The Pandorica Opens (TV story)

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The Pandorica Opens
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond River Song (guest)
Main enemy:	TBC
Main setting:	Stonehenge, Earth 102 AD Leadworth, Earth, June 26th 2010 Earth, 1996
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Director:	Toby Haynes
Producer:	Peter Bennett
Release details
Story number:	212a
Release number:	Series 5
Premiere broadcast:	19th June 2010
Format:	1 x 50 minute episode
Production code:	1.12

The Pandorica Opens will be the twelfth episode, and first in a dramatic two-part finale of Series 5.

Synopsis

A Van Gogh painting ferried across thousands of years, communicating a disturbing prophecy to the Doctor, a message on the oldest cliff-face in the universe and a love that lasts a thousand years. In 102 AD England, Romans receive a surprise visit from Cleopatra. Nearby, Stonehenge conceals the Pandorica, a prison-box of legend. As it slowly unlocks from the inside, terrible forces gather in the heavens above. The fates are drawing close around the TARDIS. United, the Doctor's friends send him a warning, he deals with a message on a cliff, a mysterious box and a love story which spans over millennia. The Pandorica, which contains the most dangerous threat in the Universe, is opening. Only one thing is certain: "The Pandorica will open...silence will fall".

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Matt Smith
• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
• River Song - Alex Kingston
• Young Amelia Pond - Caitlin Blackwood
• Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
• Liz 10 - Sophie Okonedo
• Winston Churchill - Ian McNeice
• Dorium - Simon Fisher-Becker
• TBA - Philip Madoc
• Claudio - Marcus O'Donovan
• Tabitha Pond (Amy's mother) - Karen Westwood
• Aunt Sharon - Susan Vidler
• Daleks/Cybermen/Judoon (voice) - Nicholas Briggs
• Commander Strak - Christopher Ryan

Production Crew

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References

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Story notes

• The episode was incorrectly entitled Silver Sentence.
• Young Amelia Pond will reappear, played by actress Caitlin Blackwood; a new picture shows her in a museum with the Eleventh Doctor, who is wearing a vortex manipulator.
• Many old enemies have been confirmed to appear in the second half of the finale, although not necessarily in the first half. Whether they're to play an enemy part is still to be confirmed. The list of enemies include the Daleks, Cybermen, the Sontarans, the Judoon, the Hoix, the Weevils, the Uvodni, the Sycorax, the Silurians, the Autons, the Roboform, the Blowfish, Slitheen, the Drahvins, the Terileptils, the Chelonians, the Nestenes, the Zygons, the Atraxi and the Draconians. Some of the mentioned enemies do not appear on-screen, with only the pictured ones appearing.
• Vincent van Gogh, Winston Chruchcill, Liz 10, and some other characters from throughout series 5 all return at some point, in either part 1 or 2, or both, as revealed in the following interview with Karen Gillan: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/tubetalk/a226888/karen-gillan-previews-who-finale.html

• Clips from the Trailers and Next Time Trailers show the following:

Either from The Pandorica Opens or The Big Bang

1. The Doctor, Amy and River Song running towards Stonehenge, where the Doctor uses the Sonic Screwdriver to scan something in the air.
2. River telling the Roman Centurion, Claudio, "Your world has visitors", while dressed in a modern-day white fur coat.
3. 26/06/2010 apparently the "Basecode of the Universe".
4. The Doctor, Amy, and River Song entering what might be a cave or temple while holding flaming torches.
5. Amy fending off a damaged Cyberman with a flaming torch.
6. The Doctor and Amy back to back in front of the Pandorica.
7. A damaged Cyberman picking up a decapitated Cyber helmet.
8. Roman soldiers seeing something strange above them.
9. River Song saying, "You can't win this! You can't even fight it!"
10. Amy being tied down and dragged somewhere by an anonymous enemy.
11. Amy narrowly avoiding being stabbed by a sword breaking through a barrier.
12. The Doctor holding Amy's hand as if he was escorting her out of the TARDIS.
13. The Doctor giving a cheerful thumbs up to Amy, to which she gives one back with a confused, yet terrified face.
14. Dozens of Cybermen standing together.
15. The Doctor looking upwards at a light shining down on him while surronded by Roman soldiers.
16. The Doctor, Amy, and River riding on horses in the countryside near Stonehenge.
17. The Main Sontaran Ship, Sontaran pods, Dalek Saucers, Judoon Ships, Other Alien transport and Stonehenge right below all of the ships.
18. The Pandorica opening.
19. A Roman Battle Field.
20. The Doctor using his Sonic Screwdriver while walking down the stairs to the Pandorica Chamber.
21. The Doctor lighting a torch with his Sonic Screwdriver.
22. The Doctor, River and Amy entering the Pandorica Chamber.
23. Amy Pond face to face with the head of a Cybus Cyberman, using the wires from its neck to attack her with.
24. Armed men similar to police running to a door.

