Doctor Who Season 5 - What I'm Hoping For

What I've seen evidence for so far (and what it means?):

The TARDIS is looking new again, back to it's 1960s look.

> Maybe D11 crossed his own timeline and stole an earlier incarnation's TARDIS?


We know that River Song will be back, very likely in the in the wake of the crash of the Byzantium that she referred to in Silence in the Library. We see two versions of her - one in military attire, handcuffed, and one dressed to the nines behind some smoke.

> I think the smoky, dressed up River is a message from the future.
> D11 and Amy Pond meet the army-uniformed River, and D11 recognises her, but she doesn't know who he is, an exact reversal of their previous meeting (from his perspective), at the end of her life. Perhaps he introduces himself as the Doctor, but she doesn't believe him, having met and perhaps begun a relationship of sorts with an older incarnation (in Silence she said D10 was the youngest she'd ever seen him and D11 is even younger), perhaps she doesn't know about regeneration yet? I think she'll have faith and help him somehow, and will be subsequently arrested.


We know D11 meets Winston Churchill and some British Daleks, painted in British Army colours.

> I hope that the Daleks are being sneaky, perhaps working with both the Germans and the British, manipulating the outcome of the war while pretending to serve both sides. I hope there are only a handful of Daleks, because they are robbed of their menace by having huge invasion forces wiped out instantly over and over again - they're just too easily defeated! Let them escape to scheme again, rather than be destroyed... please!

>> On the subject of Daleks, I'd like to see them in just ONE story per season, mid-way through rather than at the end, manipulating events rather than going all-out to invade, occasionally being outside of their casings and killing people just as they are. Bring back the Supreme Dalek! Make the ordinary Daleks grey again!


Other hopes:

More emphasis on the weird nature of time-travel -- don't just treat it like a plane trip to another country!

Get rid of Torchwood!

Get rid of the Slitheen - FOREVER!!

Retain some Bad Wolf hints! (though this is pretty unlikely).

Have the Cybermen from this universe come into conflict with the Cybus Cybermen from the alternate universe?

Show UNIT being arrogant and dodgy!

Retain musical motifs from RTD years!

Redeem the Sontarans - make them look less gay!

Make Amy Pond dodgy or criminal!