01x05 - Why on Earth

[bunniefuu]

SIMO N: Of all the planets in all the
worlds, the Doctor has to land on ours.

But why would a -year-old Time Lord
want to mingle with us mere mortak?

- He may look human-
- I'm a Time Lord.

- He may sound human.
- I'm the last of the Time Lords.

But anyone from Gallifrey
is a long way from home.

I'm left travelling on my own
'cause there's no one else.

why is he on Earth?
And what's he hiding?

Doctor Who Confidential
is about to find out.

DAVIES: One of the problems
of Doctor Who

is that its greatest strength
could be its greatest weakness.

In that you've got the freedom to go
anywhere in time and space.

And that is wonderful and liberating.
It can also get annoying

because it means there's no anchor,
no connection to the people watching,

which is a very, very important thing.

And you're only going to do that by
constantly bringing Rose back to Earth.

- How long have I been gone?
- About hours.

Story-wise, it feels good,
it grounds it again.

You can go to the end of the universe
so long as you know you can come back.

If you just go to the end of
the universe and stay there,

then you've lost me.

Right, I won't belong.
I just want to see my mum.

- What are you gonna tell her?
- I don't know.

I've been to year five billion
and only been gone, what, hours?

No, I'll just tell her I spent the night
at Shareen's. See you later.

It's funny, as a cast and crew,

it's like every time we come back
to a Jackie and Mickey episode,

there's a bit of a buzz, actually.
It's like we like getting them back in.

I was going to come and see you.

- Someone owes Mickey an apology.
- I'm sorry.

I think they kept her coming back
because it was to show how it affected

her mother and her boyfriend.

How old are you, then? ? ?
What, did you find her on the internet?

Did you go online
and pretend you're a doctor?

I am a doctor.

Prove it. Stitch this, mate.

(DOCTOR GROANING IN PAIN)

He has huge feelings for...the world.

But domestic, he doesn't like domestic.
He doesn't do domestic.

- Are you going to stay here now?
- I don't know.

- I can't do that to her again, though.
- Well, she's not coming with us.

- No chance.
- I don't do families.

She slapped you.

years of time and space and I've
never been slapped by someone's mother.

- Your face.
- It hurt!

You're so gay!

He seems very fond of the human race.
But, equally, if the human race

behaves unpleasantly towards an alien,
he takes it very personal. Obviously.

(SNORTING)

Hello.

(SQUEALING)

Don't sh**t!

ECCLESTON". He calls them "stupid apes".

And he gets very frustrated
with their cruelty and negativity.

What did you do that for? It was scared.

It was scared.

(SNORTING SOFTLY)

And yet there's the other side to him,

which is kind of ruthless,
brutal pragmatist.

If something or somebody is threatening
the human race or existence,

he'll k*ll it.

SIMO N: In episodes four and five, this
imperfect race are under thr*at, again.

(GROWLING)

We are the Slitheen.

SIMO N: While world domination was not
going to be easy for the Slitheen,

just bringing these aliens to life
was no easy task either.

Combining the latest prosthetic design
and computer-generated technology,

there are more to these nasty green
giants than meets the eye.

(SLITHEEN LAUGHING)

We'll start with the actor
wearing a prosthetic,

sort of, unzipping their forehead.

(SLITHEEN LAUGHING)

And then we cut to a person,

a sort of character-mover,
wearing a green suit.

And they have this prosthetic

that they appear
to be sort of breaking out from within.

- Is it all as one piece?
- Yeah. It's all as one

-and it kind of rolls down.
- Okay.

Do you want to tuck it into the skirt?

- There, that's it.
- Could you do it like how it'll look?

And we then, basically,
have our completely CGI Slitheen

that we put over the top of the actor
inside the green suit's movements.

And we put that together with

the element of the real prosthetic that
was sort of shrivelling down the actor.

And that's how we created that effect.

(GROWLING)

ACTOR". The hardest part is the arms
'cause they're the heaviest.

There's a framework inside, then three
rings that you put these fingers into.

With the weight of the arm as well,
it's actually quite a lot of weight.

But it's good fun!

SIMON: Taking aver Dawning Street
can be tiring work.

A lot of stuff that I've been doing
has been quite physical.

First majorly physical thing I did
was actually lifting Nav,

who is playing Indra
in one of the episodes,

and lifting him up by his throat.

