In which there are sneak previews

[gominokouhai]

Last week I attended the preview screening of the new Doctor Who episode. In front of a packed theatre at the Filmhouse, The Moff Himself got everyone to promise not to release any spoilers.

After the episode, everyone said Well, obviously you all see now why we specifically asked you not to give out spoilers, because mumble. I had no clue what they were talking about, sat there with a blank look on my face: whot?

I am now apparently so unspoilered that I can't even be spoilered for spoilers. Thus have I reached levels of fandom previously attained only by Ian Levine.

Of the new episode I shall say only this: you guys are going to love tonight. SO MUCH.

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After the episode there was a Q&A session with the Moff. All of the fatter, sweatier types of nerd in the room—of which there were many, and I say this with love—had clearly been researching and honing their question for the last several weeks. Most of the questions involved phrases like character archetype and recontextualize.

And then there was the eight-year-old girl in the pink top, whose question was: Do Cybermen go rusty in the rain?

For those of you who are interested, Word of God on this pressing matter is as follows: no they don't, they're plastic. Everything has to be waterproofed; it's Wales. Anyway, no. Oh wait, there was the rusty one in The Pandorica Opens, and I wrote that, I should know better. So, yes.

Go now and be enlightened.

Oo-wee-oo.