5 teaser words – “Cards”, “Hybrid”, “Cobbles”, “Solo”, “Dead” (mostly in order, one will make you laugh, the other cry)
Reason for more multi-part stories is about recapturing mystery and atmosphere – more creeping menace and character moments
Missy had the “Least convincing death in history”. But her quick return wasn’t originally planned for the opener, she just fit the theme – “friends within enemies”.
Concept for episodes 3 & 4 was “ghosts plus time travel” – what if you could meet your own ghost?
Guest star Sophie Stone’s character will only speak through sign language in 3 & 4
Maisie Williams plays a very important character in 5 & 6… Is she “The Girl Who Died”? “Maybe, but it won’t be as simple as that”
“The Women Who Lived” is “heartfelt, eloquent and clever”. Both 5 & 6 are obviously connected
Moffat had the idea for the Zygon two-parter before the 50th. The Zygon plot strand in that was a prequel to this year
Moffat has in fact co-written episode 8 with Peter Harness
Zygons are living among us, what do we do about it? Could it be these monsters aren’t monsters at all and are just like us?
Episode 9 is a tough one to pull off and very different to Gatiss’ other scripts, still unmistakably in his in style and tone but nothing like Robot of Sherwood
With Episode 10, Moffat thought “why haven’t we done thatbefore?”
In 10 “every scene ends on a cliffhanger, Clara’s funny and the Doctor is outrageous”
Episode 10 was pushed up to lead us into the final two episodes
Episode 11 is one of the strangest Doctor Who episodes ever made – “It’s as ‘out-there’ as we can get” and was a “shockingly hard script to write”
Episode 12 is “more in the finale tradition. It’s all about… well, you’ll see”
