If it's number 3, then Moffat finally listened to me! Ha!
Any of the three would be interesting though. It's almost certainly not #2.
Mr Awe
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Any of the three would be interesting though. It's almost certainly not #2.
Mr Awe
Well, if it's during Susan's travels with The First Doctor, then that would make sense. Having Carole Ann Ford would only really work if was after here departure. She could get back in The Five Doctors but now would probably be a bit much.
If it's Susan (either played by Carole Ann Ford or the woman from the movie) or Romana... I think it would be "brain-melting" for a select few. Unless the trailer contained words like, "It's my Granddaughter, who in a previous life I left on a future Earth." And even then, I think most people would go... "huh." Brain wouldn't melt.
If it's something from the past, it's something or someone from the past ten years OR it's the Doctor doing something TOTALLY unexpected: like humping a Dalek.
Maybe, MAYBE, it's an appearance by the First Doctor, but, even then....
I suspect it's more hyperbole.
But, I would love to be wrong.
If it's something from the past, it's something or someone from the past ten years OR it's the Doctor doing something TOTALLY unexpected: like humping a Dalek.
Maybe, MAYBE, it's an appearance by the First Doctor, but, even then....
I suspect it's more hyperbole.
But, I would love to be wrong.
But they didn't say it would be amazing for everyone just for long term fans.
It might not just be the fact that it's Susan that makes it brain melting. Susan can provide a lot of insight into the Doctor if she is used correctly. Perhaps that's the brain melting part?
I always thought that of all Classic companions that could be brought back in the new series, Susan offers the most interesting possibilities. She's a Time Lady, the Doctor's Grandaughter, and she was with him when he started his adventures. These interesting angles were never explored in the Classic series. It's these angles that would probably be most interesting to newer viewers while Susan provides an obvious way to address them and is familiar to us longer-term viewers. Fingers crossed!
Or, maybe it's just hyperbole.
Mr Awe
And now The Sun are claiming that it's actually John Simm who appears. Now this being The Scum it would usually be easy to ignore them but people who (say) they were at the screening are getting angry at them for the story so at this point who knows?*
I guess we'll find out in a week and a half...
*Actually the line about "filling in an important gap in Time Lord history" in the Radio Times story would make more sense if it is him.
I guess we'll find out in a week and a half...
*Actually the line about "filling in an important gap in Time Lord history" in the Radio Times story would make more sense if it is him.
But what "important gap in Time Lord history" could they even use John Simm for? The only gap he's even needed for is showing him regenerating into Missy, but that's hardly important in Time Lord history.
Would be cool if we got a Two Masters story for once (Big Finish did one recently although I haven't listen to it yet). While I could see average viewers being excited about John Simm returning, it's hardly brain melting. And yeah, it's not really an important gap in Time Lord history.
Oh, I know. It's something Moffat excels at, for better or for worse. Thanks for the correction on the Time Lord history bit, though.
The article says "certain" fans. That certain fans would have their brains melt.
Maybe its fans of Slitheen.
Considering how Moffat talks things up I expect to be disappointed.
He also killed plans for a Doctor Who movie. Sigh....
It's a steady job for him and all but I am disappointed that such a high caliber of actor is in such a drama. I like his work, i'd love to see him in something that would let him shine.
Yup, damn shame, Night of the Doctor got people so excited and the BBC talked about doing something with the 8th Doctor and Moff said no.
He also killed plans for a Doctor Who movie. Sigh....
Well sh*t. Are we sure that contract is for Holby City?
It's a steady job for him and all but I am disappointed that such a high caliber of actor is in such a drama. I like his work, i'd love to see him in something that would let him shine.
Hm....it has been a decade since we've seen them...
Gomez and Simm together isn't a brain melter. Gomez, Simm, Jacobi, McQueen (from Big Finish), Beevers, Recast Ainley (use the Sheriff from 'Robot of Sherwood') and Recast Delgado all in one room - what the hell, throw in Eric Roberts too - THAT would be a brain melter.
Dang, I was much more excited about it being Susan than Simm.
If Moffat's doing a "Two Masters" story or, more intriguingly, a story in which the Doctor has to team up with one of the Masters to defeat the other (Twelve/Gomez versus a batshit insane Simm?), I'd be excited. However, if all Moffat's doing is a gimmick cameo to show how Simm and Gomez connect (because, let's be fair, we don't know how or if they do), then he's just wallowing in fanwank. And sometimes, I feel like Moffat does things solely for the fanwank, like it's the 1990s all over again and he's trying to win an argument at the Tavern or in rec.arts.drwho.
Are you talking about the David Yates movie talked about years back? Even though Moffat publicly lambasted and ridiculed it when it was announced, he did not kill the plans for it, nor was he ever in a position to do so. Whatever else resulted in that movie being abandoned, Moffat had nothing to do with it.
So this is his mid-life crisis?
What a fucking moron....
I could be misremembering but I think it came out in the Sony hacked emails that it was basically a total lack of communication by Cardiff that caused them to give up on It?
