Stephen Fry will star in the first episode of Doctor Who Series 12, although we don’t as yet know which part he’ll play. Fry was previously seen shooting for the serial at the Swansea Guildhall late last month. This will be Fry’s first actual appearance in the series, although not his first connection with Doctor…
I have mixed feelings about this, as I’m not terribly fond of Stephen Fry, but on the other hand I figured it was only a matter of time before he showed up on Who.
A major Doctor Who star just shaved their head for a role in a James Gunn comic-book ensemble film!
…No, not you Karen! You were FANTASTIC though.
Peter Capaldi is going to be in Suicide Squad! I’m so excited to see who he’ll be playing. I feel like it’d be just Gunn’s style to have him play one of the (apparently many) DC villains whose title is “Doctor”.
Okay, a few of the more recent ones do. Yaz has Sonya:
(I find Sonya and her current status as the not-favourite granddaughter interesting, I really hope she’ll be back in some capacity.)
And Martha had Tish and Leo, although even then Leo just kinda disappeared halfway through the series:
I’m not really all that good with Classic Who but Turlough had a brother called Malkon, although I gather he only ever appeared in one story:
And although we never see them in the flesh we learn at one point that Rose gained a brother called Tony, and River a brother called Anthony (the similarity in those names, I always wondered if it was coincidence or tribute or what). Also the Brig, uh, seems to have a brother who may be canonical or may not be. (Welcome to Doctor Who.)
Is it that weird that the Doctor only seems to travel with only-children? I suppose it makes sense that she would gravitate towards them. Lots of the Doctor’s companions (take Amy or Bill for example) don’t just have no silbings, but no-one at all. Plus I suppose back in the older Who days there was never any need for much companion backstory at all.
However! Me personally, I’m dying for more sibling stories. Doctor Who does so few of them and I want more! There’s so many dynamics there that writers could explore. I’d quite like to see Sonya travelling with the Doctor and Yaz for a bit, for example, and get a proper exploration of the relationship between the Khan sisters. My fingers are crossed, anyway.
This little trailer dropped, and sure it says it’s for the Season 26 Collection but maybe, just maybe, it’s hinting Ace could show up by the side of the Thirteenth Doctor soon?
Please let that happen! Everything in this trailer is already established canon and Sophie looks frickin’ amazing. And it’d be great to have an older woman on the TARDIS team. Please?
I remember last year I was sitting in a cafe and the people next to me started talking about the new series of Doctor Who. I eavesdropped (I couldn’t not, it was quite a small cafe) and one of the blokes said the show had become “too PC.”
He said this in Leicester. In LEICESTER! He had only to look out of the window and there were tons of Yazs, Ryans, Graces, and tall blonde snappily-dressed women walking around right under his nose. And Doctor Who is currently using Sheffield as its home base, where there are also tons of Yazs, Ryans, Graces, and tall blonde snappily-dressed women walking around .
See, I hear that a lot about Doctor Who these days – “Too PC! Too pandering!” and I just fundamentally don’t understand it. Like, if you want to complain about the plots, go ahead! Every Doctor Who series is a very mixed bag and honestly I thought the one with the killer bubble wrap was pretty silly too. But who is it pandering to? Women? People of colour? In that case, in what way was the original Doctor Who not pandering to white men?
I think really Mandip Gill, aka Yaz, said it best:
But I just fundamentally don’t understand how someone can walk among all different kinds of people and then decide he doesn’t want those same people to be in the sci-fi TV shows he watches.
