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I think this is the funniest moment from the 50th [video=youtube;IcbkWk10MOo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcbkWk10MOo[/video]
Nah. The funniest moment was "It wasn't locked."
So the main thing that can go wrong now, IMO, is a missed opportunity.
I would think an entire final Doctor story arc is ripe for dramatic potential; handwaving it with a line, a scene, even an episode, would be under-serving it. There's so much potential there for a story of how the Doctor faces his death and how that gets changed.
Then again, I guess Tennant and Smith both did "facing his death" segments. So maybe they feel it's played out.
The Xmas Special trailer has a lot of mention of Trenzalore, which is where he's eventually buried, and the fall of the 11th, and that "Silence Will Fall!" line seems to be revisited. Obviously that is going to tie in. It SOUNDS from all the stuff Moffat has been waffling about over the last few days like they're pitching Smith as the 13th (inc. Hurt and Tennant's wasted clone hand regen) with Capaldi as either something new, or a 14th after a change in the rules.
BUT - there is one flaw with that. In that Impossible Astronaut death, Smith started to regenerate after being shot (it got interrupted by the second shot - there was a lot made of that). So he CAN regenerate. So he can't be the 13th.
Really? I thought they pretty much established them as "All thirteen!" when Capaldi's Eyebrows showed up during the climactic scene.
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Moffat stated that “The 12 regenerations limit is a central part of Doctor Who mythology – science fiction is all about rules, you can’t just casually break them. So if the Doctor can never change again, what’s Peter Capaldi doing in the Christmas special?”
The Xmas Special trailer has a lot of mention of Trenzalore, which is where he's eventually buried, and the fall of the 11th, and that "Silence Will Fall!" line seems to be revisited. Obviously that is going to tie in. It SOUNDS from all the stuff Moffat has been waffling about over the last few days like they're pitching Smith as the 13th (inc. Hurt and Tennant's wasted clone hand regen) with Capaldi as either something new, or a 14th after a change in the rules.