Matt Smith as the Doctor in season 6 of Doctor Who.
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In the American fashion, season 6 was chopped in two, with half airing now, in the spring, and half in the fall, in an overt attempt to add interest to the show by imposing two season "finales" on us. But everything we know about season 7 has come to us in the form of two Twitter posts, which, given their 140-character limit, did not go into details about the broadcast schedule for 2012. So we do not know whether season 7 will air in the spring, the fall, or both.
(Those Tweets, in case you're wondering, are as follows. From BBC exec Sam Hodges: "#DoctorWho is returning. Fourteen new episodes have been commissioned with Matt Smith as The Doctor #bbc1." From executive producer Steven Moffat: "14 eps Matt DEFINITELY. I've got a plan and I'm NOT TELLING YOU WHAT IT IS." Thanks, Steven!)
The count of 14 refers to the current schema of 13 regular episodes plus a Christmas special.
The continuation of Smith in the role is no surprise: the star has not been as coy about his willingness to continue in the role as predecessor David Tennant, and it's generally assumed that Moffat hopes to keep Smith in the role through the show's 50th anniversary year of 2013.
No word on companions for season 7, but John Barrowman revealed in an interview that the possibility of a guest appearance by Captain Jack has been at least broached. "I've always said that if I'm asked to go back to Doctor Who, I'll go at the drop of a hat," Barrowman told Zap2it. "That's where Captain Jack got his beginnings. And it's already been discussed." Jack last appeared on Who, briefly, in the closer to Tennant's last story, "The End of Time"; his last extensive appearance was in the 2008 season 4 finale--along with literally everyone else from the show. So a more meaty Who story for Jack, along the lines of his appearance in "The Sound of Drums" in 2007, is overdue.
Incidentally, Moffat was asked via Twitter what would happen in Jack and River Song met. His response? "He'd say, 'Who are you?' She'd whisper in his ear. He'd go white and salute." A fun visual, but it also goes to show that when it comes to the men in Doctor Who, that River Song is one heck of a Mary Sue.
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So did anyone else see it coming? Who River Song is….I had a feeling and let out a whop when it was reveiled.
Who’s Mary Sue?
(I knew who River had to be early in the season.) I don’t think River is a Mary Sue at all. Moffat was inspired to write her by a novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife. He was intrigued very much by its “meeting each other in reverse order” device. And the author, Audrey Niffenegger, nods back at him in her next book, Her Fearful Symmetry; there’s an entire scene with Doctor Who playing on the television in the background, with quotes from the show inserted into the book’s narrative.
A Mary Sue refers to a sort of character that is written in fan fiction. People write stories set in their favorite fictional settings just for fun (since they can’t sell them, due to copyright). When they write an a character who is sort of the writer inserted into the story, it’s a Mary Sue. An outgrowth of the “Gee, I wish that was real and I could live there” impulse.
A fun visual, but it also goes to show that when it comes to the men in Doctor Who, that River Song is one heck of a Mary Sue.
River is no way shape or form a Mary Sue. It’s clearly obvious in her independence that she is a more than capable woman. I’m not sure why people are all of a sudden scared that there is someone equal or even more-so adept than the Doctor and it’s quite pathetic! We still have no idea who River Song really is (yes she’s so and so’s relation), however Steven has a lot in store for us, so make let’s make our judgement then.
Riversong is a mary sue, shes no where near his Equal. Romana was and always will be his equal.
I think River is his equal. I don’t think you have to be a TL to do that. I thought Donna, even before she was transformed, was a strong enough person as a person to be is equal as well. That’s why he called her his best friend. She stood up to him;wasn’t all dreamy-eyed over him like the two *girls* before. River and Donna are grown *women*. Intellectually, we know that Romana was not his equal but his better…just less experience in the field. She would be a truly formidable character should they find a way/excuse to bring her back. (which I would love, btw)
I think the River character was strong enough to have been allowed a separate origin story..not something literally verging on All My Children (in Space…and Time). I was disappointed by that rather plebian device…felt like Moffatt was pandering to sentimental adolescents…
When the doctor has been asked if he had children he has said no but what happened to the one in the episode where a blond girl was “made” from his dna (or something) and he thought she died but at the end of the episode you saw her take off in a ship.
