I've read somewhere the finished the first block? Overall it seems they've got leaks fairly contained so far. Hope they manage it throughout after Christmas break
Regeneration is a bitch. I don't wanna let go of the old Doc and at the same time I can't wait to see the new one.
I think I'm having the opposite reaction, where I'm not liking S9 quite as much as I did when it first aired but am loving Series 8 a lot more. Not that I hadn't like many of those episodes before, but there's a lot of strong Doctor/Clara stuff that is deeper and more resonant than I remember it being. I also have a new appreciation for how acidic Capaldi's Doctor was in that first year, which was a slight turnoff at the time but now something I appreciate a lot more in the bigger context of how Twelve changes over the course of his run.
Is it mandatory that he does? I mean, are the Big Finish stories considered canon?
Obviously not, though some of 8's companions became canon thanks to Moffat. I guess the implication is that Chibnall isn't especially hardcore about Who? Cause much of the hardcore listen to Big Finish, I'd imagine.
Canon and Doctor Who... It's a murky subject. Generally speaking only the TV show's stories are 100% canon. But even then there's room to rewrite all sorts of things.
The way I see it, Thirteen is a soft reboot for Doctor Who. There will obviously be some lore that remains, but I imagine Chibnall has a clean slate as it were to make the show his own. With the new Doctor being female, we are entering a brand new, unknown generation.
I must've rewound that "The Doctor is no longer here!" line 10 or 15 times the first time I was watching the episode.
Yup. There's also the fact that he's not doing it on his own. The other writers, the script editors, producers, etc, will cover any possible blind-spots in his knowledge of the Who "extended universe."
People who were at the filming where we got those pictures of her in Capaldi's costume say she's keeping her accent.
Pearl Mackie isn't carrying over, so I doubt Bill will be there. Like Ten, the Doctor will probably regenerate alone.
I know Bill isn't going to be in the next season, but she will have to say goodbye (again!) to the Doctor at some point in this episode.
I go back and forth on how much I expect and how much I want from a Clara appearance in this... For the most part I expect something like the Amy visions with 11. Something about her memory fully recovered in his brain.
Sort of spinning off from this, chances we see Capaldi (and possibly first Doctor) helping out in Day of the Doctor from their perspectives? Not that I think it's imperative, but I feel like it's a Moffat thing to do.
