Moffat's "Radio Times" Series 10 Preview - Read At Your Own Risk!

[StCoop]

Reagrdless of what turns out to be odd about the Regeneration on-screen it seems to be a bit odd off-screen as well. Here's a quote from Capaldi talking about it in USA Today.

"I didn't realise it was my last series until about halfway through it. I was just delighted to be carrying on being the Doctor."

That doesn't sound like someone who'd been planning on going anywhere.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Just as I'd feared about it. Which, if true, sucks.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Reagrdless of what turns out to be odd about the Regeneration on-screen it seems to be a bit odd off-screen as well. Here's a quote from Capaldi talking about it in USA Today.

"I didn't realise it was my last series until about halfway through it. I was just delighted to be carrying on being the Doctor."

That doesn't sound like someone who'd been planning on going anywhere.

Sadly, I thought that was obvious -- that Capaldi was "pushed," so to speak -- from the interview with Jo Whiley where he announced he was leaving. When Whiley asked him when his last episode was, he didn't know, and someone had to prompt him from off-mic.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Damn shame really. Capaldi's take on The Doctor has been wonderful but his era has been short changed by mediocre to poor writing (although series 9 was an improvement). Sadly, many people will remember that writing as the hallmark of his tenure just as much as, if not more than, his performance.

 

[kirk55555]

Damn shame really. Capaldi's take on The Doctor has been wonderful but his era has been short changed by mediocre to poor writing (although series 9 was an improvement). Sadly, many people will remember that writing as the hallmark of his tenure just as much as, if not more than, his performance.

Other people have said it, but it really seems like he's become the Colin Baker of NuWho. If he was secretly pushed out, that makes the comparison even closer. He has been great as The Doctor, but he spent two seasons playing second fiddle to (in my opinion) the worst companion in the franchise. 9, 10 and 11 never felt like side characters in the way 12 could be at times. That's why I'm really hoping that Series 10 at least gives him some fun stuff and lets him go out with a bang.

 

[StCoop]

Definitely makes me think we're looking at a Tennant clone next year.

The bookies still have Phoebe Waller-Bridge at Evens though. (Now I don't gamble so can someone explain why you'd bet on someone when if you do win you just get your money back?)

 

[Saul]

So I guess the rumors of the BBC wanting to keep him on weren't true?
Sad to say it but the writing let him down and it was already happening with Matt Smith before that.

I can't imagine a new Doctor doing the christmas special, that's a difficult place to pick things up with a large gap between it and the next episode. A lot of pressure on the actor to knock it out of the park and hope the ball keeps spinning till autumn.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I can't imagine a new Doctor doing the christmas special, that's a difficult place to pick things up with a large gap between it and the next episode. A lot of pressure on the actor to knock it out of the park and hope the ball keeps spinning till autumn.

Yeah, I would be very surprised if the new Doctor appeared in the Christmas special. I imagine the scenario will either be a flashback, a delay in the regeneration, or a one-off Doctor who then regenerates at the end of the special. I really, really hope it's not a delay in the regeneration and I'm not terribly fond of a flashback scenario.

 

[Green Lantern]

Would be interesting to see an episode centred on the Valeyard perhaps?

 

[Professor Zoom]

Would be interesting to see an episode centred on the Valeyard perhaps?

No. No, it wouldn't. The Valeyard served his purpose 30 years ago, a mustache twirling twist. There's not much more there, personally. I hope they never bring him back. I would rather have the Rani back before the Valeyard.

 

[Nightowl1701]

They basically did bring him back, in "Amy's Choice." What was the Dream Lord if not 'an amalgamation of the darker sides of (The Doctor's) nature'? Who else but 'The Ultimate Foe' could hate the Doctor as much as he hates himself? When I first saw that episode, I made the connection immediately; The Dream Lord was the Valeyard-in-the-making. And a regeneration crisis is the perfect chance for him to finally break free and become his own man.

 

[Professor Zoom]

They basically did bring him back, in "Amy's Choice." What was the Dream Lord if not 'an amalgamation of the darker sides of (The Doctor's) nature'? Who else but 'The Ultimate Foe' could hate the Doctor as much as he hates himself? When I first saw that episode, I made the connection immediately; The Dream Lord was the Valeyard-in-the-making. And a regeneration crisis is the perfect chance for him to finally break free and become his own man.

As long as, once he becomes his own man, he flies off and is never heard from again. That would be acceptable.

 

[Mr Awe]

If the Christmas special is a one-off sort of thing, I hope it's a creative use of a past Doctor rather than a new, single-use Doctor. Take your pick of any past Doctor, I'd be happy.

 

[Ithekro]

If the Christmas special is a one-off sort of thing, I hope it's a creative use of a past Doctor rather than a new, single-use Doctor. Take your pick of any past Doctor, I'd be happy.

Will it be a very Tennant Christmas? Or will Smith go to Washington?

Or will Eight bells toll on the HMS Essex.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I'd actually be more intrigued by a one off doctor than a past one. I like the idea of going forward rather than back. And going to a recent one seems like a dick move to Capaldi.

Maybe this is how we get our Tilda Doctor?

But, in the end, I suspect it will be Capaldi regenerating at the end of the Special.

 

[tenmei]

My friend came up with a suggestion that the Master regenerates at the same point as the Doctor at the end of the season and the regenerative energy mixes - merging them into a quantumly unstable individual - causing 11.5 to regenerate properly at the end of the Christmas episode and the new Master to debut at that point too.

It could also have the residual effect of leaving Thirteen with some of the Master's characteristics and vice versa, with the new Doctor being more of an anti-hero come robin hood figure.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

My friend came up with a suggestion that the Master regenerates at the same point as the Doctor at the end of the season and the regenerative energy mixes - merging them into a quantumly unstable individual - causing 11.5 to regenerate properly at the end of the Christmas episode and the new Master to debut at that point too.

It could also have the residual effect of leaving Thirteen with some of the Master's characteristics and vice versa, with the new Doctor being more of an anti-hero come robin hood figure.

Interesting idea. Or perhaps such a dual regeneration creates The Valeyard (but hopefully not)?

 

[tenmei]

That would be the theory!

 

[TommyR01D]

I predict that episode 11 will end with a next-time trailer that does not remotely resemble the actual events of episode 12.