infiniteloop
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about 12am GMT? just over 5 hours.
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Doctor Who Series 9 |OT| Let Zygons Be Zygons
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I don't see why not. Amy/Rory left mid-season.
Mid-season? Looking at the air dates, there is roughly a new episode each week till the 12th episode on Dec 5th. Would there even be a concept of a mid-season if all the episodes are aired back to back like that? (as opposed to a big 2 or 3 month break around Christmas like they did in some previous seasons.)
Yes, but that was when there was a 3 month gap between that episode and the next episode.
Yeah but we knew that beforehand didn't we?
infiniteloop
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But who's to say this season will follow the others? It hasn't so far. It opened with a two-parter, the next episode is a two-parter, there are more two-parters to come, Missy is a prominent role. Moffat can do as he pleases.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
They're all two-parters.
paradox121
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I'm going for Christmas casting / special guest star for later in the series.
New companion would be nice but feels a bit too early. Although saying that this is clearly meant to be Friday news to drum up interest come Sat's ep so...who knows.
New companion would be nice but feels a bit too early. Although saying that this is clearly meant to be Friday news to drum up interest come Sat's ep so...who knows.
New companion being cast is a big possibility. It won't be about the next series being a set of specials, unless they'll make one of them something special like a McGann-special or a Missy-special like we've been discussing (but that's not happening).
Could be anything really, even a videogame or something. Matt Smith got a couple of them (a terrible one on Wii, a very mediocre one on DS, the free PC adventure games that were decent enough considering they were free, Eternity Clock which was fun enough for fans, and a handful of iOS games that I never bothered to check out. Capaldi hasn't gotten anything apart from Lego Dimensions so far).
I doubt it'll be anything really huge, apart from the chance of it being the new companion.
Hoping for some more refound episodes though, but that feels like wishing for world peace.
I'm fully expecting Clara to just leave in the last episode of the season, and the companion being introduced at christmas or even after that. I don't think she'll leave at the half-way point or anything.
Could be anything really, even a videogame or something. Matt Smith got a couple of them (a terrible one on Wii, a very mediocre one on DS, the free PC adventure games that were decent enough considering they were free, Eternity Clock which was fun enough for fans, and a handful of iOS games that I never bothered to check out. Capaldi hasn't gotten anything apart from Lego Dimensions so far).
I doubt it'll be anything really huge, apart from the chance of it being the new companion.
Hoping for some more refound episodes though, but that feels like wishing for world peace.
I'm fully expecting Clara to just leave in the last episode of the season, and the companion being introduced at christmas or even after that. I don't think she'll leave at the half-way point or anything.
BrokenFiction
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/649643368482537472
Bigger news than any body is guessing so far...
Bigger news than any body is guessing so far...
Bobby Roberts
Banned
... movie?
I'm starting to believe the "going out on a limb"-guess in my post above.
Another Eighth Doctor movie, let's do this.
JonathanEx
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C) Spinoff series, that is definitely not to fill a 2016 gap honest we're not talking about that
D) Movie please god no
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@bbcdoctorwho this is making me nervous now
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@tardisfangirl28 Please don't be nervous. It's good. Really good.
D) Movie please god no
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Rosie✖️ ‏@tardisfangirl28
@bbcdoctorwho this is making me nervous now
Doctor Who Official ‏@bbcdoctorwho
@tardisfangirl28 Please don't be nervous. It's good. Really good.
infiniteloop
Member
yeah, could be.
BrokenFiction
Member
Anything with the Eighth Doctor and I'll fucking flip out.
Daria Morgendorffer
Member
2 new companions obviously, or 1 big companion
Doctor Who production reveals have been pretty wide open lately - Missy's return, Maisie Williams guest-starring, casting spoiler (already announced, but spoiler tag I guess):
, Jenna's departure (though, companion departures haven't really been too secretive), and probably more.
It could easily be a new companion or a new slate of toys.
Osgood's return
It could easily be a new companion or a new slate of toys.
No...
It's not...
It can't be...
But..
My God.
Alpha Centauri christmas special.
