Oh this may be of interest to "Cybapay".
http://www.cybuscorporation.com/
Interesting new page for the BBC's Cybus Corporation website. An Orbital space station? A link to Torchwood? A big Cyberman image?
Could this be the reason for Rose's return in the upcoming 4th series? More Cybermen from their dimension jumping into our own?
Anyhow the main reason for my post:
DVD Overload
The Davros Collection
Until actually getting this I was in two minds about the worth of this collection, especially as the price was rather high. Considering the
Key to Time boxset could retail for £70 with 6 hours of newly shot supplements (plus new commentaries) charging £20 more for largely reissued content did seem to be taking the mickey a bit.
But that all changed once I held this thing of beauty in my hands. It really is a wonderful set. It is the definitive Davros collection, and as such does exactly what it says on the case. The TV stories are great – including the previously unreleased
Destiny of the Daleks and a new "Special Edition" of
Remembrance of the Daleks. Rememberance not only has new supplements, including a wealth of audio options, but it does clearly look better than the early DVD release. The exclusive documentary
Davros Connections is fantastic – including some flawless CGI over clips from the Big Finish audio plays. And this documentary makes it pretty clear the Big Finish audios are more or less considered canon by the BBC, such is the amount of discussion and time spent examining them on the documentary.
What's that? You don't have any of the Big Finish audios? Well, it’s a good job this set contains all of the Big Finish Davros audios then isn't it? Including an all-new and exclusive
The Davros Mission. That's about 13 hours of audio! Of course the highlight of this Big Finish content is likely to be the
I, Davros audios which chronicle the life of Davros from child to just before the start of the Genesis of the Daleks story. Hearing clips from
I, Davros in the
Davros Connections documentary has well and truly wet my appetite for more. (And another nice touch is that all of the audios are subtitled if viewed on the screen)
Finally this comes with a informative booklet. Particularly appreciated is a Davros Timeline show where each story in the collection takes place. The TV stories may be sequential, but the audios are more scattershot.
Doctor Who: The Complete Third Series
I got the Amazon.co.uk exclusive cover for this with Harold Saxon on the cover holding up a flyer. It changes from "Saxon is your man" to "I am the Master" depending on which angle you hold the case. And very snazzy it is too. Much better than the "normal" packaging in the shops.
We all know what to expect from a Doctor Who series set by now, and this release sticks to the formula. Commentaries on every episode. David Tennant's Video Diaries (which I must say, as edited so much better than last year), Trailers (making a welcome return after being left off last year's set), and whole disc of
Doctor Who Confidential Cutdowns. In addition, this year we also get a Studio Tour hosted by Freema and the full one hour
Doctor Who Confidential "Music and Monsters" covering both
The Runaway Bride Christmas Special and the Children In Need Doctor Who Concert.
I've not gone through even one quarter of the supplements on this set yet, but I think its fair to say there's a smattering of hints about series 4 in the commentaries and on the studio tour… if you keep your eyes and ears open.
All in all, there's about 15 hours of supplements on this set (if you include the commentaries).
Torchwood: The Complete First Series
Annoyingly the Torchwood set does recycle a lot from the previous twin-disc releases – from supplements to menu designs. The good news is that it also features more – most importantly like the Doctor Who set, it has commentaries on every episode. However I was disappointed that John Barrowman only appears on two (
Captain Jack Harkness and
End of Days) and my favourite Naoko Mori (who plays Toshiko Sato) doesn't appear on any. Still, even when Barrowman isn't on the commentary, his presence if usually felt (Eve Myles reveals he wears "freshly ironed" Transformers pyjamas, for example, much to everyone's amusement in the commentary booth).
We also get a couple of new featurettes (
Torchwood on the Road and
The Captain's Log Video Diary) and a collection of Outtakes. Like the Doctor Who set, we also get a disc full of episodic "making of"s – in this case the full
Torchwood Declassified series. Unlike
Doctor Who Confidential these are not cut down as they only had a short running time being primarily made for internet viewing. This does however mean that the episode
Welcome to Torchwood is on the set twice – once on Disc 1 and once on the Declassified disc.
Counting the commentaries, there's probably 17 hours of supplements in the set.
Is this a British thing?
(Even though I have the other Romana as my Avatar at the moment). It's a same there's no Davros boxset for the US in the forseeable future (and I guess the tease that it will be coming out later will stop you picking up Destiny).