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Doctor Who Series Seven |OT| The Question You've Been Running From All Your Life

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DoctorWho said:
Yeah, that did bug me.
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Eh. They had casts for the actor; it would have been very wasteful to cast someone new for what was just a thirty-second cameo. I'm OK with that; I'd rather have a reused actor than no Silurians in this at all.

It's the same reason why Neve McIntosh plays Vastra as well as her characters from The Hungry Earth.
 
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infiniteloop said:
Stephen Thompson (The Curse of the Black Spot, Sherlock : The Blind Banker, The Reichenbach Fall) has been rumored.
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Smart talk has Thompson writing a
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS episode.

Gareth Roberts, Tom MacRae and Jack Lothian have all been listed to write episodes on their agents' websites, so one of those might fill in the gap if Gaiman's doesn't make it.

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It's amazing how much better that one credit makes his resume look compared to his other two.
 
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ScreenSplitter said:
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But Curse of the Black Spot. One of the worst of NuWho.


Exterminieren said:
Smart talk has Thompson writing a
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS episode.

Gareth Roberts, Tom MacRae and Jack Lothian have all been listed to write episodes on their agents' websites, so one of those might fill in the gap if Gaiman's doesn't make it.
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When I went to the Asylum of the Daleks premiere, Matt Smith hinted at that very episode but then realized he wasn't allowed to talk about it. Not sure if he mentioned the writer. Smith sounded very, very excited about it.
 
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DoctorWho said:
But Curse of the Black Spot. One of the worst of NuWho.
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It suffered the fate of a lot of Series 5; it was utterly hacked to bits in the edit. Like, character disappearing hacked to bits.

ScreenSplitter said:
Hey! The Blind Banker was good man.
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It was OK, but not to the standard of any other Sherlock that isn't The Hounds of Baskerville.

It wasn't helped by an unsatisfying lack of continuity with the first episode and liberal passing of the Idiot Ball.
 
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DoctorWho said:
When I went to the Asylum of the Daleks premiere, Matt Smith hinted at that very episode but then realized he wasn't allowed to talk about it. Not sure if he mentioned the writer. Smith sounded very, very excited about it.
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So am I! I've wanted that for years. The Doctor's Wife sorta did it, but not really.
I want to see the swimming pool.
 
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DoctorWho said:
Don't think I've seen anything Neil Cross has done. Is Gaiman doing the next block as well?
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As of the weekend before last, he was on the third draft of his script.



Exterminieren said:
Smart talk has Thompson writing a
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS episode.
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I would really love it if
there was a community at least several generations old full of descendants of people and creatures who snuck into the TARDIS from time to time. I mean, it has been on the lam for six or seven hundred years by now, right? So get ready for the Doctor to get stuck in a holy war between his worshippers and those who see him as a demon! :D


edit: It is only today that I have learned that "on the lamb" isn't a phrase.


edit 2: Also, the episode will probably be pretty bad.
 
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GameplayWhore said:
As of the weekend before last, he was on the third draft of his script.





I would really love it if
there was a community at least several generations old full of descendants of people and creatures who snuck into the TARDIS from time to time. I mean, it has been on the lam for six or seven hundred years by now, right? So get ready for the Doctor to get stuck in a holy war between his worshippers and those who see him as a demon! :D


edit: It is only today that I have learned that "on the lamb" isn't a phrase.


edit 2: Also, the episode will probably be pretty bad.
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Thaaaat would actually be pretty cool.
 
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GameplayWhore said:
As of the weekend before last, he was on the third draft of his script.

I would really love it if
there was a community at least several generations old full of descendants of people and creatures who snuck into the TARDIS from time to time. I mean, it has been on the lam for six or seven hundred years by now, right? So get ready for the Doctor to get stuck in a holy war between his worshippers and those who see him as a demon! :D


edit: It is only today that I have learned that "on the lamb" isn't a phrase.


edit 2: Also, the episode will probably be pretty bad.
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Sounds a bit like the descendents of Lister's cat in Red Dwarf, evolving after 3 million years on the same ship. Not sure how it mated to get to the Cat though.
 
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GameplayWhore's idea is really really good. Though I think the Doctor reformatting the TARDIS would wreak havoc on any and all stowaways. :lol
 
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Re: Jim the Fish

It's already happened, and we're not likely to see it. At the beginning of Impossible Astronaut the Doctor and River went through all their common experiences, Jim the Fish among them. Beyond "the Doctor lies", we have no reason to doubt that there was about 200 years of travel between "The God Complex" and "Closing Time". Based on the journal comparisons, all signs point to this being when the Doctor and River had most of their adventures together. I'd say we're probably very close to the end of her story; 200 years (off and on) with the Doctor is pretty good for anyone.
 
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We know from The Doctor's Wife that any living organism in a room that's deleted is automatically returned to the Console Room.

There's a story in that, I feel.
 
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Exterminieren said:
We know from The Doctor's Wife that any living organism in a room that's deleted is automatically returned to the Console Room.

