July 2012
Spoilers, Sweetie: Prehistoric ‘Doctor Who’ Series 7 Details Emerge From Comic-Con
Thanks to Anglophenia, we can now reveal some of the secrets shared during the Doctor Who panel yesterday at Comic-Con.
We would classify the spoilers in this post as ‘mild’ but spoilers are like spicy food: it’s all according to taste:
Let’s assume you missed Comic-Con this year, missed out on the panel starring Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Steven Moffat and Caroline Skinner, missed out on their delightful exchanges with a thrilled audience, missed out on Matt Smith’s bowler hat, and are now feeling pretty fed up about the whole affair.
Well, the good news is we can at least tell you some of the things that were exclusively revealed there (and if you’re sly, you can always use them to pretend you were right at the front all along).
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The line to get into the 1pm Doctor Who panel began outside Hall H around 8pm the night before. If you wanted to get a place in the 6500 seat auditorium, you had to get there early, very early. By the time the panel was about to begin, this audience was so excited they started clapping out the rhythm of the Master’s drums and once Moffat and the cast got on stage there was an extremely loud standing ovation.
The panel was producers Steven Moffat and Caroline Skinner, as well as the Doctor (Matt Smith) and the Ponds (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill.)
It’s well known that Amy and Rory Pond will be leaving the show in a meeting with the Weeping Angels half way through this season, so in a way this was a Comic Con good-bye to them. They showed the extremely moving clip from “The Girl Who Waited” where Amy is telling Rory why he needs to leave her while she is outside the TARDIS and he is inside. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Karen spoke of her leaving the show and said she cried for two weeks straight after she left. But don’t worry you’ll see more of both her and Arthur as they have many projects coming up. The most exciting for Who fans is probably “Broadchurch” in which Arthur will be working with David Tennant. It is also written by Who writer, Chris Chibnall.
They all spoke a lot about how one of the main themes of Doctor Who is the idea of regeneration and change. That it’s about learning to love characters and learning that we have to let them go.
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A few things I learned at this panel:
1. When Matt started the show he was given a handbook describing all the various areas of the TARDIS, what they were for, and what all the buttons and levers are for. How much do you want to own this handbook?
2. Only Moffat knows what the Doctor’s name is and why we can’t know it. He will not tell us why.
3. Moffat won’t say if he is planning on an episode with multiple Doctors or not.
4. Moffat said of River Song, “You can’t trust that woman.”
5. The alliance of evil that got together at the Pandorica will not reconvene, according to Moffat.
6. Both Karen and Matt’s favorite guest character on the show was Vincent van Gogh (can you blame them?) Karen and Arthur’s favorite costumes were the Kiss-a-Gram and Centurion respectively (again, duh!)
7. Karen is an amazing bowler even though she has never bowled before this week and has terrible form that involves yelping when she releases the ball.
8. All the cast members have taken souvenirs from the TARDIS. David Tennant kept his sonic screwdriver.Moffat promises lots of variety in the upcoming series. Westerns, tragedy, Weeping Angels, dinosaurs, Daleks, lots and lots of Daleks.
Roundup: Inside the ‘Doctor Who’ Comic-Con Panel | Anglophenia | BBC America →
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For the second year running, there was a Whovian Sunday at San Diego Comic-Con. Sonic screwdriver-brandishing fans packed Hall H for a panel that featured Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, lead writer/executive producer Steven Moffat, and executive producer Caroline Skinner. The atmosphere was as electric as panels past, with zings of oddball wit from überfan and moderator Chris Hardwick from The Nerdist.
But amongst all of the cheers and celebration, there was an inescapable feeling of sadness. After all, the upcoming season of Doctor Who will see the departure of the Doctor’s beloved companions the Ponds – played by Gillan and Darvill.
Noises...
- Arthur: We do spend all of our time together. We've got to the point where we can't really have conversations with the three of us...
- Matt: It's just noises.
- Arthur: Just noises.
- Karen: Yeah!
- Matt: Just noises and silly phrases.
- Moffat: We like to call them episodes.
Did anybody find a phone at the Doctor Who Tumblr meet up? →
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UPDATE: The phone has been found!!!
Thus proving that Whovians are both the most kind and most honest fans in the world.
Signal boost please!
I think my phone may have been an a tote bag that was switched with someone else’s and I’d really like to find it again.
It’s a black iPhone, it has a rubber TARDIS case on it, there’s a crack across one of the bottom corners, and if you pull a little bit on the long sides of the case, it’ll split from the body of the case.
It was dead at the time, so I can’t use the Find My iPhone feature to locate it! If anyone’s seen it, or knows where it might be, please please contact me on this blog!
Thank you so much!
British all the actors!
- Chris: I feel like in England there are 50 actors and they all just do this *mingles and intertwines hands* ...constantly.
- Moffat: In fairness those 50 actors seem to be playing the leads in most of your shows.
- *crowd ooo's*
- Chris: It's true. It's true.
- Moffat: It's slowly becoming true that British Actors are better at being American.
- Chris: It's true.
- Moffat: How does it make you feel?
- Chris: Well, it almost makes me feel bad for driving you bastards back. "They're taxing our tea!? We don't even drink tea! Who gives a crap!"
