Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and next week Doctor Who Series 8 premieres.
Congrats to anyone who’s made it to the World Tour so far, some of you have been sending
me really awesome pics on twitter and facebook.
The next stop as of the day I’m posting this is New York.
I live in Los Angeles so I won’t be able to get arrested trying to tackle Peter Capaldi
with hugs but if one of you guys wants to try tweet the pictures before you get handcuffed.
They just released a proper trailer for Episode 1 Deep Breath so this video will be a breakdown
of the new things in that and we’ve also learned the titles from all of the regular
episodes.
There are 12.
The 13th is the christmas special but we don’t know anything about that yet.
If you’re just finding me for the first time I do Doctor Who video every week.
And I’m doing a weekly Doctor Who giveaway.
All you have to do to enter is be a subscriber and leave a comment on this video.
Details in the description too.
So let’s start with the Deep Breath Trailer.
A lot of it is familiar footage and because it jumps around in the episode I’m going
to reorganize things from the same scenes as I go along.
Here we go:
Starting with Dinosaur’s in London.
I know some of you weren’t really taken with Dinosaurs on a Spaceship but as much
as the T-Rex is comedy.
It’s sheer size makes you think less of Trikey and more of Jurassic Park.
Fun Fact: Gallifrey, Mondas and Skaro all used to have their own species of Dinosaurs.
The Gallifreyan ones were called Gigantosaurs.
They only appeared in the comics.
The Skaro ones were just triceratops with one big horn and the Mondas ones were pretty
much like the earth dinosaurs since Mondas was Earth’s twin planet.
The Mondas cybermen even converted some of the dinosaurs into cybermen to use as mounts.
I don’t think this dinosaur is connected to any of the villains this season, I think
it’s just there to introduce Capaldi with some flair, but the Doctor does speak Dinosaur
and I’m not talking about Silurian, Vastra’s native language.
He can speak to big dinosaurs like the T-Rex.
I don’t know if they’ll actually show this but I think it’s kind of funny.
Here’s the Doctor out of Matt Smith’s costume but not yet in his new one, this episode
is the transition from Smith to Capaldi, so naturally he has to get into his new outfit.
But the promo pics we’ve seen and the other trailer footage show him wearing a victorian
outfit that’s different from what his Doctor Costume will be.
This is what the official costume is, presumably he’ll be in it by the end of the first episode.
Smith changed his appearance a few times during the Christmas Special.
The way I see it is you have the anachronistic Matt Smith costume.
Young man in very old timey clothes and now we’re actually way back in Victorian era
when those clothes would have been totally normal.
Cut to old man appropriately dressed in old man’s clothes.
All of the interview quotes I’ve been seeing from the World Tour have been about how no-nonsense
Capaldi is going to be.
Most of the interviews sound like they’re meant for people who have never read doctor
who, because I feel like anyone who watched the 50th Anniversary and saw that clip of
his eyes, knew exactly what his personality was going to be.
You can let me know if you agree, but I just thought he was going to be a badass.
The next montage sets up the action of the episode, them dealing with the Dinosaur, the
mysterious Robot Man and the fact the Doctor is still delirious from his regeneration.
What the Doctor says in case you have trouble understanding him when he talks really fast
in his scottish accent is “The Question is, Have there been any similar Murders?”.
There was a rumor that Jack the Ripper would be involved in the episode and I haven’t
seen any evidence that he is.
But the rumors might have been referring to the robot man.
Vastra said she killed and ate Jack the Ripper during Good Man Goes to War, series 6 episode
7.
So I’m pretty sure it’s not him that made that big explosion.
I like that Vastra implies that no matter how addled the Doctor’s mind is from regeneration,
he automatically hones in on trouble.
It looks like we’ll get another badass Vastra and Jenny battle.
They got a pretty good one during Crimson Horror too.
That was series 7 episode 12.
I like that they gave Clara the Doctor’s “You’ve redecorated line”.
Most people probably remember this from the 50th last year, but the second doctor originated
it.
The first time he said it was during the three doctor’s special when he saw the third doctor’s
tardis, then again in the five doctors special inside the UNIT headquarters to Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart, then Matt Smith said it to Craig when he saw his house in Closing
Time Series 6 Episode 12 and then most recently David Tennant said it to Matt Smith when he
saw his TARDIS.
Clara is referencing the Book Shelves mostly.
I think Matt Smith did have bookshelves and paintings inside the control room after he
redecorated before he met Clara in the 2012 christmas special.
There were also bookshelves inside the seventh doctor’s TARDIS.
It was more victorian looking.
I think it’s a nice easter egg since Capaldi’s first episode is during the victorian era.
I guess we’ll find out if the bookshelves stick.
I think the footage we saw of them in the previous trailers was from the first few episodes.
I can’t wait to get a better look inside.
Structurally though it’s the same as Matt Smith’s final TARDIS, just new decorations.
I think that Capaldi’s smile is just him acknowledging the humor of her taking what
should be his line.
And now on to episode titles I’m just going to present all these as a montage with text
instead of reading them out loud.
Here we go:
So remember, Episode 1 airs Saturday the 23rd.
If you’re watching it on BBC One I think it’s 7 or 8PM GMT.
But if you have access to BBC America they’re also premiering John Simm’s new series Intruders
right after Doctor Who.
It’s going to be like Orphan Black season 1, where they air Doctor Who first and Intruders
right after for the entire season.
I’m not planning on doing any videos for Intruders but I will be watching.
This week because the official Doctor Who team at the BBC requested it I’m doing a
video for good Classic Who episodes to watch before series 8.
It’s okay, even if you never watched classic who or the new series, Episode 1 of Series
8 is designed to explain all the basics anyway, so don’t feel weird about jumping on if
you’re totally new.
And I’ll be doing a ton of videos every week.
It’s going to be a lot of fun.
What I’m going to do is before each episode I’m going to post a bonus video about a
specific villain or a story I think is interesting to the current episode, then I’ll post my
regular episode review and then a Q&A.
The giveaways will always start in the episode review videos just like I did for game of
thrones and I’ll name winners in the Q&As.
I am posting a Q&A for this video tonight so if you want to enter the giveaway, just
make sure to subscriber and leave a comment.
There’s only one winner per video.
Right now click here for the Q&A, i’ll add the annotation as soon as I post it and click
here to learn about Peter Capaldi coming back for series 9.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tonight!