Someday I will attend San Diego Comic Con. But this year, when Matt Smith, Jenna Louise-Coleman, and Steven Moffat were all there, was unfortunately not the year. I guess I'll have to wait until Matt Smith is all washed up before he'll appear at another Comic Con to talk about Doctor Who. So I wasn't there when they showed the awesome teaser trailer at Comic Con, I had to wait for it to come out online like everybody else did. Nobody managed to steal a quick video from it like the trailer for "The End of Time." So when I woke up this morning and found that the trailer was released, I was glad I would have something to write about in my blog besides people's various and fruitless attempts to predict the 12th Doctor.
The trailer is amazing! I think my favorite part is probably the awesome, ominous music. If that's Murray Gold's doing, he might have just outdone himself. (Well, okay, nothing beats "Abigail's Song" from "A Christmas Carol). But it sets the stage for what looks like a very dark episode. Of course, there's bound to be much more lighthearted humor in this episode than the trailer suggests. That's Moffat's style: dark, but funny.
The moment of the Doctor meeting the Doctor in this is fantastic, even though the 10th Doctor's facial expression says "Who just farted?". That first meeting is going to be one of the highlights of the revived series. And the trailer pretty much proves that this is the actual 10th Doctor, not Meta-Crisis 10, which is what I was afraid of. Meta-Crisis 10 could still have been fun, but I want the 11th Doctor to meet the actual 10th Doctor, not his half-human off-shoot from a ridiculous and convoluted plot. But with both Doctors standing directly in front of their TARDISes--one with the St. John's Ambulance badge on it, one without--it shows that this is definitely the proper 10th Doctor. Meta-Crisis 10 doesn't have a TARDIS.
If you start the trailer at exactly 0:24 you'll see a shot of the 10th Doctor walking into a TARDIS where the 2nd Doctor, and someone else, are controlling the TARDIS panel. But there's something I'm confused about: I guess if I went back and watched all of "The Three Doctors" I might recognize what scene that was. The 2nd Doctor in a color scene with that quality camera work and that TARDIS design is almost certainly a multi-Doctor episode. And I checked "The Five Doctors" and the design doesn't match up. It has to be "The Three Doctors." But as the 10th Doctor's shoulder slowly starts to move out of the way, you can see the head of someone else at the TARDIS console. It looks like the 1st Doctor. And this is why I'm confused: the 1st Doctor never appeared in the TARDIS during "The Three Doctors." Hartnell was in such poor health that they had to write in a way for him to spend the entire serial sitting down, so he was in the television for the whole serial. What is that shot from? Again, if I were to go through all of "The Three Doctors" I might find it, and maybe I'll go through it later, but I can't for the life of me imagine where that shot might be from. Perhaps it was an early outtake of "The Three Doctors" before they decided to keep Hartnell in the TV. That's what they did with the 4th Doctor in "The Five Doctors": put in footage of him that had never made it to air.
But it does tell us one very interesting thing: the special will incorporate, at the very least, archive footage of past Doctors. I'll be interested to see how that works in. They certainly did a very good job of it in "The Name of the Doctor."
And what the fuck is with the knight walking towards the tent?
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Now, in other news, you might have heard that Stephen Moffat recently released copies of the audition scripts he's using to try out potential 12th Doctors. This has led to a lot of people trying to guess who the new Doctor is going to be based on the tone and word choice in the Doctor's dialogue. These are clearly people who do not know what an audition script is. Moffat even said that these scripts will never be in an episode of the show. So don't try to read into it. Moffat is trying to whet our appetites for the 12th Doctor without actually telling us anything about him at all. So enjoy the scripts, they're deliciously clever in a very Moffat-y kind of way, but don't pretend that they're going to help you figure anything out.
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