Whovians!!!
- Thread starter melonpecan
- Start date
Yep, he's in the pilot. And when he walked out he took the show's appeal with him.
I liked it it felt like a classic comic book cross over and the actual comic is a good tie in too.
but I understand it really deviates from the usual Who.
I JUST finished watching the last Clara episodes...
liked them
and honestly they made her look damn near beautiful in every shot, really big send off.
Capaldi's Doctor has REALLY grown on me.
and I thought the chick form the game of thrones was GREAT too.
I'm about to watch the River Song episode this week.
hope it lives up to all the hype.
i knew someone was going to say something about this. the cast itself almost screams PC without actually screaming it...but it does. stuff like that only really bothers me if things are half assed, but I don't think this cast is. they try to get deep with some of the characters but i think it can go further. hopefully they do if it gets a second season
I still got three episodes left so maybe he'll come back...
Maisie (sp) did the damn thing. I love it when we know an actor for one thing and they can prove they can do something else. But her character had hurt. the depth that was missing from some of Class students. You feel for Her.
Husbands...hopefully there are no onions around...
I gotta come back. I'm in a house of slept people can't wake no one up.
Doctor Who / 30 Jan 2017
Peter Capaldi Is Leaving Doctor Who
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The Twelfth Doctor will step down in Christmas of 2017.
By Scott Collura Peter Capaldi and the BBC have confirmed that the actor is leaving Doctor Who.
The news comes via the official Doctor Who Twitter feed, which relayed Capaldi's reveal from an interview on BBC Radio.
“It [the new series of Doctor Who] will be my last… I feel it’s time to move on," the man who plays the Twelfth Doctor said.
Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi Teases New Season and Companion - NYCC 2016
03:02
The star of the long-running sci-fi series added that while he'll step down in Christmas of 2017, "I’m still Doctor Who! We’re doing epic stuff! I’m not done yet!”
Presumably this means that Capaldi's final episode and the regeneration of a new Doctor will take place in the traditional Who Christmas Special. The tenth season of the show is slated to debut in April of this year, and its conclusion will also mark showrunner Steven Moffat's departure from the Who world. Ever since Moffat announced that he was leaving, fans have speculated that Capaldi would follow.
Doctor Who Showrunner on the Pros and Cons of Regeneration - NYCC 2016
04:56
Series (or Season) 10 will give the Doctor a new companion in Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie), with Matt Lucas also reprising his role as Nardole. Capaldi will have starred as the Doctor for three full seasons by the end of his run, though he made his debut in the role in a cameo for the show's 50th anniversary episode "The Day of the Doctor" while his predecessor Matt Smith was still starring. (And he had in fact appeared on Doctor Who as a different character years earlier in the episode "The Fires of Pompeii.")
"One of the greatest privileges of being Doctor Who is to see the world at its best," said Capaldi. "From our brilliant crew and creative team working for the best broadcaster on the planet, to the viewers and fans whose endless creativity, generosity and inclusiveness points to a brighter future ahead. I can’t thank everyone enough. It’s been cosmic."
A follow-up press release from the BBC also confirms that the new season will feature the return of Michelle Gomez in a guest appearance as the Doctor's long-time adversary Missy once again.
Doctor Who: Season 10 Official Trailer
00:50
Listen to Capaldi's announcement and discussion about leaving Doctor Who here. You can also check out our reviews of last season here.
Doctor Who / 30 Jan 2017
Peter Capaldi Is Leaving Doctor Who
Share.
The Twelfth Doctor will step down in Christmas of 2017.
By Scott Collura Peter Capaldi and the BBC have confirmed that the actor is leaving Doctor Who.
The news comes via the official Doctor Who Twitter feed, which relayed Capaldi's reveal from an interview on BBC Radio.
“It [the new series of Doctor Who] will be my last… I feel it’s time to move on," the man who plays the Twelfth Doctor said.
Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi Teases New Season and Companion - NYCC 2016
03:02
The star of the long-running sci-fi series added that while he'll step down in Christmas of 2017, "I’m still Doctor Who! We’re doing epic stuff! I’m not done yet!”
