Doctor Who due a major shake-up as bosses aim for 'brand new show' in 2018

[StCoop]

(It's for the movie Paddington 2, not Dr Who)

But Series 10 has months of shooting left on it. Maybe he's already left and they're planing a sneaky mid-series Regeneration? A quick Google shows he's actually been shooting it since November.

(I know they won't but frankly at this point it might be the only thing that would make the upcoming series newsworthy.)

 

[Photoman15]

Despite Capaldi's talk of being undecided about returning for season 11, the facts are, his contract expires next year and he has found the role more physical demanding than he anticipated. This too strongly suggests he'll be leaving sooner rather than later.

I'm okay with that storyline being forgotten.

Yeah. I really don't like Clara, but I'd rather she was just never heard from again. if they had to use her again, then finally killing her off would be just about the only context I'd like to see her return, but besides that I'm fine with her fate being left a mystery (at least until about a decade from now when Big Finish inevitably gets the rights and hires the actress to do post-Doctor traveling stories ).

I just don't like the idea of her (and Me) flying around in a TARDIS and both being unable to die (as is). It sounds too much like potential for someone (Moffatt, maybe) in the (near) future to do a spin-off (especially if the School spinoff doesn't do well), or BBC wants a specific DW spinoff.

 

[Starkers]

But Series 10 has months of shooting left on it. Maybe he's already left and they're planing a sneaky mid-series Regeneration? A quick Google shows he's actually been shooting it since November.

(I know they won't but frankly at this point it might be the only thing that would make the upcoming series newsworthy.)

Well he wasn't in Paddington very much so it might be that he just got a few weeks off to film his scenes then it's back to the Who grindstone. He's been filming since November but it's only December now!

 

[kirk55555]

I just don't like the idea of her (and Me) flying around in a TARDIS and both being unable to die (as is). It sounds too much like potential for someone (Moffatt, maybe) in the (near) future to do a spin-off (especially if the School spinoff doesn't do well), or BBC wants a specific DW spinoff.

Eh, I'd think that Coleman and Williams are both too busy for that, and I doubt Williams would ever sign up for a Doctor Who spin off. Coleman might, but not right now and by the time she'd do it I imagine it would most likely be a Big Finish thing (like I mentioned earlier). Give it a year and Clara won't be relevant enough for anyone to really care to see her in a spin off (from a general audience perspective, at least). She seems to be somewhat popular as a character, but she's no Jack harkness and I'm pretty sure Moffat won't be doing anything Doctor who related for a while. I seriously doubt we'll see any TV spin off from her, I honestly think that Torchwood would come back before Clara got a spin off.

 

[Logopolis]

But Series 10 has months of shooting left on it. Maybe he's already left and they're planing a sneaky mid-series Regeneration? A quick Google shows he's actually been shooting it since November.

(I know they won't but frankly at this point it might be the only thing that would make the upcoming series newsworthy.)

If not for the previous posts, I would have assumed 12 was getting his 7 on judging by that jumper.

 

[Hey Missy]

Most people I ask say Tennant is their favorite Doctor because they liked "the crying and emotions", and they dislike Smith and especially Capaldi for being too "alien" and "emotionless".

 

[StCoop]

Well he wasn't in Paddington very much so it might be that he just got a few weeks off to film his scenes then it's back to the Who grindstone.

In fact he's over in Tenerife this week (so a bit nicer than Cardif) shooting an episode with a certain Guest Star who was there last time they shot over there...

 

[Logopolis]

Most people I ask say Tennant is their favorite Doctor because they liked "the crying and emotions", and they dislike Smith and especially Capaldi for being too "alien" and "emotionless".

I really like Tennant as the Doctor, but it sums up why he'll never be my favourite. Out of any of the Doctors, the Ninth Doctor had the greatest reason to be emotional given how recent the events of the Time War were for him.

Of course, Nine did have some emotional moments, but as we got halfway through Tennants run, some of it felt a bit the same because of the (borderline) schizophrenic shift between glee, anger, sorrow and numbness. In a way, Eleven went the other way. While a more alien and oblique personality, as his tenure continued the writing of the character became comedic. Eleven's first season is his best for its stories, characters and the scripts that were made for Smith's character.

