thats unfair cos i already have some of them already and ordered the rest already. they should also do it with the last dvd for people not buying the box set but them individually.

@kieran cleaves
It’s always been the way that there are things on the boxset that aren’t on the individual DVD volumes. It is a shame, but that’s how it goes.

I’m loving the idea of those two scenes, particularly the latter! How did he get her off him? I must have read at least a dozen fanfics on that premise, and none of them came close to fitting. It’ll be brilliant to learn the canon truth!

they might be on youtube or something soi’ll watch it that way

To be honest, the first one sounds alright, but not that important. I’d be more interested knowing what happens between The Vampires of Venice and Amy’s Choice and between The Lodger and The Pandorica Opens.

The folks buying the “vanillas” don’t realize that they’re intended to be teasers for the box set, or perhaps aimed at people interested in only a specific episode or two. All the good stuff is always reserved for the box set. Which is good considering the “vanillas” generally aren’t released outside the UK. If I were in the UK I’d just avoid the vanillas and save up for the box set, if cost is a factor.

Anyway, these little bonuses sound cool. I hope a playback option is given allowing viewers to watch them seamlessly between the episodes, though I don’t have my hopes up on that!

@Alex
When you said “seamlessly between the episodes”, I had a different idea at the same time related to the finale, then I realised it wouldn’t work… Shame. But, I’ve always wanted there to be an edition of a finale on the box set where it’s 90+ minutes, rather than two 45+ minute episodes. Although, the fact that The Big Bang has a pre-titles sequence wouldn’t allow it.

@TE
The thing is the stories are formatted in such a way that, really, you do lose something if they’re edited together. If Stolen Earth and Journey’s End had been edited together you’d have lost the great cliffhanger with the regeneration. It would be different, of course, if Moffat had plotted things to be a single 90+ minute episode, but he didn’t, so I don’t mind seeing the two episodes separate. I lived through the era where PBS edited together all the classic stories into movies, and it really didn’t work very well.

@Alex
To be honest, the “regeneration” wasn’t really a brilliant cliffhanger because you knew the conclusion from the second the Doctor was shot that’s why it would work as a 110+ minute episode.

Though, I understand your point about the plot needing to be seamless having seen the full episode-editions of Series One of The Sarah Jane Adventures where a story like Eye of the Gorgon works as a 50 minute episode, but Warriors of Kudlak and The Lost Boy don’t have the same effect.

Oh that’s awesome!! (: Does anyone know the date for the release? I’ve been waiting to buy it since the end of the series and it’s driving me mental! Haha. ‘Cited! (:

@Steph all of the UK releases of the fifth series boxset are on November 8th (luckily enough only two days after my birthday :D)

Looking forward to all of this! I hope when they say ‘BBC Trailers and promos’, they are including the ‘Down The Rabbit Hole’ cinema trailer, that was incredible. Would love to see that in 1080p HD!

They’re releasing the boxset very close to my birthday too, but I very much doubt I’ll be getting it, simply because I wouldn’t want my family to foot the bill for the price of this when it comes out, lol……..no, I’m happy and capable of waiting the price down, hence getting Season 1 for £10, it could possibly get cheaper one day, but I think that was the least I should have spent.

@Lee
“Down the Rabbit Hole”?

@JC
They are expensive but my birthday is three days after Christmas. Therefore, I just ask for it as a Christmas/birthday present! One of the only benefits to having a birthday so close to Christmas.