Presumably this means that Capaldi's final episode and the regeneration of a new Doctor will take place in the traditional Who Christmas Special. The tenth season of the show is slated to debut in April of this year, and its conclusion will also mark showrunner Steven Moffat's departure from the Who world. Ever since Moffat announced that he was leaving, fans have speculated that Capaldi would follow.
Doctor Who Showrunner on the Pros and Cons of Regeneration - NYCC 2016
04:56
Series (or Season) 10 will give the Doctor a new companion in Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie), with Matt Lucas also reprising his role as Nardole. Capaldi will have starred as the Doctor for three full seasons by the end of his run, though he made his debut in the role in a cameo for the show's 50th anniversary episode "The Day of the Doctor" while his predecessor Matt Smith was still starring. (And he had in fact appeared on Doctor Who as a different character years earlier in the episode "The Fires of Pompeii.")
"One of the greatest privileges of being Doctor Who is to see the world at its best," said Capaldi. "From our brilliant crew and creative team working for the best broadcaster on the planet, to the viewers and fans whose endless creativity, generosity and inclusiveness points to a brighter future ahead. I can’t thank everyone enough. It’s been cosmic."
A follow-up press release from the BBC also confirms that the new season will feature the return of Michelle Gomez in a guest appearance as the Doctor's long-time adversary Missy once again.
Doctor Who: Season 10 Official Trailer
00:50
Listen to Capaldi's announcement and discussion about leaving Doctor Who here. You can also check out our reviews of last season here.
DAMN...
I had a feeling he took the role and really didn't expect the TOTALITY of it.
He wanted, he probably doesn't like the direction of the show, the last two seasons had couple gems but overall they were lackluster
Victoria’s Jenna Coleman on Playing the ‘Passionate’ and ‘Stubborn’ Queen
The newest monarchical British drama to make its way Stateside is Victoria, currently airing on Masterpiece on PBS, which chronicles the first few years of Queen Victoria’s six-decade reign. The short-statured queen, portrayed with vitality by Jenna Coleman (perhaps best known to Americans as a Doctor Who companion), brings forth a slightly different royal depiction than American audiences have previously seen, with Victoria’s stubbornness and inexperience front and center as she ascends the throne at the age of 18. Get ready for scandals galore! Vulture recently called Coleman to discuss the peculiar challenges of period dramas, how she gets herself into the 19th-century psyche, and whether she'd want to play an elderly Victoria.
I’ll start by admitting I had to brush up on my Victorian history before watching the show. I couldn’t believe how insane Queen Victoria’s early years were!
Oh God, yeah.
I appreciated the emphasis on Victoria's immaturity. We usually remember her as this strict, widowed woman.
Definitely. Victoria was famous for being a passionate queen, so to speak. It was a real revelation to me what a lust for life she had and how romantic she was in lots of ways. When she became queen at the age of 18, at that point she had never been in a room with a man on her own before, and now she had to govern the nation. She had never even slept in a bedroom by herself because her mother was so controlling. She even wasn’t allowed to walk downstairs without holding somebody’s hand. So the day she became queen effectively was like being set free.
What kind of research gave you the best insight into Victoria's private life?
I had access to the diaries, which was great. I’ve read so many biographies, but I’m always looking for certain details which give me access to her character and her psychology. Her diaries are so methodological in a lot of ways. You can find out what she ate for breakfast and what time she did this and what time she rose and what time she did everything. The detail is crazy. What I love as well is how she emphasizes in capitals and underlines things, because you can imagine her writing these things down. When she really likes something, she’ll write in huge letters and underline it. So I used the diaries and I used sections of biographies, but what was also really good was what her contemporaries said about her. Lord Melbourne, for example, had a couple of comments. A really good one was: Once the Queen thinks that she is right, when she’s set her mind about something, there is no unearthly power that will ever make her go round, she will only go forward. Her common trait was this stubbornness, being very obstinate and immovable in her views once they were made up, which is quite interesting.
