Doctor Who - Speculation and Spoilers Series 9 - General

[QUOTE=Grizz;42838790]Also a Doctor Who game inspired by the Walking Dead episodes. [/QUOTE] This is the sort of thing that pops up in a survey and makes me happy. Like the one about Capaldi before Capaldi was announced as The Doctor.

[QUOTE=GussGriswold;42839467]Well, not to throw a spanner in your porridge, but Lazenby was Australian AND Bond.[/QUOTE] wow, I didn't knew that.

I was looking through that schedule Grizz posted and spotted that the 2nd Doctor Revisited was about to start, so I quickly closed my laptop and turned on the TV only to discover that Watch isn't on freeview. :v:

DWM for 50th comes with an art card for each Doctor - including the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi. Lots of goodies, [url]http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/dwm-467-50th-anniversary-edition-54663.htm[/url]

Shame it's not one of Capaldi in-costume.

[QUOTE=CoolCorky;42841302]Shame it's not one of Capaldi in-costume.[/QUOTE][I]or is it[/I]

[QUOTE=Grizz;42841119]DWM for 50th comes with an art card for each Doctor - including the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi. Lots of goodies, [url]http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/dwm-467-50th-anniversary-edition-54663.htm[/url][/QUOTE] And still no love for the Hurt-Doctor.

[QUOTE=Grizz;42841119]DWM for 50th comes with an art card for each Doctor - including the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi. Lots of goodies, [url]http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/dwm-467-50th-anniversary-edition-54663.htm[/url][/QUOTE] Some US Bookshops better darn get this in stock with goodies intact. But they just got the issue with the big Light at the End feature, so I don't know what they'll have anytime soon. I'll be eyeing Books-A-Million and Barns & Noble a lot soon, I guess. Wait, if it's being sold as a Souvenir issue, it might have the same status as those Dalek/Companions/Doctor specials on the magazine stands. I'll hold out hope!

It's about ten days till the 50th. [I]Ten days.[/I] So close!

THEN WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?! [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1468522_758153114198718_264219004_n.jpg[/img] Perhaps these should grace the tops of pages. [QUOTE]Speaking to CultBox on the set of 'The Day of the Doctor' in Cardiff earlier this year, the writer commented: "I knew the story we wanted tell and certain things in the kit of parts that we could tell it with. That has to be the priority, otherwise you might as well just have a walk-down, a curtain call… It can’t all be curtain call. Not that I’m saying we don’t have a curtain call!" Moffat added: "It was a very, very, very difficult script to start writing, because it had to be epically ambitious. I’ve never written anything quite like it. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done." The writer explained: "I knew what I wanted to accomplish. I think there’s a tremendous danger if you attach the word 50 to anything that you are arranging a state funeral and a retrospective. I wanted it to be the show that ensures the next 50 years – it does celebrate the last 50 years, trust me, people seem to worry that I‘m not going to do that. It celebrates the legend, rather than saying ‘it’s really old, you know’."[/QUOTE] [editline]12th November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE]Mark Gatiss’ ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ is a gift to all who have loved a Doctor, from One to Eleven. This is the essence of Who... and this? This is a standing ovation. It’s that good.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE][img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BY5ynPsIgAI9ErX.jpg:large[/img][/QUOTE]

I want a trailer. I want a trailer. I want a trailer. I want a trailer more than I wanted one for Day of the Doctor.

[QUOTE]An Adventure in Space and Time is the best TV drama I've seen all year, an absolute triumph! #doctorwho[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]It was so good. I cried.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]I thought @markgatiss’ An Adventure In Space And Time was going to be brilliant. I was wrong. It’s *utterly* brilliant[/QUOTE]

PS regarding Christmas. Since my speculation yesterday two people have since come and posted confirmation that [sp]Capaldi is 14 or a new 1. Now hearing Matt's Doctor fights for a very very long time. He ages considerably during the battle on Trenzalore (which was originally a Christmas-Village themed planet until his regeneration blows it all up). Also it's not the Timelords who give him the new set of lives. A character sacrifices themselves to give him the new set of lives and initiate the regeneration. It's a real tear jerker.[/sp] Also regarding Doctor numbering, it's addressed in the episode: [sp]Tennant was 10 and 10.5. Hurt never used the name The Doctor. So Matt is still 11. But still the final regeneration too[/sp] Also last bit I'll bother posting here as this guy seemed to have really gone and spoiled the whole thing so I'm avoiding it. But a running joke through the episode: [sp]Doctor gets lonely during the battle. He keeps a severed Cyberman head as a pet. Calls it's Handles[/sp].

