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James R posted:I am likely entirely wrong.. but I have this nagging sneaky suspicion in the back of my head that Tennant could be making a return. You notice how there is literally nothing on that possibility being banded about? It's not beyond the realms of possibility. This was one of my two wildcard guesses. The other was Ant and Dec. Both of them.
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Pyradox posted:Ideally there'd be no more benefit to having a female Doctor than a male Doctor, because there's no reason the character has to be exclusively male when they keep saying that he could be anything at all. But the reason I want one and think any diversity at all to the role would be a great benefit is to do with the show's message: Yeah, this. There's a brilliant post from the other thread about how it's weird that a character that is pretty much defined by being mercurial to the extreme and overstepping every tedious normative value hasn't been a woman yet. All of the qualities listed above are not exclusively 'masculine', they're just the best qualities human beings can strive for, regardless of gender, sexuality or race. I do understand the argument that the Doctor is one of the few male role models in popular culture who wins the day by being clever, kind and non-violent, but I don't think male children are so dumb as to not see the value in those things coming from a female character. EDIT - well, that tweet confirms it's not a lady, anyway....
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Apparently Sky Bet have reopened their betting (or so a suggested post on Facebook tells me), is this significant? Have they found out that Peter Capaldi isn't a dead cert?
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UnquietDream posted:Apparently Sky Bet have reopened their betting (or so a suggested post on Facebook tells me), is this significant? Have they found out that Peter Capaldi isn't a dead cert? That's probably why they have reopened it, yeah, but I don't think it's that significant - it's all just guess work on their parts, and seeing the surge in attention Rigby has been getting probably made them do so.
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PriorMarcus posted:That's probably why they have reopened it, yeah, but I don't think it's that significant - it's all just guess work on their parts, and seeing the surge in attention Rigby has been getting probably made them do so. Bizarre one is that the only one who seems to have shortening odds other than Rigby, is Idris Elba. No chance in hell that its Idris given how busy he is, just imagine its a lot of people wishing it was.
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Aug 4, 2013 15:10
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chazburgr posted:What if it's Billie Piper? How much hosed would that be? No, the clue is right there! Obviously an Ace Doctor means they've cast Sophie Aldred as 12. Seven's plans for her are finally coming to fruition. Quite a long game indeed.
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Aug 4, 2013 16:03
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I would unironically love to have her as the Doctor.
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Sieje posted:No, the clue is right there! Obviously an Ace Doctor means they've cast Sophie Aldred as 12. Seven's plans for her are finally coming to fruition. Quite a long game indeed. I read ace Doctor and had Rick Mayall in my head. Then Chris Barrie.
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Just an idea, but it seems like we might as well contain all this discussion to the main thread as none of it is a spoiler - and between the two right now there is a healthy amount of activity to sustain discussion. Here's the link: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552972&pagenumber=53#lastpost
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Sieje posted:No, the clue is right there! Obviously an Ace Doctor means they've cast Sophie Aldred as 12. Seven's plans for her are finally coming to fruition. Quite a long game indeed.  Knew it.
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Aug 4, 2013 17:29
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I went to the official site and it will be annouced at 2pm eastern time who the new doctor will be. https://www.doctorwho.tv
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Aug 4, 2013 17:39
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I don't think I've ever been this excited for an announcement.
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Cloyster posted:I don't think I've ever been this excited for an announcement. Which obviously means it will be an anti-climax like all New Year's rolled into one big ball.
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James R posted:I read ace Doctor and had Rick Mayall in my head. Then Chris Barrie. Rik Mayall would be brilliant. I hope it's Shatner if it's a man. Pork Pie Hat fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Aug 4, 2013 18:46
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Take all the Capaldi-talk to the main thread.
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Aug 4, 2013 19:37
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Ace... Ace.. Oh. RIMMER? eh, smeg off.
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Guess I'll put this in the spoiler thread since we know more about Hurt's Doctor. Read an interesting theory on Capaldi's Doctor on Gallifreybase, wherein we might get a Watcher situation with Hurt's Doctor. Something like 11 finally accepts Hurt's character as worthy of the name Doctor and reincorporates him, resulting in 12. While the actor age thing between regenerations doesn't actually matter, the theory did strike a note with me. A younger Doctor with an older Doctor making a middle aged Doctor. That could also possibly somehow account for Hurt as a regeneration without messing up the number scheme. The one thing working against that is I don't think Hurt is in the Christmas special, and I would think that type of situation would only happen if we can somehow address Hurt being accepted by the Doctor, and that would seem like something kept in the 50th special.
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Aug 4, 2013 22:44
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I wonder if that leaked script MTV had was legit, but a joke.
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The three Doctors in the TARDIS. Apparently a teaser trailer was shown at the recent Edinburgh TV festival, and a fan took a snapshot (seems Moffat wasn't there to persuade them to do otherwise).
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Forktoss posted:The three Doctors in the TARDIS. On the far right it almost looks like a ghost 10 next to Hurt. Possibly Hand10?
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Possible seasons 8 spoiler: I've seen some rumours that []Hurt is part of season 8 (i.e. this and a deleted Hurt tweet}[/]. No idea how that would work in terms of story and I don't really want to know yet, but the possibility of having []two acting heavyweights like Capaldi and Hurt act alongside each other[/spoiler] in some episodes excites me tremendously. Don't use spoiler tags in the spoiler thread. - Aatrek Somebody fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Forktoss posted:The three Doctors in the TARDIS. That's pretty awesome and I really, really can't wait to see it.
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Illuen posted:On the far right it almost looks like a ghost 10 next to Hurt. Possibly Hand10? Nah, he just snapped the photo and caught the fade from the last image, you can see some other half faded artifacts on screen too.