Also, she sketched and had done watercolors since she was about 5 or 6 years old. You can see what she used to draw and what interested her from a really young age, and that probably gave me the best sense of her psyche. It’s been totally untouched. Nobody has been able to distort her views with her own eyes and her hands. It’s unfiltered in every way so they’re really, really interesting.
Where are those paintings displayed? Kensington?
Everywhere, technically! You can see them online, you can see them in books. When she was younger, a lot of her work involves this preoccupation with the ballet and the theater, and the most dramatic scenes that she’s seen at the opera. For someone who’s perhaps living in a bit of a regime, these passionate kinds of outbursts really appealed to her — in opera, for example. When she was 16 years old, she drew a self-portrait. And then as she got older, her paintings became much more about landscapes and open spaces. I can’t remember which author said this, but they commented on how so much of Victoria’s work wasn’t to do with state or jewels. There’s a simplicity there. There was a frankness and an honesty and an unpretentiousness with her. I feel like if you could make her laugh, she would be loyal to you for her whole life.
How important was it to enhance Victoria’s behind-closed-doors scenes with your own ideas?
That’s the hard thing with prep, and especially playing somebody who’s real. You’ve got so much to take on. I think, in my case, it’s prepping as much as you can and trying to understand the essence and the energy of somebody, so when you’re on set you can store everything else away and just play the scene and live in the moment with the person that you’re working with. I think it’s more about trying to learn about the essence of Victoria and then trying to carry that through the scripts. There was something else, another lovely little detail that I learned: She once wrote in her diaries of a day when she was walking with Lord Melbourne, the prime minister. They were talking about state and some sort of political business, and then she stopped and told Lord M of her wish of “going to have a roll in the grass.” You can just imagine them on a walk together and her turning to him as queen and saying: Actually, all I want to do in my beautiful dress is just go roll in the grass and have fun. I found it very charming. And human.
What did you find most challenging about this dual role of Victoria’s public and private lives?
So much was interesting to me. I had the logistics of the public stuff, for example, I’ll bring up her coronation day. I read up on historical reports. We all know the queen was very composed, but there was more to the story than that — if you read other reports, apparently what really happened on that day was the ring was on the wrong finger and it got stuck and it was a mess. And then the big crown didn’t fit and it was wobbling because it was too big for her head. Can you imagine? [Laughs.] Challenge-wise, I suppose it’s trying to find the mask that she wears and how she inhabits the role. When you do shut the doors, you know you can really just see her. You have to be constantly moving between her public and private lives.
Despite the efforts of Victoria’s mother and John Conroy, she still managed to emerge as this strong proto-feminist who was quick to assert her dominance. Where do you think that strength came from?
I’m reading a new biography at the moment about when she was young — one of her ladies in waiting described her as having “veins of iron.” I love that. That stubbornness, that strength, that willpower, everything was in her when she was younger. Having grown up with so many people trying to control her, I think it silently grew and grew and grew within her and she became so strong. Without that upbringing, she would have been a completely different monarch. Also, without that strength I think she may have signed a regency, which is what Conroy tried to get her to do when she was very ill when she was 16. If she had, I think the course of history would’ve been entirely different because she was unbelievably stubborn. It's such a flaw, but also her greatest asset, and it’s seen consistently through her reign.
Do you think her mom and Conroy had any genuinely good intentions with the Kensington System, or was it just a sad ploy to get power?
I think Conroy has a lot more self-interest. But perhaps her mother … I mean, her mom couldn’t speak English very well, and was very alone at court throughout her whole life. And then Conroy came along and she slowly became to rely upon him in a way that made her almost blind to her own daughter's needs. She was controlled and happy to be, and in doing that she lost sight of her daughter. So resentment grew and grew. It’s a really complex dynamic between Victoria and her mom, and it’s something that they didn’t really resolve until much later in their lives. Victoria moved to the other end of the palace instantly! There was a lot of resentment there.
I couldn’t believe she ended up forgiving her mom for it. I would’ve … not done that. At all. Sorry, mom!
[Laughs.] I think that’s why she’s really interesting, especially because at the end of this series you really feel the push and pull. She grew up without a father, and she becomes a young girl who just wants her mom to tell her what to do, and then the moment she feels remotely controlled again, she can’t handle it.