There's a story in that, I feel.
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That's true.

Maybe Sexy is keeping them under wraps though and blah blah other dimension until the Doctor left the TARDIS blah.
 
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DoctorWho said:
So

Two Moffat
Two Gatiss
Two Cross
One Gaiman (potential)

The leaves one other writer for the second half.
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If this happens (Plus this apparent 'Center of the TARDIS') episode, it will be the best block of Who ever. Not even the back end of Season 3 (42, Human Nature/Family of Blood, Blink, Utopia & Sound of Drums) or the back end of Season 4 (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Midnight, Turn Left & Stolen Earth) could compare. Hell, the end of Season 5 was great as well (Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang).
 
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So I'm watching law and Order SVU and Alex Kingston shows up as a lawyer named Miranda Pond...

Knew she was on the show, but forgot her name was Pond in it.
 
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Finally finished up the Tennant run. The wife started watching near the end of S3 and got hooked so I started S5 up for her to introduce the new Doctor. That part where Smith walks through the hologram of 10 at the end was a lot sadder this time. :'(
 
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ag-my001 said:
Re: Jim the Fish

It's already happened, and we're not likely to see it. At the beginning of Impossible Astronaut the Doctor and River went through all their common experiences, Jim the Fish among them. Beyond "the Doctor lies", we have no reason to doubt that there was about 200 years of travel between "The God Complex" and "Closing Time". Based on the journal comparisons, all signs point to this being when the Doctor and River had most of their adventures together. I'd say we're probably very close to the end of her story; 200 years (off and on) with the Doctor is pretty good for anyone.
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Its probably accurate in the sense that the writers say this happened, but that 200 year gap is weird from a viewers perspective, especially because he didn't die and because otherwise the show seems to progress in real time (i.e 10 was only alive for three-ish or so years, maybe closer to four or five based on some events). Its just another problem with the botched attempt at having some weird emotional weight last season.
 
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Green Scar said:
*shrug* It was clearly one that was skewing a little younger, but I thought it worked really well. Could have been creepier, but I found it fun.
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Shifting it into the second half of the series was a definite double-edged sword for the episode, though. As it stands, the theme of a lonely child craving his parents makes a mockery of the fact Amy and Rory just lost their child, but had they kept it where it was, we have a transformed, pregnant Amy.

Probably the worst example of series 6's arc plot infringing on an individual episode; it actively made it worse.
 
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Exterminieren said:
Shifting it into the second half of the series was a definite double-edged sword for the episode, though. As it stands, the theme of a lonely child craving his parents makes a mockery of the fact Amy and Rory just lost their child, but had they kept it where it was, we have a transformed, pregnant Amy.

Probably the worst example of series 6's arc plot infringing on an individual episode; it actively made it worse.
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I maintain that season 6's problem is that it didn't go nearly far enough. It half-tried for more serious, emotional storylines, but then its like they flinched and only halfheartedly tried to give anything consequences and it lends the whole series this weird unreal feeling where big stuff happens and no-one seems to care.
 
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The whole deal with Amy and Rory "losing" their child was brushed under the carpet by way of a) they know she becomes River, and b) they spend enough time away from the Doctor to get over it, seemingly (well, they seem less pissed off with him by time they call him via crop circles). So I don't think Night Terrors suffered for its placement as described.

Besides, as a more traditional Who story, it was very welcome following Flesh/Good Man/Hitler.
 
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The Technomancer said:
Its probably accurate in the sense that the writers say this happened, but that 200 year gap is weird from a viewers perspective, especially because he didn't die and because otherwise the show seems to progress in real time (i.e 10 was only alive for three-ish or so years, maybe closer to four or five based on some events). Its just another problem with the botched attempt at having some weird emotional weight last season.
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Why do you think 10 was only alive for three to five years?
 
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maharg said:
Why do you think 10 was only alive for three to five years?
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Hm, I was going to ask if they ever implied that he spent a lot of time unshown between companions, but it occurred to me that the very end where he goes off and does his own thing could be a point where they could later say "yeah that was decades or centuries". Although I thought part of the point of the Waters of Mars and Planet of the Dead was him realizing how much he needs a companion and that arc seemed like the kind of thing that would happen relatively quickly.

*shrug* I dunno

EDIT: Wait, doesn't 10 give his age at some point? I need to look this up now. I could have sworn he said he was 900 years old or thereabouts once.
 
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maharg

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He's given contradictory age info a few times since the 7th doctor, it doesn't mean much at this point.

We don't really know how long he actually spent with each companion, how long he spent between them, how long he spent between the events of the specials at the end, etc.
 
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Mariolee

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One thing I've always wondered is why does the Doctor age physically as the first Doctor did as well as the tenth one did when he was "lasered" by the Master, but the eleventh Doctor doesn't age at all? Even with more than 200 years under his belt.
 
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I think he ages, just at a much, much slower rate than human analogs would.

People have already commented that Smith looks much older now than he did just two years ago, and that it's an intentional move to signify how much older and wearier he has grown since his run's began.
 
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