I was wondering if she was ever gonna appear in a future show.
Thoughts?
He must have at least one child. His granddaughter Susan appeared in the first ever episodes with the Doctor. Therefore either Susan’s mother or Susan’s father must be the Doctor’s child.
Of Course he been a Father… He said so in the episode ‘The Doctors Daughter’ What he would of meant is that doesn’t have any NOW… but the he desn’t know that Jenny is alive! Bring Back Jenny!!!! If she came back at same time as Jack… that would be perfect!
When he said “no”, it was attached to a comment about a different question – the same way he did when asked if he had children in The Beast Below.
We know the Doctor did have children, but he always seems to skirt around the question because he does not want to think about or discuss what he lost.
please, please, PLEASE let his companion NOT be River Song for the 7th season… I like the ‘idea’ of her, with the meeting in different order and all, but she completely annoyes the hell out of me.
Nonetheless, I can’t wait to see the new episodes!!:D
I have to agree, both me and my mother did see it coming. In early episodes, Song tells The Doctor that she will be the one to kill him. Then within the first to episodes of Season six, the girl in the astronaut suit came and Dr. Who says “It’s okay, I know it’s you.” Then, we see the girl, again, begging the president to help her over the phone because the ‘man in the whatever’ are coming for her. We find out the girl is the baby the orphanage. In the orphanage, the woman, or “The weird lady who sides open the walls” as my little sister says that Amy is almost ready. In the room of the door that the woman appears on, there are photos of Amy and the girl together.
They also say that the baby has Time Lord blood in her, Dr Who kills all Time Lords but Dr song.
Therefore, Song must be The baby. DAHH!
Considering Time Lords get 12 regenerations, shouldn’t there be another 2 doctors after Matt? And since River is part time lord, I’m hoping for a return of Time Lords.
Actually, if the writters stick to the 12 regenerations, then Matt Smith is the last Doctor. He IS the 11th Doctor, and if you will remember, David Tenent regenerated twice (the first time when he was hit by a Dalek, and he put the extra energy into his hand, thus allowing Donna to become half Time Lord. He stayed David Tennent that time, but technically that was his 11th regeneration. So when he regenerated onto Matt Smith, that was actually his 12 regeneration. So, according to that rule, there should he no more Dr.s after Matt Smith. Which, of course there will be. After all, there is ALWAYS a way to do something as easy as give him more lives! There was a whole Dr Who movie about it! (even though it did suck). And besides, neither the fans or the people making money would let this show die just for a silly reason like that!
when will the next season start and btw amy the doctor cn regenerate 507 times nt 12
Actually, 12 regenerations means 13 incarnations. Even factoring the 10th Doctor regenerating twice, there’d still be one more regeneration at least.
The 507 regeneration thing was an offhand joke Russell Davies inserted into the Sarah Jane Adventures.
But yes, nothing’s to stop them from doing it as long as it’s a money maker. Sad but true. Hopefully, though, someone will decided to end it properly after the 13th Doctor decides to pack it in, giving the show a proper finale. That’s still at least another decade of Dr. Who stories if they go that route. (For better or worse. And it can’t get much worse than ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’)
I hope they show some sort of progress of Jack becoming the Face of Boe.
There’s a part, i can’t remember which season, when River gets the pocket time traveler for her wrist from the big Blue guy.
Someone brings it to him and he say’s that the arm is still attached. Only other person mentioned who could jump through time was Jack.
Could they be related?
Actually after 12 regenerations a time lord can be granted more by the council and even tho the council is no more maybe there could be another. All I know is i want a new companion in the seventh season. Amy Pond is attractive and all but she has gotten annoying as hell. And River Song is too much to be a companion. It was best when it was just the doctor and his companion.
In the “Doctors Daughter”, the doctor does tell Donna he has been a father. Possibly the child is on Gallefrey and was part of the sacrifice. He does say he has killed all the other Time Lords but they are in-between, always there for the creative writer to draw upon. Maybe the Doctor’s John Smith has tried to have a normal life somewhere in time and has a chile or more than one. Anything is possible for the Doctor. Just depends on that pen touching paper.
