Right, apologies to anyone reading the RSS feed (as apparently WordPress’ “more” tags aren’t accounted for in it), but this is INTERESTING STUFF, and I’m doing my best to keep visual spoilers out, but this stuff happens. Anyway, following the pictures posted yesterday, production/concept designer Peter McKinstry has shown up on Gallifrey Base to face the barrage of “WTF??!!1″s and give a bit more explanation about the thought process behind the redesign. Obviously this will make more sense to read when we’ve actually seen them onscreen, but it’s nevertheless interesting enough that I’m going through and quoting some of his pertinent posts now.

Will Seb and Cappsy kick me thoroughly in the balls for posting fan-art? I bloody hope not, because this is stunning. A Gallifrey Base member has posted his schematics for what the exterior of the TARDIS might look like in its pure form. No Chameleon Circuit, no transcendental dimensions. Just the TARDIS.

And my word, is it impressive.

I’d love to embed the images here but DeviantArt is being shit, so instead allow me to link you to the top elevation view and the bottom elevation view.

Do you know about Insomniac Whovian? It’s rather brilliant: They throw on a Doctor Who story old or new at midnight UK time (occasionally an hour or so later) and watch it, live-tweeting together as they go. Isn’t that lovely?

They’re doing a Dalek themed week in the lead-up to this Saturday’s “Victory of the Daleks”. In fact they’re watching “Day of the Daleks” right now. Tomorrow they’ll be watching “Genesis”, then “Resurrection” on Wednesday, “Revelation” on Thursday, and “Remembrance” on Friday. Which is nice. You can join in, provided you have the story they’re watching and you press “Play” at the same time they do.

I don’t usually get to join in with this, what with living eight hours in the past and everything, but assuming I’m not working on Friday I should be able to join in for “Remembrance”, which is inexplicably my favourite classic series Dalek story.