In The Loop has been and is on BBC Four. In fact, it just reached this. [img]http://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2013/08/2013-07-08-intheloop-1.jpg[/img] -snip: not worth it-

[QUOTE=Grizz;42844734]In The Loop has been and is on BBC Four. In fact, it just reached this. [img]http://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2013/08/2013-07-08-intheloop-1.jpg[/img] Also, the speculation on the Christmas Special has become more a running joke than the running joke said to be in it. Not to mention the word 'confirmed' being thrown about as though Moffat himself is posting. It's utterly hopeless... and I'm okay with that. Because it leaves me with some hope that [sp]the regeneration leans more towards the original "confirmed" statements of humble, dignified, upstanding, 'better than 10's.'[/sp] Whereas I would be led to believe [sp]it's even more overblown than 10's and far away from the 'traditional regeneration' Moffat happily lied about - surprise, surprise. The idea of not seeing the 11-12 transition upsets me greatly. I don't want Matt Smith to blow up. [/sp][/QUOTE] Honestly. I think it sounds pretty bad ass. Over the top. But bad ass. Wheras ten felt like it was being dramatic for the sake of it, this feels like it's been building up for years. Sounds like it will have serious repercussions too. But yeah. My use of "confirmed" there was in a spoiler-insiders context. Though I still want something really traditional.

I was rewatching Series 1 and I started to wonder: Did people know that the timelords died out when the 2005 reboot started? Or was it a huge surprise to people when that became apparent?

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;42845248]I was rewatching Series 1 and I started to wonder: Did people know that the timelords died out when the 2005 reboot started? Or was it a huge surprise to people when that became apparent?[/QUOTE] I think it was a big surprise, the old Who ended with the Timelords still existing and Gallifrey was fine. Then in New Who people found out there had been a big timewar that destroyed all the timelords and the doctor was the only one left.

On another note, upon rewatching The Eleventh Hour I realized when Amy says "I don't have the key, I lost it" she means the handcuffs, not the door. Or at least that's what the Doctor [I]assumes [/I]she means Sorry I'm slow

I really want Capaldi to wear something quaint or bizarre. Tweed was kind of interesting, but not really 'weird' like 6's Technicolor dreamcoat. Come to think of it, most Doctors tend to have one 'weird' part of their costume, don't they?

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;42847845]I really want Capaldi to wear something quaint or bizarre. Tweed was kind of interesting, but not really 'weird' like 6's Technicolor dreamcoat. Come to think of it, most Doctors tend to have one 'weird' part of their costume, don't they?[/QUOTE] None of them are costumes you could wear in public. With the exception of Chris. Tennant's suits were good but there would never be a situation you wear a suit with converse. Plus if you wore them now people would associate you with Ten.

You could probably wear matt smith's later costumes where he wore that very modern coat and get away with it so long as its buttoned up

[QUOTE=killerteacup;42848172]You could probably wear matt smith's later costumes where he wore that very modern coat and get away with it so long as its buttoned up[/QUOTE] I could swear that 'modern coat' is a second world war-era RAF coat :v: [editline]13th November 2013[/editline] Also here's something I'm surprised I've only just thought of: what if at the end of the 50th special, Hurt doc is fatally wounded and about to regenerate. Before he does so, Rose tells him to seek her out, so the only reason 9 and Rose met in the first place is because 9 was looking for her at her own request.

