A BIG Spoiler Is Coming

[The Wormhole]

I'm pretty certain that particular directive in the charter doesn't preclude misdirecting the audience to avoid spoilers.

According to RTD in The Writer's Tale it does. It's why we always get casting announcements at the most inconvenient times, like announcing Eccleston's departure when they did. BBC tries to get an official announcement before the story goes to tabloids. Once it's in the tabloids, if someone asks BBC about it, the Charter compels the BBC to answer, and forbids them from lying. So they make official announcements about these decisions knowing it's basically providing official spoilers to the public just to avoid this situation.

RTD goes on in The Writer's Tale about how he doesn't agree with this attitude and if it were up to him he'd gladly lie and provide disinformation to preserve spoilers, but doesn't because he knows the BBC are obligated in this matter and would overrule him.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

IF the new Doctor is a woman expect a torrent of abuse from angry fanboys, and girls. Oh it will be like a firestorm

 

[N-121973]

According to RTD in The Writer's Tale it does. It's why we always get casting announcements at the most inconvenient times, like announcing Eccleston's departure when they did. BBC tries to get an official announcement before the story goes to tabloids. Once it's in the tabloids, if someone asks BBC about it, the Charter compels the BBC to answer, and forbids them from lying. So they make official announcements about these decisions knowing it's basically providing official spoilers to the public just to avoid this situation.

RTD goes on in The Writer's Tale about how he doesn't agree with this attitude and if it were up to him he'd gladly lie and provide disinformation to preserve spoilers, but doesn't because he knows the BBC are obligated in this matter and would overrule him.

That's interesting because the impression I get about the missing episode finds that ultimately lead to the release of 'The Enemy of the World' & 'The Web of Fear' was that the BBC was not exactly forthright about those in the run up to the announcement of their recovery. I can't quite recall whether they were outright denying the find or just being evasive, but I don't think they were as candid about it RTD's interpretation of the Charter requires.

 

[The Wormhole]

I can't quite recall whether they were outright denying the find or just being evasive, but I don't think they were as candid about it RTD's interpretation of the Charter requires.

Their response was a carefully crafted non-denials. Granted, it seems a bit disingenuous and a bit telling the truth from a certain point of view, but no actual lie was told.

Regardless, there's no room for interpretation here. The BBC definitely said Capaldi is leaving. Therefore he's leaving. If Christmas comes and the special ends with Capaldi still in the role and a promise that he's returning in the new season, than the BBC did tell a like, violated the Charter, and someone important is going to lose their job over that.

 

[StCoop]

 

[kirk55555]

Its so cool to see both TARDIS's together. I think they're both cool in their own way, and the old one is pretty nostalgic even though I only started watching watching Doctor Who in 2013.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Remember how big the TARDIS was in The Name Of The Doctor?

 

[N-121973]

Their response was a carefully crafted non-denials. Granted, it seems a bit disingenuous and a bit telling the truth from a certain point of view, but no actual lie was told.

Regardless, there's no room for interpretation here. The BBC definitely said Capaldi is leaving. Therefore he's leaving. If Christmas comes and the special ends with Capaldi still in the role and a promise that he's returning in the new season, than the BBC did tell a like, violated the Charter, and someone important is going to lose their job over that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/5c1b3280-8095-4eb1-bece-af883507a6d4
This story confirms Capaldi's departure alright.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oh wow ...... I always liked the look of the old TARDIS..

When I was a teen in the 80s I had all this fancy headcanon worked out that when you go inside the TARDIS you get smaller and that the control room was actually inside the light on top..... Ah OK I'll go lie down now

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

But how does the TARDIS change appearance outwardly? How's that explained?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

But how does the TARDIS change appearance outwardly? How's that explained?

Maybe it ages... Or adapts the exterior to the outside world, or its user.

Or maybe while the Doctor can't fix the chameleon circuit he can make minor adjustments. I don't know

 

[F. King Daniel]

It chooses to become a police box every time it rematerialises. It just gets the specifics a little blurry sometimes - like how memories fade and distort. It happens after 2000+ years.

 

[Australis]

I only started watching watching Doctor Who in 2013.

Just out of curiosity, have you caught up with all nuWho, and watched some classic? Just askin'.

 

[kirk55555]

Just out of curiosity, have you caught up with all nuWho, and watched some classic? Just askin'.

I should have been more clear. I got into Doctor Who in 2013, a few months before the Day of the Doctor aired. I got caught up from Rose until Day of the Doctor by the time that Time of the Doctor aired. I've watched a bunch of Classic Who since then (including every 6th and 7th Doctor story, 5 of Tom Baker's seasons, and a bunch of other stories from the other Doctors). I was just pointing out that because of the stuff I've watched the Classic TARDIS is nostalgic for me even though before 2013 I didn't even know what a TARDIS was.

Also, kind of unconnected, but I just realized that Capaldi's era is the first era of Doctor Who that I've watched from beginning to end as its aired. I wish he'd had a better run, and it hadn't skipped a year, but its still cool to think about since with all the other Doctors I came very late to the party.

 

[Samurai8472]

It's a Golden Wrap on the Christmas special

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWQ6ip9Ftkg/

Christopher Eccelston sent the crew a video message

https://twitter.com/edwardrussell/status/883649021574864896

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Quick! Someone give him a TARDIS and send him back o 2013 and do Day of the Doctor!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I hope we get to see that video message at some point.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I had a weird dream the other night that I was a companion in the TARDIS with Donna and the 10th Doctor and me and Donna got on really, really well and we met the Killjoys from Killjoys and had an adventure.

 

[Starkers]

The Hybrid and Bill's mother are simply manifestations of that. They're ideas to pique the audience's interest, but Moffat either has no interest them or has no idea how to deal with them, so he moves on to other things, leaving the audience flabbergasted, and gets annoyed (or says the answer's there) when he's asked about the things he's left dangling.

I wouldn't deny the hybrid, but what's the big mystery about Bill's mum? I thought it was just that her mum died when she was young and the Doctor nipped back to ensure Bill had some photos of her, and as a result Bill was better able to construct a mental image of her which helped her ward off the monks. I didn't think there was any real unanswered question beyond that.

On of these Type 40s is small, but the other is very far away...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I wouldn't deny the hybrid, but what's the big mystery about Bill's mum? I thought it was just that her mum died when she was young and the Doctor nipped back to ensure Bill had some photos of her, and as a result Bill was better able to construct a mental image of her which helped her ward off the monks. I didn't think there was any real unanswered question beyond that.

TBH, it's probably me reading more into Bill's mother than was ever meant to there, since after "The Pilot" I was sort of expecting Bill to be an amnesiac (or fobwatched) Susan.