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Series 10 News Thread (Spoilers, naturally)

Timby said:
A kids / family television show airing an episode with the message that going off your mental health medications can save the world is not only irresponsible but reprehensible.
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Although I agree with you, that part of the episode doesn't bother me so much mainly because it is a very common trope in TV and movies, the mentally ill character who is on medication and everyone writes off as "crazy" is the one who is actually in tune of what's going on, knows the truth of the matter and ends up saving the day much to the chagrin to everyone. The moral of the story is supposed to be a cautionary tale about ignoring people you really shouldn't ignore, but unfortunately it really doesn't take into account that most people on mental health medication really need to be, and just tossing away their pills will cause problems rather than solving them.

Although your post has me wondering, how many children on mental health medication felt a need to stop taking their medication after seeing this episode so they could talk to the fairies. Now that's disturbing.
 
The Wormhole said:
Although your post has me wondering, how many children on mental health medication felt a need to stop taking their medication after seeing this episode so they could talk to the fairies. Now that's disturbing.
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That's really exactly what I'm talking about. It's not as though kids have magically stopped being really, really impressionable, which is why that entire episode is irresponsible at best.
 
First set photo. Maybe they are shooting the Christmas Special?

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If Pearl Mackie is in the episode currently being filmed, than it's not the Christmas special. IIRC, it's already confirmed she won't be in the Christmas special.
 
She's also been shooting scenes in her outfit from her introductory scene thingy; so maybe that is going to be part of an episode.

Instead of linking it's probably easier to just say search for #dwsr (though that tag also gets spammed with a lot of crap from people with no lives as well.)
 
So he's got a very smart outfit on other than that random hoodie thrown in? I got it when he just wore jumpers and T shirts with them but....
 
For a moment there, his hair looked longer, almost latter day Pertwee.

I miss The Doctor having big floppy hair. The Eleventh Doctor is almost there, but not like The Third, Fourth, and Sixth Doctors.
 
They made a big song and dance in 2014 about Capaldi's suit, but in 2015 they ditched it in favour of two other designs. At various points in Series 9 the Doctor either looked like SuperPertwee or Jeremy Corbyn's midlife crisis.

I wonder whether Peter Capaldi will be front and centre next year or Pearl Mackie AsBill is intended to play the real star as Jenna Coleman did for much of Series 8.
 
It might just be me but I still prefer the street magician look to when he's trying too hard to look like Pertwee.
 
Until 1980 the Doctor never had a solid costume, just a look. Capaldi's varied clothes go back to that.
 
diankra said:
Until 1980 the Doctor never had a solid costume, just a look. Capaldi's varied clothes go back to that.
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Though the modern era has made several attempts to go back to the Doctor wearing clothes rather than a uniform, even if he still has a uniform look anyway. Like with Eccleston wearing different colour shirts (or jumpers, I guess is the British term), Tennant switching between brown and blue suits, and sometimes wearing a t-shirt instead of a buttoned shirt, or Smith switching between his tweed jacket and the green long coat in the second half of season 6.
 
diankra said:
Until 1980 the Doctor never had a solid costume, just a look. Capaldi's varied clothes go back to that.
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This is true, but the look even pre-80s Doctors had was always consistent, as far as I can tell (and I know your knowledge far exceeds my own so I'm prepared to be corrected) so Pertwee wore a variety of clothing but the tone was always the same (unless he was going undercover) in that he was always dapper and dandy, same as Troughton was always scruffy and Tom was always bohemian. Capaldi must be the first Doctor where there isn't consistency of outfit, or of tone though?

Which is fairly rational, after all most of us dress differently from day to day, smart one day scruffy the next, so it isn't like this is radical, it's just radical for the Doctor, IMO, and I imagine must make it difficult from a promotional perspective sometimes?
 
The one thing that has bothered me a little, now that I'm older, is the fact that the classic Doctors always kind of wore the same thing.. Sure, there were signature looks (smoking jacket, waist coat, baggy trousers, scarves, cricket sweater), but now the idea of just ONE costume just seems silly. It's like Scooby Doo.. in "real life" they would have more than just one set of clothes. For the doctor to never change clothes during a season, just seems odd and off to me now. You can have the same overall look, but not have to have the same costume week to week.
 
I never had the problem with The Doctor not changing clothes. he's an alien, he doesn't have to do mundane things that humans do (we never see him use the restroom, and rarely see him sleeping). Plus, I've always thought that The Doctor does change clothes in every incarnation, he just has an infinite amount of the same outfit (so he's wearing the same thing, but not literally the same set of clothes every day for centuries) so if he likes one look, he sticks with it. Then again, I love the 6th Doctor's outfit, so my thoughts on The Doctor's wardrobe aren't exactly normal :lol:
 
Certainly, the first Doctor loses his coat several times (usually in historicals) but always has an identical one next story once he's got changed back in the ship.
 
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