Regeneration DVD Set

A DVD boxset containing all ten of the Doctor's regenerations is being released on June 24th. It comes with a set of six DVDs, a limited-edition book, and an advance release of The Tenth Planet.

The first regeneration story, The Tenth Planet, has had its fourth part beautifully restored in animated form and will not otherwise be released until this fall. The book is adorned with photography and behind-the-scenes info on each of the stories from William Hartnell to David Tennant.

A list of the stories in the boxset includes The Tenth Planet, The War Games, Planet of the Spiders, Logopolis, The Caves of Androzani, Time and the Rani, Doctor Who: The Movie, Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, and The End of Time.

The item is currently available for pre-order here.

The Sun's Gone Wibbly

Okay, so here's something I've been noticing for quite some time now: they've mentioned solar flares far too many times.

Solar flares have received at least four mentions: in Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, in The Waters of Mars, in The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People, and in The Wedding of River Song. In The Wedding of River Song, it turned out to not actually be solar flares, but they still received a mention. There might have been other mentions as well, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. There could very well have been a mention of solar flares in every season, but I can't really remember. There were probably also mentions of them in Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

I think we're going to see an explanation of this at some point, or at least another mention of them. I think there's something building extremely long–term here, something all the way back to Series 1. Someone is probably messing with the Sun, causing solar flares. Whatever it is, I don't think it's done yet. I might just be overthinking it, but this is Doctor Who, and everything means something.