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Season 13 starts shooting in a few weeks

Hot damn! A Halloween premiere! Here's hoping the premiere has some classic Who horror elements to it.

A number of years ago (late Smith/early Capaldi era, so 2012-ish to 2014-ish), I had occasional interactions with BBC Worldwide and BBC America. An issue that came up was how their hands were tied when it came to marketing because of the BBC's fanatical secrecy about broadcast dates. Paraphrasing some of these conversations: "They don't understand how television marketing works in the US. You start out months in advance. You plaster the launch date all over the place. And we can't do that." It was a source of frustration, especially since they were putting money into it, which is why they went heavy into putting the marketing into thing they could have some control over, like the Fathom movie events and SDCC.

My hope with Bad Wolf's involvement in the post-Chibnall era that the marketing gets more of a clue.
Yeah, the BBC's severe disconnect with modern television marketing is the main issue here. I'd like to think they finally get a clue but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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Apparently the mention of "creatures called Ravagers" means there's a connection to the first Ninth Doctor Adventures box set from Big Finish, which is both interesting and weird.
 
"...the fight of our lives..."
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Anyone else getting slight kitchen sink vibes from this? As in, throwing a whole lot at us in the hope at least some of it sticks? And surely they could have come up with a more interesting and tantalising name than 'The Flux', which just...doesn't inspire. Or maybe I'm just being a little cynical. Hopefully we get a full trailer, with more substance, and that sparks something.
 
Anyone else getting slight kitchen sink vibes from this? As in, throwing a whole lot at us in the hope at least some of it sticks? And surely they could have come up with a more interesting and tantalising name than 'The Flux', which just...doesn't inspire. Or maybe I'm just being a little cynical. Hopefully we get a full trailer, with more substance, and that sparks something.

That poster and the title is giving me Loki finale/Spider-Man: No Way Home vibes.
 
An unfortunate choice of series title, given that it's the old word for diarrhea...

Must be a strictly British idiom and a really old one at that because I've never heard it used in that context. So, did movie audiences in the UK giggle like schoolkids when Doc Brown discussed his "flux capacitor"? :shrug:
 
So, did movie audiences in the UK giggle like schoolkids when Doc Brown discussed his "flux capacitor"? :shrug:

No they didn't. Almost no one will have ever heard it used as anything other than meaning a state of change unless they're studying history. Or welding something.
 
So Flux is the title of this season? Kinda weird the way they have it on the poster. Is this 'Doctor Who: Flux'?
 
I assumed it was the title of the episode that aires on October 31.
 
Wouldn't be the first time a season of Doctor Who had its own title, albeit the first time since the show returned in 2005. The Key to Time and Trial of a Time Lord, as well as season 8 often referred to as The Master Season. Plus, the various trilogies (N-Space, Black Guardian, maybe another one I'm forgetting?).
 
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I doubt that. I'm willing to bet each episode will have their own title while the season has its own umbrella title. Just like The Key to Time and Trial of a Timelord.

We'll see, but my interpretation of what we know about Series 13 leads me to believe that it's going to be essentially a single 6-part Serial (to use Classic Who terminology).

Incidentally, Trial of a Time Lord is a better comparison than The Key to Time because, like ToaTL, Flux has a single Story Code whereas the six stories that compromised TKtT each had their own individual Story Codes.
 
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No they didn't. Almost no one will have ever heard it used as anything other than meaning a state of change unless they're studying history. Or welding something.

I am sure I am not alone in recognising it as meaning shit right away.
Also, hey look! The 21st Century is getting sits very own Trial Of a Timelord moment.
JNT had to keep signing on to prevent the show being cancelled too…

Le sigh.
 
Series 13 has wrapped filming

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