Doctor Who The 11th Regeneration
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| Doctor Who: The 11th Regeneration | |
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| Production Group | Thunder Comics |
| Number of episodes produced | 12 |
| Release Date First Episode | March 2007 |
| Release Date Latest Episode | March 2009 |
| Total_Duration | 202 minutes, 4 seconds |
| Website | www.thundercomics.co.uk/ |
Doctor Who: The 11th Regeration is a fan film series based on the popular science fiction drama, Doctor Who. Extended to "11th Regeneration," this fan film series is filmed in the United Kingdom and is created and produced by Jaime Carroll. Jaime Carroll also stars as the 11th incarnation of the Doctor and has so far been joined by a flux of companions, including Nip, Strider, Lance Hayden, Ariel and now currently Grace. On Sunday 29th March 2009, the first episode of the second series of Doctor Who: The 11th Regeneration was released.
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How it all began
The series had originally began as a college project. Jaime Carroll had to create a website and 30 second trailer which had included his Doctor and Nip as companion. When Nathan Ewing (Nip) persuaded Jaime to put the trailer onto Youtube, the positive response had give them the green light to produce a series. Jaime had originally written the first episode to be in four parts, each five minutes long but then opted to have each plot contained within an episode as since the series was being released onto the internet, people may have trouble watching all four parts, instead of just the one.
The next step in the production was that Jaime then decided to have two companions as "they always say three people is a crowd which is good for us so that it isn't always just the Doctor and Companion A - we can have several different options, such as Doctor and Companion B or both Companion A and Companion B being seperated from the Doctor." This idea made it easier for the writing to be more effective as well as using less cast in a somewhat no-budget series where cast are limited anyway. After initially spending several months looking for someone to play Strider, Dale Farrow was chosen to play the part, after three previous people were offered the role but later turned it down.
So, with Jaime, Nathan and Dale on a bigger adventure than their characters, it was definately a step into the unknown for both them and their alter-egoes.
Story
Doctor Who: The 11th Regeneration tells the story of the 11th incarnation of the Doctor, portrayed by Jaime Carroll on adventures in time and space. In the first season, it is revealed that the 11th Doctor had just regenerated into his current form after been killed by an enemy known as the Kuio having got caught up in a battle between them and humans onboard a space station in the far future. The first episode starts with the Doctor, having just regenerated off-screen, meeting up with two young humans on present day Earth named Nip and Strider, played by Nathan Ewing and Dale Farrow respectively. Together, all three of them defeat an attempt by the Kuio to invade the planet in it's present time. Following this victory, the Doctor allows them to travel with him onboard the TARDIS and they journey to numerous different planets, locations and points in time. During the run of the first season, a recurring character named Leo (played by Arron Carroll) joins the Doctor, Nip and Strider on a couple of present day Earth based adventures and having originally asked to join them, the Doctor refuses.
The main story arc of the first season is the mystery behind the Doctor's regeneration, where eventually a flashback scene was shown towards the ending of Episode Seven: Realm of Dreams. In the following episode, the season finale titled Army of the Ancient Ghosts, it is revealed that the 11th Doctor is reliving the moments his previous incarnation had whilst onboard the space station. Having been joined by rogue Time Agent Lance Hayden (played by Paul Kay), the Doctor finds himself seperated from Nip and Strider, who joined up with an army of soldiers left to battle the Kuio. In the thick of the battle, the Doctor tricks Nip and Strider into the TARDIS, which sends them home and Lance Hayden selfishly teleports himself away. As the Doctor is left to battle the Kuio by himself, he refuses to repeat what he did last time. This action had thus broken the loop and with time healing itself, the Kuio found themselves being banished to the sea of souls dimension. The season ended with the space station blowing up, with the Doctor trapped onboard...
Following the cliffhanger at the end of the first season, where it appeared the Doctor was killed when the space station he was left behind on blew up, a special "mini-episode" was produced as a Children in Need charity appeal that also acted as a precursor to the 2007 Christmas special, entitled Countdown to Christmas. In the mini episode, a hologram of the Doctor appeared and informed Leo that an invasion of Earth was about to begin.
Countdown to Christmas saw the return of one of the Doctors old enemies, the Axons, as they tried to invade the Earth by absorbing it's energy. Nip and Strider were left to battle the Axons by themselves as they thought the Doctor was dead. However, the Doctor appears, saving his companions and stopping the Axon invasion of Earth. He explained that the Time Agent, Lance Hayden, had come back for him and teleported the Doctor to safety onto his spaceship, where the ended up on present Earth. After celebrating Christmas at Nip's house, the TARDIS Crew embark once more except for Nip who decides to stay behind to meet his father. With his spaceship destroyed by the Axons, Lance Hayden takes Nip's place onboard the TARDIS.
