The Doctor Who panel at Comic - Con debuted a much recollective interlingual rendition of the trailer for the upcoming Christmas special , which included some dialogue and a few tantalizing mite . And newfangled showrunner Steven Moffat and executive manufacturer Julie Gardner yield a few more estimate about how the show may look when Moffat takes over full time in 2010 . Among the interesting bits : why the Doctor ’s daughter did n’t die , and whether River Song has met David Tennant before . nonaged spoilers onwards .
In the long rendering of the 2008 Christmas particular trailer , we saw the Doctor need a small boy what day it was . The minuscule male child replies , with demilitarize specificity , that it ’s Christmas Eve 1851 . And then Velile Tshabalala , playing temporary companion “ Rosita , ” says that a “ puppet total out of the shadower , a man made of metallic element . ” And later we get wind Rosita cry out for the Doctor . We also glimpse Dervla Kerwin ’s sinister Miss Hartigan , who ’s at a funeral when a man inquire what style of men these metallic element figures are . Miss Hartigan reply , “ Cybermen , ” with obvious satisfaction . And then we see Miss Hartigan say “ Merry Christmas ” in a totally evil way . If you want to ruin your eyes , here ’s a cameraphone copy :
Other exciting revelations at the doc Who and Torchwood panel :
Moffat enunciate his famous snatch phrase “ wibbly shaky timey whimey ” is n’t a “ get - out clause , ” because the time locomotion and manipulation still has to make sensory faculty in the story .
There were very dim hints about Neil Gaiman writing for Moffat ’s Who . At his reading , Gaiman said it would be okay to mention to Moffat that it would be nice . And Moffat check that it would be nice .
People keep asking John Barrowman if he ’d read the goal of the handwriting for the season three conclusion , where it ’s divulge Captain Jack is the Face of Boe , and he had n’t read it yet . Finally , he did interpret it , and screamed and freak out out with glee .
Moffat say you have to give the Doctor credit entry for “ dumping a sligthly clingy lady friend ” by sticking her with a ringer .
Gardner and Moffat disagree about whether to bring back Donna ’s small fry at the end of “ The Forest Of The Dead . ” Moffat did n’t need to kill off kid in a tike ’ show , and Gardner thought it was a mistake to bring them back as River Song ’s Kyd at the end , because it would be confusing . But now Moffat ’s change his creative thinker and thinks it “ was a loss of lucidity and it gain no sentience . ” Now , when he watches the sequence he ca n’t endure watching it after the bit where the TARDIS door fill up . But Gardner has changed her mind too , and suppose it makes sense to keep the nestling around .
It ’s deliberately shadowy as to whether River Song recognizes the “ nitty-gritty of the Doctor ” or specifically the David Tennant Doctor . But in Moffat ’s mind , she ’s met the Tennant Doctor before , and that ’s not the only Doctor she ’s met .
Moffat thinks the “ stunt time value ” of two doc meeting only last about eight minutes , and any plot of land just gets in the way of the regard fulfilment of image them chatting . He would n’t do a longer story take two Doctors , unless he had a way to get some energy from the fact that the same adventure was happen to this Isle of Man at two different prison term in his lifespan .
Asked about add back random one-time character from the classic show , Moffat said it ’s most important to tailor the show for the new eight - year - old viewers . “ We ’re not in the business enterprise of doing nostalgia , we ’re makking nostalgia for the hereafter . ”
Also , asked whether his Who would be too dreaded , he react : “ If your business concern is that with me taking over Doctor Who , it ’s start to be really really frightening every week , then problematical . ” ( But Moffat alsotoldSci Fi Wire that we should n’t expect all of his episode to be the same as “ Blink , ” because he ’ll have to vary his style more when he ’s superintend a whole season . )
The Doctor ’s daughter did n’t die , as originally planned , because Moffat made an off - deal comment to Russell T. Davies that bring in the grapheme and killing her in the same episode would be “ what Star Trek would do . ”
BBC America officially annunciate that it ’s picking up the third season of Torchwood to vent in the U.S. And the new Torchwood time of year set out shooting soon . Davies is work on scripts for it right now .
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