“Clara be my pal
and tell me, am I a good man?”
“I don’t think I
know who the Doctor is anymore.”
That exchange and the publicity shot above them are
things the BBC thinks we should be getting excited over. To be honest the
teaser trailer featuring the two lines of dialogue did nothing for me. The silhouette
of Capaldi looked like it was done through CGI and for some reason that really
irritates me. Probably because I’d rather have a shot of Capaldi that’s
definitely live action.
Still, the teaser does at least support Moff’s natter
about the Doctor being more irascible that he’s been since Eccleston though.
Which is a good thing. Or at least it is in theory. How good it is in practice
is reliant on Moffat being capable of writing a “snarling beast” leading man
with empathy. Going on his career history that’s not something we can rely on.
The picture’s more interesting. Because it shows a new
TARDIS set. The purple and gold colouring’s pretty nice. It puts me in mind of
the secondary console room, even though it really shouldn’t. Perhaps it’s
because the walls look like they’re wooden. Perhaps it actually will prove to
be based on the secondary console room when we get to see more of it. It
already looks nicer than the last console room. The cold, clinical steel look
never did anything for me.
Also pretty old school is the control console being
white. Because, y’know, until 2005 we’d only ever had white controls in the
TARDIS.
All told it looks like a nice new set. But should that
really be the thing that I’m most looking forward to seeing when there’s a new
Doctor debuting? The answer, of course, is no.
Oh, and the Twelfth Doctor’s debut episode being called
Deep Breath? That’s a bit disappointing, isn’t it?
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