'Doctor Who's Day Roundup: The Earring of the Doctor
Welcome to this week's Doctor Who's Day roundup, a cosmic soup made of the tastiest morsels of social media fandom and piping hot gossip from the last week on the internet.
And we begin this week with fan reactions to some new shots of Jodie Whittaker in full Doctor garb as part of her interview with Doctor Who Magazine.
https://twitter.com/DWMtweets/status/949918688387444737
This has prompted a wave of artistic activity, with fans seizing upon every tiny detail:
https://twitter.com/GirlyLetters/status/950139239789924352
And getting generally creative:
https://twitter.com/typicalmadness_/status/949997415892832257
https://twitter.com/WhoviVortex/status/950043873526603776
https://twitter.com/Aaroonio/status/950152114810118146
https://twitter.com/JeffGrampus76/status/950533778409222145
https://twitter.com/JoseRodMota/status/950398249613119490
https://twitter.com/CaptnBrowncoat/status/948270008802709504
And there's cosplay too:
https://twitter.com/anyaawho/status/948971202265190401
It's fair to say Jodie is still as excited as everyone else:
https://twitter.com/RadioTimes/status/949030176905744389
And for anyone still mourning the Twelfth Doctor, the Doctor Who Yearbook is here:
https://twitter.com/DWMtweets/status/948824770799382528
Here's what else has been going on in space and time this week:
• Part one of an epic interview with Steven Moffat about writing Doctor Who:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwBlwGbVaA
• And another one here, for Den of Geek:
https://twitter.com/denofgeek/status/950350384022814725
• What Pearl Mackie did when Bill's time was up:
https://twitter.com/BBCRadio2/status/949636118705827840
• Justified praise for Rachel Talalay:
https://twitter.com/rtalalay/status/949750289191587840
• Ten and Eleven and Twelve on the cusp of regeneration:
https://twitter.com/enashiamana/status/950292227904880640
https://twitter.com/UnknownnDan/status/950520343847989248
https://twitter.com/JellyinDistress/status/948502604639686657
• "You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!"
https://twitter.com/mental_floss/status/950221281626124288
• Here's a book the Doctor clearly does not own:
https://twitter.com/alex_nman/status/950280186339250176
• Fandom is a wonderful thing:
https://twitter.com/RadioTimes/status/950339851055968257
• How they feed the birds on Gallifrey:
https://twitter.com/DoctorWho_Today/status/948936360613810181
• Teaser trailers for the Third Doctor's last two adventures, "The Monster of Peladon"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdKMkS17QDk
And "Planet of the Spiders"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw9FTUEJf-E
• Speaking of whom, here's 1970s Whovian fandom in full riotous form:
https://twitter.com/ClassicDrWho/status/950420546789003264
• Twelve enjoying a particularly tart jelly baby:
https://twitter.com/iainjclark/status/949713180879712258
• Doctor Who Cubed:
https://twitter.com/anglophenia/status/950347629455659008
• The impossible girl:
https://twitter.com/tiafowles/status/949620904383873027
• Regeneration, the mechanical way:
https://twitter.com/TheDoctorPuppet/status/949686772019101696
• The Doctors having a Lego rave-up:
https://twitter.com/BillyTreacy93/status/949676392756711425
• Happy Birthday William Hartnell!
https://twitter.com/_Art_By_Steve_/status/950407257690341376
• And to end this week on a fittingly retro note, how about a remixed version of the current Doctor Who theme, one that works in the eerie melodic tones of the very first Who theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3YtLtiK_jU
TTFN!