later reveals a maze of green lines on his shoulder, I can't help but think of another classic Pertwee story – The Green Death – also set in Wales featuring a mine. More touchpoints to Doctor Who's DNA. We're really being spoiled this year! Meera Syal puts in a delightful performance as Nasreen Chaudhry, the boss of the drilling project. You can quite clearly see how much fun she was having making this show, and the fanboy inside me started wondering what she would be like as an official companion… Much in the Donna style with the playful banter between friends rather than the love-sick puppy of recent nu-Who companions. Loved the moment when she twanged The Doctor's braces whilst picking themselves up off the floor of the TARDIS. This new-look Silurian design is beautifully crafted and a big improvement on the static faces of yesteryear. Although, some prosthetic teeth would have been nice to hide Neve McIntosh's pearly-whites. I've read comments on the forum here about this Silurian's xenophobia being out of place… It does jar a bit if you think of the Silurians as an advanced race, but then I figured that she was part of the warrior caste that was awoken to deal with the threat to their existence from the drilling. Her purpose as a warrior was to deal with this threat… besides, I think this is a ploy in order to goad the bereaved Ambrose into killing her to provoke a war. Matt Smith's Doctor continues to enthrall me with his every gesture and word. I am not blinded to his flaws (not his fault he's so young… damn his youth and good looks!) but he has taken on the biggest role in British TV drama and made it his own in a very short time. It's his physicality that makes him so alien – "the drunken giraffe," as Steven Moffat calls him. Amy didn't really have much to do in this episode apart from get herself swallowed by the ground and provide Rory with another chance to berate The Doctor. I'm still not convinced by her relationship with Rory, though. Is it just me, or does it seem like Amy has "settled" for Rory? A case of "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with." I hope this is a deliberate plot device and not a result of a lack of onscreen chemistry between Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan. The reveal of the Silurian city at the end was quit e a muted ending compared with the glorious cliffhanger from the previous two-parter, but it was a wonder to behold an entire civilization underground. Actually, I think "understated" is a better description rather than "muted", to emphasise the full extent of what lies ahead and let it sink in. The set design of the Silurian city as seen in the Next Time trailer looks glorious. Who says that the budget was cut this year? If this is what they can do with less money then that just shows what a talented bunch we have behind the camera!  | ||
| Win Tickets to the CATS Awards - WhatsOnStage.com Posted: 24 May 2010 02:04 AM PDT
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| The Long Line of 'Law & Order' Spinoffs and Spoofs - PopEater Posted: 24 May 2010 01:47 AM PDT
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| Posted: 24 May 2010 12:39 AM PDT  Final figures for Episode Seven, Amy's Choice, published by BARB show the story was watched by 7.55 million viewers.On BBC One the programme got 7.06 million watching where it was the sixth most watched programme for the channel for the week. An additional 0.49 million watched on BBC HD. When added together the programme totalled 7.55 million viewers and was the 13th most watched programme of the week. iPlayer requests for Amy's Choice have been considerably higher than for the rest of the series with over 900,000 requesting the programme within two days of transmission. The BBC Three Sunday repeat did not rank high enough to get into the top 30 for the week. Full ratings for the series so far can be found in Gallifrey Base. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Post Game TV Recap: DOCTOR WHO S5E6 - The Vampires of Venice - Newsarama Posted: 24 May 2010 12:31 AM PDT
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| Neil Gaiman delivers his Doctor Who episode - io9 Posted: 24 May 2010 12:29 AM PDT
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| Posted: 24 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT Speaking to the BBC News website about his script in the next series of Doctor Who, Neil Gaiman has responsed to the recent criticism by fellow fantasy author Terry Pratchett. Pratchett, as guest editor of SFX Magazine, recently described elements of Doctor Who as "ludicrous" – although his argument was fair enough, it was taken a little bit out of context by the mainstream media.
To date, Gaiman's Doctor Who script remains untitled, but is set for filming in August. As you can see from this picture (posted by Gaiman on Twitter last week) where he is snapped alongside Steven Moffat and Richard Curtis, although the script is on show, his fingers are hiding the title… …and does the presence of Richard Curtis indicate another script from the Vincent and the Doctor writer?  | ||
| TREND OR TRAGIC: Karen Gillan goes metalic! - Sugarscape Posted: 23 May 2010 11:11 PM PDT
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| Posted: 23 May 2010 11:03 PM PDT Actor Arthur Darvill (Rory) talks about episode 6 of the current series of Doctor Who, Vampires of Venice which he describes as one of his favorite episodes of the series. You can also watch this clip on BBC America, where you can also find Doctor Who Confidential Episode 5, concerning the episode Flesh and Stone, a 14-minute behind-the-scenes glimpse. Other "fangtastic" goodies on the BBC America site include a Vampires of Venice photo gallery featuring 20 images and a Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) character profile. (With thanks to Nicole)  | ||
| Everything old is new again: TV adaptations on the Big Screen - JustPressPlay Posted: 23 May 2010 11:01 PM PDT
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| BBC Worldwide - Record Profits Posted: 23 May 2010 10:51 PM PDT  The success of Doctor Who has helped BBC Worldwide achieve record profits of around £140 million. Director General Mark Thompson released the figure at a conference at Chatham House in London, ahead of the publication of the annual report in July. Last year the commercial arm of the BBC made £103 million. Doctor Who is now sold to more than 50 territories, has sold over 3.3 million DVD's and in 2009 sold more than 7 million action figures. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Doctor Who Season 05.08 - The Hungry Earth Micro-Review - Popzara (blog) Posted: 23 May 2010 10:43 PM PDT
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| Dr Who fans' delight as Daleks invade city - ChronicleLive Posted: 23 May 2010 10:24 PM PDT
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| Christine Bleakley and Karen Gillan's red carpet style - StyleList UK Posted: 23 May 2010 10:20 PM PDT
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What next? Will every other character the Doctor meets be a man from Paisley with hair like a scouring pad? Will the historical episodes featuring the likes of Agatha Christie and Shakespeare be replaced by thrilling adventures in which the Doctor whisks Amy back to Auchtermuchty in 1986 to witness The Proclaimers writing "Letter From America"? Or helping Bill McCue foil an alien attack during a live Hogmanay broadcast? If Wee Jimmie Krankie turns up as the Doctor's son, then the game is surely a bogey (NB: never employ this phrase in Doctor Who).
The black and gold, full-size replica was bought fifteen years ago from 
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I am wondering at this point in the season if Rory should now be considered a fully-fledged companion. He has, after all, fulfilled all of my selection criteria – travelled willingly with the Doctor on multiple adventures via TARDIS. What more do you have to do to be considered a companion? Apart from wear short skirts and pose in glossy magazines, that is? On the other hand, he may not be entirely willing as he just seems to be following Amy around to keep an eye on her and to regularly put the Doctor in his place. He does this quite well in this episode and several before it, constantly reminding The Doctor of the dangers he ends up putting his "friends" in.
Neil Gaiman, himself a popular fantasy writer with titles such as Neverwhere and Stardust, has a different view.
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