Series 7 FINALLY Starts Shooting

[Photoman15]

only ONE involved actual death.

1. was in a dream.
2. was actual death.
3. was a fake-out
4. was only clinical death since he was revived with CPR
5. was an illusion.

i mean, come on, the fourth was actually better than what happened to Fabrice Muamba and look at him!

For #4, Death is death. He came back from #2 also. So I count that one.
As for #5, I'm not sure if it was an illusion, or if the different areas of the TARDIS can be at different times. If so, then the dead Rory was dead, had not HOUSE let the present Rory find the present Amy.

 

[captcalhoun]

Word of God from Gaiman is that it was an illusion

 

[Samurai8472]

Karen and Arthur are officially done with their filming

 

[Skywalker]

Sadface.

 

[StCoop]

Latest updates; JLC's first episode which started shooting last week isn't her introduction or even the first one after that but it is written by Neil Cross, who wrote a lot of 'Spooks' and created Idris Elba's 'Luther'. He's also one of the screenwriters for Guillermo del Toro's Godzilla vs Gundam-esque 'Pacific Rim'.


Moffat still hasn't finished writing the Xmas Special script, despite starting in March. (At this speed and with one or two more episodes to write plus 'Sherlock' Series 3 locked in for a January start, I'm sceptical that the original plan to shoot the Anniversary Special at the end of the Series 7 shoot is going to happen.)

 

[ATimson]

Moffat still hasn't finished writing the Xmas Special script, despite starting in March. (At this speed and with one or two more episodes to write plus 'Sherlock' Series 3 locked in for a January start, I'm sceptical that the original plan to shoot the Anniversary Special at the end of the Series 7 shoot is going to happen.)

That assumes that he's the one who's writing it, instead of giving someone else the slot (or perhaps roping in someone to help like RTD did for two of his specials).

 

[The Wormhole]

Moffat still hasn't finished writing the Xmas Special script, despite starting in March. (At this speed and with one or two more episodes to write plus 'Sherlock' Series 3 locked in for a January start, I'm sceptical that the original plan to shoot the Anniversary Special at the end of the Series 7 shoot is going to happen.)

That assumes that he's the one who's writing it, instead of giving someone else the slot (or perhaps roping in someone to help like RTD did for two of his specials).

Christmas specials have always been written solely by the showrunner. It's become a tradition which I doubt Moffat will break.

 

[Brendan Moody]

ATimson is talking about the 2013 anniversary special that's being filmed at the end of this production cycle, not the 2012 Christmas special that introduces the new companion. Moffat is definitely writing the latter, but not necessarily the former. Still, I think the same logic applies: unless there are several anniversary specials planned, only one of which is filming in this shoot, I can't see Moffat giving a high-profile episode like that to someone else.

 

[Peacemaker]

I am kinda hoping RTD does the 50th Anniversary Special. I got a gut feeling that that special is gonna be fankwankery to the nth degree, and nobody knows fanwank like RTD.

 

[Samurai8472]

The kitchen sink is waiting patiently for the phone call.

 

[StCoop]

Moffat mentioned recently that MS would be getting a new look post-Ponds and here's the first (blury) glimpse of it:

https://twitter.com/simon_watkins/status/207891528646004737/photo/1/large

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

He's gone all Hartnell, at least if that's a permanent look.

 

[StCoop]

He's gone all Hartnell, at least if that's a permanent look.

Turns out the Moffat comment was made up (lies on the Internet, who knew!) so it could be a one-off, since other photos show a 19th century setting. JLC is is present-day clothes though, so it's a toss-up.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Looks more like Maverick than Hartnell... It's cool, but I doubt it'll be permanent

 

[StCoop]

Looks more like Maverick than Hartnell... It's cool, but I doubt it'll be permanent

Then again; bow-tie, shirt, trousers and boots still in place, so looks like just a waistcoat and a new coat.

 

[StCoop]

And one last one:

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Hum! I quite like it, and it's better than that green coat, which never looked good or suitable to wear while indoors.

And before anyone suggests that the Doctors have always been the same, I will point any naysayers to Tom Baker, who had SEVERAL different motifs in his time - different types and lengths of coat, hat or no hat, and several different scarves (which tended to obscure what he was wearing anyway, thus giving the impression he was wearing the same motif for the most part). This Doctor has just as varied a wardrobe, and I must say this one really looks good on him.

Mark

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ true dat.

Tom had 2 or 3 different length maroon coats, a light brown tweed looking one & a dark brown (almost black) one that got destroyed in (I think) Nightmare of Eden.

Maybe the same dark one Sarah Jane was wearing right before she left the TARDIS.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Moffat still hasn't finished writing the Xmas Special script, despite starting in March. (At this speed and with one or two more episodes to write plus 'Sherlock' Series 3 locked in for a January start, I'm sceptical that the original plan to shoot the Anniversary Special at the end of the Series 7 shoot is going to happen.)

I'd guess that after the Christmas special Moffat still has two episodes for season 7 to write -- 7x06 (the post-Christmas episode) and 7x13 (the season finale & lead-in to the anniversary special(s)). And then the special(s), too, before he even gets to Sherlock (which he says he's not even thought about yet).

I saw a Moffat quote today about Sherlock season three and why it won't film until January: "Obviously, Sherlock Holmes is off battling Captain Kirk, and Dr Watson is helping Gandalf, and I'm in the TARDIS." Only two of those are true -- Star Trek 2013 has wrapped -- and in a month only one will be true -- The Hobbit wraps in June. It's a cute quote, but it's blameshifting.

A wag on Gallifrey Base asked what would happen if the production team ran out of Moffat scripts to film. I don't think things will get quite that bad; even pushing Moffat's scripts to the end of the line, they're still two months away from needing a Moffat script reading to go before the cameras. If Moffat gets in a hole and the BBC starts breathing down his neck, he could always bring someone in to write a script from his plot for, say, 7x06 or 7x13. Or even both. Let someone else (Chibnall) do the heavy lifting on those scripts, freeing him up to work on the more important (at least to the BBC) scripts.

 

[Starkers]

Maybe not Chibnall...