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Capaldi "exhausted" and leaving after one series?
Kapellmeister
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This is the rumour going around Twitter at the moment e.g.:
https://twitter.com/Eddie_At_Skaro
If true then it wouldn't surprise me at all. I had a gut feeling when he took the part that Capaldi wouldn't be in it for the long haul.
Could it be true? Might The Capaldi be doing a The Eccleston? Murmers are he's exhausted with the schedule and may not return for s9! Boo.
https://twitter.com/Eddie_At_Skaro
If true then it wouldn't surprise me at all. I had a gut feeling when he took the part that Capaldi wouldn't be in it for the long haul.
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If he's right, it's a coincidence. I'm astonished people are still listening to him. I don't think he's nasty, just a fantasist, and he likes the attention and page views. I wish people wouldn't give them to him. Outpost Skaro is a website that desperately wishes it had sources, but anyone with genuine connections generally avoids it.
I like OS
Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if this were true, whatever Eddie's sources are.
Every actor is pushed by the schedule. A bout of paranoia because of his age.
Didn't you think at the time it was odd that quite a high profile actor would sign up for more than a single series? I wonder if Capaldi only ever wanted to do it for a year, just so he could fulfill a childhood ambition and say 'I was Doctor Who'.
I don't know. I just can't see him staying on. Maybe these rumours are just laying the groundwork for when he does an Ecclescake.
Capaldi won't be a one series only Doctor.
He might just end up doing one series, wouldn't blame him, it must be tiring, but I think anyone who claims to know is making it up, at the moment. Even if this rumour comes to fruition, they'll have a hell of a job convincing me it wasn't just a lucky guess.
Quite frankly I'm insulted on Peter's behalf that people's ageist assumptions that because he's not 30 he can't handle a vigorous schedule. From the looks of it, I doubt they work that many more hours than that of a typical 9-5 job, and I'm sure he faced a similar schedule when he The Musketeers. He's a grown man, if he couldn't handle the schedule, why did he take the job? It's not like in his 40 years of acting he hasn't had a schedule like this or that there weren't enough people to tell him what working on Doctor Who would be like.
Let's not forget William Hartnell worked for 3 years before bowing out of exhaustion- and he had a new episode more or less every week!
Also I think the justification that this might be the case by mentioning Hartnell and Troughton is silly because their schedule was worse because they made episodes almost every single week.
Well no, not really. He was hardly in Musketeers.
Knowing this intellectually and experiencing it physically are two very different things.
Yes but why would someone agree to work long hours if they think they cannot cope? Capaldi will probably be exhausted but I don't think he will quit after 1 series because of it.
Err, no.
And his second.
In fact, there were rumours and speculation about his departure from pretty much the moment he took the part.
Same for Matt as I recall.
If he does leave it would probably be because that is all he wanted to do right from the beginning. I believe he is more than capable of acting the part for as long as he likes. The man is only in his fifties for heaven's sake.
Personally I hope he does the character for many years because I love to watch him act, but of course he does such a variety of things he may not want to lock in for too long. I'll be happy for as long as he continues though. Cannot wait to see the first series. He brings with him lots of experience together with class and strength of character to the part I hope.
<Claps hands> Well done! Someone telling the truth for once!
But, no. I definately would not sign up to FB or TW. I know that both FB and TW can get out of hand, badly.
But then they also denied the Eccleston leaving after one series rumour too. I'm not saying the Capaldi rumour is true, just that they are hardly likely to confirm it even if it was true.
Punishing schedule though? We get that complaint a lot with this show. It's 9 months of very well paid work with 3 months break. I'm sure the hours are sometimes quite long but that's compensated by a very nice salary and a very nice quarter of a year break.
I think it would be more odd for a lifelong fan like Capaldi, who has dreamed of being The Doctor since he was a boy, to land his dream role yet give it up after only a year.
As far as I know, each actor to play The Doctor is only contracted to one series at a time, then they can renew their contract for another series if they so wish.
Well, Tom Baker obviously liked DW so much, that he kept coming back time and time again, re-newing his contract another six times!
Didn't Smith sign for three years as they didn't want another Eccleston on their hands?
The BBC? They haven't denied anything about Capaldi, have they? I would expect much more noise if Capaldi is only doing one series. Not just @Eddie_At_Skaro.
Many media outlets got hold of it originally in February because The Mirror published an article claiming that the BBC only wanted Capaldi for one series to 'steer the series in a new, radical direction.'
So instead of Capaldi struggling with the schedule and quitting - he signed on knowing that it would only be for one series. Which to me, sounds rather silly and unfair. If Capaldi was willing and able to do more than one series - would they decline? Would Capaldi himself put pen to paper to setting potential fans up for an immediate let-down? I know it would be hard for him to say no, but still. Would Moffat really intentionally round off his era with Ninth Doctor 2.0?
Eddie's tweet is just riding off the back of the original story in my opinion. We have a number of extremely reliable whistleblowers who are confident PC will be back for more - as said above, I believe we would hear more about it if it were true.