Hi there! And it’s a Doctor Who post!
Looks like the new Doctor was a big winner at last week’s
Comic Con in San Diego. Jodie Whitaker just
seemed to be enjoying the whole experience a lot while charming the hell out of
everyone.
Here’s Jodie with her Doctor Who mates in a photo with
the cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
I’m assuming this photo has already inspire some fan
fictions of the Doctor teaming up with the
Nine-Nine squad. Charles is smitten with the Doctor and Amy’s curiousity
about how the sonic screwdriver works consumes her while Ryan and Yas suspect
Hitchcock and Scully are Slitheen in disguise.
Hitchcock and Scully are Slitheen in disguise? It would explain so much.
At Comic-Con, Jodie poses with the life sized Lego
replica of the Doctor.
So that was cool.
Looking back over the trailer released at Comic Con, there
is a character missing: the TARDIS.
As you may recall at the end of Twice Upon A Time,
immediately after the Doctor regenerates, the TARDIS goes haywire, kicks the
Doctor out and as she plummets to Earth, the Doctor witness the TARDIS exploding
and vanishing.
Will the Doctor be without the TARDIS for Series 11?
Fans have caught sight of the familiar old police box on
location shoots including a scene where the Doctor and crew are exiting the
TARDIS.
And other publicity material show Jodie’s Doctor with the
TARDIS.
Chris Chiball did confirm series 11 will be ten stand
alone stories and that the series is a good jumping on point for new fans. I
can’t help but think that would preclude any extended arc where the Doctor is
deprived of the TARDIS. I expect the TARDIS will be back by the end of the 1st
episode of Series 11.
I imagine the absence of the TARDIS from the trailer is
playing to that concern about it’s fate after exploding at the end of the 2017
Christmas Special.
The Doctor Who panel at Comic Con was a lot of fun
despite the fact no one could talk about anything relating to the new season.
Chibnall was rather insistent that Series 11 is all about looking forward with
all new worlds, aliens and monsters.
Well, that’s cool. I’m all for moving forward but I would hope there’s
room for at least some small look back to the past. Look, after a lifetime of
2,000 years plus, the Doctor is for the first time in the form of a woman. We
have to have at least one person from the past to react to that on screen.
One rumor was
that person would be Capt. Jack Harkness. Jack would be a good choice. We haven’t
seen Jack in a episode of Doctor Who since Russell Davies’ swan song. And Chris
Chibnall did write for the character when he was running Torchwood.
Another character from the past that could make an
appearance is Kate Letheridge Stewart, head of UNIT. Again there is a Chibnall
connection since he wrote Kate’s first appearance in Doctor Who in The Power of
Three back in Series 7. I would love to hear Kate repeating her father’s
classic line upon seeing the Doctor has changed form: “Well, here we go again.”
The thing is, regardless of gender change, the Doctor
changing form should be a big deal and I like to see that acknowledged on
screen by someone who knows.
You know what else we didn’t get from that trailer? A
release date. Look, I need to know when this fershlugginer thing is coming out
so I can make sure my social calendar is clear to see these new episodes.
Disclaimer: I do not have a social calendar.
OK, that’s enough babbling
about Doctor Who today. Now for the
anxious wait for actual episodes!
Well, I’ll all about giving the people what they want. So….
Tomorrow’s post is a sequel as we look behind the scenes
of Kimberly’s fall from grace as a Fox News LEGend.
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