I'd say it's either at the end of the next series or when Capaldi leaves.
Just wondering, I'm 1 episode away from finishing series 6, where I can watch all of Series 7 and Day and Time of the Doctor?
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;43315929]Just wondering, I'm 1 episode away from finishing series 6, where I can watch all of Series 7 and Day and Time of the Doctor?[/QUOTE]I believe they're all already on iTunes.
[QUOTE=Freeze;43315901]I'd say it's either at the end of the next series or when Capaldi leaves.[/QUOTE]
Spoiler-insiders (I really hate the term hounds) seem to think it'll be till Capaldi leaves. Though it's possible we'll be getting a double-showrunner until then.
Actually Moffat was hoping to have Matt on for another year. A lot of what happened in Time would've been spread out over the series. But Matt wanted to go so Moffat pushed it all into one episode and brought Series 9 forward for Capaldi's first series.
Here's what the (apparent) plan was:
[QUOTE]The Doctor as a boyfriend for Clara would have been explored since she is now living in a flat and not with Angie and Artie anymore. Those two would have came back, but with their father ... to meet their deceased mother. Yep. Father's Day all over again. I was told there was a script with Strax being caught in a dilemma between return to Sontar or stay besides Vastra & Jenny while the Doctor is saving the Earth from the Rutans who are impersonnating Humans (here another development similar to the Slitheen who couldn't fit in the Humans, well here the Rutans can fit into them more easily than previously) and Clara would have been impersonnated, I believe. I don't say this couldn't come back with Peter, but I don't think it will.[/QUOTE]
Oh one of the stories I've dreamed of is Strax having to choose between Sontar and Vastra. Hope that gets picked up one day.
Wait a second. If the Doctor had no regenerations left after 12, why did he start to regenerate after being shot by the astronaut in [I]The Impossible Astronaut[/I]?
[QUOTE=Overwatch 7;43316351]Wait a second. If the Doctor had no regenerations left after 12, why did he start to regenerate after being shot by the astronaut in [I]The Impossible Astronaut[/I]?[/QUOTE]
Wasn't that the Teselecta Doctor?
[QUOTE=Grizz;43315860][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIwQ4LK5onA[/media][/QUOTE]
Cheers for that, only now that you realise how relaxing the soundtrack is. Hard not to cry as the end song comes on.
Does anyone else get a bit annoyed by how easy it seems to avoid fixed points in time, or completely change the future? The Doctor was supposed to die at Trenzalore, but the whole thing is solved by one sentence. Unless the Doctor didn't have Clara there in the original timeline, i don't see what could of happened differently either.
[QUOTE=Overwatch 7;43316351]Wait a second. If the Doctor had no regenerations left after 12, why did he start to regenerate after being shot by the astronaut in [I]The Impossible Astronaut[/I]?[/QUOTE]
It was once said that Time Lords start to regenerate - but die in the process. So visual effect or not, it may have been correct.
Plus, I don't believe The Doctor ever said he was regenerating =)
[QUOTE=nightlord;43316628]Does anyone else get a bit annoyed by how easy it seems to avoid fixed points in time, or completely change the future? The Doctor was supposed to die at Trenzalore, but the whole thing is solved by one sentence. Unless the Doctor didn't have Clara there in the original timeline, i don't see what could of happened differently either.[/QUOTE]
It's one of the tropes I dislike about Moffat writing.
Along with timejumps and things being built up as problems and then fixed so quickly that characters need to explain what just happened with dialogue.
I hope that Capaldi freshens up the usual rigmarole of the show since it really has gotten a bit stale with how everything is just handwaved away if Moffat can't be arsed to tie it up properly.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;43317247]It's one of the tropes I dislike about Moffat writing.
Along with timejumps and things being built up as problems and then fixed so quickly that characters need to explain what just happened with dialogue.[/QUOTE]
I think Moffat needs to be replaced. He seems to like creating plot points that end up being meaningless or get dropped in a random sentence, as well as retconning things or expanding on them to the point they become ruined or full of inconsistencies. Some of the things he's ruined are the Time War, the Silence and the weeping Angels.
That problem isn't just limited to Moffat but he seems to be the worst. I really don't like how most episodes seem to be "Everybody Lives!" or "Love solves everything" episodes, either. There needs to be Darker and more serious episodes, i can't think of any of those that have happened recently, other than Asylum of the Daleks and Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS. Even then they were nothing compared to episodes like Blink, The impossible planet/The Satan pit, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, Waters of Mars etc
[QUOTE=nightlord;43317359]I think Moffat needs to be replaced. He seems to like creating plot points that end up being meaningless or get dropped in a random sentence, as well as retconning things or expanding on them to the point they become ruined or full of inconsistencies. Some of the things he's ruined are the Time War, the Silence and the weeping Angels.
That problem isn't just limited to Moffat but he seems to be the worst. I really don't like how most episodes seem to be "Everybody Lives!" or "Love solves everything" episodes, either. There needs to be Darker and more serious episodes, i can't think of any of those that have happened recently, other than Asylum of the Daleks and Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say he ruined any of them. I wouldn't say he's really changed them. The Silence have been doing the exact same thing as always. The Weeping Angels in Blink were specified as being weak and lacking their usual abilities.
