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Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 4 2009, 12:23 PM BST

How would it have kept Tennant going secret? I mean, everyone is going to have known for well over a year now before he actually does go!

I knew you'd say that. :)

It keeps it secret because if there was a series this year then they'd have had to be filming last year - without DT. Couldn't get more obvious. (And yes they could have announced his departure sooner.)

Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 4 2009, 12:28 PM BST

No, it was done for the reasons I stated

Are you on the production team?

Quote: Balf @ April 4 2009, 12:38 PM BST

Doesn't stop them freaking the shit out of me whenever I see them. Zavvi were selling posters of them, and I still jumped. Still the most terrifying enemy the Doctor has.

Good God, you people are wimps.

Cybermen don't scare me. Daleks do sometimes, but only when they scream, so not in pics.

The weeping angel statues are deffo scary though. So am massive wimp, yes. :)

Quote: Aaron @ April 4 2009, 1:06 PM BST

Are you on the production team?

Well, I'm just repeating what I've read several of them say repeatedly, but perhaps you know more! :D

Quote: Aaron @ April 4 2009, 1:06 PM BST

I knew you'd say that. :)

It keeps it secret because if there was a series this year then they'd have had to be filming last year - without DT. Couldn't get more obvious. (And yes they could have announced his departure sooner.)

So the wait between finding out and the new Doctor being on screen would have been . . oooh . . . about as long as the gap between finding out how we actually have? We found out he was going last year, Matt Smith won't be The Doctor until next year-quite a gap!

Perhaps I spoke to Moffat when I saw him last week... :)

Quote: Aaron @ April 4 2009, 1:15 PM BST

Perhaps I spoke to Moffat when I saw him last week... :)

Oh don't drag that card out again for Gods sake. Yes, you know more than all of us Aaron. Rolling eyes If the series is going still in a few years, I guarantee you there will be a similar drought year tactic. because it works.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 4 2009, 1:14 PM BST

So the wait between finding out and the new Doctor being on screen would have been . . oooh . . . about as long as the gap between finding out how we actually have? We found out he was going last year, Matt Smith won't be The Doctor until next year-quite a gap!

Yes.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 4 2009, 1:16 PM BST

Oh don't drag that card out again for Gods sake. Yes, you know more than all of us Aaron. Rolling eyes

Finally you admit it.

(I don't know more than everyone. But we all know more than you.)

Quote: Aaron @ April 4 2009, 1:17 PM BST

Yes.

In which case your point makes no sense, as the 'tactic' hasn't kept it any more secret now has it.

Quote: Aaron @ April 4 2009, 1:17 PM BST

(I don't know more than everyone. But we all know more than you.)

*Yawns incredibally loudly, frightening a cat that was sitting on the window ledge* Yes, that's right Aaron. How on earth you put up with him Zooo is beyond me.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 4 2009, 1:20 PM BST

In which case your point makes no sense, as the 'tactic' hasn't kept it any more secret now has it.

No Matthew, I wasn't making any point about the length of time between the two. That was all down to you.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 4 2009, 1:20 PM BST

Yes, that's right Aaron.

Yes I am. :)

Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 4 2009, 1:20 PM BST

How on earth you put up with him Zooo is beyond me.

He's nicer to me. :)

Sorry if this has already been mentioned - but anyone seen the Trivatores, the Doctor's new nemesis? Basically men crossed with houseflies type of deal.

Saw one on the trailer I think. Thought they were just big ants.

Quote: Aaron @ April 4 2009, 1:23 PM BST

No Matthew, I wasn't making any point about the length of time between the two. That was all down to you.

It's some sort of tactic the production team have put togehter to keep the resignation of David Tennant a secret and the identity of the next Doctor even moreso.

Quote: Aaron @ April 4 2009, 1:06 PM BST

It keeps it secret because if there was a series this year then they'd have had to be filming last year - without DT. Couldn't get more obvious. (And yes they could have announced his departure sooner.)

Kind of sounds a lot like what you were driving at right there. What else was I supposed to read into that?

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The Doc's gonna need a hell of a rolled-up newspaper to deal with those suckers!

Quote: zooo @ April 4 2009, 1:24 PM BST

He's nicer to me. :)

Well you would certainly hope so, otherwise you would have punched him in the throat long ago! :D

Quote: Aaron @ April 4 2009, 1:23 PM BST

Yes I am, about almost nothing.

:)

Matthew, are you an only child?

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