Has it defintely been confirmed that Pearl Mackie is only starring in one season?

Actually, it was the original Alpha Centauri, the actual character from Pertwee's Peladon adventures in '72 and '74. Of course, it's more than a bit confusing since Alpha Centauri is the character and Alpha Centauran is the species.

As for Iraxxa, she was portrayed by Adele Lynch, while the Empress of the Racnoss was Sarah Parish. I expect those prosthetic teeth probably do a lot to alter speech into similar patterns. They do sound quite alike in character.



It hasn't been confirmed that Bill is a one-series companion, but that's been pretty much assumed since Capaldi announced he was leaving. The Mirror (and I think the Sun) have been insisting it's fact but I haven't seen anything actually definitive on the issue.


As an aside, the tie-back to Tooth and Claw was nice. It may have been 11 years for us, but only two in the context of this week's episode.

Wow. Not sure how I missed this. Big Finish (I love them so much!) has brought back Derek Jacobi, now called the War Master.

Buried towards the bottom of the article is this awesome bit of news as well for a story that, I expect, a lot of people have been waiting for.

Here's the trailer for the War Master series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=FDuSCzJGnR0

Source: Big Finish

I'm extremely excited for this series. We lost John Hurt far too soon and I was worried that was going to be in for a proper range of Time War stories. I'm glad that there's still some way to continue it.

So uh, no spoilers since I know most of you won't have seen it yet but that was my favourite Doctor Who episode since Dalek.

i have to agree with that.

Absolutely brilliant. I don't think there was one second of wasted time this episode. As with you guys, I will avoid any specific discussion until after it airs on BBCA.

Well, that was amazing. I loved the part where Peter Capaldi does the thing

This is looking to be the best finale we’ve had in years. I almost cried at the beginning (when the Doctor starts shooting off regeneration energy). :(

man. I getting sick of the regeneration energy. I mean since return it got rid of the unique randomness of the classic who. I would love one them again. I mean yes they would be unique but they also been and feel very much the same.