Big Finish get River Song (and lots more!)
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Time Lords and vampires don't get along...
Okay, that does sound awesome.
I agree. Pretty awesome and should be pretty damn funny too.
Definitely looking forward to that strange encounter. 
Hopefully this is just a step closer to Jack and River alongside Jago & Litefoot teaming up with Madame Vestra and Jenny adventures.
Hopefully this is just a step closer to Jack and River alongside Jago & Litefoot teaming up with Madame Vestra and Jenny adventures.
My god, I'd love some Paternoster Gang stories from Big Finish. I'd think it would be attractive for Neve MacIntosh and Dan Starkey too, not to have to wear all that makeup; and since Moffat doesn't seem to have any further plans for them in the series, it would be easy to do a boxed set every year.
Dan Starkey is a regular at Big Finish these days, so I'm sure he can convince Neve MacIntosh and Catrin Stewart of the joys of working with Big Finish.
Not to stray too far off topic, but that's the second time this week someone has said something to this effect. Where does everyone keep getting this idea? I know it's looking like season 9 won't feature them, but that doesn't mean they're gone for good does it? Kind of makes me wonder what the point was to killing them and instantly resurrecting them in Name of the Doctor if they were only going to come back one more time and be done with. Does Moffat really have that much of a problem killing characters?
It comes from Moffat himself. The quote people are relying on comes from Doctor Who Magazine earlier in the year. Addressing the possibility of more adventures, he said: "I'm always slightly worried that you can't keep repeating the joke. And there’s always talk of the spin-off, and the Beeb would do it in a heartbeat… but… I dunno. The moment you start relying on something, you should probably throw it away. I always kind of feel that nothing should stay in the Doctor's life. You can have River for a few years, but then River has to go."
Nothing, Steven? Not even Sexy? What, you're gonna leave the Doctor stuck using River's vortex manipulator instead? No more sonic screwdriver, jelly babies or psychic paper either, I suppose... how much can you deconstruct something before there's nothing left?
I think pretty much everything you've mentioned has disappeared from the show's format for a protracted period of time, so yes, nothing. No sonic screwdriver from 1982 to 1996, no jelly babies from 1978 to 2014, and no "Sexy" from 1970 to 1973!
And, of course, psychic paper has only existed since 2005. I've always felt it was too much of a crutch for the modern show anyway.
I'm sure Moffat takes it as a given that the TARDIS is the one and only constant in the Doctor's life. The two of them are basically extensions of each other, so it barely needs to be mentioned. But everything else comes and goes.
I'm sure Moffat takes it as a given that the TARDIS is the one and only constant in the Doctor's life. The two of them are basically extensions of each other, so it barely needs to be mentioned. But everything else comes and goes.
Then again... in Time of the Doctor, the Doctor spent practically the exact amount of his 11 lives in Trenzalore, so he has been away from the TARDIS as well, and for a long, long time, as well.
In retrospect, I find it difficult to accept that "Time of the Doctor" happened. I mean, obviously it did. Clara watched her friend age before her eyes, and the Doctor regenerated. But the twelfth Doctor never acts like someone who spent 900 years trapped on an alien planet, and he treated Clara from the start as though she were someone he knew recently rather than someone he knew 900 years earlier (excepting two days over the span of those centuries). It's the inability (or unwillingness) of Moffat and the eighth season to treat the aftermath of Trenzalore realistically that forces me to question the whole Trenzalore experience.
The Doctor remembered Sarah Jane after a similar, if not longer period of time away from her. From dropping her off as the Fourth Doctor, to briefly seeing her as the Fifth Doctor...through five lifetimes including the entire Time War, until he meets her entirely by chance as the Tenth Doctor.
For Clara, it took the Doctor a bit to remember her, and still trouble dealing with her when he was fine as the 11th with her around.
For Clara, it took the Doctor a bit to remember her, and still trouble dealing with her when he was fine as the 11th with her around.
I think the Twelfth Doctor's whole personality is the aftermath of Trenzalore. He lived in isolation for so many centuries that he lost his social skills. He got so sick of fighting that he developed a hatred of soldiers. He got so sick of seeing death that he built up walls and stopped caring so much for other people. I see the Twelfth Doctor and I see a Doctor who's been deeply scarred by his experiences, even more so than the Ninth Doctor was after the Time War.
As for Clara, I know from experience that when you have a really close friend that you see for the first time in ages, you can fall right back into the same old friendship as if only days had passed. And as Ithekro said, there's precedent with Sarah Jane.
I think the only reason he did it (along with addressing the 12 regeneration limit on his watch) was so Matt can can back at any age, beyond the age he played the character in the series.
Blimey, thats scary to think - all being well Matt could take part in the 100th Anniversary.
Likewise David can come back as the Metacrisis mortal Doctor, if so required.
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