In the 2008 special episode, Attack of the Zearok, the Doctor is joined by a new companion, called Ariel (played by Tanya Wright), after Strider and Lance Hayden were kidnapped and left stranded in hyperspace onboard the Zearok's ship. At first Ariel appears to be a bossy red head who gets in the Doctor's way but her heroics eventually lead to the foiling of the Zearok's plans but result in her losing all memories of her meeting with the Doctor. Strider also says a farewell at the end of the episode after he decides to stay behind on Earth to look after his sick relative. The Doctor and Lance Hayden are left to continue their adventures throughout time and space together.
The second season starts with the return of Grace Thomson, who is portrayed by Laura Massingham. Grace was previously seen in Series One, Episode Seven: Realm of Dreams where she had fallen for the human Doctor, Ben Jackson. In the first episode, it starts with Grace still pondering the moments they had and longing to meet the Doctor one more time. Her dreams come true when she walks into the middle of an alien trap as Linda, a blood sucking Plasmavore, was tricking humans to visit a blood donating centre which she was pretending to run. When Grace and her friend Amber (played by Chelsea Henderson) walk into the evil alien scheme, the Doctor and Lance Hayden appear.
Characters
The Doctor (Jaime Carroll), now in his 11th incarnation, the Doctor is a timelord from the planet Galifrey who can regenerate his body into a different form when he is close to death and travels through time and space in his ship, the TARDIS.
"Nip" Nipstock (Nathan Ewing), is a young human who helps defeat the Kuio and later travels with the Doctor in the TARDIS.
Strider (Dale Farrow) also assists in defeating the Kuio and initially travels on the TARDIS to look after Nip, but stays aboard when Nip leaves.
Lance Hayden (Paul Kay) initially a Time Agent from Earths future, Lance rescues the Doctor from an exploding spacestation and later joins the TARDIS crew
Ariel (Tanya Wright) meets the Doctor on Earth and saves it from the Zearock, but has no memory of the events.
Grace (Laura Massingham) fell in love with a man named Ben who later turned out to be the Doctor.
Leo (Aaron Carroll) is Nips neighbour on Earth who asks to travel with the Doctor but is rejected
Production
Doctor Who The 11th Regeneration started as a college project. Over time it has become a succesful series with one full season, another on the way and two "specials".
Format
The shows format is based on that of the 2005 revival of the tv series, Doctor Who. A regular episode goes from around 15 to 25 minutes long, features a pre credits sequence, opening titles, body of episode and a "next time" trailer for the next episode before the end credits.
Writing
The bulk of the episodes are written by Jaime Carroll, with additions from Billy Treacy (who has also written for Doctor Poo and Time Agent), and a story based on a Doctor Who comic by Jaqueline Raynor.
Soundtrack
The music used throughout the series has been excerpts from the BBC released Doctor Who Original Television Soundtrack and the Doctor Who series 3 soundtrack. It has also featured several songs from various artists in different episodes.
Special Effects
Due to the nature of most fan films, Doctor Who The 11th Regeneration does not have a budget the same size as that of the televised Doctor Who. The producers have however managed to create numerous special effects by the means of green screen effects and computer generated imagery such as several different spaceships and an entire city for certain episodes. They have also taken advantage of a few effects from the televised Doctor Who such as the TARDIS spinning in the Time and Space Vortex and the Earth from outer space.
Much of the effects on The 11th Regeneration rely on the clever usage of available sources such as a school corridoor without any windows substituted as the set for a space station. This style of budget filmaking is very reminiscent of the classic Doctor Who episodes and shows that you do not neccesarily need a big budget to be able to produce realistic looking effects.
It also has featured a wooden mock up of the TARDIS that has been used in most episodes.
Continuity
The continuity between this series and the televised Doctor Who has been mainly spotless with numerous references throughout the series to events that have taken place before in previous episodes (ie. Doctor: "My planet was destroyed in a war") and there was even an episode where the 10th Doctors death and subsequent regeneration into the 11th was depicted through the usage of several images of David Tennent (who plays the 10th Doctor in Doctor Who) edited in a narrated sequence. However, with news of Matt Smith taking the role of the 11th incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who next year, The 11th Regenerations continuity may be compromised.
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| Production Group | Thunder Comics |
| Series | Doctor Who The 11th Regeneration |
| Based On | Doctor Who |
| Audiences | All Ages |
| Release Date | Unknown |
| Duration | 22:09 |
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| Cast | Jaime Carroll Nathan Ewing Dale Farrow Arron Carroll Billy Treacy |
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| Script Writer(s) | Jaime Carroll |
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| Link To Download Page | Download This Episode |