One of the season’s driving narratives is the ambiguous relationship between Victoria and Lord M. Do you think there was a legit romance behind their intense bond?
I think it was more of an obsession and also the “idea” of love. What’s so wonderful about Lord M and Victoria’s relationship is that it was the prime minister and the queen. It was dear friends. She was 18; he was technically 56 at the time. They made each other laugh. They were like father and daughter in many, many ways. You really can’t quite put a label on it, other than it's two people who really connect and charm each other through mutual likes and interests. They had a really profound love, but what that love technically was is unclear. Interestingly, Baron Stockmar said they were half lovers even if they weren’t conscious of it. In her early diaries, almost every other sentence was like Lord M said this today or Lord M is going here tomorrow. I think he was the first person who didn’t try to manipulate her and didn’t try to control her. He really gave her a voice so the trust between them was genuine and two-way. They went through a lot together. He was the person who guided her and shaped her and trained her for the first couple of years on the throne.
What can you divulge about season two, in terms of the historical events or the plots it tackles? Have you begun filming?
We begin filming in two weeks! We’re going to start just after the birth of the first child and see Victoria trying to balance being a mother, wife, and a queen. You also will see big power battles between Victoria and Albert politically and romantically; it’s a really passionate relationship.
As the seasons go by, it’s undeniable that Victoria has to age. Are you going to stay on in the role with prosthetics?
I think that would be … we’re discussing how and what to do. If the appetite is there, if the story is there in abundance, you could tell her entire life story. I mean, there’s so much historically speaking that happens in the Victorian era, with the invention of photography and the railway coming, and it’s a really interesting time politically and historically and socially. So, it’s there to be told. Potentially somebody would come given a certain time, but in terms of how we pace that and when that would happen, it ought to be worked out.
Would you want to portray Victoria through her entire adult life? Even if it means dealing with those pain-in-the-ass prosthetics?
[Laughs.] There’s something about it which absolutely appeals, but I mean — I don’t know how feasible that is, really.
The newest monarchical British drama to make its way Stateside is Victoria, currently airing on Masterpiece on PBS, which chronicles the first few years of Queen Victoria’s six-decade reign. The short-statured queen, portrayed with vitality by Jenna Coleman (perhaps best known to Americans as a Doctor Who companion), brings forth a slightly different royal depiction than American audiences have previously seen, with Victoria’s stubbornness and inexperience front and center as she ascends the throne at the age of 18. Get ready for scandals galore! Vulture recently called Coleman to discuss the peculiar challenges of period dramas, how she gets herself into the 19th-century psyche, and whether she'd want to play an elderly Victoria.
I’ll start by admitting I had to brush up on my Victorian history before watching the show. I couldn’t believe how insane Queen Victoria’s early years were!
Oh God, yeah.
I appreciated the emphasis on Victoria's immaturity. We usually remember her as this strict, widowed woman.
Definitely. Victoria was famous for being a passionate queen, so to speak. It was a real revelation to me what a lust for life she had and how romantic she was in lots of ways. When she became queen at the age of 18, at that point she had never been in a room with a man on her own before, and now she had to govern the nation. She had never even slept in a bedroom by herself because her mother was so controlling. She even wasn’t allowed to walk downstairs without holding somebody’s hand. So the day she became queen effectively was like being set free.
What kind of research gave you the best insight into Victoria's private life?
I had access to the diaries, which was great. I’ve read so many biographies, but I’m always looking for certain details which give me access to her character and her psychology. Her diaries are so methodological in a lot of ways. You can find out what she ate for breakfast and what time she did this and what time she rose and what time she did everything. The detail is crazy. What I love as well is how she emphasizes in capitals and underlines things, because you can imagine her writing these things down. When she really likes something, she’ll write in huge letters and underline it. So I used the diaries and I used sections of biographies, but what was also really good was what her contemporaries said about her. Lord Melbourne, for example, had a couple of comments. A really good one was: Once the Queen thinks that she is right, when she’s set her mind about something, there is no unearthly power that will ever make her go round, she will only go forward. Her common trait was this stubbornness, being very obstinate and immovable in her views once they were made up, which is quite interesting.