 

[Lonemagpie]

In fact he's over in Tenerife this week (so a bit nicer than Cardif) shooting an episode with a certain Guest Star who was there last time they shot over there...

So, does that mean it's standing in for the same place again, I wonder... I'd assume so.

 

[Starkers]

Skaro or Gallifrey or America?

 

[Jedman67]

That guy is hysterical. My favorite christmas special since Tenants premiere, although it was a bit of a drag at first.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Skaro or Gallifrey or America?

Well, where we last saw said guest star... (And, to be fair, didn't it also stand in for, well, Tenerife, at the beginning of last season...?)

 

[Blamo]

Most people I ask say Tennant is their favorite Doctor because they liked "the crying and emotions", and they dislike Smith and especially Capaldi for being too "alien" and "emotionless".

This is something that Who fans (and to a certain extent writers) have trouble with.

Both nine and ten were written as human men first (testosterone included) and aliens as a very distant second. Basically they had human emotions, fears, desires and needs. Eleven and twelve though were written very simply as very alien superheroes who didn't get humans and their emotions.

It's like the classic show in that regard. The first Doctor was essentially written as a human being with a different background to Ian and Barbara. If the show had gone a different route, he could have easily ended up being from an Earth colony in the far future. Over time the character became increasingly a bag of quirks and eccentricities and that's how people came to believe the Doctor should be written.

 

[Christopher]

It's like the classic show in that regard. The first Doctor was essentially written as a human being with a different background to Ian and Barbara. If the show had gone a different route, he could have easily ended up being from an Earth colony in the far future. Over time the character became increasingly a bag of quirks and eccentricities and that's how people came to believe the Doctor should be written.

Oh, the First Doctor had plenty of quirks and eccentricities. That was basically his primary role to begin with -- he was the strange old trickster whose selfish and unpredictable actions got the human heroes in trouble. He mellowed over time and started to become more heroic, but he was still quite eccentric and prone to odd impulses and amusements, and something of a con man who enjoyed pretending to be someone he wasn't (see "The Romans" and "The Reign of Terror," for example). It's true that the Doctor wasn't explicitly established as an alien until his second incarnation, but that's a separate matter from how his personality was written.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Capaldi was on the Andrew Marr Show this morning, and at the end of the interview (mainly about the Christmas special), he says that he hopes not to leave for a while yet.

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[matthunter]

I just don't like the idea of her (and Me) flying around in a TARDIS and both being unable to die (as is). It sounds too much like potential for someone (Moffatt, maybe) in the (near) future to do a spin-off (especially if the School spinoff doesn't do well), or BBC wants a specific DW spinoff.

And? No-one's going to force you to watch it if if happens, so what's the issue?

 

[Photoman15]

It cheapens Doctor Who with another virtually immortal person flying around in a TARDIS and validates Moffatts' "the companion is more important than the Doctor". I loved Amy Pond but hated when she did the voice-over introduction on some episodes of her run.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I loved Amy Pond but hated when she did the voice-over introduction on some episodes of her run.

I loved the Amy Pond intro that BBC America did! I thought it was clever.

I wish I could find the interview where RTD said he thought it was great and wished he'd thought of it. I know I linked to it here years ago, but I haven't found the right combination of words for the search routine.

That said, I totally understood why the intro voice-over wasn't well received by some (many?) fans, because it did seem to make the show even more about her adventures than it already was.

 

[Christopher]

It cheapens Doctor Who with another virtually immortal person flying around in a TARDIS...

Why? It's only in the modern series that the Doctor has been treated as the last of his kind. The original series introduced a second member of the Doctor's race with his own TARDIS, the Monk, as early as the second season, and continued to feature quite a few other Time Lords over its 26-year run.

Not to mention that the revival series brought back the Master nearly a decade ago, as well as making Captain Jack an immortal, so it's not like it's unprecedented for it to feature such characters. Plus, Gallifrey is back in play now, so the whole "last of his kind" thing has been left behind anyway.

and validates Moffatts' "the companion is more important than the Doctor".

Again, that's not original to Moffat. Davies did the same thing with Rose, and of course it's how the series was originally conceived back in '63, with Ian and Barbara as the leads.

 

[Hey Missy]

I'm glad they've brought Gallifrey back completely, thus abandoning the "Last of the Time Lords" story which was beginning to get stale, and opening up future possibilities.