I think the handy plot device of River donating her regenerations to the Doctor will solve any issues regarding his future regenerations. She supposedly gave him all her regenerations to save him, so in theory, he may have an additional 12 regenerations now. That will probably be how they keep the show going in the future, assuming that it (hopefully) keeps up in the ratings dept.
I think that device was used before for the Master, a long, long time ago?
I think that even if the doc does regenerate the master did over 14 times already def would not be the last of his regenerations.
As for songi had a feeling but I also thouht it me plausible her ending up being his granddaughter from the original series. Now that would have been a twist
I just don’t get it. The doctor has a definite date when he is supposed to die and not regenerate, as we saw at the beginning of this season and as we saw confirmed in Let’s Kill Hitler. So how do we get a 7th season then?
how can you guys judge stuff about the 7 season (like river song) and not know anything about it you guys sicken me :p
We all know since Matt Smith will continue as the Doctor, that the Doctor will win in the season finale entittled: The Wedding of River Song. It ought to be exciting because this is where the showdown between the Doctor and the silence comes to a climax and the Doctor will win as usual.
Ok seriously, I knew it was River from season 5, I mean, when she says she killed “the best man she ever knew” who else could that be?? I told my boyfriend way back then and now a season later I am proved right. Can’t wait for season 7!!!
This is to pooface. actually the time agency is where jack got the vortex manipulator. And he isn’t the only one, the time agency had dozens of agents at one point, although John Hart (god do I wish they would bring him back on torchwood or doctor who, that would be hilarious) says that there are only a few of them ‘now’ and that they agency was shut down, but don’t forget that time travel always opens a loop hole, it could have been any time agent’s wrist from any time. also in ‘let’s kill hitler’ (great episode for surprises and matt smith is hilarious but all around not the greatest of their eps) the justice brigade or whoever they were called were jumping through time to punish the guitly so obviously time lords and time agents aren’t the only people with time travel to play with. Isn’t he WHO universe awesome.
I’m sorry, but the Time Lords don’t change gender–just looks. It kind of defeats the purpose of them having a gender if they’re just going to change it. In the classic, the featured Time Lady would constantly regenerate just to change her look, so why is there a limit, and why do we only see full regens? This new version doesn’t keep completely with past continuity, almost to the point that it feels like a half re-boot.
Also, someone was trying to say that River was a Time Lady the Dr didn’t kill. Obviously we know now that her conception while Amy and Rory spent their wedding night in the Tardis gave her Time Lord-like abilities akin to the very early Time Lords. But, now that she used her regenerative ability all up on healing the Doctor after she tried to kill him — no more regens.
What was said about River giving the Doctor her remaining regenerations would make perfect sense as a way to keep the series going..although hopefully there won’t be another “hiatus” like with Colin Baker. and personally, I don’t think that the TV movie FOX put out should count as a regeneration anyway..anyway, as someone else pointed out, the Master went through all of his regenerations, and is still going strong(somewhere..lol) plus there’s always that “in-between” personality of the Valeyard. He did escape I believe..and Susan should (depending on what she’s done) still be alive somewhere on Earth. Bring her AND Jenny back!
To the 28th Anon — the Doctor worries that he’s a girl when he regenerates at the end of THE END OF TIME and in the Doctor’s Wife, the Doctor is talking about a Time Lord he knew that had the same tattoo in all of his (or her) regenerations.
So Time Lords being able to regenerate has been confirmed twice.
To the River Song giving up her regenerations topic — she did just that. I don’t recall it saying she was GIVING the Doctor her regenerations, she was just doing something that would mean she could no longer regenerate — not that the Doctor would gain her regenerations.
However in OldWho it’s been discussed as a rule set upon the Time Lords by the Time Lord Council so there’s a possibility that there is absolutely no limit to how many times the Doctor can regenerate now. Although there is a chance that River knows how many times he can regenerate since she mentioned that in her journal she has all of his faces.
