Doctor Who goes it alone
This Sunday's episode of Doctor Who has a cast of one: Peter Capaldi.
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This Sunday’s episode of Doctor Who has a cast of one: Peter Capaldi.
“It’s a mad thing to do,” says showrunner Steven Moffat. “I’m yet to find out whether I’ve just gone mad or not. It occurred to me that I had just written a huge monologue for him at the end of [episode eight, The Zygon Inversion]. Ten minutes. I was typing forever in that. And I just thought, ‘maybe we don’t need anyone else – we don’t need to cut to anyone nodding – it’s just him?’
“It just puts it in a different place. If you’re not going to try things that scare you a bit, that scare everybody a bit, then it’ll feel what it must never feel – it’ll feel like an old show. I remember when Russell T. Davies first brought it back, he said, ‘we can’t ever make it feel old. It always must feel like a brand new show.’ And that worked, and we carried on. But we’ve now got to the point where the new show is also old. Slightly marred by the 50th anniversary being two years ago, but the new show is ten years old. So you’re fighting that as well. You want to be doing things that are first/second series experimentation.”
7:40pm Sunday on ABC.
Source: Radio Times
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Well, not quite alone… who is that ghoulie ghoulie that you see in the preview?
The last 2 of the season should be good and not a long wait for the Christmas special.
I know the press and show is saying Clara is gone for good but my bet is we’ll see her again, if not in the last 2 eps as some point in the future. She is the Impossible Girl and has saved the Doctor countless times so the odds are high for a return, even if it’s a one off special. JMO not a spoiler.