04x05 - Sontar-Ha!

[bunniefuu]

Those big-headed Sontarans
are still waging w*r.

Change of plan!

And they have an almighty
chip on their shoulder.

They look brilliant.

A whole new dynamic of creature.

We will ravage this planet!

Because they have no fear of death,
they are sort of unstoppable.

They're truly brutal,
nasty, monstrous creatures.

♪ Tick, tick, tick, tick,

♪ Tick, tick, tick

♪ Boom. ♪

It's battle stations
for the Doctor Who production team

as they plan, with m*llitary
precision, the Sontarans'
att*ck against UNIT forces.

SCREAMING

It's big battle time in this episode,
and it's the first time ever

on screen you get to see
the Sontarans en masse.

I just want to see hordes of them,
armies of them,

marching, g*ns,
battleships, action,

to see these soldiers, these famous
soldiers of the Doctor Who universe,

at w*r, in battle,
fighting, and loving it.

All troops. Code Red.

This isn't w*r!

Get them out of there.
SONTARAN LAUGHS

This is sport!

They're running like slime bait
from a spiel fox!

Get them out of there!

God save us.

North America, online.

United Kingdom, online.

North Korea, online.

The honour of battle.

The glory!

With the coordination of Tom,
our stunt coordinator,

and Ailsa, our choreographer,

we really felt the full force
of their warrior techniques.

They're truly brutal, nasty,
monstrous creatures, and that's
what Sontarans are, they fight.

At the moment we're waiting
to go and sh**t the big battle

that we're going to be
having with the UNIT troops.

Action!

And sh**ting various
members of them.

It's an interesting way
to spend a morning, certainly.

Come on, come on. What we're
seeing on that is the soldiers
running around, half panicking.

Then the Sontarans
come in into a set line,

and then we had to work out
different scenarios -

running, falling and trying to
sh**t, but their g*ns are jammed.

I think we really did get
a sense of scale, in that we had

these two big forces
facing each other,

and then throwing in
our set piece special effects,

in episode five,
makes for a very dramatic sequence.

Action!

♪ You

♪ Should

♪ You

♪ Live

♪ The sun has gone
and you're all alone

♪ And you know

♪ You're my dream. ♪

We want to give them
that testosterone.

ALL: Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!

ALL: Sontar-ha!

They just needed that release, that
joy in battle, beyond just saying,
"I'm having fun."

I thought that chant brought
out their aggression and their
rituals and also their fun,

but also the fact that they're all
of one like mind, they are clones.

They do things together. They all
join in exactly the same
actions and words.

It just seems
really Sontaran to do that.

About three or four weeks ago
when the guys first came together,

we did a few basic exercises

just running things,
just some marching,

to get everybody in the feel
of the quality of movement that
we were actually looking for.

D camera.

OK, and...

Three, two, one, action!

million weapons!

Sontar-ha!

Sontar-ha!

I seem to remember saying
that quite a few times.

ALL: Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!

ALL: Sontar-ha!

My left palm was very sore

at the end of...after each
session of my Sontar-ha-ing.

ALL: Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!

ALL: Sontar-ha!

Gimme a break.

It's a good chance... When we come
back to Earth, mid-series,

it's a good chance
for the companion to develop.

For example,
Donna gets her key to the Tardis.

Oh, I've never given you a key!

Keep that. That's yours.
Quite a big moment.

She's given a key
to the Tardis, yeah,

which, in true Donna fashion
she goes, "Never mind.
Don't get all sentimental,

"cos I'm choking to death."

Action!

Look after yourself.
Get yourself in the building.

What's perhaps different to the
Doctor and Donna's relationship

to relationships that we've seen
the Doctor have before

is that Donna herself
feels no need to prove herself.

SHE COUGHS

God, this air's disgusting!
It looks bad. Get in the Tardis.

Oh! I've never given you a key!

She's very much her own woman

and I think the Doctor
therefore goes along with that.

'Keep that. That's yours.'

Quite a big moment, really.

Yeah. Maybe we'll get sentimental
after the world's finished choking
to death. Yeah, good idea.

