Well, dang it, now I want that, too.Damn. I always wanted her and Clyde to show up and maybe even become companions.
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Series 12 News & Spoilers
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Except those are all reverse examples. I'm talking about their famous role first and then doing a different role. In Courtney's case, Bert was before the Brig's first appearance.
Why does it seem like people think it went like this:
"Oh we'd really like to brong in Anjli Mohindra for an episode. I know, we'll create a new character totally unrelated to Rani from SJA for her to play"?
When it probably went like this:
"This is a cool character we have for this episode. Time to see who to cast. Let's see, who's available? Oh, Anjli Monhindra? Cool. I liked her in SJA. She'll do fine."
"Oh we'd really like to brong in Anjli Mohindra for an episode. I know, we'll create a new character totally unrelated to Rani from SJA for her to play"?
When it probably went like this:
"This is a cool character we have for this episode. Time to see who to cast. Let's see, who's available? Oh, Anjli Monhindra? Cool. I liked her in SJA. She'll do fine."
How would you define John Leeson? K-9 wasn’t used in The Power of Kroll, mainly because it was a largely swampy setting. John was cast in an onscreen role, partly to fulfill his contract, partly to save money from casting another actor.
Yeah, you're probably right about how it played out.
But it's still annoying.
It's a special case because most people don't know what John Leeson looks like and his character in that serial sounded nothing like K-9.
Do hope this isn't Anjili getting typecast as villains following The Bodyguard.
Hey Series 12 news! Anyone remember that a new season is coming up? 
Something familiar was spotted in Bristol........
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-50152072
The bridge website had published an advanced closure notice saying it would shut overnight on Tuesday for an inspection of the chain anchorages.
Sneaky.
Something familiar was spotted in Bristol........
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-50152072
The bridge website had published an advanced closure notice saying it would shut overnight on Tuesday for an inspection of the chain anchorages.
Sneaky.
At this stage, they could be filming the finale, couldn't they? Epic finale with the Daleks. Almost RTD-like.
Not inherently so. Since its return, Doctor Who has filmed episodes out of order, so who knows which episode(s) they might appear in.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they are indeed in the finale considering how they've often been utilized since 2005.
This is Block 10, which,, AFAIK is the special.
I do wonder if the shift from S11 to S12 and no recurring monsters to nothing but recurring monsters!* was always Chibnall's plan, because he wanted to provide a palate cleansing season, or whether he's being pressured by on high to put popular monsters back in? So far we're definitely getting Cybermen, Daleks and Judoon, and who knows what else may rock up but just hasn't been obviously filmed on location? (Weeping Angels, Ice Warriors, Sontarans…)
*hyperbole, I'm sure we'll get some original foes.
*hyperbole, I'm sure we'll get some original foes.
Another site implied this might be material for a 2019 Christmas special. But in defiance of my doctor's advice to cut down my sodium intake, I'm taking that with a grain of salt.
It is definitely for a Special, as various online CVs have confirmed, but if it's to air before or after the next series is anyone's guess.
It would be funny if they aired it in January, thereby keeping their promise that the series would be back very early in 2020, then held the series itself over until next Autumn.
Another site implied this might be material for a 2019 Christmas special. But in defiance of my doctor's advice to cut down my sodium intake, I'm taking that with a grain of salt.
Try potassium salt
Please don't give them ideas
My suspicion would be New Year's Day, (so, in 2020, but part of this year's sheduling strategy, if you see what I mean), with the series premiere on the 4/5th or 11/12th (more likely the latter, as the former will probably still be stocked with second halves of stuff from the previous week)
There'd be zero point in shooting this far ahead for a Xmas 2020 slot
There'd be zero point in shooting this far ahead for a Xmas 2020 slot
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When's the earliest we might get an announcement regarding a possible holiday (Christmas or New Year's) special? I'm thinking Children in Need, is there any reason to expect otherwise?
Hey Series 12 news! Anyone remember that a new season is coming up?
Something familiar was spotted in Bristol........
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-50152072
The bridge website had published an advanced closure notice saying it would shut overnight on Tuesday for an inspection of the chain anchorages.
Sneaky.
On one hand, it keeps the number of curious with cameras to a minimum, not that it stopped a few passers-by anyway.
On the other hand, people are happy because when they got done filming (if not before) they did the inspections to make sure the thing was safe.
Props to him for trying new creations other than the ones the show had made popular with in the past and even the popular ones were new creations at one point. A shame most weren't memorable in any good way, but that is a separate issue and some baddies did have solid potential.
Judoon were an interesting choice. Based on Sontarans but given a life of their own, how they are used will be key - I'd hope they would be chasing the Doctor for some reason and not be yet another "let's go to Earth for no reason" affair that most of NuWHO is celebrated for.
A proper redesign of the Cybermen have been due for a long time. But recalling the episodes "Doomsday" and "Cyberwoman", regardless if the new changes to the iconic appearance, get a better writer to use them. Heck, even calling them "Telosians" or "Mondasians" (as they came from Mondas but migrated to Telos, as was told reasonably well enough in "Attack of the Cybermen", is preferable if the iconic monsters' last suffix is of consternation-driven contention. You know what they say, "A cyborg by any other name augments just the same." )
"Resolution" unintentionally made the Daleks a laughing stock while forgetting why they're stuck in the machines to begin with - yes, various features have been added over the years but they're no longer survival capsules and one can survive for centuries while in an unpowered case as well as mind-control beings and hijack their bodies directly and in the most uninspired of ways. How do they top that, in either direction.
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Also,
that new Dalek design is waaaaay too busy. It's not worse than the candy coated Dalek Paradigm from 2010 only because they kept the same color palette o' doom, but it's still anorexic up top. But if the actual episode is good, and that depends on who wrote and/or script-edited the drama (better than the sort of duh-rama people sat through for the bulk of last year), they'll be on par with those almost-equally-overdone Imperial Dalek redesigns from "Remembrance"...
They look more like bumper cars now with that plastic protective guard around the bottom
