Will it? That remains to be seen. Can it? It's certainly possible. As good as season 5 was, it wasn't perfect. There's still room for improvement.
A BIG Spoiler Is Coming
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Since River is the Doctor's wife and not his daughter, how would that make Susan the Doctor's granddaughter?
Why would that make the Doctor regenerate?
While I consider 5 my favorite NuWho Series (and all of series 6 probably second or tied for second), I don't expect Series 10 to be quite that good. I just want it to be a solid Series. Series 9 was ok but flawed, with a few terrible episode, so I think I'd like 10 to at least surpass that, and I think there is a good chance of that. I'm thinking it will probably be better then the "Clara" era (Series 7B-9), and honestly if that's what ends up happening I'll be satisfied. It would be awesome if it was an amazing series, but right now I'm expecting a solid series and hoping for a very good one.
He's saying that, for once, the Doctor wouldn't be forced to regenerate because of some fatal illness/injury - that he'd decide 'I've had enough of being an old man, I need a fresh start' and will himself to regenerate.* Not unprecedented (Romana I into Romana II), and we know he can consciously summon up the energy to do so.
* Arguably how Warrior regenerated into Nine, though I rather suspect the TARDIS kickstarted the process for him.
Forgot a step.
Not make him regenerate, but I'd figure he's want to drop her off before regenerating at the end of the run/Christmas special.
Always thought the fourth season was overrated, not that I liked the earlier seasons any better. But it was something of a relief after a year of Archer and his Republican Space Rangers.
I don't remember it clearly now, but didn't the New Adventures suggest the Seventh Doctor was responsible for taking the Sixth Doctor out?
Yes. I'm pretty sure it Head Games that made that explicit -- the seventh Doctor's yet-unborn personality decided the sixth Doctor wasn't up to all the challenges ahead, and so it murdered the sixth Doctor.
Thank god that is now no more canon then Peter Cushing's Doctor or the stupid looms. As if I needed another reason to dislike the 7th Doctor
No, that was the big surprise in the trailer.
There are other surprises in the series as a whole, of course.
Yeah, that's definitely the big spoiler, proving once again that Moffat was over exaggerating.
Fingers crossed for the return of the "rubbish beard".
Presumably as a "Two Masters" story, the Simm Master is from either his year ruling Earth from the Valiant, or the year and a half he spent establishing the Saxon persona and working his way to Prime Minister, as those are the only places where you can pull him out of for an adventure with his future self. So, in other words, no beard as he wasn't bearded during these periods.
Though this does raise a point. The Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords story was a decade ago. Does John Simm still look enough like he did ten years ago that it won't be distracting? I don't want another Frakes and Sirtis in TATV, which is more or less an equal comparison, though TATV was actually eleven years after The Pegasus instead of ten.
Maybe Simm's Master will be from after he was pulled away in The End of Time Part 2? We never saw him die/regenerate when he disappeared with Rassilon/The Time Lords/Galifrey (from what I remember), so I think we might see him post-End of Time but Pre-Missy, with a possible regeneration of him into Missy at some point. That way he could be older without being distracting, and it wouldn't have to end the story with him forgetting the events of the story.
To me it doesn't make sense for the Simm Master to continue after TEOT. The body was badly deteriorating, with his lightening attack on Rassilon likely finishing him off. Somehow he was able to regenerate, as TEOT established he was unable to do so. Perhaps he somehow leached off Rassilon's regeneration energy, resulting in Rassilon regenerating into an elderly form? Besides, it adds much more poignancy to the events if the big showdown between the Doctor, the Master, and Rassilon ends with all three regenerating as a result.
I just don't know. Love John Simm, emphatically do not love John Simm's Master, but maybe Moffat will do better with him than RTD did.
I typed that with a straight face.
I typed that with a straight face.
I get what you're saying. Still, between how long its been since he played the Master and the fact that I'm really thinking we'll see him regenerate into Missy at some point in the story, post TEOT is still my theory, although I could easily be wrong because of the reasons you've stated.
Were people distracted that Pertwee looked older in The Five Doctors?
Or Tennant in Day of The Doctor?
Does something like visual continuity make that big of a difference in Doctor Who?
Or Tennant in Day of The Doctor?
Does something like visual continuity make that big of a difference in Doctor Who?
