Hey youtubers it’s charlie, since we’ve gotten past the doctor who christmas special
and series 8 is getting ready to film next week I wanted to do a predictions video that
included some of the things that we actually know already.
My plan for the next couple of months is to do at least one doctor who video a week.
So sometimes when we learn new things about series 8 it the videos will be about that
and other times they’ll be fun bonus videos or q&A videos if you guys have a lot of questions
you want me to answer.
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So what I’ll do in this video is start with everything we do know, then do my top 5 predictions.
So things we know.
1 - Filming starts this monday.
january 6th.
They only have half the episodes planned out, which is 6.
so they’ll finish the scripts for the second half of the season while they’re making
this first batch.
2 - All the episodes will air week to week without a giant break like series 7.
Raise your hand if you hated that break.
3 - there will be 13 episodes and possibly an easter special.
No christmas special has been confirmed.
4 - Returning characters include the patternoster gang, vastra, jenny and strax, of course clara
is returning for the full series but Alex Kingston said she might be coming back too
with her classic spoilers line.
Remember her character’s relationship with the doctor spanned multiple versions.
Not just matt smith’s doctor.
So it would totally be in keeping with canon for her to interact with peter capaldi.
5 - The first episode will feature vastra, jenny and strax.
6 - There is currently a blue peter competition to design a few sonic screwdrivers for each
of them to use in that episode.
Can you imagine strax with a sonic screwdriver?
7 - Even though there are a few characters returning steven moffat said in his own words
that he’s cleaning house.
Meaning a lot of the anacronisms of matt smith’s era won’t be there.
I’ll talk more about that during predictions.
8 - The directors have been announced for several episodes and include, Ben Wheatley,
Paul Murphy, and Douglas Mackinnon.
Each is doing two episodes, thus the 6 they’ll start this monday.
9 - Currently the writers that have been hired back are mostly familiar faces including,
Mark Gatiss, Neil Cross, and Gareth Roberts not including steven moffat.
Who’s writing that first episode.
Writers currently still in talks are Chris Chinball, Tom MacRae, Jack Lothien and possibly
Neil Gaiman.
Although he said doctor who doesn’t pay very well.
So he’s a long shot.
And his last episode nightmare in sliver was supposed to be a two-parter, got smashed into
one and everyone was disappointed.
So don’t expect him back.
10 - The premiere will be after August.
No official date yet but we could see episodes by the end of august or september at the latest.
Time for predictions
First - the timelords.
They tried to contact the doctor via the cracks, successfully.
That idea of them trying to bring gallifrey back will be part of the larger narrative.
They’ll still be stuck in the pocket universe, but because the daleks know what’s going
on now there’s the constant threat of resuming the time war.
So series 8 will probably end with them still stuck outside the universe.
But they’ll still be able to telephone the doctor via cracks.
Second - Something else is going to try and break into the universe.
If the time lords can do it, then so can something really awful.
But because steven moffat is changing a lot of aspects of the show, don’t expect it
to be a classic villain like the master or another one of the time locked races that
david tennant mentions during the end of time.
3 - The doctor will leave clara by the end of the series.
Meaning I expect to see a new companion during series 9.
Right now both capaldi and jenna louise coleman are only signed on for series 8.
I expect capaldi to stay for multiple series although I’ve heard rumors his run will
be shorter than matt smith’s.
4 - There will be a new original villain.
Steven moffat created the silence during series 6 to be the main villains.
He’ll do the same type of thing again in series 8.
Typically new baddies get introduced in the first episode.
But since it will be a brand new doctor it could be another cracks in the universe type
situation where the role typically given to the antagonist is instead a new mystery.
and number 5 - The cracks will still be there.
Matt Smith’s doctor said that when he fixed the universe it left a fundamental weakness
which is where the cracks come from.
He never fixed that weakness before regenerating.
So that will still be an issue.
It will allow both good things like the time lords to be part of the story but also the
new main villain.
I know I talked about river song before I did predictions, but since she’s already
gone ahead and teased it I think we can bump her from maybe to probably to “spoilers”.
Let me know what you think about the idea of them using a new original villain instead
of a classic villain in series 8.
Remember because of the cracks there’s still the possibility that all those awful time
locked things could come back.
Like I said, I’ll still be doing weekly doctor who videos going forward, if you have
specific things you’d like to see me make videos for just let me know in the comments.
Right now click here for my christmas special easter eggs and click here for my review of
sherlock series 3 episode 1.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tonight.
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