Also, Moffat and Davies said that there is no canon to Doctor Who — so all of the regeneration stuff could have changed. (Besides, when the show started, the First Doctor wasn’t intended to be the first regeneration. He was intended to be one of a few and a series or so later that idea was retconned: it’s been confirmed that Matt Smith’s Doctor is the Eleventh in THE LODGER.)
My brother says there is going to be another episode of doctor can some just confirm that for me please if there is can not wait to see it.
I may missed something while watching it but can someone please explain to me why the silent wanted to kill the doctor?
is it something to do with doctor wipe them out from earth or are there other reason?
The Master
In the beginning it was planed that the Master would turn for the good, but this did not happen because of the death of Roger Delgado. The Doctor broke the link between the Master and Rassilon. This would allow the Master to turn for the good.
Transition between Jack and Face of Bow
Has to happen in before the year 200,000 because of the reference to the Face of Bow in “The Long Game”
Immortal problem
Rassilon is immortal and The Doctor is trying to undo that, The Doctor is not going to like Rex being immoral, the TARDIS is going to be able to talk again to help fix Jack and Rex, Rose is possible the only one to undo the problem.
Who The Doctor is
The Doctor is part Human, because of his love for the Human race, this has been hinted at the Doctor/Dona, “Human Nature” and in the “The Family of Blood”, he thinks Jenny is Human with his DNA, River has Human parents, The Doctor Who Movie he says he is, and the mysterious woman in the “The End of Time” we were told she is his mother. At the end of “The Wedding of River Song” the question that should not be asked Doctor Who? I don’t think we are going to get a name I think we are going to get an origin.
Coming back
Jenny, Moffat requested she stays alive it was already discussed Davies and Tennant were going to quit and Moffat was going to take over he was given the go-ahead when he wrote “Silence in the Library”
“Forest of the Dead”, Moffat already had the Silence in mind when wrote “Silence in the Library” and River’s story.
River story has only just begun and she is not dead Moffat even said so, Her consciousness is in the super computer she can still come back the eleventh Doctor is not going to let die that easily, the tenth Doctor even mentioned his future self had all that time to think of something to save her.
Jack Moffat said he would like to bring him back, besides I think Moffat might also have a two part story involved Jack, because Jack knows he has three years erased before he met the doctor mentioned in Moffat’s “The Doctor Dances” episode. Could it be Jack met the Silence but can’t remember it.
Amy & Rory I think Amy & Rory are not going to be in every episode because they were only to introduce River their part is done they will only be back when River is River will not be in every episode also because she hasn’t already, besides at this point they are traveling in opposite directions.
Silence Moffat is not finished with them.
I would like to see back
Susan, K9, the TARDIS in the flesh, his Mother, Liz Shaw, Sergeant Benton, Leela, Ace, Mickey Smith & Martha Jones Smith, Sally Sparrow, Craig Owens, Dorium, Lady Christina de Souza, Eve or her species from The Sarah Jane Adventures, Gwen Cooper & Rhys Williams, Rex, The Master, White Guardian and the Black Guardian, Eternals, humanoid cats, Rassilon, Dream Lord/Valeyard, The Rani, The Trickster, Madame Kovarian, Mara, and the Weeping Angels.
I really hope that BBC doesn’t make us wait an entire year for a new season of the beloved Doctor Who! In relation to the “River Song is a Mary Sue” thing, I must say that I do agree. *begin anti-River Song rant* Quite frankly, I’ve never really liked River. I think she’s a bit arrogant and she quickly gets on my nerves whenever she’s in an episode. I wish that they would just let her character be forgotten, but, quite obviously, they’re pushing towards a romance for the Doctor and she’s going to be in the episodes for a while… Ugh. I just wish they would have chosen someone else as the Doctor’s romantic interest. Or no one at all! The lack of Doctor-related romance has never been a problem before, so why do they feel the need to add it in now? *end rant* Sorry. I just really needed to get that off my chest. ^-^
I think that they will propaly have another episode where every one comes together to save the world or something.
