Series 11 News & Spoilers

[Qonundrum]

Forced eccentricity is meaningless. Tom Baker was (hell, still is) naturally eccentric, Capaldi not so much.

Anyway, both the trailer and the leaked clip have shown a Doctor not much different from anything seen before, so I suspect this yet another of those things that people will make more of a deal of of then they actually are.

The teaser and trailer have shown nothing of any substance.

Smith and Tennant had forced eccentricity. People didn't like the alienness of Capaldi's original year so the Tennawannabe was forced in.And people still hated it.

I don't know. Eccleston and Tennant were arguably very human, and they are the more popular of the modern Doctors. If anything, I always thought the out of touch aspects of Smith and Capaldi were overdone.

Which says a lot, unfortunately. How can a show that had people accepting a being that doesn't act human for more or less 26 years to now being shunned for not acting human?!

We live in a world where grown men (Hello, Ian) work themselves up into a frenzy over what is or isn't between the Doctror's legs, so yeah, there'll always be complainers.

Personally, a series made by an entirely new set of people is something I've hoped for, for a long time. It's just a shame they didn't go the whole way and not hire an old-school fan like Chibnall to run it.

Who's telling people to get angry over what's between legs when most people know a wider range of elements behind a larger number of issues? The show has had women write for it before and none of them were rejected or accepted because they were women.

 

[The Wormhole]

People didn't like the alienness of Capaldi's original year so the Tennawannabe was forced in

Capaldi himself didn't like how the Doctor was written in his first season and requested the changes that were made in the following seasons.

 

[Samurai8472]

Sunday Times now reporting a Sunday 23rd September air date

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine...ino-and-jodie-whittakers-doctor-who-tfvldzrw5


SideReel are reporting that the season premieres on Sunday the 23rd of September

https://www.sidereel.com/tv-premieres-finales-calendar?date=September+2018

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Has it ever been on a Sunday in England?

 

[Butters]

I think it was a Sunday evening thing when it was Peter Davison. Might be wrong though.

 

[The Wormhole]

Which would give it a finale of November 25, exactly one month before the Christmas episode.

 

[Marc]

Sunday Times now reporting a Sunday 23rd September air date

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine...ino-and-jodie-whittakers-doctor-who-tfvldzrw5


SideReel are reporting that the season premieres on Sunday the 23rd of September

https://www.sidereel.com/tv-premieres-finales-calendar?date=September+2018

That's not going to make fans in Australia happy - they'll wind up a week behind again becasue of the timezone difference after getting the ep on Sunday evening local time the day after it aired in the U.K.

At least it wouldn't be as bad as when the series first returned when it was about 6 weeks behind. I remember that it because it aired on my birthday (June 25th) and I had spent the day working, came home and watched only to fall asleep in the middle.

 

[JoeZhang]

The press launch is on the 24th September so the 23rd seems unlikely....

I find this theory convincing.

 

[Qonundrum]

I think it was a Sunday evening thing when it was Peter Davison. Might be wrong though.

If I recall, Season 19 was Mondayt/Tuesday, Season 20 was Tue/Wed, and 21 was Thu/Fri.

Changed before. Might do so again.

 

[Qonundrum]

Capaldi himself didn't like how the Doctor was written in his first season and requested the changes that were made in the following seasons.

That's depressing to read... There were people adored his refreshingly different style in 2008. I assumed it was the general audience and/or toxic fandom (like what's the difference nowadays ) griping about him being "grumpy old man".

 

[Samurai8472]

The press launch is on the 24th September so the 23rd seems unlikely....

I find this theory convincing.

Well.....

 

[Nightowl1701]

Y'know, the promotional efforts for this season have (so far) been so low-key that I almost think the premiere itself will come and go before most of the show's fans (esp. in America) even realize it's back on the air.

Or maybe they really are going to have the press launch after the premiere itself airs, assuming a jaw-dropping shocker in the last minutes of the premiere that will end up being all anyone there wants to talk about.

 

[JoeZhang]

Well.....

Which is covered in the theory I've mentioned above - they've confused the start of the autumn season in the uk (23rd Sept) with the actual launch date. If it is the 23rd of Sept, the press date will be shifted forward two weeks from the 24th...

 

[Jayson1]

I'm worried about this idea of making the character less ecentric and alien and weird. Basically it feels like they might plan on taking the fun out of the universe like TLJ or James Bond and Trek to a lesser degree and try and play all this stuff straight and serious like it's a real drama. For some reason just being fun and escapism isn't enough. Everything has to be gritty or a deconstruction of something that i'm not sure people want to see deconstructed.
What's worst is I can already smell all the Mary Sue labels coming out that you just know some are waiting with baited breathe to use if she isn't acting zany and weird and like how people now see the character,especially since I think many fans who are kind of new to "Who" sort of define the character by the template that we saw with Tennant and Smith.

As for the set I will say that I do think the Pillars will light up and they will be rainbow colored and each pillar is a different color which would sort of connect to her suspenders. To me this idea sounds better than a "serious" Doctor because it implies fun and weird which is what I want. I really like the set and her outfit. I just hope the stories are still in vein of those things.

Jason

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Well, fans and critics have argued Daivson's Doctor wasn't weird and eccentric enough, or at all, so maybe Whittaker will be more of that?

On the other hand, it does fit with those very early rumors, before Capaldi's exit, of the BBC wanting, basically, a Tennant-type for the next Doctor. Younger and more human.

 

[Hey Missy]

We need a return to a young, handsome, action hero Doctor who makes his companions swoon and kisses them every episode. That'll surely get those 15 million viewers per episode back.

 

[Jayson1]

Well, fans and critics have argued Daivson's Doctor wasn't weird and eccentric enough, or at all, so maybe Whittaker will be more of that?

On the other hand, it does fit with those very early rumors, before Capaldi's exit, of the BBC wanting, basically, a Tennant-type for the next Doctor. Younger and more human.

I thought Tennant was eccentric as well though. Especially when the one before him was kind of hard. I mean he wore a leather jacket and called humans dumb apes. Also if the Doctor is more human then what is the point of companions if they are just a bunch of friends hanging out?

Jason

 

[Lonemagpie]

Which is covered in the theory I've mentioned above - they've confused the start of the autumn season in the uk (23rd Sept) with the actual launch date.

This is correct- the press launch is the 24th, the premiere is the 6th or 7th (depending on whether it's Saturday or Sunday), because the press launch is a fortnight ahead of the premiere.

Here's where the Sunday Times got their "September 23rd" date for Dr Who from - The Radio Times website on August 10th - and as you see, that's not what it actually says.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2018-08-10/when-is-doctor-who-back-on-tv/

The paragraph in question: "Despite what you may have read, all that has been confirmed by the BBC is that the ten-episode series will return in autumn, a season which officially runs between Sunday 23rd September and Friday 21st December. You may have heard of it."

 

[Samurai8472]

Well, fans and critics have argued Davison's Doctor wasn't weird and eccentric enough, or at all, so maybe Whittaker will be more of that?

Right. It's perfectly normal to accessorize vegetables

 

[jaime]

Right. It's perfectly normal to accessorize vegetables

And one made by your archenemy, in a fantasy world...before switching it from one made by eternal godlike beings for their fantasy buffet a few episodes later.
That celery has an history.