Full Length Doctor Who Trailer and Yet Another Leak
Six weeks ahead of the premiere, fans have been given their first significant look at the Doctor – and they might have seen more than they were supposed to. Officially the full length trailer for the upcoming series featuring Peter Capaldi was released to much excitement and anticipation (Doctor Who is still Doctor Who even if we’re kind of sick of Steven Moffat). On a less official note, a rough cut of the entire first episode leaked online this week – this coming not long after the first five scripts appeared, it’s just not going well for the BBC at all. That’s if it wasn’t deliberate of course.
Spoilers are very tempting, it’s hard to resist but the BBC is asking that you refrain from spoiling the fun for everyone else. “We would like to make a plea to anyone who might have any of this material and spoilers associated with it not to share it with a wider audience so that everyone can enjoy the show as it should be seen when it launches. We know only too well that Doctor Who fans are the best in the world and we thank them for their help with this and their continued loyalty.”
Whether or not you want to seek out spoilers is a personal choice (not that we condone that kind of thing of course), but it’s not cool to ruin it for fans that want to remain spoiler free. Be courteous if your fellow fans.
Anyway, the trailer looks amazing, as always, with a few glimpses at the Daleks (always my favourites) and some hints about the Doctor’s identity crisis. He wants to know if he’s a good man and Clara does not have an answer for that (maybe because she’s still confused about the convoluted mess that was Matt Smith’s final episode). There’s lots of explosions and the tone is very intense, it seems they really are going into darkness, but I hope they’re just saving all the fun for the actual episodes.
Is the Doctor a good man? Find out Saturday 23rd of August.
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There is no way this is deliberate. With any other show (Constantine, Arrow) I’d say early leaks would be a way to test the waters and get feedback, but Moffat wouldn’t even let the 50th anniversary trailer aired at Comic Con to be put up online. No way he’d let an entire episode go up. I have a strong suspicion that Moffat doesn’t care much about feedback.
In the leaked episode he manages to pat himself on the back for an episode he wrote years ago.
His ego is really amazing.
*heavy sigh* Why am I not surprised? And I really feel like snubbing SDCC this year was a “punishment” for fans leaking information about the 50th trailer and the Sherlock best man speech. Moffat is just… man… if I wasn’t tired I’d be more articulate in my wording about Moffat.
This was vague enough to be okay, but I am going to be moderating the comments for spoilers. But vague discussion like this is fine FYI.
I going for really, really vague!
But you know, Moffat has always been just… ugh… what with the whole ridiculous notion of having characters spout “Spoilers” at fans since he started writing for Who.