Also, she sketched and had done watercolors since she was about 5 or 6 years old. You can see what she used to draw and what interested her from a really young age, and that probably gave me the best sense of her psyche. It’s been totally untouched. Nobody has been able to distort her views with her own eyes and her hands. It’s unfiltered in every way so they’re really, really interesting.
Where are those paintings displayed? Kensington?
Everywhere, technically! You can see them online, you can see them in books. When she was younger, a lot of her work involves this preoccupation with the ballet and the theater, and the most dramatic scenes that she’s seen at the opera. For someone who’s perhaps living in a bit of a regime, these passionate kinds of outbursts really appealed to her — in opera, for example. When she was 16 years old, she drew a self-portrait. And then as she got older, her paintings became much more about landscapes and open spaces. I can’t remember which author said this, but they commented on how so much of Victoria’s work wasn’t to do with state or jewels. There’s a simplicity there. There was a frankness and an honesty and an unpretentiousness with her. I feel like if you could make her laugh, she would be loyal to you for her whole life.
How important was it to enhance Victoria’s behind-closed-doors scenes with your own ideas?
That’s the hard thing with prep, and especially playing somebody who’s real. You’ve got so much to take on. I think, in my case, it’s prepping as much as you can and trying to understand the essence and the energy of somebody, so when you’re on set you can store everything else away and just play the scene and live in the moment with the person that you’re working with. I think it’s more about trying to learn about the essence of Victoria and then trying to carry that through the scripts. There was something else, another lovely little detail that I learned: She once wrote in her diaries of a day when she was walking with Lord Melbourne, the prime minister. They were talking about state and some sort of political business, and then she stopped and told Lord M of her wish of “going to have a roll in the grass.” You can just imagine them on a walk together and her turning to him as queen and saying: Actually, all I want to do in my beautiful dress is just go roll in the grass and have fun. I found it very charming. And human.
What did you find most challenging about this dual role of Victoria’s public and private lives?
So much was interesting to me. I had the logistics of the public stuff, for example, I’ll bring up her coronation day. I read up on historical reports. We all know the queen was very composed, but there was more to the story than that — if you read other reports, apparently what really happened on that day was the ring was on the wrong finger and it got stuck and it was a mess. And then the big crown didn’t fit and it was wobbling because it was too big for her head. Can you imagine? [Laughs.] Challenge-wise, I suppose it’s trying to find the mask that she wears and how she inhabits the role. When you do shut the doors, you know you can really just see her. You have to be constantly moving between her public and private lives.
Despite the efforts of Victoria’s mother and John Conroy, she still managed to emerge as this strong proto-feminist who was quick to assert her dominance. Where do you think that strength came from?
I’m reading a new biography at the moment about when she was young — one of her ladies in waiting described her as having “veins of iron.” I love that. That stubbornness, that strength, that willpower, everything was in her when she was younger. Having grown up with so many people trying to control her, I think it silently grew and grew and grew within her and she became so strong. Without that upbringing, she would have been a completely different monarch. Also, without that strength I think she may have signed a regency, which is what Conroy tried to get her to do when she was very ill when she was 16. If she had, I think the course of history would’ve been entirely different because she was unbelievably stubborn. It's such a flaw, but also her greatest asset, and it’s seen consistently through her reign.
Do you think her mom and Conroy had any genuinely good intentions with the Kensington System, or was it just a sad ploy to get power?
I think Conroy has a lot more self-interest. But perhaps her mother … I mean, her mom couldn’t speak English very well, and was very alone at court throughout her whole life. And then Conroy came along and she slowly became to rely upon him in a way that made her almost blind to her own daughter's needs. She was controlled and happy to be, and in doing that she lost sight of her daughter. So resentment grew and grew. It’s a really complex dynamic between Victoria and her mom, and it’s something that they didn’t really resolve until much later in their lives. Victoria moved to the other end of the palace instantly! There was a lot of resentment there.
I couldn’t believe she ended up forgiving her mom for it. I would’ve … not done that. At all. Sorry, mom!
