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The Doctors Face
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Something that I'm intrigued about is that when Peter Capaldi was first announced as the Doctor there was a quote from Moffat saying that he'd spoken to RTD who said he had a plan to explain how Capaldi played different characters in Doctor Who and Torchwood. Apparently this could also be used to explain him now playing the Doctor. Moffat said he liked the idea and was going to use it.
I thought that was going to be the arc for this series and it seemed to be alluded to in Deep Breath, with the Doctor saying that there must be a reason why he had that face but didn't know why.
I'm not saying that I particularly wanted this to be explained but I'm intrigued as to what happened to the idea. Was it dropped or will it re-appear in future series, or was it explained and I missed it?
I thought that was going to be the arc for this series and it seemed to be alluded to in Deep Breath, with the Doctor saying that there must be a reason why he had that face but didn't know why.
I'm not saying that I particularly wanted this to be explained but I'm intrigued as to what happened to the idea. Was it dropped or will it re-appear in future series, or was it explained and I missed it?
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Moffat hates torchwood, that's why it has never been mentioned again and Jack Harkness never seen. Moffat likes to "bait" the fans, so this statement about explaining the doctors face is a red-herring. It will never happen. Moffat said this to make people feel at ease with accepting Capaldi in the role.
Oh well, fair enough then. I think I was just under the misconception that it would be more of a long running theme in the same style as the Doctors search for Gallifrey.
I wonder what RTD's original plan was for linking Caecilius in Doctor Who with Frobisher in Torchwood as presumably that wouldn't have involved regeneration. I guess he probably would have said that they were distant relatives or something?
Captain Jack (a character created by Mofffat) would have appeared in A Good Man Goes to War but John Barrowman was too busy.