Maybe the Moff will be summoned for writing duties…
Spoilers Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner
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Maybe the Moff will be summoned for writing duties…
I love it!Sophie Aldred and Janet Fielding also attended the series wrap party last year. Janet came dressed as her former boss, 80s era producer John Nathan Turner!
https://twitter.com/jfmouthonlegs/status/1519189861655367681?cxt=HHwWgsC-parIn5UqAAAA
Oh, man, that's a great idea! I adore Jessica Hynes!
And yet, I feel like writers -- television, novels, fanfic -- will gravitate to the (overly obvious) idea that Joan Redfern was, in fact, the 14th Doctor fobwatched for some reason, so in "Human Nature" the 10th Doctor fobwatched fell in love with the 14th. Explaining the granddaughter in "The End of Time, Part Two" might prove difficult, but it's not an insurmountable problem.I know; I know... Hynes' Doctor would have no logical connection to the character she played in "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood". Just let me have this moment, PLEASE!!!!
Or just inspired by a face they've seen, like Capaldi.
It’s ok. Chibnall is leaving.
It is taking forever, though...
Weird right!, 3 years of dodging the Chibnall era completly and no issues, but now Chibnall is going, the time just seems to be dragging by now. lol
To clarify, my ego just likes the idea of the name Redfern (in any capacity) associated with Doctor Who. You can imagine how loud I squeed when I learned of a character named such in DW and spelled the way my direct lineage does (Redfern as opposed to Redfearn) and I was over the moon when I saw she survived her encounter (hey, guest characters don't have the best odds).
From Doctor Who Magazine
A 'final' cut of the Centenary special will be locked and ready by the summer, it's speculated this cut will include the handover to the 14th Doctor
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1519475754077143042
A 'final' cut of the Centenary special will be locked and ready by the summer, it's speculated this cut will include the handover to the 14th Doctor
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1519475754077143042
I was generally not too thrilled with his "arcs" and finales. But, overall, yes, I could trust him to assemble a good cast and a great set of stories on the whole.
Highlights from Chibnall's DWM Interview
-His Who journey started with The Time Warrior and he insists he never fell out of love with the classic show, despite what a certain infamous TV clip may suggest.
-First thing he did as showrunner was look at documents from Who’s initial development in 1963 and he actually views himself as something of a Who traditionalist, citing the three companions as an example of that.
-Regarding Timeless Child, he wanted to dispel what he calls the sense that there was a “locked-in, fixed myth” for Who. He also admits some inspiration for storyline was personal, as he was adopted.
-He doesn’t know where the Doctor is actually from now, and argues that the point is nobody knows.
-The Brain of Morbius didn’t inspire the Timeless Child, but he thought it would be cheeky to add that clip to the montage in The Timeless Children to tie them together.
-He suggests they did deliberately start adding some hints towards Thasmin, with him citing costume decisions and Claire and Yaz’s dialogue in The Haunting of Villa Diodati.
-Surprisingly, he had someone else in mind for Graham until Matt Strevens suggested Bradley Walsh.
-He has no sense of unfinished business, and seems quite content that he won’t write for Who again.
-Regarding keeping the Dalek being in Resolution secret for so long, he admits that “I’m not sure we got that call right”, but claims they tried to loosen up on secrets as they went along.
-The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos is his least favourite script of his as apparently he had to do big rewrites due to “some problems” (he doesn’t elaborate). As a result the episode they filmed was a first draft.
-He loves Fugitive of the Judoon and believes they got that episode right. Originally the idea was the Judoon would be hunting an alien princess but he suggested to Vinay Patel they have the person they’re hunting be the Doctor.
-He’s very non-committal about where the Fugitive Doctor belongs timeline-wise, saying he’s got an opinion but won’t share it.
-He says of the shorter, serialised format of Series 13 caused by Covid: “I wouldn’t have chosen to do it like that, and I didn’t choose to do it like that.” He claims there isn’t much detail of a pre-Covid Series 13 cos they simply didn’t get that far in development (Bad luck Big Finish).
-Ultimately his view is the show has to keep evolving and shifting and doing new things. And similar to his Radio Times interview he freely admits someone in future could erase or contradict the Timeless Child.
-He claims his experience has been “overwhelmingly joyous” despite some difficult times.
-His Who journey started with The Time Warrior and he insists he never fell out of love with the classic show, despite what a certain infamous TV clip may suggest.
-First thing he did as showrunner was look at documents from Who’s initial development in 1963 and he actually views himself as something of a Who traditionalist, citing the three companions as an example of that.
-Regarding Timeless Child, he wanted to dispel what he calls the sense that there was a “locked-in, fixed myth” for Who. He also admits some inspiration for storyline was personal, as he was adopted.
-He doesn’t know where the Doctor is actually from now, and argues that the point is nobody knows.
-The Brain of Morbius didn’t inspire the Timeless Child, but he thought it would be cheeky to add that clip to the montage in The Timeless Children to tie them together.
-He suggests they did deliberately start adding some hints towards Thasmin, with him citing costume decisions and Claire and Yaz’s dialogue in The Haunting of Villa Diodati.
-Surprisingly, he had someone else in mind for Graham until Matt Strevens suggested Bradley Walsh.
-He has no sense of unfinished business, and seems quite content that he won’t write for Who again.
-Regarding keeping the Dalek being in Resolution secret for so long, he admits that “I’m not sure we got that call right”, but claims they tried to loosen up on secrets as they went along.
-The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos is his least favourite script of his as apparently he had to do big rewrites due to “some problems” (he doesn’t elaborate). As a result the episode they filmed was a first draft.
-He loves Fugitive of the Judoon and believes they got that episode right. Originally the idea was the Judoon would be hunting an alien princess but he suggested to Vinay Patel they have the person they’re hunting be the Doctor.
-He’s very non-committal about where the Fugitive Doctor belongs timeline-wise, saying he’s got an opinion but won’t share it.
-He says of the shorter, serialised format of Series 13 caused by Covid: “I wouldn’t have chosen to do it like that, and I didn’t choose to do it like that.” He claims there isn’t much detail of a pre-Covid Series 13 cos they simply didn’t get that far in development (Bad luck Big Finish).
-Ultimately his view is the show has to keep evolving and shifting and doing new things. And similar to his Radio Times interview he freely admits someone in future could erase or contradict the Timeless Child.
-He claims his experience has been “overwhelmingly joyous” despite some difficult times.
Thank you for sharing all of that. I greatly appreciate what he tried to strive for, even if sometimes it didn't work out the way he had hoped. Either way, his intentions were good, regardless what some people here seem to think.
According to Jo Martin at Gallifrey One, Chibnall told her that her Doctor was immediately before Hartnell.
See, this interview demonstrates what I've been saying since 2020: a man out of his depth, with no actual clue as to what he was doing, and had so incredibly few ideas for his own fucking era. And first draft on his first series finale? Didn't have an entire year for that? What gives?
Really, we knew this era was a bloated, empty fart, but this confirms it. Now I feel sorry for the man wasting his time on something he had no real desire to be in.
Really, we knew this era was a bloated, empty fart, but this confirms it. Now I feel sorry for the man wasting his time on something he had no real desire to be in.
Your bias is showing again.
Chibnall: it was a joyous experience. TrekBBS commentator: he hated it and knew he was out of his depth. I think I'll go with Chibnall's take on what Chibnall experienced, thanks.
I hope this is true about the hand over as i want RTD to start his run with a new broom to sweep clean from day one chance.
But, but, I thought there was "absolutely no reason to expect the 14th Doctor in the special" as someone around here was so adamantly insisting.