[Laughs.] I think that’s why she’s really interesting, especially because at the end of this series you really feel the push and pull. She grew up without a father, and she becomes a young girl who just wants her mom to tell her what to do, and then the moment she feels remotely controlled again, she can’t handle it.
One of the season’s driving narratives is the ambiguous relationship between Victoria and Lord M. Do you think there was a legit romance behind their intense bond?
I think it was more of an obsession and also the “idea” of love. What’s so wonderful about Lord M and Victoria’s relationship is that it was the prime minister and the queen. It was dear friends. She was 18; he was technically 56 at the time. They made each other laugh. They were like father and daughter in many, many ways. You really can’t quite put a label on it, other than it's two people who really connect and charm each other through mutual likes and interests. They had a really profound love, but what that love technically was is unclear. Interestingly, Baron Stockmar said they were half lovers even if they weren’t conscious of it. In her early diaries, almost every other sentence was like Lord M said this today or Lord M is going here tomorrow. I think he was the first person who didn’t try to manipulate her and didn’t try to control her. He really gave her a voice so the trust between them was genuine and two-way. They went through a lot together. He was the person who guided her and shaped her and trained her for the first couple of years on the throne.
What can you divulge about season two, in terms of the historical events or the plots it tackles? Have you begun filming?
We begin filming in two weeks! We’re going to start just after the birth of the first child and see Victoria trying to balance being a mother, wife, and a queen. You also will see big power battles between Victoria and Albert politically and romantically; it’s a really passionate relationship.
As the seasons go by, it’s undeniable that Victoria has to age. Are you going to stay on in the role with prosthetics?
I think that would be … we’re discussing how and what to do. If the appetite is there, if the story is there in abundance, you could tell her entire life story. I mean, there’s so much historically speaking that happens in the Victorian era, with the invention of photography and the railway coming, and it’s a really interesting time politically and historically and socially. So, it’s there to be told. Potentially somebody would come given a certain time, but in terms of how we pace that and when that would happen, it ought to be worked out.
Would you want to portray Victoria through her entire adult life? Even if it means dealing with those pain-in-the-ass prosthetics?
[Laughs.] There’s something about it which absolutely appeals, but I mean — I don’t know how feasible that is, really.
Doctor Who / 30 Jan 2017
Peter Capaldi Is Leaving Doctor Who
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The Twelfth Doctor will step down in Christmas of 2017.
By Scott Collura Peter Capaldi and the BBC have confirmed that the actor is leaving Doctor Who.
The news comes via the official Doctor Who Twitter feed, which relayed Capaldi's reveal from an interview on BBC Radio.
“It [the new series of Doctor Who] will be my last… I feel it’s time to move on," the man who plays the Twelfth Doctor said.
Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi Teases New Season and Companion - NYCC 2016
03:02
The star of the long-running sci-fi series added that while he'll step down in Christmas of 2017, "I’m still Doctor Who! We’re doing epic stuff! I’m not done yet!”
Presumably this means that Capaldi's final episode and the regeneration of a new Doctor will take place in the traditional Who Christmas Special. The tenth season of the show is slated to debut in April of this year, and its conclusion will also mark showrunner Steven Moffat's departure from the Who world. Ever since Moffat announced that he was leaving, fans have speculated that Capaldi would follow.
Doctor Who Showrunner on the Pros and Cons of Regeneration - NYCC 2016
04:56
Series (or Season) 10 will give the Doctor a new companion in Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie), with Matt Lucas also reprising his role as Nardole. Capaldi will have starred as the Doctor for three full seasons by the end of his run, though he made his debut in the role in a cameo for the show's 50th anniversary episode "The Day of the Doctor" while his predecessor Matt Smith was still starring. (And he had in fact appeared on Doctor Who as a different character years earlier in the episode "The Fires of Pompeii.")
"One of the greatest privileges of being Doctor Who is to see the world at its best," said Capaldi. "From our brilliant crew and creative team working for the best broadcaster on the planet, to the viewers and fans whose endless creativity, generosity and inclusiveness points to a brighter future ahead. I can’t thank everyone enough. It’s been cosmic."
