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Gatiss maybe, Moffat probably not. If you look at all the female characters he's written (Amy Pond, River Song, Clara, and Irene Adler in Sherlock) they're all very much similar characters. In all honesty, I'm hoping Moffat steps down at the end of this coming series, it's time for a new head (preferably Gatiss, or Toby Whithouse)

 Paradigm wrote:
Gatiss maybe, Moffat probably not. If you look at all the female characters he's written (Amy Pond, River Song, Clara, and Irene Adler in Sherlock) they're all very much similar characters. In all honesty, I'm hoping Moffat steps down at the end of this coming series, it's time for a new head (preferably Gatiss, or Toby Whithouse)

Amy, River and Clara are all also primarily plot points, which is really irritating. I have no problem with Karen Gillan or Jenna Coleman, but good grief, is it so hard to write a normal female character?

River Song was just plain annoying. The idea of time travellers going in opposite directions was pretty cool, but I hated her character by the fourth/fifth episode.

I'm looking forward to it.

I haven;t seen the two specials yet. Does anyone know if thye are coming to Netflix int eh states? They just got sason 7, so they are a bit slow.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I really hope they don't use the Daleks or Cybermen this time round

they've been overused since the new run started

(I understand why as they've paid for the FX and don't have anything like the budget of a big US show, but still much as I like them the both need a rest)

The only thing I hope for with both of these series of characters is that they get rid of the "Skittles Daleks" and bring Cybermen back more inline with previous generations... instead of "delete" and "upgrade in progress" have them go more old school with their lines... Previously, the completely understood a human death and wished nothing more than to kill the Doctor.

I hate the feel of the new Cybermen. Not crazy about their looks, either. I mean, yeah, they look well-made and professionally done (unlike some older costumes) but they don't look like cyborgs. they look like robots. Believe it or not, the super-cheap ski mask and scotch tape costume from Tenth Planet actually was the best costume, in my opinion. You could see the actors' hands and (most importantly) their eyes. It really helped to drive home that these things were not robots; they were originally people and that they planned to make everybody on Earth into more of them.

"Delete." feh. "Upgrade the universe." bah.

Not a patch on the much more chilling "You belong to us. You will become like us."

My main problem with the Nightmare in Silver Cyberman episode in the last series is not so much the 'delete' malarkey (which could be explained in the 2006-2012 versions as them being alternate-earth Cybermen with a slightly different take on the idea) but the whole 'upgrade in progress' thing, where they acquire an almost Borg-like ability to 'assimilate' to any weapon, and basically become invincible.

That, combined with the stupid 'the Doctor fights himself so he doesn't get a Cyber-brain' (great performance by Smith, but very poorly written and explained) and the super-speed which was just stupid put that episode firmly in the 'worst ever' category (along with tragedies such as 'Love and Monsters' and 'The Rings of Akhaten')

From my FB feed, apparently 12 and Clara were on set in Wales, with a bunch of Cybermen extras.... guess it should be obvious, we're not done with the silver dudes.

More Cybermen... the promise of redemption or further annihilation hangs heavy in the air.

Still, if they do fix it, it'll make a nice change from Daleks (I have nothing against Daleks, and can't think of a bad Dalek episode since 2005, but they're a little overused)

New teaser. Sounds... Daleky! Almost a bit Davros at the beginning... which would be awesome.

Well, Davros is now trending on Twitter, so you're not alone.

I want Craig Ferguson as the Doctor. Tired of the Doctor always being portrayed as a proper brit type. Would be fun to have the Doctor go through a coarse Scottish phase. Heck, make him an Aussie, a Kiwi, a Canadian or even a Kanuck(French Canadian).

Also, maybe he could have seasons that focused on continents other than Europe.


I await the cries of heresy at my suggestions.

