{"id":5776,"date":"2011-04-30T10:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2011-04-30T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:48:35","slug":"on-doctor-who-intros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5776","title":{"rendered":"On Doctor Who Intros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I mentioned that, in the United States, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5766\">BBC America attached a prologue\/voice-over to <i>Doctor Who<\/i><\/a>, with Amy introducing the series and its premise.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Canada and Australia also had the Amy voice-over.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s an international thing.  I kinda hope it goes on the DVD sets, if only as an extra.  I liked it, and not just because of my fondness for Scottish redheads.<\/p>\n<p>Some have said the intro is very <i>Sarah Jane Adventures<\/i>.  I thought it was more <i>Quantum Leap<\/i>, myself.<\/p>\n<p>Then I wondered what it would be like if it were more <i>A-Team<\/i>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1963 a daft old man was sent to prison by a Gallifreyan court for a crime he didn&#8217;t commit.  This man promptly escaped from a maximum security time loop to a junkyard in present day London.  Today, still knocking about the universe in a stolen and outdated Type-40 time capsule, he survives as a righter of wrongs.  If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire the Doctor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dun-de-dun-duh!<\/p>\n<p>And in a couple of hours, &#8220;Day of the Moon!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I mentioned that, in the United States, BBC America attached a prologue\/voice-over to Doctor Who, with Amy introducing the series and its premise. It turns out that Canada and Australia also had the Amy voice-over. Maybe it&#8217;s an international thing. I kinda hope it goes on the DVD sets, if only as an<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5776\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Doctor Who Intros&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[241,4082,197],"class_list":["post-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-amy-pond","tag-doctor-who","tag-eleventh-doctor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}