Donna's not been waiting,
going "Oh, you know. Are you going
to tell me the alarm code?"

I don't think she's really
reading into that in any way.

Donna just forces herself upon him

and inhabits the Doctor's life
from the moment she steps on board.

I can't believe I'm doing this!

No, neither can I.

For instance, when the Doctor
gives her a Tardis key,

I think he assumed
he'd already done it.

She treats it in a much more
cavalier way than either
Rose or Martha did.

None of that.
The world's choking to death.

With Rose and possibly even more
with Martha there was a sense that
perhaps they felt

they didn't quite deserve
to be there.

What's happened? Where are you?

Still on Earth. But don't worry.
I've got my secret w*apon.

'What's that?' You!
Somehow that's not making me happy!

Companion alone
on an alien spaceship
and all she's got is a hammer.

It's like there's something really
dreadful about that,

genuinely full of dread,
in that the Doctor isn't there,
and he isn't there to save her.

It's a scary place to be.
It's very alone.

I find that very, very scary.
It's one of my favourite sequences,
because of the loneliness of it.

There's a Sontoran... Sont-A-ran.
Did he see you? No. He's got
his back to me.

'Listen, on the back of his neck,'

on his collar, there's a plug,
a hole, the probic vent. 'One blow
to the probic vent

'knocks him out.' But he's going to
k*ll me. I'm sorry, I swear, I'm
so sorry, but you've got to try.

She does have a wobble.
And that's quite unusual.

Because we haven't really seen that
from her, because she is quite sure
of who she is,

of what she can do
and what she can't do.

But I can't even mend a fuse!
Donna! Stop talking like that.
You can do this. I promise.

When the Doctor really
has to push her, it feels...

new and he's sorry for it.

But what if they find me?

I know. I wouldn't ask,
but there's nothing else I can do.

The planet's choking, Donna.

The Doctor almost regrets having
to push her into situations

where she wouldn't feel
entirely comfortable.

But of course he does, because he
has to and of course she fulfils it,
because she is

perhaps more able
than she believes herself to be.

She rises to the occasion. She does.

And I think she sort of finds this
strength within her, and I don't
know if she knew she had it.

Because she's cocky
and she's mouthy and she's ballsy,

but that doesn't necessarily
mean she's brave in the face
of alien warfare!

But it turns out she is!

There's something
very human about that.

She doesn't suddenly become some
superhero and step up to the mark

in a way that's just too much.

And action!

Back of the neck!

Here's a bit of trivia for you.
It was supposed to be a shoe.

But because I only wear trainers,
they didn't want it to be a trainer,

or thought probably a trainer
would just bounce off the back
of his neck,

so I had to have a mallet.

I'm through.
Oh, you are brilliant, you are!

DOOR CLUNKS

Shut up!

Previously he's been
more used to being admired
and slightly goggled at.

With various parts of the story,
Donna becomes more of the companion.

There's some really
brilliant stuff to come.

It's part of the new...the different
flavour that Donna brings.

Hello.

Doctor!

♪ I walked out
cos I had some plans

♪ Yeah, I walked out

♪ Destiny in my own hands

♪ I thought I'd get by without you

♪ Thought I'd survive
without you... ♪

Donna Noble, since you didn't ask.

I'll have a salute.

Ma'am! Thank you.

♪ Cos I can't get along without you

♪ I can't get along without you

♪ I can't get along without you

♪ No, something is wrong

♪ I can't get along without you... ♪

Come on.

♪ So I picked fights
with men twice my size... ♪

And you're would be?
The Doctor and Donna Noble.

Representing the Noble Corporation
Plc Ltd, intergalactic.

It's always like this with you,
innit? Oh yes, and off we go!

♪ Can't get along without you

♪ I can't get along without you

♪ I can't get along without you, girl

♪ Believe me, baby

♪ Can't get along without you
Can't get along

♪ I can't get along without you
Can't get along

♪ I can't get along without you

♪ No, something is wrong

♪ I can't get along without you

♪ I really need you, baby. ♪