Seriously though, Ferguson could pull of a working-class Scottish Doctor that has a healthy dose of Tom Baker's quirkyness.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:


Wait, women are a minority now?

two separate comments there... the doctor as a woman, and the doctor as a minority (ie, hispanic, asian or black)

How are asians a minority? There are more people in SE Asia than the rest of the world put together

Bran Dawri wrote:

How are asians a minority? There are more people in SE Asia than the rest of the world put together

Typically, in countries frequented (or at least visited on screen) by The Doctor, the asians are the minority....

 Captain Avatar wrote:
I want Craig Ferguson as the Doctor. Tired of the Doctor always being portrayed as a proper brit type. Would be fun to have the Doctor go through a coarse Scottish phase. Heck, make him an Aussie, a Kiwi, a Canadian or even a Kanuck(French Canadian).

Also, maybe he could have seasons that focused on continents other than Europe.


I await the cries of heresy at my suggestions.

Seriously though, Ferguson could pull of a working-class Scottish Doctor that has a healthy dose of Tom Baker's quirkyness.

Psssst, Peter Capaldi is Scottish.

~Tim?

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:

 Captain Avatar wrote:
I want Craig Ferguson as the Doctor. Tired of the Doctor always being portrayed as a proper brit type. Would be fun to have the Doctor go through a coarse Scottish phase. Heck, make him an Aussie, a Kiwi, a Canadian or even a Kanuck(French Canadian).

Also, maybe he could have seasons that focused on continents other than Europe.


I await the cries of heresy at my suggestions.

Seriously though, Ferguson could pull of a working-class Scottish Doctor that has a healthy dose of Tom Baker's quirkyness.

Psssst, Peter Capaldi is Scottish.

~Tim?

So was Tennant.

I'm just SOOO glad that they've made him much older than his companion; I always found the prospect that the doctor looked like he was going to screw a companion appalling with my first doctors being Tom Baker and John Pertwee, two doctors who had a bit of a sting to them rather than this guilt ridden "I'm not worthy" Tennant and Smith crap. As much as I want to like Tennant (not so much smith, bloody oik) It really put me off, all of that soap opera crap

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/07/07/the-first-five-doctor-who-season-8-scripts-hit-the-internets-run/

Paradigm wrote:Gatiss maybe, Moffat probably not. If you look at all the female characters he's written (Amy Pond, River Song, Clara, and Irene Adler in Sherlock) they're all very much similar characters. In all honesty, I'm hoping Moffat steps down at the end of this coming series, it's time for a new head (preferably Gatiss, or Toby Whithouse)

Moffatt in my opinion is a good choice for Sherlock where he only has to do 3 episodes a season but when he has to write 13 episodes with a season long plot he really can't hack it without Russel T. Davies around

Paradigm wrote:

New teaser. Sounds... Daleky! Almost a bit Davros at the beginning... which would be awesome.

Oh yay more Davros, not like he got blown up at all last time round
And my expectations for this season have dropped through the floor

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

Paradigm wrote:Gatiss maybe, Moffat probably not. If you look at all the female characters he's written (Amy Pond, River Song, Clara, and Irene Adler in Sherlock) they're all very much similar characters. In all honesty, I'm hoping Moffat steps down at the end of this coming series, it's time for a new head (preferably Gatiss, or Toby Whithouse)

Moffatt in my opinion is a good choice for Sherlock where he only has to do 3 episodes a season but when he has to write 13 episodes with a season long plot he really can't hack it without Russel T. Davies around

Well, he only really does abour 5-6 a season, only edits the rest. Same with Sherlock, he usually only does one. But he does have control of the overall plot in both, and particularly in Who he has a habit of getting too convoluted for the sake of it.

Paradigm wrote:

New teaser. Sounds... Daleky! Almost a bit Davros at the beginning... which would be awesome.

Oh yay more Davros, not like he got blown up at all last time round
And my expectations for this season have dropped through the floor

Well, you never saw him die, and I always figured he'd escape somehow. There will have been a backup plan, or a teleport, or [insert plot here]. It's far from the worst thing they could have done.