The Time War was fucking excellent from where I was sitting.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;43317382]I wouldn't say he ruined any of them. I wouldn't say he's really changed them. The Silence have been doing the exact same thing as always. The Weeping Angels in Blink were specified as being weak and lacking their usual abilities.
The Time War was fucking excellent from where I was sitting.[/QUOTE]
I think the Time War would of been better off never being shown or 'solved'. It should of always just remained a mystery, with the Doctor being the last Timelord and only true survivor of it, wandering the universe and helping people but still deep inside someone who had no choice but to do a horrifying thing and hated himself for it. The 9th Doctor said something like "The end of the last great time war. Everybody lost.". That was how it should of stayed. Instead, it has been changed into "Everyone Lives!", although the Doctor doesn't remember - which to me, only makes it worse. It just makes scenes like this feel pointless:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIjUSzpYcuA[/media]
My favourite episodes are the one where the danger is never really explained. That makes it seem so much more perilous. Midnight is a great example of this.
Also, I was talking to my uncle yesterday and he told me about a cassette tape he used to own. It was an audio version of The Second Doctor's first story (The Power of the Daleks), but narrated by Tom Baker. In character. So, he narrated the story as if reminiscing about something that had happened a long time ago.
I think it's great that Moffat changed the Time war, probably the only thing I liked that he did, I always wanted Gallifrey to return and now its happening, End of Time was amazing due to the episode being about Gallifrey and it returning.
I don't if I should just make up some dumb head canon or just accept that Moffat writes strong female characters very similarly.
Like what if Tasha Lem was Rivers conscious from the Library given a hard light hologram, which explains why she can pilot the TARDIS, why they did the hologram clothing gags and why she doesn't appear to age. Problem of course being that Holograms can't really get turned into Daleks.
Also I don't know if anyone's mentioned this but there is now a huuuuuge possibility of our favourite villain coming back
[sp] if the master was sealed in the time war he's now trapped in the alternate universe with gallifrey technically [/sp]
[QUOTE=killerteacup;43317792]Also I don't know if anyone's mentioned this but there is now a huuuuuge possibility of our favourite villain coming back
[sp] if the master was sealed in the time war he's now trapped in the alternate universe with gallifrey technically [/sp][/QUOTE]
Haha... ha ha...
[QUOTE=killerteacup;43317792]Also I don't know if anyone's mentioned this but there is now a huuuuuge possibility of our favourite villain coming back
[sp] if the master was sealed in the time war he's now trapped in the alternate universe with gallifrey technically [/sp][/QUOTE]
what have you done
Series 8
[sp]The Master[/sp]
I don't think we'll be getting the Master till Series 9 or at earliest the final story for 8. What I do want to know is when they'll get Davison back to play Omega.
David Morrissey is a great actor who I think should come back to Doctor Who in another role one day.
He carried off the evil beard well too.
[QUOTE=nightlord;43317444]I think the Time War would of been better off never being shown or 'solved'. It should of always just remained a mystery, with the Doctor being the last Timelord and only true survivor of it, wandering the universe and helping people but still deep inside someone who had no choice but to do a horrifying thing and hated himself for it. The 9th Doctor said something like "The end of the last great time war. Everybody lost.". That was how it should of stayed. Instead, it has been changed into "Everyone Lives!", although the Doctor doesn't remember - which to me, only makes it worse. It just makes scenes like this feel pointless:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIjUSzpYcuA[/media][/QUOTE]
Its not, he's giving himself a hard time over what he thinks he has done. Its quite sad I find, he thinks he is guilty but he couldn't be further from the truth.
And it means The Doctor isn't a bad man.
At the end of Parting of the Ways when he can't pull the trigger... it's because he never could.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk9No-RwU9E[/media]
[QUOTE=Joem1k;43308160]Im probably going to get dumbs for this but oh well i think its done well.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;43308338]That was actually really well done and funny[/QUOTE]
As the creator of this video, I wish to give big thanks for your posting and liking of it! :v:
Well I ignored it thinking it would be some naff Sims thing.
That was really really good.
That was better paced in 10 minutes than whole episodes in 45-60.
I wasn't sure at first - but that clock tower scene is going to go down as one of my favourites.
It has been playing on a loop in my mind (I want that Dalek/Doctor theme mashup on a soundtrack ASAP). I won't say that I wish that had been the full event - because I would only complain about lack of closure. But that whole sequence has become more and more striking on multiple viewings. 11's celebratory dancing and boyish taunting. The clock striking twelve.The tower of energy and the shockwave. Clara helping the folk below. I had also wanted to see a regeneration used as a weapon for some time - oddly enough.
Plus - it's obviously a big addition to the lore.
I rewatched the special and yeah, that scene where the giant crack opens and 'This is Gallifrey' starts playing. Awesome. That, Matt's final speech, Capaldi and any scene that prominently features Handles were the best bits.
Did anyone else get the implication that the woman who lead the Silence was River Song?
She slapped the Doctor, snogged him, flew the TARDIS, and has been "fighting the psychopath inside her all her life".
I like to think she was. Maybe David Tennant left her in that chair in The Library and she farted out some gold dust and regenerated.
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