So long as the TARDIS lands in that corner from Rose.... :v: [img]http://i1.cdnds.net/13/46/618x721/dotd6.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a530879/doctor-who-50th-matt-smith-david-tennant-zygons-in-new-pictures.html[/url]

They're probably not opening a door are they? Sonic screwdriver is The Doctor's magic wand.

(Christmas) I've slept on it, and I still don't care very much for [sp]the one-legged aged-up Doctor with a friend called Handles going supernova[/sp] at Christmas.

Alright, so I jump into this thread after a long period of absence to find talking about [sp]a 14th Doctor, the Doctor losing the TARDIS and Capaldi being the First Doctor. Can someone summarize all this batshit insane leaks that are understood thus far?[/sp]

[QUOTE=ProWaffle;42848850]Alright, so I jump into this thread after a long period of absence to find talking about [sp]a 14th Doctor, the Doctor losing the TARDIS and Capaldi being the First Doctor. Can someone summarize all this batshit insane leaks that are understood thus far?[/sp][/QUOTE] Not leaks. Users have been posting 'rumours' about how Christmas plays out. I'll sum it up: [sp]-Doctor has used up all 12 regenerations. The Journey's End regeneration and the Hurt regeneration count towards the regeneration limit. However Hurt didn't call himself The Doctor and Tennant was still the same Doctor so Matt is still technically the 11th Doctor. -Capaldi is the 14th Doctor by this count. But apparently his regeneration is a bit different. He's reborn as Peter Capaldi Doctor. The count resets. -The 13th regeneration (11 regenerating) is explosive. About a month ago somebody said it was 'a mushroom cloud'. Since then rumours are flying around that he goes full on Supernova. -His regeneration takes place on Trenzalore before it was destroyed. It was a pretty earth-like planet with a Christmas theme. After his regeneration the entire planet is scorched -Nobody seems to agree on where his new set of regenerations come from. Some say Timelords. Some say The TARDIS sacrifices itself to give him a new life. -Apparently the battle on Trenzalore is long. The Doctor loses a leg (or is disabled) and also spends hundreds of years in a stalemate refusing to fight back. He grows incredibly old before the TARDIS finally helps him regenerate. -The reason the monsters locked The Doctor in The Pandorica is because he brings back the Time War and none of the aliens like it. They can't handle how horrific it is and it spreads across the universe. -As for Capaldi the numbering is unique. He's simultaneously the 12th Doctor, the 14th Doctor, and the New 1st Doctor. Capaldi's first scene does not directly follow Matt's last. He may not even be wearing Matt's outfit (so no hope for those who enjoy seeing the new Doctor in old Doctor clothes).[/sp] Personally I don't believe anything beyond the [sp]explosion regeneration destroying Trenzalore from a result of the 13th regeneration[/sp]. A lot of it comes from a new guy who never posted much before. But the stuff I personally believe has been around a long while.

[QUOTE]But it’s a piece full of nice touches, none more so than at the end. Before the screening started, we were kindly and rightly asked by the BFI’s Television Programmer Marcus Prince not to share any spoiler details of the drama, and I do not intend to do so here. Indeed, I really, truly hope you don’t see any details about the ending before you see the programme, and are able to come to it fresh – you’ll find it so much more rewarding if you do. I shall simply say that it did not end in the way I had expected, and the way in which it did finish hit me so hard that the tears did indeed begin to flow. It’s ridiculous. Ludicrous. It’s just a children’s programme that we all enjoy watching. But it was a perfect moment, one that thoroughly deserves to go unspoiled. I suspect many of the rest of the audience shared my appreciation for it, given the reaction as the end credits rolled. This is the fourth of these 50th anniversary screenings at the BFI which I have attended, but it was the first at which there was a standing ovation as the programme finished. [/QUOTE] [url]http://reviews.doctorwhonews.net/2013/11/adventure-review-13112013003015.html[/url]

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BY8z9ouCMAEKk2F.jpg:large[/IMG] The Night of The Doctor approaches [editline]13th November 2013[/editline] Sisterhood of Karn?

Moffat is clearly boycotting the Classic Series........... :v: