Hey youtubers it's Charlie and the BBC just released a new teaser trailer for Series 8.
The main reason was to confirm the premiere date of August 23 which was pretty much when
I thought it would be. But even though it was a super short clip we got loads of new
information so this is going to be a breakdown of that.
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So important stuff, like I said Doctor Who Series 8 Episode 1 will air Saturday August
23rd on BBC one and BBC America. I don't know all the channels it airs on internationally,
but if you've watched Doctor Who on television in the past, it will be on that same channel
at the time it normally airs every week.
It wasn't super hard to guess that's when the premiere was, it's the first Saturday
after the last day of their World Tour. If any of you guys actually go to the World Tour
dates be sure to take pictures and let everybody know in the comments. If they're coming to
a city near you it's worth it to try and go. I live in California, so I won't make it to
the one in New York City but that's okay.
So let's break down the new trailer.
The first thing we notice is the huge change to the Stalk of the TARDIS Console. It's red,
a very ominous red. The TARDIS interior itself doesn't look too different which is expected
since they spent about 2 Million Dollars building Matt Smith a new TARDIS for the 2012 Christmas
Special, the Snowmen.
I'd say that companions getting to travel in multiple different TARDIS's was a rare
thing, but given all the changes in Doctors since the 2005 reboot it seems like the final
companion any given Doctor travels with, has a pretty good chance of traveling with the
next Doctor in their new TARDIS.
It's hard to argue if Capaldi's TARDIS is new, because if they're just changing the
Stalk of the Console, it's a big change, but not super huge. Until we get a better look
at the interior I'm going to call it a minor revision. But not full on new.
I predict that there are also a few subtle changes to the interior skin. But the superstructure
and the Gallifreyan symbols will stay the same.
The explosions we've seen before, they're just a continuation of the explosions that
started when Matt Smith regenerated into Capaldi in the Christmas Special. The TARDIS always
seems like it crashes during a regeneration.
Whenever Tennant regenerated into Matt Smith, he still new how to fly it. But it was severly
damaged which is one of the reasons he didn't come back for Amelia Pond at the right time.
I have another theory about that though, since the TARDIS has an awareness that seems a little
sharper than the Doctor's, I'm guessing it took Matt Smith to adult Amelia Pond on purpose,
not because it malfunctioned.
Like we heard IDRIS say in The Doctor's Wife, "I may not always take you where you want
to go, but I do always take you where you need to go." I love how that implied that
The Doctor has absolutely no idea what he needs to do. He just makes it up as he goes
along.
Maybe that was Moffat making fun of himself.
The voice over Capaldi has as it zooms into his eye is a little sinister. "Clara Be My
Pal and tell me, Am I A Good Man?" the delivery on that makes it sound like he's asking as
if he's not sure he WANTS to be a good man.
There was this April fool's joke that BBC or someone did where they were disseminating
information that Peter Capaldi was in fact the Master disguised as The Doctor, which
is ridiculous because we saw Matt Smith become Capaldi.
But Moffat has already revealed that Capaldi's Doctor will be much less accommodating, "Stern"
was the word used specifically, but I think it just implies that he won't be as inclined
to help others as he was in the past.
If that's the case, the responsibility of convincing him to help people week to week
is going to fall on Clara and the other companions that will join up. If you haven't seen any
of my other videos for Series 8, I explain who they are. It's basically the Danny Pink
character and his Sister. So somewhere after Episode 4, there will be three companions
traveling in the TARDIS
Clara's line in the trailer, "I don't think I know who The Doctor is anymore" is from
a different scene, she's not answering Capaldi's question about being a good man. It's probably
from that first episode which means she might be talking to Madam Vastra. We've seen pictures
of her on set for that first episode.
It stands to reason that The Doctor's friends would be confused by Capaldi's behavior post-regeneration,
especially if he doesn't care about them like he used to.
When the camera zooms in on Clara inside his eyeball we just see his iris and pupil but
part of me wants to think the imagery is also supposed to be a visual reference to either
a black hole or the Time Vortex that we see in the opening credits, the untempered schism,
which we haven't seen since End of Time or even the Eye of Harmony. There are a lot of
eyeball references in Doctor Who. And the last thing which you may have missed
unless you watched the teaser a few times was Capaldi's modified intro music. Steven
Moffat updated the opening credits music a few times while he's been showrunner. Not
huge changes, just really small subtle ones.
Remember during the 50th Anniversary, they played the original intro music, it's changed
a lot since that first broadcast, but the basic structure and notes are still the same.
So expect a minor update for Capaldi's intro.
That's really the big thing that they haven't shown off yet, Capaldi's official opening
credits scene. There have been a lot of fan versions, but I'm wondering if they'll show
it off at Comic Con next month. They might just wait till that first episode to reveal
it.
Sometimes when they take footage to Comic Con it's just a super short highlight reel.
Last year they showed off what was basically the first teaser for the 50th Anniversary.
So it's not a huge deal if you aren't in Hall H. There's nothing they'll show in there that
you won't also see at the end of August, so no worries.
But let me know, what do you think the Red TARDIS Console means and do you think there's
some hidden imagery in that shot of his eye at the end?
Because there's a ton of other videos I have to do this weekend I'm not going to make a
Q&A video for this, so just ask all your questions in the comments here and I'll try to answer
as many as possible.
Saturday is basically my new Doctor Who day. Here's what my bonus videos are going to look
like till episode 1 premieres. It will be 1 video every Saturday, not including Comic
Con weekend. There will be some extra stuff then. The week episode 1 airs I'll do a Saturday
Morning Bonus video, then an episode review Saturday Night and a Q&A on Sundays. One for
each new episode. So that's like 36 plus Doctor Who videos during the season.
I'm also going to do some special stuff for the Christmas Special too just like Last Year,
but that's so far off I'm going to wait to talk about it when we get closer.
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the series 8 episodes and click here to learn about the TOP 10 new companions I'd like to
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Thanks for watching, see you guys tomorrow. High Fives!