Showing a Glimse of Peter Capaldi was wrong
Free Radical
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Yes I know the identity of the next Doctor was revealed ages ago, but I still think we shouldn't have seen him on screen until the regeneration. I'm aware that Peter (a lifelong Whovian) was delighted to be part of the 50th special, but I still think it was a mistake to break with tradition.
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It was the biggest fan yelp of the whole episode.
benefit of Nu-Who's arc-style plotting.
It didnt confirm that.....
Get the whole dialogue from that 5 seconds and you will know why
I said it "sort of" confirmed it. If it's just 5 seconds why don't you explain it yourself. They said "all 13 of him" and old Who has previously established that he's only meant to have 13 incarnations, and this simply ties in with that. Also, if it's not meant to sort of confirm it, where was the 14th, 15th incarnation etc.?
It did look as if something of Malcolm Tucker will survive in Thirteen.
And one of them was this. It was a punch the air moment! And I think they did it about the right way, we did get to see him, but we didn't get to learn anything much about him (not even the clothes) because that's still to come!
(the other two freakout moments were when Hurt started regenerating and I almost believed that we would see Eccleston, too bad that one didn't work out, but it was still redeemed by the last freak out which was Tom Baker appearing)
I'm really really glad that I stayed far far away from the spoilers about this one as I've read on several other websites that at least somewhere the Capaldi and Baker appearances were spoiled before the episode.
You saw part of him, at least.
One of many Ecclesteases.
A tiny touch, but so exciting.
Loved Hurt's final plea: 'Hope the ears aren't as prominent next time'. Heh heh.
Cheeky.:D
I washoping for a full regeneration scene though. I can't lie, at that moment I was just a bit angry with Chris Eccleston (while at the same time if the regeneration scene was all Moffat offered him, I can sorta understand why he'd turn it down). But all was redeemed by Tom Baker at the end. Especially because it was my first real wtf surprise of Doctor Who (ok, I didn't know about Capaldi, but it was always a possibility in my mind that we'd see just a bit of him in TDotD), even more so because Paul McGann's appearance last week was spoiled for me. I wasn't expecting it to come out until Saturday, so I checked the DWTV website without any worries and they there were with a photo gallery of McGann's return even before I managed to watch The Night of the Doctor. (and that's not even counting all the rumours in the spoilers thread on here long before that). I'm still a bit pissed that the "I'm a Doctor. But probably not the one you were expecting." had a much lesser impact on me than it could have had.