It's been a week since my last Doctor Who blog. A lot has happened within a week. For example.
First of all, a gorgeous and rather funky promo picture of Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson as the 15th Doctor and Ruby Sunday. This pic also has orange, green and yellow backgrounds.
More importantly this also lead to the trailer being released by both Disney+ and BBC (albeit an hour apart from each other). The trailer showed various scenes for both the Doctor and Ruby as glimpses of many of the actors confirmed for this series.
In the eight episodes we're getting, we've got the consequences of the Butterfly Effect, a musical episodes with the Beatles, landmines, the return of UNIT, a bird like villain in the Regency era and the return of UNIT. Glimpses of plenty new monsters and locations but no returning ones as of yet.
However an essential piece of casting that I've not talked about but feel I need to now would be of course Susan Twist. Already she appeared as Mrs Merridew in Wild Blue Yonder and an unnamed woman in The Church On Ruby Road. Why I am bringing her up now?
I'm bringing her up because Susan Twist will also be a recurring character in the first season, playing a tech businesswoman named Susan Triad, the head of Triad Technology and an ongoing threat for the upcoming season. Adding in Anita Dobson's Mrs Flood (also confirmed for Season 2/Series 15) and the foundling mystery of Ruby, it definitely seems like Russell T. Davies is delving into Steven Moffat's playbook of mystery women for his second era.
Meanwhile in the worst kept secret going, the BBC finally confirmed that Steven Moffat would be returning as a writer for the first season. It seems that Moffat has written the third episode, directed by Julie-Anne Robinson. The former showrunner had this to say about his return to the series.
"Yes, okay, fair enough - apologies to everyone I’ve very slightly misled - I am in fact writing an episode of the series of Doctor Who. Exactly like I said I never would. What can I tell you? There was begging, there was pleading but finally Russell agreed to let me have another go - so long as I got out of his garden. Working with old friends and a brand new Doctor I couldn’t be happier. Sorry I was a bit reticent on the subject for so long. It was all part of an elaborate plan that would have delighted millions but at the last minute I forgot what it was.”
The reception to Moffat's return has largely been positive, though some fans are still clamouring for newer writers. So far, Kate Herron and Briony Redman are the only new writers confirmed for Season 1/Series 14, though with two slots left to be confirmed, perhaps another new writer is yet to be announced.
Last but not least, not only will the month of May see the debut of the new series on BBC1 and Disney+ but you can also catch up with the 15th Doctor and Ruby in comic book form with their debut adventure seeing the pair going up against the Cybermen, due for release from June 26th. On top of that, expect action figures of the pair to be released later this year while an audition piece involving the 15th Doctor and a character named Robin was also released on the BBC Site. I'm providing a link to that below.
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