A detail may have been revealed about this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special and the new companion…
We’ll be upfront. What follows is (much like all the best stuff on the web) about 98% conjecture based upon 2% of fact, but here goes anyway.
The tiniest of Who nuggets has been dug up from today’s Doctor Who Adventures magazine (the one for kiddiewinks), and it pertains to the first appearance of the Doctor’s new companion in the 2012 Christmas special. It’s only a line from the ‘Rumours’ section of the mag, and a speculative one at that, but it may just reveal something important.
Are you ready? Because here it comes…
“Will the Christmas episode feature a spooky ghost?”
There.
Now make of that what you will, but it occurs to us that seeing as we’ve already had a ‘ghosts of Christmas past’ Scrooge special, could the message underneath that tentative line be an admission that the new companion, played by Jenna-Louise Coleman, is to be of the spooky ghost variety? In all likelihood, probably not, but that doesn’t stop it being fun to consider. If not a ghost herself, then perhaps she meets the Doctor after crossing the streams on a ghostbusting mission? Or maybe it turns out she's the sheet-wearing janitor who's been scaring the kids away from the old haunted theme park. Or... Okay, yes, we'll stop now.
Other news confirmed in the magazine is that Mark Gatiss will indeed be returning to pen an episode of the upcoming series, which is always cause for celebration.
