'Doctor Who's Day Roundup: Braces Are Cool
Welcome to this week's Doctor Who's Day roundup, a great big hugful of Gallifreyan social media fun and games from across the last week on the internet.
And we begin this week with a landslide, as unexpected as it is glorious.
It started with the revelation of the Thirteenth Doctor's new outfit for Season 11:
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/928608189586788352
As you'd expect, it set tongues wagging right away:
https://twitter.com/trudetheobscure/status/928614957901545478
https://twitter.com/JosieAPCat/status/928637619109552128
https://twitter.com/DeborahJBall1/status/928689575974891520
And Radio Times (among others) went in deep with the details:
https://twitter.com/RadioTimes/status/928664732545847296
https://twitter.com/RadioTimes/status/928666120416055296
https://twitter.com/LournEidal/status/928623221947199489
The remarkable thing, among all the commentary and bedazzled reactions was the deluge of superb fan art, which arrived seemingly within seconds of the photo arriving.
This is just the tip of an extraordinary iceberg:
https://twitter.com/YoZanfardino/status/928713165390712834
https://twitter.com/GerardGroves/status/929790825369948160
https://twitter.com/ilustragus/status/930155995778748416
https://twitter.com/ZestyDoesThings/status/928654862266568704
https://twitter.com/MrtViolet/status/928662961253646337
https://twitter.com/CreativeCatFX/status/928680356798238720
https://twitter.com/WhoviVortex/status/928658396210966531
https://twitter.com/doodle_beth/status/929432885190451202
https://twitter.com/Mogamoka2/status/928621970614128640
https://twitter.com/Mogamoka2/status/928640646977544192
https://twitter.com/JakubBogus/status/928635664467480580
https://twitter.com/StephenByrne86/status/928641210595663873
https://twitter.com/moonchelloveck/status/929737445050077189
https://twitter.com/Khallion/status/929407007064494080
https://twitter.com/AnnaSassi95/status/929023295558692865
http://mrborsch.tumblr.com/post/167480783049/xiii
And this is a particular stand-out:
https://twitter.com/DaffTheJammer/status/930077538805743618
And there was a certain amount of larking about too:
https://twitter.com/willbrooks1989/status/928669011470143488
• Meanwhile the actual Jodie Whittaker went off and changed into her favorite band T-shirt:
https://twitter.com/BBC6Music/status/928886619956015104
Here's what else has been going on in space and time this week:
• A sneak peek at "Twice Upon a Time" is on the way (and LOOK at the glorious pictures):
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbZfRKLA03a/
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/929702896014385154
• The new First Doctor speaks:
https://twitter.com/DWMtweets/status/930007451914723328
• This photo, showing the Doctor on the set of Sherlock, is quite something:
https://twitter.com/rtalalay/status/929883566699298816
• Season 10 made even MORE dramatic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqe_a8mv9jQ
• New Target novelizations of modern Doctor Who stories are on the way:
https://twitter.com/GallifreyTimes/status/929747131656675329
• And they might look something like this (note: they won't):
https://twitter.com/Andydrewz/status/929974278707142656
• A teaser trailer for the Third Doctor epic "The Time Monster"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPlnDV0kjc
• The Doctors in Northern Ireland:
https://twitter.com/jephWHOArt/status/929827923149783040
• The missing link between Mork and Mindy and Are You Being Served?, apparently:
https://twitter.com/anglophenia/status/930142022329143302
• As we began this week with glorious fan creativity, let's end with something similar. Here's a wonderful fan-made credits sequence for Doctor Who, in the style of the Doctor Who spin-off Class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7hrbCWDH-A
TTFN!