Pet theory (which isn't my own actually, but I adopted it): The Curator, nearing the end of his life, took Sarah Jane, nearing the end of her life, on a final tour. In his TARDIS. Forever and ever.
Steven Moffat is on twitter (temporarily)
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One for the diaries. Sophia Myles and Steven Moffat will be tweeting along to The Girl In The Fireplace on May 6th:
https://twitter.com/SophiaMyles/status/1252669071289696258
But there are two more before then.
https://twitter.com/SophiaMyles/status/1252669071289696258
But there are two more before then.
Not quite twitter related but I’m not sure it needs a new thread of its own. Ten of the actors to play the Doctor will give a special message tonight during BBC’s “Big Night.”
http://m.doctorwhonews.net/2020/04/doctors-unite-for-big-night-in.html
http://m.doctorwhonews.net/2020/04/doctors-unite-for-big-night-in.html
Sounds fantastic!
Not sure if it’s on YouTube yet, so I can’t embed it but here’s a link to the video https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1253409022641831937?s=21
Beautiful. I love that so much.
"Inspirrrational".
Interestingly, Davison, Colin and Tom really steal the scene there (YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN). Davison actually welled me up. Now thats acting.
Next watchalong is Dalek on Thursday 30th April at 7m UK time. It is 15th anniversary of it:
https://twitter.com/Emily_Rosina/status/1253776712900493314
Not sure there has been a better Dalek story in the last fifteen years.
https://twitter.com/Emily_Rosina/status/1253776712900493314
Not sure there has been a better Dalek story in the last fifteen years.
It’d be great if Eccleston could be persuaded to take part but I’m not holding my breath (I give you air from my lungs etc)
Along with today's tweetalong (I forgot to partake), Paul Cornell wrote a short sequel to "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood," narrated by Lisa Boweman as Benny.
Ginger Doctor!
Honestly, I rewatched it awhile back and it didn't hold up that well for me. I think I prefer Asylum of the Daleks but I admit it's not perfect.
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A second one! This time narrated by Lauren Wilson, who played Lucy Cartwright in the two episodes. Definitely should be listened to after "A Shadow of a Doubt."
I don't think he's on any social media. He wasn't even in the special "Thank You" to all the real doctors
He's on instagram and often voices his support there.
Yeah, I was wondering about that. He's mentioned in both the "Shadow" stories and I wasn't sure which one it was meant to refer to.
Considering the stories are by Paul Cornell, he could have been thinking of the future incarnation who left the Merlin plans in “Battlefield,” who was established in the Target novelization of that story to have red hair and who also appears in Cornell’s seventh Doctor novel Happy Endings, and may be the red-haired future Doctor in a number of Big Finish short stories by Peter Anghelides. Or it could just be a callback to the joke about the Doctor wanting to be ginger.
No, I think you were right the first time (and the Tardis Wiki agrees). After all, the reference isn't just to a red-haired Doctor, but to one who "thought he was the last," which comes up in both stories. At first I thought it was some weird reference to Matt Smith's Doctor, even though he wasn't ginger. Then I was wondering if it was established that the "Merlin" Doctor was the last one, but it doesn't seem to have been. So it's still kind of odd.
The bit about his being the last is probably because of the reddish-haired Doctor featured in “The Last Regeneration,” a 1998 pitch for a comic story about the Doctor’s (well) last regeneration. That story never went further than a two-page sample as part of a proposal for a BBC science-fiction magazine. It doesn’t seem like the writer and artist had the Merlin incarnation in mind, which is why “The Last Regeneration” isn’t listed as an appearance of Merlin on the Tardis wiki, though there is a note about it at the bottom of the page. Cornell might be consciously conflating the two— as the wiki page says, his use of the Merlin Doctor in Happy Endings also identifies him with a future Doctor from a different New Adventure, which was not that author’s intention.
Big Finish will be doing a live tweeting of The Chimes of Midnight on May 1 at 7 pm (UK time) with India Fisher and Rob Shearman, using #PlumPudding. The audio itself will be available for free on Soundcloud during that time.
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