Series 9 - Coming September 19! (And a trailer!)

[The Nth Doctor]

^Looks like a crossover with Vikings.

Australian start date for series 9 is 20 September. Saw an ad on ABC. It didn't give a time slot. Hopefully they simulcast again.

I wish. Just seeing Ragnar's non-verbal reaction to the TARDIS alone would make it worth it.

Forget Ragnar's reaction. It's Floki's insane reaction to the TARDIS I want to see.

 

[DarthPipes]

^Looks like a crossover with Vikings.

Australian start date for series 9 is 20 September. Saw an ad on ABC. It didn't give a time slot. Hopefully they simulcast again.

I wish. Just seeing Ragnar's non-verbal reaction to the TARDIS alone would make it worth it.

Forget Ragnar's reaction. It's Floki's insane reaction to the TARDIS I want to see.

Heheh. That would be great too.

 

[The Wormhole]

So even though season 9 is not a split season, the first half is still getting a separate DVD/Blu-ray release early November. Weird. Weirder then Deep Breath getting a solo release last year.

 

[ATimson]

So even though season 9 is not a split season, the first half is still getting a separate DVD/Blu-ray release early November. Weird. Weirder then Deep Breath getting a solo release last year.

If I were a cynic, I might suggest that Moffat and company are running late on finishing the episodes, so that even if BBC Worldwide wanted to release a full season it's simply not possible.

 

[StCoop]

So even though season 9 is not a split season, the first half is still getting a separate DVD/Blu-ray release early November. Weird. Weirder then Deep Breath getting a solo release last year.

Sensible Answer: Half the money from people buying it as Christmas presents is better than none.

Crazy Answer: Christmas is secretly Capaldi's last episode and so they want to include it on the full boxset unlike the last few years when they left it off.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

That is insane. Why would they do that?

 

[StCoop]

That is insane. Why would they do that?

Partway between Sensible and Crazy answer: They're going to split the series, with the Christmas Special being Episode 6a, but aren't going to announce it until the last minute.

 

[Starkers]

I'd lean towards the original sensible answer myself!

 

[Samurai8472]

Today is a special screening of the premiere. Spoilers are bound to leak

 

[ATimson]

That is insane. Why would they do that?

Partway between Sensible and Crazy answer: They're going to split the series, with the Christmas Special being Episode 6a, but aren't going to announce it until the last minute.

Has it even been announced that there will be a Christmas special this year?

 

[StCoop]

Has it even been announced that there will be a Christmas special this year?

Confirmed in the most recent DWM. I'd bank on their being no location shooting anywhere public to hide who is or isn't in it.

 

[StCoop]

People are mostly keeping quiet but some Spoilers (or more accurately confirmations) from tonight's screening of Episode 1.

Spoiler: 09.01

As guessed by the casting The Shadow Proclamation and Sisterhood of Karn return. Dorium's Bar also appears but no Dorium.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I really don't get why Moffat (and even RTD) felt it necessary to even give this notion the time of day.

The Doctor meets a whole lot of people, he remembers what a whole lot of them look like and when he regenerates the process sometimes uses those remembrances as a template. Job done!

I'm currently reading the "Time Trips" short story anthology. In one of the stories, the 10th Doctor meets a woman that looks exactly like Christina de Souza (from "Planet of the Dead") and even has the same name. (I haven't finished it yet.) As the Doctor ruminates on this, he notes that this sort of thing happens all the time. "It was a consequence of spending hundreds of years drifting through time: faces got a bit recurrent. There'd been a flautist in Basingstoke who was the spitting image of Ivan the Terrible."

 

[StCoop]

So Jenna is on holiday in France today while the read-through for the Xmas Special was happening and has a US Convention and stint on the Raindance judging panel coming up in September when it will be shooting.

I'd ask for suggestions for the Series 10 Companion but depending on how long away that is they could still be in school at the moment.

 

[RoJoHen]

What if she died? What if, after all this time, it turns out she was a Splinter Clara all along, and once again the Doctor fails to save her.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

What if she died? What if, after all this time, it turns out she was a Splinter Clara all along, and once again the Doctor fails to save her.

I have to admit, I've toyed with the idea, given the way "Last Christmas" ends, that the Clara the Doctor takes away with him is not the "original" Clara but rather one of the splinters.

The thing is, as interesting as that idea is, I just can't see Moffat doing anything like that.

 

[RoJoHen]

What if she died? What if, after all this time, it turns out she was a Splinter Clara all along, and once again the Doctor fails to save her.

I have to admit, I've toyed with the idea, given the way "Last Christmas" ends, that the Clara the Doctor takes away with him is not the "original" Clara but rather one of the splinters.

The thing is, as interesting as that idea is, I just can't see Moffat doing anything like that.

Really? Because that's EXACTLY the kind of thing I could see Moffat doing.

Truthfully, I'm still shocked that "The Girl in the Shop" didn't turn out to be Sally Sparrow. Moffat loves to tie all of his little ideas together.

 

[Samurai8472]

I could see it like this

The doctor's lost Clara. He's distressed.

Some time near the end of the episode a woman runs past him.

It's a splinter Clara working at a restaurant. She's off the save the 13th doctor!

The doctor smiles and says a few final words.

The Doctor- You run. My impossible girl.

 

[kirk55555]

Why would a splinter Clara be going to save the 13th Doctor? I thought that she just splintered to save The Doctors who existed in the 11th Doctor's timeline, so that would be the incarnations before the 11th (and obviously the 11th Doctor himself). I don't think she splintered to include the Doctors after 11.

 

[RoJoHen]

The "grave" on Trenzalore was the Doctor's entire timeline, from birth to death. Though history was changed and he didn't actually die on Trenzalore (so far, anyway), Clara still splintered all throughout his timeline.

Anything's possible, really. For all we know the Doctor will still eventually return to Trenzalore at some point in his life, and that's where he will die. He spent, what, 900 years there? Maybe he will eventually decide that that's where he wants to be buried.