also i dont think river will become a companion becouse she has a lot of fore knowledge and that could make thing akward between the 2 of them
and i wonder if they are going to do the boy and girl thing or the children thing like in the oldwho for his companions
and i think they should stop the regens around 15 tops 20 becouse that will just make it kinda boring becouse hes been on so long so ethier they need to end for a few years like last time or they should just end for good i was thinking this was the end but i guess it was making to much money and the 50th an. helped with that to.
and i hope they do something like bring all the docters together like in that oldwho special called the 5 doctors
and i agree with the origen of doctor who not the name becouse river knows his name and the world didnt end
Hm…i never really thought Jack could become the Face of Bo. The way I took it was that the Doctor misinterpreted the prophecy because the Face of Bo he was friends with died, but Jack who later said he was called “the Face of Bo” can never die.
I think they should bring back Jenny too, and having ALL the doctors together would be difficult, but brlliant if the producers could manage to do it.
Not sure how they will mix the marriage of River Song and the doctor and the new episodes, however a few things to keep in mind is that when River Song gets her Doctorate in Archeology is when the Silence shows up and puts her in the space suit at the bottom of the lake to kill the 11th Dr. But they get married in the last episode of Series 6 and he was supposed to tell River his real name but says to look into his eyes, she sees that the Dr is not real but an android and the real Dr is hiding with the TARDIS inside. He can now travel and keep a low profile, seems that when River Song disappears at night from prison all the time it is because she is spending time with the Dr. Now going back to Series 4 ep 195 “Silence in the Library” & “Forest of the Dead” 2 part episode. In the first part the 10th Dr Meets Professor River Song in her final regeneration form because by this time she used her regen to save the 11th Dr. She has her TARDIS Diary, a Sonic Screw Driver, knowledge of how the TARDIS works, she knows that the TARDIS doors can be opened by the Dr snapping his fingers which he tries at the end of the episode. She whispers the Doctors real name into his ear, and he realizes that only his wife would know that but does not push the issue. Her sonic screw driver has features that the current doctor’s does not. To save everyone on the library computer the doctor is going to link himself to the system but River knocks him out and cuffs him to a rail so that she can take his place, knowing that whoever does this will die. If the Dr dies now then River would not be born as she has to be conceived by Amy and Rory in the TARDIS. River dies and a little later the Dr realizes that he gave her the sonic screwdriver rigged with one of those neural devices like on the space suits, so even though she is dead her mind is still on the sonic screwdriver. He rushes to the core and uploads river to it to save her. I love this show but time travel marriage is a pain to follow!
I just thought back to when the doctor’s (David Tennant at the time), DNA was taken and a chick, who was escentially the doctor’s daughter was made and then at the end of the episode shot off in a rocket, i am wondering if they will incorporate a encounter with her, in the new season?
Sorry, no. A Mary Sue refers to a blank, mostly personality-void female character described as incredibly seductive and beautiful and intriguing to every male in a piece of fiction. They are usually used as placeholders when writers cannot come up with a legitimate female character/love interest.
Also, River is not one.
From Wikipedia: “A Mary Sue (sometimes just Sue), in literary criticism and particularly in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as a wish-fulfilment fantasy for the author or reader. It is generally accepted as a character whose positive aspects overwhelm their other traits until they become one-dimensional.”
I mean, it sort of sounds like River, but the thing is that River and Matt aren’t going to last forever, and once the writers and producers get replaced River is probably going to be forgotten, unless the next writer decides to keep her. I think in the seventh season they’re going to resolve a lot of the issues that keep their relationship in the dark.
However, I would absolutely love to see the return of Captain Jack Harkness. John Barrowman is a really good dynamic character because he keeps the same personality, but always finds different ways to liven things up.
A Torchwood/Doctor Who cross over episode would be awesomeeee. Especially since it doesn’t look like their making another season of Miracle Day. Maybe that’s just me though.
David Tennant needs to come back as the Doctor . I like this guy ok but David was the best of them all and I do miss him on the show badly.
I am hoping that somehow the Doctor will go back to the parallel universe to visit Rose–and David Tennant. I think that would make for an interesting and challenging episode.
