spoilers, sweetie!

[such_heights]

Okay, the BBC are allegedly making a couple of big announcements re. Doctor Who today including unveiling the new companion. Beneath the cut is a rundown of the things we know so far as well as the latest tabloid rumours re. said companion. Will update with news as it comes in.

WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR: casting/location/episode title/writer spoilers, but no major plot spoilers eta: now with some info re. Ponds' departure via Moff

eta: Jenna-Louise Coleman CONFIRMED as the new companion - as yet no other details. This is her:



eta2: Her first episode is the Christmas special.
eta3: (I'm getting these from @bbcdoctorwho)

Steven "Amy & Rory will leave in a final encounter with the Weeping Angels in ep 5. Not everyone gets out alive and I mean it this time"

Moffat I actually hate you sometimes, stop trolling me, just stop it. It's not funny. DD:

He's a lying liar who lies, a lying liar who lies, a lying liar who lies ... oh god I can't deal with this for the rest of the year it's going to be terrible. a;lskdja;slkj

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+ Amy and Rory are leaving this season, possibly halfway through. Quotes from Moffat and Karen suggest it'll be final, heartstring-tugging but not necessarily tragic.

+ No one has officially confirmed that River will be back but I see no reason why she won't be.

+ Karen, Arthur and Matt have been filming a Western episode in Spain that is possibly called 'Gun Slingers'

+ Confirmed writers for s7 include Chris Chibnall (Torchwood, 42, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood) and Toby Whithouse (Being Human, School Reunion, Vampires of Venice, God Complex). I assume Mark Gatiss as well.

+ The series will start airing at some point in the autumn, unclear whether it'll be continuous or if there'll be a gap, and whether the Christmas special will fall mid or post-series, but 14 episodes have been commissioned.

+ Guest stars so far include Mark Williams, Rupert Graves, David Bradley and Ben Browder (!). But it looks like both them and Chibnall and Whithouse are all involved in the first three episodes, so after that who knows. I'm certainly holding out for it to get less white dude heavy, much as I'm excited about Browder and Graves in particular!

+ Current tabloid rumours suggest that the Beeb are going to announce Jenna-Louise Coleman [imdb link] as the new companion later this morning. I have no opinion on that until it's confirmed, but if it *is* her then I'm disappointed it's not more of a change from the usual young pretty white girl but she looks adorable and whoever they've cast is no doubt very talented. WE WILL SEE.

+ More as it happens! (... oh shit I need to get back to work /o\)

Comments

[eumelkeks]

Wow, a hot yet unknown white British actor. I love where they're taking it.

[such_heights]

... yeah pretty much! Crossing my fingers there'll be something a bit more interesting to it, though I've no doubt I'll love her because I always do.

[copracat]

I remember grieving for the loss of Donna as a companion followed by the sheerest joy of The Eleventh Hour with Amelia Pond. I don't hope to have that level of joy, but who knows?

[liviapenn]

Steven "Amy & Rory will leave in a final encounter with the Weeping Angels in ep 5. Not everyone gets out alive and I mean it this time"

oh my god, Moff, PLEASE HAVE THE WEEPING ANGELS SEND AMY AND RORY BACK IN TIME AND THEY ADOPT LITTLE MEL AND RAISE HER.

[such_heights]

... DUDE. oh my god, if they did that in a way that didn't rewrite her future as River? That would make me really happy.

[liviapenn]

Aw! I was so excited and then you mentioned the one thing that would make it awful instead of THE BEST!! Erasing River is not allowed. Besides, it could never happen, Lake Silencio is a fixed point. *phew*

[such_heights]

Lake Silencio is fixed, and also, Professor River Song always has to go to the Library to save the Doctor, that's basically a fixed point in show continuity if nothing else. But as long as that remains the case then eeee omg the Ponds getting their baby back would be pretty ace, though I'm unsure whether it could happen or not.

[grlnamedlucifer]

That.... you have suddenly made this news wonderful. Thank you for that.

[liviapenn]

I almost wish I hadn't thought of it, because surely it can't be right if I thought of it!

On the other hand, if I have actually called it, bragging rights for ETERNITY.

[lyricwrites.livejournal.com]

I . . . think you may have, actually. It feels Moffatty. I'm going with this theory unless it's proven wrong.

My addendum, which I also get eternal bragging rights for if I've called it: Moffatt saying that "Not everyone gets out alive?" It's true. Rory is going to take down a Weeping Angel. Because Moffatt doesn't always troll the fanbase in a bad way, and he's thoroughly amused by rorywilliamsfacts on tumblr.

[nicole_anell]

DO NOT SAY SUCH THINGS AND GET MY HOPES UP. *sniffle*

[hibernate]

OMG SO EXCITED AND TERRIFIED AND EXCITED.

They certainly could have picked a less typical actress for the part, but I'm sure she'll be great. Still holding out hope that she may be an alien, or at least from a different time period!

I will weep if there is no more River, because she is my favourite for always.

[such_heights]

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY ON ALL COUNTS.

And there will absolutely be more River, I'm about 110% sure. Everyone loves her too much to let go of her just yet.

[lokifan]

YES PRECISELY SECONDED.

OMG Moff, stop trolling!! You are making me need to rewatch The Doctor Dances instead of write.

[grlnamedlucifer]

I'm still crossing my fingers that they can always make her a lesbian or a historical character or an alien or something more interesting than another pretty young modern white girl as well.

And of course that Moffat totally means everyone in the episode except the Doctor, Rory and Amy will die because if he actually kills off Rory and Amy I'll just... IDK mostly just cry a whole lot.