Ratings

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Rumours

• The Original Cybermen will return.
• Many fans believe Omega will return.
• If the Doctor's "Friends who unite to send him a terrible warning" are some characters seen through the series then it's possible that they are the following:
• The Timoreen might appear as a (sort of) old enemy, since their name is reminiscent of a Raxacoricofallapatorian surname.

1. Amy Pond (Who will appear)
2. Rory Williams (Who will appear)
3. Jeff and Mrs. Angelo
4. Liz 10 (Who will appear in part 1 or 2, according to an interview with Karen Gillan)
5. Winston Churchill (Who will appear in part 1 or 2, according to an interview with Karen Gillan)
6. River Song (Who will appear)
7. Father Octavian and the Clerics (Since they got absorbed by the Cracks)
8. Eldane (Since he knows that the Doctor has greater losses to come)
9. Tony, Nasreen, Mo, Elliot and Ambrose
10. Vincent van Gogh (Who will appear, according to an interview with Karen Gillan)
11. Craig Owens and Sophie

Filming locations

• Stonehenge, England

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Production errors

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Continuity

• The Van Gogh painting would return as it had something to do with these events. (DW: Vincent and the Doctor)
• Prisoner Zero and River Song (one who already experienced these events) previously mentioned the Pandorica opening. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, DW: Flesh and Stone)
• The Cybus Cybermen last appeared in DW: The Next Doctor, and also appeared in DW: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday and (as an incomplete "Cyberwoman") in TW: Cyberwoman
• The new, non-Time War Daleks return since they were last seen in DW: Victory of the Daleks
• Many other enemies are featured or mentioned, specifically by River Song in the trailer, including:
  • The Sontarans (DW: The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion of Time, The Two Doctors, The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky, SJA: The Last Sontaran, Enemy of the Bane, DW:The End of Time)
  • The Judoon (DW: Smith and Jones, The Stolen Earth, SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon, DW: The End of Time)
  • The Hoix (DW: Love & Monsters, TW: Exit Wounds)
  • The Weevils (TW: Everything Changes, Day One)
  • The Blowfish (TW: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Fragments)
  • The Uvodni (SJA: Warriors of Kudlak)
  • The Sycorax (DW: The Christmas Invasion, The Shakespeare Code, The End of Time)
  • The Silurians (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians, Warriors of the Deep, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood)
  • The Nestene and Autons (DW:Spearhead from Space, Terror of the Autons, Rose)
  • The Roboform (DW: The Christmas Invasion, The Runaway Bride)
  • The Drahvins (DW: Galaxy 4)
  • The Chelonians (NA: The Highest Science, Zamper, MA: The Well-Mannered War, The Crystal Bucephalus, The Empire of Glass, DWM: The Last Word, The Body Bank, VD: Fegovy)
  • The Zygons (DW: Terror of the Zygons)
  • The Atraxi (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
  • The Terileptil (DW: The Visitation)
  • The Draconians (DW: Frontier in Space)

Home video releases

BBC Video - Doctor Who Series Five - Volume Four will feature The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang. It will be released on Monday 6th September 2010 (UK Only) on DVD and Blu-ray.

See also

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External links

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Gallery

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