"New Mutants" starts shooting soon so she'll be busy with that.
First (Real?) Regeneration Episode Spoiler
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"New Mutants" starts shooting soon so she'll be busy with that.
I saw one story that mentioned GOT will be filming in winter, so Maisie wouldn't be tied up there.
It didn't mention the New Mutants.
It didn't mention the New Mutants.
Well, this isn't really a surprise, since every NuWho Companion has come back for "their" Doctor's regeneration episode. And I love Clara, so I'm glad. Everyone on this forum who hates her can stomach a cameo, because we know that's all it'll be. I loathe River Song, but I still watched the Christmas Special when she returned.
Uhm...are we 100% sure that the regeneration will take place in the Christmas Special and not in the series itself? Episode 12? Or even sooner? We saw the regeneration in the series trailer after episode 1 and then there is Capalids comment that the regeneration will be "different this time".
We've seen two rgeneration shots in the trailers- one of his hand going while reaching for what resembles a Time Lord message box from The War Games, and one of him standing flanked by two soldiers, which is from episode 8. So how an episode 8 regen would work when he's still starring in episodes 9-12 and Xmas would be an interesting one! If that was a real regeneration, that is.
Well...how about having cake and eating it too? "Regeneration different this time" could mean: Regenerates in ep 8, new doctor in 9-12, and for xmax Capaldi..(rumor has it its "Day of the doctor" from 12s point of view).
Don´t forget the rule "Moffat et al lie".
Just because we are told he is in 9-12..that does not nessecarily mean that its true. It would be an interesting change NOT having the BBC reveal the new doc in advance...which could be done this way.
Or you could use a "frameing plot" type story...9-12 with "new doctor" flashing back to when he was still 12.
More likely you'd end up, in that context, with the Doctor starting to regenerate, then a four episode "how we got to this point." set of episodes.
More likely still, it's a fake-out.
Alternatively, since the mid-season arc from episodes 6 thru 8 is about "truth", if things go awry for our heroes, episodes 9-12 could be, essentially, what-ifs, or otherwise not-really-true episodes before coming back to what actually happened.
Most likely, Moffat lies and so do the cast when told to.
I am extremely skeptical at the idea that Capaldi isn't in episodes 9-12 and the next Doctor is. Hiding the identity of the actor playing the next Doctor in 9-12 for this long would be downright impossible; he'd have been seen on location, multiple times. It's also unlikely that Capaldi would sit out four episodes and then come back months later for the Christmas episode; he's a working actor, he's had to turn down work because of Moffat's inconsistent shooting schedules the last few years, and if he were told "We don't need you these four months but you have to come back for Christmas" I'm downright certain he'd have told Moffat and the BBC to pound sand. (And, I suspect, the BBC would back him up on this.)
Ditto. "Meh" is about as strong an emotion that I could muster about this.
Your avatar conveys that feeling even further.
^synergy.
I'm having flashbacks to the week after "The Stolen Earth," when people were theorizing about how maybe this was a real regeneration, David Morrissey actually was the Eleventh Doctor, etc.
Doctor wasn't enough for him. He had to be an entire Governor.
Heh, I had forgotten about that speculation. Considering what we got (both the metacrisis and then the later retroactive "It was a full regeneration after all"), the Jackson Lake theory would've been better.
Moffat lies, but the BBC does not. Can not, it's actually specified in their charter. It's because of this that casting information is always released so far in advance. The BBC has said the regeneration will be in the Christmas special, so it will be in the Christmas special.
As for the regeneration in the trailers which is supposed to be from episode 8, remember the other golden rule about Moffat and his scripts: he loves the timey-wimey.
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