A follow-up press release from the BBC also confirms that the new season will feature the return of Michelle Gomez in a guest appearance as the Doctor's long-time adversary Missy once again.
Doctor Who: Season 10 Official Trailer
00:50
Listen to Capaldi's announcement and discussion about leaving Doctor Who here. You can also check out our reviews of last season here.
Damn, Capaldi was starting to grow on me.
At first I thought he was going to be a bad fit, but at this point, he's in my top 3 favorite Doctors.
I wonder if Matt Smith called in and asked "Can the Doctor regenerate backwards?", when he found out about Capaldi leaving.
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...r-who’s-next-doctor-to-be-a-white-guy.938331/
David Harewood Doesn’t Want Doctor Who’s Next Doctor to Be a White Guy
bets aplenty, but that isn’t stopping one of the frontrunners for the role, David Harewood, from speaking out about who he would like to see assuming the timey-wimey title. Simply: Anyone but a white man would be nice. “It needs to do something different, so I think it’s either going to be a black person or a woman. It would just bring a different flavor to it,” he told BBC News. (Or hey, how about both?) “I’m already playing an alien so maybe I could switch and play a Time Lord — who knows what’s going to happen.” Regarding his own chances at one day being the Doctor, Harewood remained coy. “It’s nice to be in the running,” he noted. “It’s an iconic role.” Other frontrunners for lucky number 13 include Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, and Richard Ayoade. Place your bets while you still can!
David Harewood Doesn’t Want Doctor Who’s Next Doctor to Be a White Guy
bets aplenty, but that isn’t stopping one of the frontrunners for the role, David Harewood, from speaking out about who he would like to see assuming the timey-wimey title. Simply: Anyone but a white man would be nice. “It needs to do something different, so I think it’s either going to be a black person or a woman. It would just bring a different flavor to it,” he told BBC News. (Or hey, how about both?) “I’m already playing an alien so maybe I could switch and play a Time Lord — who knows what’s going to happen.” Regarding his own chances at one day being the Doctor, Harewood remained coy. “It’s nice to be in the running,” he noted. “It’s an iconic role.” Other frontrunners for lucky number 13 include Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, and Richard Ayoade. Place your bets while you still can!
Now its rumored the next Doctor may be female 
Doctor Who
Peter Capaldi told the New York Times his regeneration won’t be as “straightforward” as others we’ve seen.
I know what’s going to happen. It’s more complicated than that. There’s this notion now that it’s the same process he’s gone through every time, and that’s not true. It’s only the last couple of regenerations that have been, as it were, fairly straightforward ones. I can’t go into the details of a lot of it, because I know what happens, but I don’t know how it happens.
That sounds sad, but to cheer you up the BBC has released a synopsis for episode two of the new season, “Smile.”
Smile. Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Lawrence Gough.
In the far future, at the edge of the galaxy, there is a gleaming, perfect city. This brand new human settlement is said to hold the secret of human happiness - but the only smiles the Doctor and Bill can find are on a pile of grinning skulls. Something is alive in the walls, and the emojibots are watching from the shadows, as the Doctor and Bill trying to unravel a terrifying mystery...
Meanwhile, Doctor Who News has a bushel of pics from “The Pilot” to tide you over. Head on over to see the rest of them.
Peter Capaldi told the New York Times his regeneration won’t be as “straightforward” as others we’ve seen.
I know what’s going to happen. It’s more complicated than that. There’s this notion now that it’s the same process he’s gone through every time, and that’s not true. It’s only the last couple of regenerations that have been, as it were, fairly straightforward ones. I can’t go into the details of a lot of it, because I know what happens, but I don’t know how it happens.
That sounds sad, but to cheer you up the BBC has released a synopsis for episode two of the new season, “Smile.”
Smile. Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Lawrence Gough.
In the far future, at the edge of the galaxy, there is a gleaming, perfect city. This brand new human settlement is said to hold the secret of human happiness - but the only smiles the Doctor and Bill can find are on a pile of grinning skulls. Something is alive in the walls, and the emojibots are watching from the shadows, as the Doctor and Bill trying to unravel a terrifying mystery...
