Title of the Neil Gaiman episode revealed...

[manatees]

SFX can exclusively reveal the title of the Series 6 episode penned by Neil Gaiman. Click here to find out!

Waiting for fandom implosion in 3, 2, 1....

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[ragdoll]

Hmmm so it looks like the recent spoiler-rumours regarding this one are true.

I'm not fussed (and don't care if it's literal or not), but given the last time we had an episode with a similar title, the subject of said title was far different than what the title made it seem to be. (Hopefully that makes sense -- am trying to be as unspoilery as possible).

[manatees]

Ahaha, no I know exactly what you're talking about - and I think it will be something similar seeing as Alex is not in this episode...

[ragdoll]

As pointed out above, the Brilliant Book said something about it happening twice. Once was Marilyn, so there's one to go. Or it could be an old one that no one's considering (here). We don't know who/what got left behind on Gallifrey when the Old Geezer decided to nick the TARDIS and run off. ;)

[promethia_tenk]

Or it could be an old one that no one's considering (here). We don't know who/what got left behind on Gallifrey when the Old Geezer decided to nick the TARDIS and run off. ;)

That was my immediate assumption--explore the Doc's past a bit.

Moff's all over marriage as a theme. I'm almost . . . not surprised at the title?

[ragdoll]

I'm thinking his past as well, just because there's so much to mine there and given that both Neil and Moff have been watching from the beginning (ish), they've had a lot of time to speculate ad infinitum in that particularly fangeek way for decades. Now they can both make their theories a reality!

Also, given that one of the Moff's strengths as a writer is exploring the complexity of interpersonal relationships (see Coupling), it doesn't surprise me that he might be in the "Time Lords have relationships and (gasp! shock! horror!) sex like most other sentient beings" camp. ;)

[the_willows]

it doesn't surprise me that he might be in the "Time Lords have relationships and (gasp! shock! horror!) sex like most other sentient beings" camp. ;)

THIS SO HARD RIGHT NOW.

Because the asexual thing can only be stretched so far; Nine fully admitted to 'dancing', Ten clearly enjoyed all the recreational snogs, (and deliberately married and deflowered Elizabeth I for shits n giggles!) and Eleven certainly knew what to do with Amy before his sense of reason kicked in.

The Doctor has mentioned his being a father/avoided the question deliberately, so he has some strong sense of parental feelings. And he's good with kids.

Plus, a bitch that hot (in any of his incarnations I mean, he's the Doctor, he's hot by default), can't possiby kick about the universe for so long without getting any; there are some senses of disbelief you just can't suspend.

[ragdoll]

Seriously - the only reason people started with the asexual thing at all was because of that bloody book with the bloody looms (Lungbarrow?) and insist that it's canon which its not. None of the books are. Clearly the Doctor had a granddaughter from the first day we met him. I've never bought the 'she was just some girl he adopted' theory, esp when the Doctor showed romantic feelings for women in the past (there's a slave girl in a First Doctor episode iirc), even if he never acted upon them on screen (I'd argue for Three/Jo, Three and Four/Sarah Jane, Four/Sarah Jane and Romana, Five and possibly Nyssa for a start

[the_willows]

I mean seriously, looms? WHere's the fun in that

[ragdoll]

There's no fun in looms at all and asexual reproduction does tend to make the likelihood of the family as we know it much less -- if they're all vat grown, then why have families at all. (And you get into the whole Brave New World thing) The Doctor is far too passionate a being to have grown up in that sort of enviroment