Ok this is for everyone talking about 12 regenerations they only mentioned the limit in the american made movie that didnt follow doctor who very well at all. just because it says doctor who on it dosent mean all the info is correct i mean there was even a movie where the doctor wasent a timelord but a human inventor with his new invention tardis and invites his grand daughters teachers for a ride. so tell me is the doctor limited by a movie that the bbc never made.
ps it be my birfday today XD
We want Rose Tyler and David Tennant back!
Rose and David are done they may bring them back for an episode or 2 but David had a good long run as the doctor and we should be thankful at how long he stayed. most doctors dont last as long as david did.
I’ve always wondered what happened after “The Doctor’s Daughter”. She flies out into space to go on adventures, will her and her “father” ever cross paths again?
I’m confused about one thing…In “Silence in the Library,” River Song finds it genuinely hard to believe that the Doctor doesn’t recognize her. She also obviously recognized the Doctor and expected him to remember a couple of the adventures they had together while he was played by DT. That means that that was not the only time the tenth doctor saw River while he was played by Tennant….
Now, were the directors planning on some sort of reverse-regeneration thing? Or was it just a mess-up on their part?
I know I might be a geek or something. I remember watching an old Doctor Who movie and it they said that each Time Lord has 13 regenerations. Don’t stop at 11!
First of all Amanda Casto, that movie was not of BBC creation. Technicaly if the proper procedures are followed the doctor has unlimited regenerations. The highest of the timelords can grant those extra regenerations. But since he is thee last one left he can probably grant them to himself.
I agree with ShallbeliftedNevermore about River Song but it was probably just an error. They decided not to bring her back but changed their minds after the regeneration.
It would be awesome if Caption Jack comes back.
We will theoretically find out the doctor’s name when the 11th doctor dies at the fields of transalore. But they could just not tell us. Also since they say the fall of the 11th not your death we can assume there will be at least one more doctor.
I love David Tennant but unless they do another “The Five Doctors” Movie it’s not going to happen. But it’s possible he could visit Rose and the part doctor in the paralell universe.
Amy and rory might come back in Matt Smith’s last episode but River will do what she always does. Show up for only the important episodes.
She is SO not a Mary Sue.
They probably won’t bring back any other David Tennant companions though. Honestly i don’t want more martha, I love Donna but unless he messes with his time line he can’t have an adventure with her. Mickey’s cool but now he and martha are married so probably not. Sarah Jane also probably not but i heard somewhere that they considered making her son Luke the Doctor’s companion but that was before the regeneration.
Anyway I can’t wait til season 7 if anyone learns anything you Better post it.
It’s Doctor Who, It’s science fiction, it’s great fun can’t you just enjoy it? Why does it have to be a gender battle, It isn’t called the River Song show!
ppl if u pay attetion to doctor who at all he states in many episodes that time is not a straight line lik thought by people it is all “wibly wobly” so things through out time and space can change due to things being done differently, so on that note going by that being said nothing time wise is set in stone it can always be change you just got to find a way around it
i just had an issue with to person suggesting they go visit rose in the other universe it can not be done do you not remember the rift was sealed and to travel there again would tear a hole and ruin the universe
Does anyone know if River Song might be in the next season. I saw the ep. of The Library and there HAS to be some way she can come back. Doctor Who is just so much better when there is a River Song! Plus they should bring back Genny (form the ep. The Doctor’s Daughter). Since they made her alive, they should bring her back. so is either River or Genny or both coming back?
I’m surprised so many people are anti-River Song! Why is that?
I’ve been watching doctor who since I was 3 years old, and it’s so ingrained in my psyche that I practically get tears in my eyes at every episode, at every self-sacrifice, every bit of bravery, and every sign of loneliness in the doctor… I would consider myself a die-hard fan, and a doctor who ‘purist’, and I LOVE the character of River! She is everything the doctor deserves and needs as a friend in his life, she’s brilliant and unpredictable, she doesn’t NEED the doctor… He’s seen everything, almost to a point of being bored of his own existence (particularly Tennant), full of self loathing (again, Tennant) as so many people die for him… And here comes this sassy, wonderfully alive, dangerous person, who is so different from the previous people he’s had around him… I think she’s a great character, would love to hear why people are so against her??!