(GROWLING)

And he's on a winch...

and so most of the sh*t
was me bringing the arm into sh*t,

clutching him by the throat,
and lifting him into the air.

Which is just such a really cool
feeling. Actually, it's a lot of fun.

Of course, he's on a winch
and you've got a guy at the other end

pulling the rope up and taking
the slack. He just flew straight up.

That scene was great fun to do.

The reason a lot of people become actors
is you get paid to dress up and play.

SIMO N: And it's not just a jab
for the bays.

The difference for me
is that I've tried to find

a slightly more female way of moving.

So I'm slightly more, sort of,
hippy than the fellas.

And also the costume is the same size
as the blokes

but obviously, because I'm smaller,

I'm completely inside mine.
So I have a bit of a j-Lo bottom.

(FARTING)

Excuse me.

(FARTING)

What's going on here?

We have problems
because we're actually eight feet tall.

And we have to squash down
into human bodies

so there's a bit of gas exchange
that happens

that's embarrassing and amusing.

And any British person
will enjoy it enormously.

(FARTING)

Excuse me, do you mind not farting
while I'm saving the world?

Would you rather silent but deadly?

SIMO N: But when aliens crash into
the Thames, it's no laughing matter.

In Aliens of London, it begins with...

what Russell describes in his script as
the perfect spaceship crash over London.

Which involved building a -D model
for the spaceship and animating it.

The last sh*t in that sequence is one of
my favourite sh*ts in all the episodes.

(BELLS RINGING)

Done with what I call "photo-real water"

which is quite a challenge
in animation terms.

You can see here that the ship
feels like it's hitting the camera.

Giving it that impression that
you're really in the water

and it's coming at you
and hitting you in the face.

On the original, our water
is not affected by our spaceship

because it's not really there.

, we had to recreate
the surface of the water again.

And we used the simulation of the model
hitting this

to create this effect.
This kind of wave effect.

Then what I did next is I got
a couple of practical elements,

which is a splash here,
which is just from some old footage.

And we've got this splash element here,
which is actually sand.

Sand's always a good thing to use
practically for water because

it gets the scale of the water

to create a little bit more impact
when it hits the water.

So you get this big splash.

As you can see, there's the real element
of the splash I just showed you,

and then you get all this spray,
which comes from the sand.

The next thing I did was I got
another bit of old -D footage

of the underwater.

I made it look a bit browner
because, obviously,

the Thames is not beautiful blue
like the tropics.

Blended that in, and then when the ship
comes towards the camera,

it knocks it to really give you that
impression that you're being hit.

Leave this planet or I'll stop you.

What? You?

Trapped in your box.

Yes, me.

I like the idea of this character
going out at :

because he's not cosy...for kids.

He's not comfortable.

The series doesn't duck that there are
difficult decisions to be made in life.

- There's a way out.
- What?

- There's always been a way out.
- Then why don't we use it?

Because I can't guarantee
your daughter will be safe.

Don't you dare.
Whatever it is, don't you dare.

That's the thing, if I don't dare,
everyone dies.

He feels himself to be
the last of the Time Lords.

And there's a dark secret there,
which gives him a sadness.

The fact that he has no home.

Do it.

You don't even know what it is,
you'd just let me?

Yeah.

And there's a loneliness to the Doctor

which is key
to his relationship with Rose.

Please, Doctor, please.
She's my daughter. She's just a kid.

Do you think I don't know that?

'Cause this is my life, Jackie.
It's not fun, it's not smart,

it's just standing up
and making a decision.

- Because nobody else will.
- Then what are you waiting for?

I could save the world but lose you.

He's basically saying, "I'm lonely.
I want somebody to come with me."

And Rose has her own
secret kind of tragedy.

That's what brings them together.

What are you doing?

Hacking into the Royal Navy.

- We're in. Sub harpoon, UGMA.
- That's the one. Select.

- I could stop you.
- Do it, then.

- You ready for this?
- Yea h .

Mickey the idiot,
the world is in your hands.

Fire.

(SCREAMING)

Made in Britain.

Oh, my God. Are you all right?

Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North. I want
you to contact the UN immediately.

Tell the ambassadors the crisis is over.
They can step down.

SIMON". the Doctor has saved mankind
once again.

But his next visit to Earth will surely
test his own humanity to the limit.

Exterminate.