Capaldi talks about Series 10. (Very vague Spoilers.)

[StCoop]

Less emotion.

Less Earth.

Cosmic Terror.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016...ks-you-should-know-about-doctor-who-series-10

 

[Timofnine]

Don't like the less emotion bit but less earth and cosmic terror can't do any harm!

 

[Starkers]

Hopefully they just mean less heartstring tugging moments rather than Capaldi walking round talking like a Cyberman the whole time...

 

[StCoop]

Hopefully they just mean less heartstring tugging moments rather than Capaldi walking round talking like a Cyberman the whole time...

I'm guessing it relates to the relationship with the Companion. If they're only going to be around for one Series it'll obviously not be as close.

 

[Starkers]

I guess, but look at Ten/Donna?

 

[Romulan_spy]

Hopefully they just mean less heartstring tugging moments rather than Capaldi walking round talking like a Cyberman the whole time...

Yeah, I interpret it as meaning that there won't be the super emotional scenes like what we got when Clara left, especially the emphasis on the companion being the most special being in the universe. Frankly, that is a good thing. Recent Doctor Who has given us a lot of these emotional final goodbye scenes with "special" companions. It will be a breath of fresh air to focus on other things.

 

[The Wormhole]

I hope by "less emotion" they really mean "no long, drawn-out monologues." Hopefully, we won't be repeating anything that went down in Face the Raven or Hell Bent.

Though I wonder, will irony be had and this season which tries to be less emotional is the one which actually does genuinely strike an emotional chord? After all, a lot of the time it's when Moffat intentionally tries to be emotional that he fails at it.

 

[arch101]

This show really needs to get away from Earth and get traveling again.

 

[Mr Awe]

Sounds good overall!!

 

[RoJoHen]

Moffat is incapable of writing "less emotion."

 

[kirk55555]

Honestly, while Moffat's "emotional" stuff has been pretty garbage in the Capaldi era (mostly because 90% of "emotional" stuff were horrible Clara scenes), I think he did a decent job in the 11th Doctor's run. A Christmas Carol still gets me everytime I watch it, and Time and the Doctor (despite its flaws) had a great, and emotional, goodbye to the 11th Doctor. I think moffat can do emotion well, but I'd definitely want less stuff like that in Season 10. I cared so little about the "emotional" Clara stuff that I just want Series 10 to be a big adventure, without any heavy "relationship" stuff.

 

[The Wormhole]

Honestly, while Moffat's "emotional" stuff has been pretty garbage in the Capaldi era (mostly because 90% of "emotional" stuff were horrible Clara scenes), I think he did a decent job in the 11th Doctor's run. A Christmas Carol still gets me everytime I watch it, and Time and the Doctor (despite its flaws) had a great, and emotional, goodbye to the 11th Doctor. I think moffat can do emotion well, but I'd definitely want less stuff like that in Season 10. I cared so little about the "emotional" Clara stuff that I just want Series 10 to be a big adventure, without any heavy "relationship" stuff.

While the Smith era did successfully have emotional resonance to it at times, I'm not sure how often that actually was in a Moffat-written episode. Although, it has been a while since I last watched A Christmas Carol, so I won't comment on that until such time as I get to re-watch it.

Although I do remember Amy and Rory's departure being promoted as a "tearjerker" and hearing such things in advance as "make sure you have a box of Kleenex handy." But really, The Angels Take Manhattan was very flat in the emotions department, and by the time Amy and Rory made their exit, I was sitting cross-armed with the driest eyes I've ever had. Amy and Rory actually rank in my top five favourite TARDIS Teams, so you know their departure is failing if I'm actually getting annoyed by it.

I'll agree, Time of the Doctor actually did have an impact on me. While the story of Time is flawed to say the least, there are several small moments that convey strong emotions which, IMO works a lot better than most of the drawn-out melodrama Moffat typically gives us for emotional scenes.

 

[kirk55555]

Yeah, I'm not saying that Moffat always pulled emotion off even in the 11th Doctor's era, or that he was responsible for all the good emotional stuff in the era. The two examples of ACC and TotD are episodes I know he wrote and I felt did emotional well. I'm sure if I looked back and checked what other episodes he specifically wrote, I could find some lame emotional stuff in the 11th's era.

Like you, The Angels Take Manhattan didn't really have an emotional punch for me, and Amy/Rory are my favorite modern companions (and probably Top 3 companions period). I mean, I liked the episode, and it was kind of sad that amy/Rory were gone, but it definitely wasn't super effective in the emotion department. The Amy in 11's head in time of the Doctor felt like the real emotional moment saying goodbye to Amy, at least to me.

 

[tomalak301]

I would love an episode entirely based on the Tardis traveling through space or something. We really haven't gotten much of that, other than that Journey to the Center of the Tardis episode, or whatever it was called.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Amy and Rory should not have returned after series 6. Period.

 

[kirk55555]

Amy and Rory should not have returned after series 6. Period.

I don't know about that. I thought Series 7A was the last consistently good Doctor Who run, with only one stinker (and that was the Christmas special, that wasn't even remotely focused on Amy/Rory). Not the greatest episodes of the 11th's era, but solidly entertaining. Much better then Series 7B or 8. Heck, even Series 9 only had 5 episodes that I thought were really good. I wish Amy/Rory had lasted all of Series 7, and not just because that would have meant that we wouldn't have gotten Clara.

 

[Starkers]

I really like The Snowman and for me the stinker in 7A was A Town Called Mercy, but otherwise I totally agree, 7A was the last time I really loved Who prior to Series 9 which did thankfully bring me back into the fold.

It's a curious thing, really from a narrative perspective Amy and Rory should have left in Series 6, their story was told and it was the right time to go, but the show benefited from them being in 7A and missed them thereafter.

I don't know if it was because everyone was focused on the 50th, or because nobody knew quite how to write for Clara, but 7B had some proper stinkers. Really the only ones I like are The Crimson Horror, The Name of the Doctor and Cold War.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

I just think that Amy and Rory had a very satisfying exit already in series 6. Not every companion has to die or dissapear from the universe you know - which makes for a curious standard of Moffat's, btw. He's killed, one way or another, all of his companions.

 

[The Wormhole]

I just think that Amy and Rory had a very satisfying exit already in series 6. Not every companion has to die or dissapear from the universe you know - which makes for a curious standard of Moffat's, btw. He's killed, one way or another, all of his companions.

Of course, no one actually stays dead on Moffat's watch.* They're all just sort of dead. It is interesting to note, RTD was against killing companions, feeling it was a cheap way to write them off the show.

*Seriously, there's only something like six characters in all of Moffat's scripts who didn't die of old age or are actual historical people with a death recorded in history who have actually stayed dead.

 

[Starkers]

I presume you mean named characters because an awful lot of people die in Moffat scripts (how many workers are slaughtered at the start of The Snowman for instance?).

Of the top of my head; Father Octavian, Cleric Bob, Lorna Bucket, Victorian Clara, Oswin (you can argue they came back as Clara Prime but however much they are splinters of Clara the impression I got is that they all lived full independent lives so should be considered separate characters) Danny Pink (eventually). Actually that is six!