Hated the most recent doctors - especially the constant whinging.....

Annoyed as the new Dr should be over in France plotting against the Muskaters...........

 Mr Morden wrote:

Annoyed as the new Dr should be over in France plotting against the Muskaters...........

I'm sure he has time to do both... he's got a TARDIS, after all (sorry, couldn't resist).

Capaldi's excellent performance in The Musketeers is one of the reasons I have very high hopes for the new series.

 Paradigm wrote:

Well, you never saw him die, and I always figured he'd escape somehow. There will have been a backup plan, or a teleport, or [insert plot here]. It's far from the worst thing they could have done.

It's still the whole we must have cybermen and daleks in every new season, it's kind of irritating when they could be using other older creatures or new ones instead of just recycling those two, wiping them out and then having to come up with a more convoluted reason to resurrect them

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:

Well, you never saw him die, and I always figured he'd escape somehow. There will have been a backup plan, or a teleport, or [insert plot here]. It's far from the worst thing they could have done.

It's still the whole we must have cybermen and daleks in every new season, it's kind of irritating when they could be using other older creatures or new ones instead of just recycling those two, wiping them out and then having to come up with a more convoluted reason to resurrect them

To be fair, the Daleks have a whole Empire at the moment (they're just forgotten the Doctor is all) and they won't have actually appeared (bar the brief role in Day of the Doctor, where they took a bit of a back seat to The War Doc and the Zygons) in about 2 years by the time this airs. Cybermen too are currently not wiped out, just one planet. It's been established since 'A Good Man Goes to War' that there's a full Cyber empire out there. So there's no real 'villain of the week' resurrection needed.

More oldies would be nice. I'd like to see The Ice Warriors back in some capacity larger than the one guy in Cold War. Silurians have been done to death, Sontarons would be nice to see again, The Yeti might be cool to bring back, and I thought they might with The Great Intelligence returning, but no, they didn't. Other than that, all the classics have been used recently.

Am I the only one that would like to see the Daleks be shelved for a bit? I like them and all, but showing up every season sort of dilutes them a bit for me. I think the best episode in the new series was "Dalek" back in series 1 becuase it A) made them seem dangerous B) made them mysterious and C) told us something about the Doctor and the Time War. That isn't to say I haven't enjoyed them since then either, just that I just feel they use them to often.

As I recall British actor that wasn't white was offered the role and turned it down. [The producers] didn't say who, just that it did happen.

Personally. I'd love to see another DW movie (similar to 8), but with Samuel L. Jackson as The Doctor

They should get Helena Bonham Carter to be the Dr she'd be ace

Yeah, who says the Dr. has to be a dude?




<----- knows NOTHING about Dr. Who.

 kronk wrote:
Yeah, who says the Dr. has to be a dude?




<----- knows NOTHING about Dr. Who.

I'd watch that series, if it were on HBO

 Mr Morden wrote:
They should get Helena Bonham Carter to be the Dr she'd be ace

Holy crap would that be amazing. I honestly can't think of any other female British actress I'd like to see as the Doctor.

~Tim?

 Ahtman wrote:
Am I the only one that would like to see the Daleks be shelved for a bit? I like them and all, but showing up every season sort of dilutes them a bit for me. I think the best episode in the new series was "Dalek" back in series 1 becuase it A) made them seem dangerous B) made them mysterious and C) told us something about the Doctor and the Time War. That isn't to say I haven't enjoyed them since then either, just that I just feel they use them to often.

I agree. I'm a little Dalek-ed out at the moment. There is a marked tendency to overuse them in the current series, just as there was at the beginning of the classic series. OG Who went three or four years without a Dalek, though. The long period between Evil of the Daleks and Day of the Daleks had a lot of good non-Dalek stories in it. Maybe the producers should read up on those old stories (most of the Troughton ones don't exist anymore, sadly).