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25 07 2008

Comic-Con ‘08 Report: Doctor Who Panel

Posted by: Ducky in Comic-Con, Doctor Who, Ducky Does TV, Torchwood

Doctor Who Series 4

Last year I missed out on the Torchwood panel and I wanted to scream because you know I love me some Capt. Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Owen and Tosh! Today I made sure I was in the room an hour early so that there was no chance of me missing all the Cardiff riff fun which started with Doctor Who!

DOCTOR WHO
Exec. Producer Julie Gardner joined Doctor Who’s new showrunner Steven Moffat to discuss this past season as well as the direction of Series 5 under Moffet’s control. In the house were old school Doctor Who fans, new school enthusiasts, and numerous versions of the Doctors over the years.

Doctor Who - Julie Gardner and Steven Moffat

The panel started with a Season 4 clip reel that got the crowd amped up, which was much needed after Gardner informed us that Russell T. Davies wouldn’t be in attendance because he was chained up in Cardiff writing Season 3 of Torchwood. Boooooo. We were also treated to a Moffat clip reel and seriously he has created some of my faves (Blink anyone?).

Here’s some tidbits from the panel:

  • Moffat was hilarious and semi-vulgar which was brilliant.
  • He’s always been a Who fanboy and thinks its amazing that in the UK they’ll let fans just take over their favorite shows, or as he put it who’s been “given a big toy to play with.”
  • Moffat spent his flight over writing Series 5 episode 1.
  • For those worried that he’ll try to make Doctor Who more scary than funny, he said you should be (but he was joking)
  • “Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey” is an explaination just because
  • River Song has met David Tennant’s Doctor before but its not the only version of the Doctor she’s met.
  • People wondered if River Song could be The Doctor’s wife?
  • Gardner talked about how Cardiff has just opened their arms to the cast and crew, letting them take over the city and blow shit up.
  • We got a spoiler about the finale that’s airing tonight and next week which made me want to scream. I won’t divulge it here but I will say it involves a certain someone and a certain someone else and a parallel dimension.
  • Moffat’s favorite episode is Christmas Invasion while Gardner’s is Utopia.
  • Gardner and Moffat fought over having River Song with Donna’s kids at the end of Forest of the Dead. Moffat thought it was ridonk to have them there and that it was confusing, Gardner now agrees to some extent.
  • The Doctor never obeys rules so we shouldn’t be concerned that the series would end once we get to his supposed last regeneration.

    • Gardner and Moffat have a great relationship but you can tell that she’s hardcore and can probably fight with the best of them. There were so many moments when Moffat was speaking that I could hear the voice of The Doctor, I loved that. He’s a hoot!

    The panel ended with an extended preview of the Christmas 2008 episode which features the return of the Cybermen, plus Cyber monkey’s and much more. It was banoodles and the crowd loved it so much that they played it twice.

    Actually they played it twice to give Torchwood’s John Barrowman time to make his big gay entrance!

    Read the Torchwood Panel

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      July 29th, 2008 at 3:04 am

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