To the person concerned about the whole they killed the doctor and the Time Justice brigade or whatever infancy stated that but did you not notice that it was BELIEVED to be the doctor not actually the doctor himself because he was inside the transforming robot that’s the justice brigade people were in so the doctor is believed to be dead as when the REAL doctor is living in the shadows on the low so everyone believes it so the doctor is nt intact dead they can continue after that.
And the person saying there is always a way around time since its all wibbly wobbly is not 100% true many times has the doctor not only said but proven that there are fixed events in time that CANNOT be changed this was proven in te episode (why I can’t remember the name idk) where rose saves her dad from dying and they couldn’t prevent it that the car kept coming to hit him and kill him and the other creatures showed up because there was a disturbance in that fixed event and they showed up to correct it by killing roses father and such forth
I am a big fan of Doctor Who but I find there is too long a time between seasons.
As well as the SAME doctor, I enjoyed all the doctors but for some reason the writters can’t get past Matt Smith & Amy it is getting boring. I enjoyed all the doctors maybe the writters should think about the doctor regenerating each season or 2, even if they put it on a loop where Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, rotate the roll of the doctor.
Thanks to the Britts for lending us Doctor Who. I am a longtime fan and discovered it in the mid-eighties when it aired at 0:00hr on MPT (Maryland Public Television).
For me, the off mark comments that the doctor makes are kind of like old radio shows and leaves a lot for us to fill in with our imaginations (I know, sound corny). But I like the oblique connections you can make by imagining the “off air” adventures that the Doctor has. Unfortunately things are not always expanded or explained on in the arcs but it does not mean that it did not occur in the Who universe.
I also loved David Tennant as the doctor, but he really did become something dark and inward looking with much self-loathing to the point that it started to take the wonder and awe away from the doctor. I think he was brilliant and made a phenomenal run and eloquent exit.
At this time for me Matt Smith brings the doctor back to life with much gusto seeming to shed a little weight of life’s experiences while keeping the dark loathing in a velvet glove, I still enjoy his dark moments when the all the weight of the doctor comes to bare.
And of course I give the writers credit for those moments as deserved. I hope that Doctor Who continues and can escape the shackles of the contrite.
*I’d like to learn more of the shadow proclamation.
Please remember that this is science fiction and a fun escape. Try not to rationalize it with to much common sense.
guys roey dies in the 5th episode and sent in time by a weeping angle
This is directed at the comment about the American movie. Apparently you never watched the original series, because it was stated by multiple variations of the doctor that each Time Lord only had 12 regenerations available to them. Also, the hiatus of the show didn’t occur after Colin Baker, although it was mostly due to his tenure as the good doctor, imo, but after Steven McCoy held the reigns for a couple of years. I think it would be interesting to see what happened to the granddaughter of the original doctor, and to see some of the older doctors come back to battle some huge baddie together. But that can’t happen, since the Time Lord Counsel had to intervene and allow the different doctors to be together like that, as two versions of the same Time Lord goes against the laws of TIme and Space (something else that was mentioned quite a bit in the original series). Also, I don’t believe that it would be possible, considering William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee are all three deceased (they being the first three doctors).
I’m sick of hearing people go “David Tenant regenerated twice, therefore Matt Smith is the twelth doctor”, No, the 10th doctor didn’t regenerate twice, he managed to prevent the regeneration process and stay unharmed once, and regenerated into the 11th doctor later, Matt Smith is the Eleventh doctor. I hope that after 13 incarnations (which won’t be for many years yet), they find a way to explain him getting a new set of regenerations or something and don’t just gloss over it. Am I the only one who hopes to never see anything more of River Song? She has been done to death and is a real pain. Hopefully they will somehow bring the Time Lords back and have an epic multi-doctor special for the 50th anniversary
I’d like to see an episode of Rose and “her doctor” in the alternate universe saving their alternate universe. I think the writer could have fun with that. Also, I really wish there were a way for them to bring back Christopher Eccleston. He was by far my favorite doctor and we only got him for one season!
Chris Eccelston has said he is done with the Doctor, and won’t even look back. “He had fun, but is done with the whole thing” is a paraphrased quote from him. I loved all the Doctors as well, but as said earlier, it is too long between series.
