Are the powers that be / Moffat superstitious?

[Tom]

Also for Nine, the interior of the Tardis changed, the exterior did to, as all the white paint splatters were gone that were on late Mcgann and Hurt's Tardis. Also Nine has a different sonic screwdriver. The Doctor may have seen his ears plenty of times but was just being manic in "Rose' complaining about them to himself (again).

 

[Skellington]

Yea, I don't have a problem with the mirror thing, I can easily imagine, with The Doctor constantly being pushed along from one adventure/crisis to the next, that he could go a very long time without seeing a mirror (How many other times do we see him seeing a mirror?)

He sees one in The Vampires Of Venice and admires his new reflection. That's his fifth on-screen adventure with his new face.

 

[Captaindemotion]

And to think that he accused poor Ten of having vanity issues! ;-)

 

[DWF]

Yea, I don't have a problem with the mirror thing, I can easily imagine, with The Doctor constantly being pushed along from one adventure/crisis to the next, that he could go a very long time without seeing a mirror (How many other times do we see him seeing a mirror?)

He sees one in The Vampires Of Venice and admires his new reflection. That's his fifth on-screen adventure with his new face.

If I remember right there was a mirror in the changing room in The Christmas Invasion, so Tennant's Doctor saw himself right after picking out his outfit.

 

[The Wormhole]

The intent is that it was recent on the scale of weeks, recent enough that the scars of the war were fresh and he still wasn't fully accustomed to his new appearance.

IMO, weeks or even months is far too recent. After all, at the time the Doctor believes he's just committed against his own species and that he's the last one. The survivor's guilt not to mention the knowledge (or in this case, belief) that he's killed billions of innocent people (including children) likely set him into such a depression that I can't imagine him shrugging it off in a matter of weeks. Years makes a lot more sense.

 

[Starkers]

Also for Nine, the interior of the Tardis changed, the exterior did to, as all the white paint splatters were gone that were on late Mcgann and Hurt's Tardis. Also Nine has a different sonic screwdriver. The Doctor may have seen his ears plenty of times but was just being manic in "Rose' complaining about them to himself (again).

Well The Eleventh Hour suggests the Tardis can reboot the desktop and built a new sonic pretty quickly...

 

[Skellington]

^ And The Day Of The Doctor shows that it can do the former instantly where the console room is concerned.

 

[DWF]

^ And The Day Of The Doctor shows that it can do the former instantly where the console room is concerned.

We saw that in The Doctor's Wife first.

 

[Christopher]

^ And The Day Of The Doctor shows that it can do the former instantly where the console room is concerned.

But that was described as glitching as a result of the three Doctors' presence. We don't know if it could do that normally.

Anyway, I really hope they don't change the console room for Capaldi. The current design is the only one in the modern series that I've liked.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

^ And The Day Of The Doctor shows that it can do the former instantly where the console room is concerned.

But that was described as glitching as a result of the three Doctors' presence. We don't know if it could do that normally.

Anyway, I really hope they don't change the console room for Capaldi. The current design is the only one in the modern series that I've liked.

I like it too, but wouldn't mind if they add a bit of colour and lighten it up a bit.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ It was a lot brighter at the end of TNOTD.

 

[Skellington]

^ And The Day Of The Doctor shows that it can do the former instantly where the console room is concerned.

We saw that in The Doctor's Wife first.

We did? I can't place it.

^ And The Day Of The Doctor shows that it can do the former instantly where the console room is concerned.

But that was described as glitching as a result of the three Doctors' presence. We don't know if it could do that normally

It seemed to stabilise as the current theme (and not Ten's, even though it was a Ten-era TARDIS), so I think we pretty much do. It's also notable that somehow it knew what Eleven's current console room looked like.

Anyway, I really hope they don't change the console room for Capaldi. The current design is the only one in the modern series that I've liked.

I've liked them all, including the War Doctor's (the roundy things clinched it). The current design is peculiar in that it looks much better in live action than you would think from some of the early photos. I also would like to see it stick around for a while. Really the only thing I don't really like about it is the lack of motion in the glass column.

 

[Christopher]

Anyway, I really hope they don't change the console room for Capaldi. The current design is the only one in the modern series that I've liked.

I've liked them all, including the War Doctor's (the roundy things clinched it).

I hated Smith's first console room, that garish Dr. Seuss/Pee-Wee's Playhouse thing. The one thing I liked about it was the two-level design, and that's been retained in the current one.

I love the roundelled walls of the classic TARDIS interiors, but the War Doctor's console room was just Eccleston/Tennant's with the walls redressed, too much of a quickie hybrid to really stand on its own as a distinct console room.

The current design is peculiar in that it looks much better in live action than you would think from some of the early photos. I also would like to see it stick around for a while. Really the only thing I don't really like about it is the lack of motion in the glass column.

I think it looks great in photos. And I think the rising and falling of the column has been replaced by the rotation of the disks up top. Which kind of makes more sense, considering that it's called the time rotor. A rotor should be something that rotates. Something that rises and falls is more of a piston.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I'd agree except it's always been something that's gone up and down. Clearly the fault is with the name, not the action. It's a shame to remove something so iconic.

 

[Christopher]

I think originally it went up and down and slowly rotated.

And there hasn't always been a time rotor. The retro-styled secondary console room seen in one of Tom Baker's seasons had just a shaving mirror in the center of the console.

 

[Sci]

Personally, I don't like the current TARDIS console room. I find it too mechanical, too conventional. I liked the Eleventh Doctor's first console room well enough, but my favorite is still Eccleston/Tennant's. I love the idea that the TARDIS is organic technology, and the coral concept was beautiful to me.

 

[Starkers]

I prefer the current console room to Smith's first one, I do agree with others though,including Peter Davison, it should be brighter

I'm still rather fold of the coral desk top, it looked properly alien.

 

[Samurai8472]

I just assumed the ninth doctor was so caught up with running/away from the war that he never bothered to look in a mirror

 

[Christopher]

^Or maybe, for quite a while afterward, he couldn't look in a mirror. Couldn't bear to look himself in the eyes.

Although that raises the question of how he managed to be clean-shaven...

 

[Captaindemotion]

^Maybe he shaved so as not to look like the bearded War Doctor. He can probably do it with his sonic screwdriver (does virtually everything else at this stage!)