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Aug 26, 2013 13:45
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Illuen posted:On the far right it almost looks like a ghost 10 next to Hurt. Possibly Hand10? If I wish hard enough it actually looks like Omega.
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Umbra Dubium posted:If I wish hard enough it actually looks like Omega. They should totally ask Peter Davison to play him.
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Aug 26, 2013 14:03
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Umbra Dubium posted:If I wish hard enough it actually looks like Omega. If Omega wishes hard enough it is Omega.
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Metal Loaf posted:They should totally ask Peter Davison to play him. That's been the rumor for a few months now. May not hold any water, but it's out there.
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Shabaz posted:Possible seasons 8 spoiler: I've seen some rumours that []Hurt is part of season 8 (i.e. this and a deleted Hurt tweet}[/]. No idea how that would work in terms of story and I don't really want to know yet, but the possibility of having []two acting heavyweights like Capaldi and Hurt act alongside each other[/spoiler] in some episodes excites me tremendously. Don't think it's gonna happen and hope its not because I want to see Capaldi as the Doctor, but would be a great piece of misdirection if Capaldi was just a decoy who played along because he's such a big fan of the show.
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Senor Tron posted:Don't think it's gonna happen and hope its not because I want to see Capaldi as the Doctor, but would be a great piece of misdirection if Capaldi was just a decoy who played along because he's such a big fan of the show. If they did some kind of fakeout that somehow led to Doctor Hurt being the real 12th Doctor and Capaldi being a one off after that huge introduction show it would be amazing. You have to admit, it's the most outrageous thing they could possibly do. They'd be fooling the world. A massive stunt for the 50th. Maybe say Hurt could be the "Real 9" who was de-Doctored and Capaldi is indeed the 12th Doctor/13th Body. He is born and dies in the Christmas Special. Moffat does the MacGuffin story of giving the Doctor a new regeneration cycle in that same episode, and he can choose his next body and he chooses to give Doctor Hurt another chance. Bam, 4 years of John Hurt as The Doctor. The one problem I could see is whether or not they need a long lead in time to write the next season. If they are already writing them before December then too many people might have to know who the Doctor is. But if they aren't airing til the fall of 2014, they might be able to wait til January to commission scripts. That's also a lot of story to tell in one hour. Personally I'd rather see a Capaldi Doctor for a few years, but a Hurt one would by no means be a bad thing, and the sheer ballsiness of doing that stunt would be worth it. Kinda like my brief hope that RTD was going to really surprise regenerate 10 (but then he Handwaved it--literally).
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Senor Tron posted:Don't think it's gonna happen and hope its not because I want to see Capaldi as the Doctor, but would be a great piece of misdirection if Capaldi was just a decoy who played along because he's such a big fan of the show. And sorry about the spoiler tags, wasn't thinking.
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Well, the Beeb were able to get him for Merlin on a recurring basis, so I suspect there's every possibility they could do the same for Who.
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I don't know, doing a full series of Doctor Who is a pretty punishing schedule of running down corridors for a 73 year old.
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marktheando posted:I don't know, doing a full series of Doctor Who is a pretty punishing schedule of running down corridors for a 73 year old. They could always employ the ghost of Ian Marter to handle the physical stuff for him 
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It would be nice to have Hurt pop in every few episodes, not just because of how awesome Hurt is as an actor, but just because there would be an absurdly awesome novelty of having the Doctor himself as a part time companion beyond just The X Doctor specials. Pending that if Hurt shows up in S8, it's actually him and not some agonized portion of the Doctor's psyche or a haunting memory or something. In small amounts, so as to not wear the premise thin, a couple of Doctors tooling around the universe, bickering at everything would be glorious in a regular series.
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Metal Loaf posted:Well, the Beeb were able to get him for Merlin on a recurring basis, so I suspect there's every possibility they could do the same for Who. His Merlin work was like a day of V/O work in a studio sound room. It wasn't filming. Not that he couldn't do filming, it's just Merlin isn't really a good example.
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Yeah, a poor choice in retrospect. It was the first one that occurred to me and now I can't think of a better example.
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Metal Loaf posted:Yeah, a poor choice in retrospect. It was the first one that occurred to me and now I can't think of a better example. He can't be in anything more than a recurring character because he's signed up to play a major role in The Strain which goes to Pilot this year.
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Astroman posted:If they did some kind of fakeout that somehow led to Doctor Hurt being the real 12th Doctor and Capaldi being a one off after that huge introduction show it would be amazing. You have to admit, it's the most outrageous thing they could possibly do. They'd be fooling the world. A massive stunt for the 50th. It's never going to happen (for reasons which have already been elaborated on), but if they were insane enough to do it, I feel pretty confident in saying this would go over about as well as Microsoft's recent 180° turns regarding various policies on the Xbox One. Which is to say, about as well as a fart in church. The fans that wanted Capaldi would feel ripped off. The fans that didn't want Capaldi wouldn't be placated by having John Hurt instead. Everyone would be made out to be a bunch of suckers, for taking it in good faith that the guy announced in a big BBC press release show as the next Doctor is in fact the next Doctor. It'd be the Great Doctor Who Swindle, with Moffat as Malcolm McLaren.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:It'd be the Great Doctor Who Swindle, with Moffat as Malcolm McLaren. He's already done this to us once already as well, when we all believed he'd be a good show runner. 
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PriorMarcus posted:He's already done this to us once already as well, when we all believed he'd be a good show runner. At the end of the 50th anniversary special, David Tennant is going to turn to the camera and sneer "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated" at the audience before storming off.
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