[such_heights]

I can't even think about the possibility of Amy and Rory dying to be honest, it is just too upsetting. THEY'RE GOING TO BE FINE. MOFFAT LIES ALL THE TIME, REALLY BLATANTLY.

[lyricwrites.livejournal.com]

My theory, as I said above: it's true that a person is going to die, for a very loose definition of "person." Rory is going to become the only being in history to actually kill a Weeping Angel.

[ashpags]

First of all, she's adorable and I know I'll love her. But I wish they had just announced her instead of dropping the Amy & Rory bomb. I, too, am reminding myself that Moffat is a lying liar who lies.

[such_heights]

RULE ONE: THE MOFFAT LIES.

[ashpags]

YES. Yes he does!

::clings::

[such_heights]

Remember how before s6 they were ramping up the death thing? By which he actually meant 'the Doctor's going to hang out inside a robot for a bit'? Yeah. If I repeat that to myself enough times I'll feel better.

[ashpags]

I have been thinking about that, too!

I like the theories people are tossing around about adopting Melody or going back in time or other non-actual-death scenarios.

"Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!" Neeeeeed.

Also, uh, I'm going to need some non-KGill icons. Hoom.

I do love the idea of Matt having to keep up with Jenna, and the Doctor being out-energied by his companion. ("energied" is a word because I say so.) That will be fun to watch!

[nicole_anell]

I agree I'm somewhat disappointed it's another young, white, conventionally sexy girl. But I'm looking forward to loving her - been watching some Emmerdale clips on YouTube and feeling better about the choice.

[such_heights]

Ooh cool, I am looking forward to checking her out on Emmerdale and Waterloo Road, as well as the new Titanic thing when it airs.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

She's super cute, but like us all, I think I'd like to see some more diversity here regarding age & race... (It'd be so cool to see an Asian companion, for instance!) But! she is super cute.

[such_heights]

Yep, precisely. We need an Asian companion, we really do, and I hope that in general Moffat steps up his game on the race front this next series, for it's not been great with any kind of consistency.

[aria]

I have decided that until proven otherwise "Not everyone gets out alive and I mean it this time" means that at the most literal Rory and Amy get sent back to a time where they'd be dead by their own modern time, and at its least literal Moffat is still a ridiculous troll and LOL JUST KIDDING AGAIN.

Jenna-Louise Coleman is totally adorable, and like everyone else I'm going to say that she'd better be queer or from another time period or an alien or any combination of the above, because otherwise, oh my god, pretty young white girl again, I'm sure like every other companion I'll adore her but in the meantime this is getting a bit silly.

[such_heights]

That's what I'm thinking - so maaaaybe the Doctor even sees their graves or something like that (god I hope not) but actually they were off having long, awesome lives somewhere or other. But I keep reminding myself that I don't actually believe anything Moffat says, ever, because he is awful for this.

Yeah - I really hope at the very least she's not from London. I don't know what her accent's like these days but I see she's from Lancashire originally, and a Northern companion would be brilliant.

[justice_turtle]

Well, duh, of course the Weeping Angels aren't all getting out alive. They're gonna have to be stuck stone looking at each other again. *hair flip*

(Moffat is a lying liar who lies, but he's also an incurable shipper of shippiness and too clever for his own good. Amy and Rory wind up alive and together, I will stake my sonic screwdriver on that. And he thinks it's a little bit more heartbreaking than it actually is, I betcha. *wise face*)

[coffeesuperhero]

CROSSING ALL MY FINGERS AND TOES FOR A QUEER COMPANION OR AT LEAST MAYBE MORE CANTON, WE KNOW THERE'S MORE CANTON, RIGHT???????

OH MY GOD SPEAKING OF CANTON WHAT IF THE NEW COMPANION IS LIKE, CANTON'S DAUGHTER

THAT WOULD BE AWESOME

AND OBVIOUSLY SHE'S BRITISH BECAUSE CANTON AND HIS HUSBAND MOVED TO THE UK OR SOMETHING IN LIKE, THE 70'S

I KNOW THIS IDEA HAS NO BASIS IN REALITY AND THERE ARE NO FACTS TO SUPPORT IT BUT THIS IS MY CANON NOW, BRB, WRITING THAT STORY.

(Also, about the other stuff: Moffat lies all the time, we'll probably get to that episode and eighteen more red shirts will die and he'll be like HAHAHA I TOLD YOU I MEANT IT AND I DID, SEE, and we'll all shake our fists like David Tennant and shout MOFFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT and he'll just be all >deal with it<. So basically business as usual for Steven Trollface Moffat.)

[pocketmouse]

Uggggggggh no more white girls! (She was in Captain America???) Can she at least not be from today? Can she be like, from sometime else? Or not from Earth? Pleeeeeeease?

I wasn't going to read any spoilers, then some fuckwit on my twitter feed retweeted the BBC, so there went that. That said, I think there is only one scenario that would satisfy me: they end up in 1969 and find just-regenerated wee!Melody, and raise her. Which would explain why even if the Doctor found them (or just one of them, if only one of them got Angeled), they wouldn't just get back on the TARDIS with him. It would also help explain how Melody gets from the US in 1969 to Leadworth in the 1990s.

I'm not expecting it, but that's what I'd like.

ETA: Ahahahaha, and I see everyone else agrees with me.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

Seriously, did he really just go 'ooo I'll really kill Rory this time?' Its so fucking annoying!

And omg Rupert Graves!!!!!