Season 10 Speculation (AKA The Long Wait Begins)

[Jubal]

Apparently we're not getting Season 10 until 2017, essentially there is Too Much Sportball this year and so we don't get any Doctor Who, which seems rather unfair really

Anyway, we have like a year to speculate, so go go go!

I guess the main questions are:
a) What will the new companion be like?
b) Will Capaldi stay on to Season 11 (I really hope he does personally)
c) Who will replace Capaldi if he doesn't?
d) Any plot speculation? One imagines that Moffat will have to be forcibly dissuaded from blowing up the whole DW universe in his last season finale...

[Glaurung]

forcibly dissuaded from not blowing up the whole DW universe

I think you might have an unintended double negative there...

[comrade_general]

a) Clara again.
b) Yes.
c) Jeremy Clarkson.
d) Something about Clara.

[Jubal]

Glaurung: you're right, thanks.

CG:
a) Probably, Moffat doesn't seem to have much female character range, but we'll see.
b) Fingers crossed!
c) Oh god no please no aaaaaagh D:
d) I suspect they'll kind of leave that - I can imagine Gallifrey coming up again since he did the whole forcibly removing the high council and they're probably pissed at him. I can imagine Moffat doing one more really big twist to finish his tenure, either a) re-establishing the Time Lords in their proper place (and thus S11 and onwards operating a little more like Classic Who for the time being) and/or b) if Capaldi leaves, combine that with creating the Valeyard.

[comrade_general]

Breaking News: Moffat changes name of "Doctor Who" to "The Clara Show" for his last season.

Jeremy Clarkson.

[Jubal]

That has genuinely been mooted as a spin-off apparently.

Why Jeremy Clarkson? Why ever Jeremy Clarkson?

[comrade_general]

I'm talking about the main show becoming Clara show. Well not becoming but remaining since it is already.

Jeremy Clarkson is Jeremy Clarkson.

[comrade_general]

You Brits are horribly inefficient at TV. We have to wait over a year for only another TEN or so episode series? And does anyone remember Sherlock or has that one been in production so long it's become a myth?

Star Trek used to roll out 24 one hour episode seasons every year like clockwork (not you Clockwork). There was a point in time when three different series were running simultaneously. Just saying.

[Clockwork]

[like clockwork]


Then again, Arrow, Flash, Gotham and all that have been on a break from early dec until this week. What's with that anyway?


If Clarkson was Dr Who, that'd be something to watch though.


'You're not very good at your job are you Dalek?'


'This was the old TARDIS, but Gallifrey has revealed the latest model. It has three times the cosmic horsepower, four times the timeline torque and full ABS for extra control. Simply put, it's better in every way'


'In a cockup of biblical proportions, Captain Slow has locked us out of not only the TARDIS, but time itself.'

[comrade_general]

Dunno, that's not too long though, at least they also have 24 episode seasons.

[Clockwork]

True. And it's decent TV.

[Jubal]

Doctor Who used to run more on that basis before the Great Hiatus. These days the expenditure on the show is a lot compared to what the Beeb can afford, which is the main reason the seasons are so damn short, they wouldn't have the budget to do the special effects for that many episodes.

[comrade_general]

Then don't do so many effects.

[Jubal]

I agree - I'd like to see less SFX and more episodes.

[comrade_general]

Basement dwelling nerds can do these effects in their free time, there's no reason to spend so much money on them.