That would be my guess. Maybe he's Susan's father.
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Yup, that would make the most sense to me. Comes with the added bonus of Sean playing his father's son, thus avoiding the very thing he said he would never do but still honor his father.
Sean Pertwee is playing Susan! You heard it here first!
If that happens, the Doctor would be wearing his own son's face (they do look a lot alike) in his third incarnation!
Salamander and Abbott: eat your hearts out!
And since that face was imposed on him by the Time Lords, it's an additional piece of cruelty to the punishment...
Bunch of silly hat wearing gits.
Oh FFS. Apparently Ncuti is almost totally absent again for this week's episode.* Surely when it became clear he wasn't going to be available for most of the first month of their shooting schedule the correct thing to do was postpone it. It's not like they're making 13 episode seasons any more. That's 1/4 of it he's barely there for.
*Most of his scenes are the "zoom call" bits we've seen in the trailers and she's the main character in it.
*Most of his scenes are the "zoom call" bits we've seen in the trailers and she's the main character in it.
If this is true, you have to question, if nothing else, the scheduling of the episodes. One near the start which implies that they’ve been travelling for 6 months. Two consecutive ones in which the plot begins with the Doctor stepping on something. And two consecutive ones in which the - brand new - Doctor hardly features. I’m enjoying the episodes so far but this ordering is beginning to seem really odd.Oh FFS. Apparently Ncuti is almost totally absent again for this week's episode.* Surely when it became clear he wasn't going to be available for most of the first month of their shooting schedule the correct thing to do was postpone it. It's not like they're making 13 episode seasons any more. That's 1/4 of it he's barely there for.
*Most of his scenes are the "zoom call" bits we've seen in the trailers and she's the main character in it.
Yeah, two Doctor Lite episodes in an eight episode season with a new Doctor definitely feels like someone should have done a better job planning things. Or was this a case where BBC or Disney insisted they needed a season by the spring, and this was the only way to meet that deadline?
I've seen it suggested that that might be a theme or otherwise intentional; there was also Ruby stepping on the butterfly and (more of a stretch) the Doctor stumbling and hitting the wrong note when finding the chord to banish the Maestro.
Yep all the shooting shenanigan’s we reported are rearing their ugly head.
Stand-ins and Ncuti or Millie talking to no one because one of them or both were unavailable
Poor Millie her first days shooting were by herself for “73 yards”. That’s a tall order
It was the 'Sex Education' producers exercising the option in Ncuti's contract to force him to do extra shooting.
But clearly they had enough notice to come up with two new scripts, and even with a month delay plenty of post-production time.
Sigh, I did worry about this when I saw the trailer but I hoped I was wrong.
It all feels very rushed by the BBC and Disney to get some content out. As @Rich Watson says they should have postponed, or again as @Captaindemotion and @The Wormhole say the scheduling is atrocious! If anything it feels like Dot and Bubble either should have been episode 3, or else 73 Yards should have been episode 6 maybe? At least find a way to get an actual episode with the Doctor in between them rather than having them follow each other.
Or maybe, and yes this would have been a loss but we wouldn't have known what we'd lost, they should have hired their first choice rather than the guy who couldn't commit to their shooting schedule?
It all feels very rushed by the BBC and Disney to get some content out. As @Rich Watson says they should have postponed, or again as @Captaindemotion and @The Wormhole say the scheduling is atrocious! If anything it feels like Dot and Bubble either should have been episode 3, or else 73 Yards should have been episode 6 maybe? At least find a way to get an actual episode with the Doctor in between them rather than having them follow each other.
Or maybe, and yes this would have been a loss but we wouldn't have known what we'd lost, they should have hired their first choice rather than the guy who couldn't commit to their shooting schedule?
Doctor and Ruby lite confirmed by the Radio Times review.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-season-14-episode-5-dot-bubble-review/
And reading between the lines it looks like the rumour about the twist (no not her) ending of the episode is correct.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-season-14-episode-5-dot-bubble-review/
And reading between the lines it looks like the rumour about the twist (no not her) ending of the episode is correct.
It's not a coincidence that the guest cast is entirely made up of white people.
Actually, if there had to be two Doctor Lite episodes, episodes 4 and 5 would probably be the best place for them, being right there in the middle. We get sort of a sandwich out of it if you will, three "proper" Doctor and Companion adventures, then two lite episodes, and we finish with three more "proper" episodes.
Granted, the way the season is being broadcast doesn't really help the matter any. With the first two episodes released on the same week, making that a sort of "event." Then we get our first "regular" adventure on week 2, than Doctor Lite for week's three and four. Week five will presumably another "normal" adventure than weeks six and seven a two-parter which will undoubtedly be an event again.
A little late but Davies posted on his Instagram on Saturday that season two has now wrapped.
Usually I can come up with a way to defend a decision like giving us two Doctor lite episodes in a row, but I really can't come up with anything, especially when it's such a short season. This is a new Doctor in a short season, and it does seem like weird to suddenly have him gone for most of the episodes just as we're getting to know him.
If this were me, and I went into this knowing we were going to have two episode where his screentime was going to be limited, I would have made those the first two episodes, and then did a slow build up to Ruby meeting him face to face.
If this were me, and I went into this knowing we were going to have two episode where his screentime was going to be limited, I would have made those the first two episodes, and then did a slow build up to Ruby meeting him face to face.
^ That would’ve required one of the Doctor-lite episodes to be the Christmas Special. Personally, I think (except for “The Eleventh Hour”) practically all Doctor-intro episodes are too Doctor-lite as it is. Ooh, I’m kooky, and amnesiac, and unconscious (or, for “Rose” and “Ruby Road,” I’m so mysterious and only encountered obliquely by the protagonist).
The concept of episodes that are 'Doctor Lite' doesn't work; stop utilizing it.
Don't look at DenOfGeek today whatever you do.
I don't normally anyways.
