Capaldi and Moffat Tease Series 10 Changes

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Oh. Hello! Welcome to my first foray into writing actual proper news for Kasterborous! I’ve graduated from the occasional opinion(ated) article into a full member of the news team! Yay!

And what a great start I have with bringing you this news regarding the direction that the Doctor’s character arc will be heading in when Series 10 hits our screens. Events towards the end of Series 9 will put him back in the “cynical and closed off and suspicious” frame of mind that we originally saw at the beginning of Series 8. Capaldi said:

“It’s been nice to see him more cheerful, but of course as the whole series develops, more terrible things happen. So in fact, I think by the end, he’s going, ‘Oh man, I was right, I should’ve remained cynical and closed off and suspicious’. If you’ve been following this Doctor, you’ve seen him go through all those different colours and all those different places. So where he goes now – in Series 10 – I don’t know, but he’s been put through the mill.”

On the companion front, Moffat has disappointed legions of Osgood fans by stating for the record that Ingrid Oliver will NOT be signing on as the new companion to replace Jenna Coleman’s Clara. His reasoning being that you really need someone new on board to make a fresh start, and while bringing an established character back worked with Donna, this isn’t the direction they want to go in right now. Whilst he thinks Osgood is a great character, he likes where she is in the Whoniverse at the moment. He went on to say:

“I think every time we get a new companion – even more so than a new Doctor – you are sort of saying, ‘This is the beginning. This is where it starts. You can join in here’.”

As a morsel of comfort for the Clara fans, Moffat also stated that “You can never say that someone can never come back. They always can, because it’s a show about time travel. So it’s entirely possible.”

So, there we have it! We can look forward to a return to the darker, moodier Doctor with a brand new companion on board in Series 10.

I, for one, can’t wait to see how this shapes up! How about you…?

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