And I did read by RTD, and Moffat that the Doctor originally had 12 regenerations, but since he locked the council and daleks outside of time in the time bubble, he gained each one of their regenerations…or stole them. SO, for each Time lord trapped there and then “destroyed” the Doctor gained 12 more. Do the math, this show can go on for many, many years yet…
Personally, I absolutely love the character, River Song! Just the character in herself is so dynamic, and her role is an incredible enigma placed into the show!!
I feel like River is one of those points of interest, where connection to the Doctor is just so fascinating, that you want to learn more and more! She puts such an interesting twist to everything, in my opinion! I don’t see why people detest her.
She’s almost the perfect second-half of the Doctor. Where he’s quirky and charismatic, but often introspective and self-loathing, River is dangerous and fiesty. She’s incredibly stubborn and with good reason. They are both incredibly caring and loving individuals. River particularly towards her parents and the Doctor; and the Doctor to everyone in his life.Together they are a couple of BAs, and their dialogue shows how amazingly they communicate and just… how they make each other.
I find River just to overall be a very intriguing character – distinctly the opposite of your typical Mary Sue. She has a dynamic personality and sprightly attitude… it just fits in my head.
I agree with kat comment. 66 I like river, but then I like Alex Kingston. She has a particular something that balances the doctor. She is one of those characters that is necessary (I know you guys won’t. Agree with me) but river is what the companions cannot be. If you’ve. Ever paid attention to the relationship dinamics. Each doctor has a “favorite ” companion… someone who is unique, someone who rises above the others, someone who, no matter what other companion followed after there were always thoughts of that one. River bridges that gap, she allows the doctor to connect. Not even Rose was able to do what River had to do. She may not be an every episode character, but the show wouldn’t be the same without her.
I have never heard of Mary Sue, only Peggy Sue. Is it an Americian think.
The doctor could get more life’s quite easily. The master did it a long, long time ago. Which gave him another twelve regens. River is a great character, but her story lines are only good when it involves her origin story or one linked to her and the Doctors future. But she is definatly the Doctors eqaul. I love that fact that she can fly the TARDIS better than he can.
Let’s not forget David Tennant got cloned in that episode with the teraforming thing where the human and fish were at war. That spawned that quite annoying Jenny. She’s still out there somewhere.
11 regenerations was before River used all her regenerations to revive the doctor in lets kill Hitler. We know from various episodes with the master that it’s possible to transfer regerations between time lords. So does the Doctor now have all River’s remaining regenerations. And just how many is that, since she’s not a Galifrean timelord. She’s a human concieved on the Tardis & then experimented on by the Silence.
Also the pandorica rebooted the universe. With some small changes due to Amy’s memory. And the Doctor deliberately kept Amy as a companion because of her link to that “crack”. So however many regenerations he had before the reboot, the number he has now is dependant on whatever Amy remembered. And that’s whatever the Doctor told her.
comments 71&72 are truly disgusting .
Does anyone know when in the fall season 7 will start?
does anybody no for sure if rose ever comes back? people say that she’ll be back because something has to be done about jack being immortal but still 1 million years later he’s still living as the face of bo. any suggestions???
I can not wait until dr who starts next month and the christmas day episode is a tradition in our house! Really enjoyed reading all the comments left here, good to see that a programme made here goes down so well in america, they filmed a few scenes around where i live for the new series but i missed going to have a look!! Found out to late
so I’m wondering if maybe the doctors soon to be new companion is his daughter Jenny. From season 4. I know he kissed her and stuff but that could have been more of a OMG kiss we don’t really know. they didn’t explain anything.
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should be great.
I just finished watching series 6 on Huluplus. I can’t wait until the next season. I alway think the next doctor won’t be as good as the last, but I really liked this Dr. I’m glad he’s coming back. I wish rory and Amy would come back too.
The one story that so terrified me in a previous season was the stone angels. It was very Hitchcock and frightening.
I found in this season, on the planet with all the stone angels it must have lost its fear power.
I loved the Christmas story!! Brilliant