Edit: In case anyone is wondering, considering they specified 'hours, not days' until the announcement, and assuming they won't announce anyone in the middle of the night for people in the UK (even though it is BBC America), there are 5 more hours left until midnight.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I'm with you, but I don't know that the BBC would say anything Eight related would be "bigger news than what you're guessing" when most people are guessing "new companion"
infiniteloop
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Movie starring:
Capaldi + Coleman
Smith, Gillan + Darvill
Tennant + Tate
Eccleston + Piper + Clarke
Capaldi + Coleman
Smith, Gillan + Darvill
Tennant + Tate
Eccleston + Piper + Clarke
Sorry Martha
Same here.
BrokenFiction
Member
Let me live with my delusions.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
We are sharing delusions, though!
Exterminieren
Banned
With their hyping it up, I'm betting on a big-budget movie for next year, quietly taking away from the limited amount of episodes we're getting.
Might be an update like the one we got when Moffat was announced- here's what we're doing for the next few years, and here's who's doing it.
EDIT: Wait. Shit. That announcement happened a few days before Silence in the Library, to build up hype for what the new guy's doing. If it is a new showrunner announcement, odds are it's Whithouse, given his episode this weekend.
Might be an update like the one we got when Moffat was announced- here's what we're doing for the next few years, and here's who's doing it.
EDIT: Wait. Shit. That announcement happened a few days before Silence in the Library, to build up hype for what the new guy's doing. If it is a new showrunner announcement, odds are it's Whithouse, given his episode this weekend.
JonathanEx
Member
OH
Maybe the Big Finish news! That's not official yet.
Nah, too small, too commercial for this.
Maybe the Big Finish news! That's not official yet.
Nah, too small, too commercial for this.
BrokenFiction
Member
The NEW Five Doctors, starring 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
I think I just gave myself a heart attack.
8 and 9 argue with 10 and 11 and 12 is just sitting there taking a nap
paradox121
Member
Yeah I was thinking that but then I imagine the BBC promoting Big Finish stuff is iffy. I don't follow them so I don't know if they made a big deal out of the River/Torchwood reveals previously.
Don't fucking do this to me Beeb twitter handler.
SigmasonicX
Member
My guess: a British pop singer is going to guest star in the Christmas special.
Exterminieren
Banned
Going out now, so I'll nail my colours to the mast.
It'll either be...
a) Whithouse as show runner starting 2017
or
b) Peter Jackson directing a big budget Who movie.
It'll either be...
a) Whithouse as show runner starting 2017
or
b) Peter Jackson directing a big budget Who movie.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Damnit, now all real possibilities will be lame in comparison.
Wait.
HUGE
MASSIVE
much bigger news
This describes only one man in Britain.
Brian Blessed was able to do the show after all!
Edit:
That second one sounds pretty likely actually. We know that Peter Jackson has been talking about wanting to direct an episode for a while (for free, in return for a Dalek), and we know that the BBC has been antsy to get a movie off the ground. I don't know if Peter Jackson would actually do the movie because that's a much bigger time investment, but him doing the christmas special or something could work.
HUGE
MASSIVE
much bigger news
This describes only one man in Britain.
Brian Blessed was able to do the show after all!
Edit:
That second one sounds pretty likely actually. We know that Peter Jackson has been talking about wanting to direct an episode for a while (for free, in return for a Dalek), and we know that the BBC has been antsy to get a movie off the ground. I don't know if Peter Jackson would actually do the movie because that's a much bigger time investment, but him doing the christmas special or something could work.
12 is sitting in a corner looking at a watch while 8, 9, 10, and 11 are pointing their sonic screwdrivers at each other.
"Are you all finished assembling tables?"
On that note. I wonder if our current Doctor has even gone to help seal or not.
"Please don't be nervous. It's good. Really good."
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/649644213265690624
This is a movie, isn't it?
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/649644213265690624
This is a movie, isn't it?
Oh god. I'm staying up.
The Elite
BOSS
It doesn't sound like a no 2016 series as some are expecting. Unless they sugarcoat it with a bigger announcement.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I can't imagine it's announcing Moffat's replacement. It's massive news, yeah, but that also suggests they recognize that a large majority of people would be welcoming of that news, and I don't think they'd want to do that. Plus it'd seem like they were kneecapping the rest of this season if, after the close of the first two parter, they make an announcement that the guy running this season (and the next) is gone soon.