Meanwhile, Doctor Who News has a bushel of pics from “The Pilot” to tide you over. Head on over to see the rest of them.
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While attending a panel in New York, Peter Capaldi said fans can expect a more alien Doctor this year.
The great thing about playing Doctor Who is you actually have a whole life cycle, y’know? So you can start off quite being born, y’know, in season one and not quite knowing who you are and struggling to find who you are. And then find who you are and you discover, ‘Oh, I’m good with this. This is quite fun. I like this character,’ and then you discover there’s more to Doctor Who than you thought.
The important thing about Doctor Who is there’s always a mystery to him. There’s always a Doctor Who you don’t know because he’s alien, he’s not a human being. So, I think we’re going to see some more of his alienness.
While attending a panel in New York, Peter Capaldi said fans can expect a more alien Doctor this year.
The great thing about playing Doctor Who is you actually have a whole life cycle, y’know? So you can start off quite being born, y’know, in season one and not quite knowing who you are and struggling to find who you are. And then find who you are and you discover, ‘Oh, I’m good with this. This is quite fun. I like this character,’ and then you discover there’s more to Doctor Who than you thought.
The important thing about Doctor Who is there’s always a mystery to him. There’s always a Doctor Who you don’t know because he’s alien, he’s not a human being. So, I think we’re going to see some more of his alienness.
Bump for season premiere on now...
Actually liked the episode. Will take a lil minute to get used to "Bill" though as with any other companion.
There are a lot of lil bits that lead to more questions though. Like why did he " notice" Bill, the doc took the mom's pics, how if mom was dead does Bill know about said pics. How could she unless she's been there done that and then maybe had her memories wiped......and how did they just miraculously appear...
Whats in the vault, what mission is the Doctor on. The other episodes look like they are going to be fully loaded.
There are a lot of lil bits that lead to more questions though. Like why did he " notice" Bill, the doc took the mom's pics, how if mom was dead does Bill know about said pics. How could she unless she's been there done that and then maybe had her memories wiped......and how did they just miraculously appear...
Whats in the vault, what mission is the Doctor on. The other episodes look like they are going to be fully loaded.
Ya'll been sleeping on this season? IMO it's been good overall..
Next ep will be Peter Capaldi's last
Next ep will be Peter Capaldi's last
Yep, it's been pretty good. I didn't know it was his last episode.Ya'll been sleeping on this season? IMO it's been good overall..
Next ep will be Peter Capaldi's last
Side Note: They can tone down the gay innuendos though.
We wont know until the Xmas special...
Definitely more of a Tennent and Matt Smith fan but Capaldi REALLY grew on me. With how The Doctor was going, this was the grumpy old man phase and he played the part well. I think he was better at snide one liner jokes and some banter than the previous two. With Tennent & Smith, I felt like you knew they were there to save the day but with Capaldi...catch him on the wrong day and you'd be SOL.
bump
Great season finale. Only thing that I didn't like was how Bill was sent off. The gay push a little much. Left a small opening for her to return dunno if she will maybe doing a guest spot. But I am very interested in seeing "Walder Frey" lol as the first Doctor in the Christmas special. Definitely enjoyed Capaldi was not the "typical" doctor and I like that. The master killing Missy telling her he will never side with the doctor....hmmm wonder what he has in store next.
Christmas episode hopefully will surpass that last Christmas episode.
Christmas episode hopefully will surpass that last Christmas episode.
Is Pearl Mackie gay i real life i wonder...
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017...o-tell-the-fans-not-to-be-scared-by-my-gender
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13th Doctor Revealed
Killing Missy is the biggest mistake going forward. Especially in light of the new Doctor.
However...Billy just turned into Clara. How you gonna end two seasons in the exact same way?
Is Pearl Mackie gay i real life i wonder...
She cute but she needs to be sure she has a good stylist. Her hair needs to fit the frame of her face and it doesn't always and she looks really different sometimes.... #womenproblems
Kinda makes sense seeing how Chibnall was the showrunner for Broadchurch. I ain't mad...BUT...dammit Missy...