Speculation, rumours, and leaks about Season 2 (2025)

[NyssaUnbound]

One interesting thing from this article:

Are there any major callbacks to anything from your first Doctor Who run (2005-2010)?

There are not really. It’s 20 years this year since we came back, and people asked me a couple of years ago, are you going to celebrate the 20th? And I went, no, Doctor Who‘s just had its 60th anniversary. It’s a little bit too timey wimey to then have its 20th, and then we’re here, I kind of regret that actually. A lot of people are talking about that. I thought, “Oh, I should have done something.”

There’s one weapon from the very first year that comes back that one of the writers put in as a nice little kind of Easter egg. So I’m making that sound very deliberate, but it’s a coincidence. [Laughs] There’s a couple of little things that you might recognize, a couple of little mentions, but not really.

In Britain, I’m very delighted to say we have got a full-length documentary coming out and a full-length radio show coming out about the 20th. I don’t know, I think they might be available on the BBC YouTube channel eventually. So there’s a bit of a celebration here.

This seems to shoot down the “Midnight Sequal” theory

[Jamie]

I’ve seen the “weapon” being theorised as anti-plastic based on the pics of the 15/Ruby story set during S1 we see glimpses of in Lucky Day!

Then again, in one of the Disney trailers 15 does say, paraphrasing here, “I’ve been here before and I met something”

[MrColdStream]

Well, the Doctor’s been all over time and space by now and met all kinds of somethings…

[shauny]

Weapon: calling it now, the Squarness Gun returnth

[MrColdStream]

The Squareness Gun is my best guess as well.

[NyssaTheNerd]

What if it’s the part of the tardis that turns people into eggs?

[shauny]

Who are you hoping gets turned into an egg?

[NyssaTheNerd]

Mr Ring-a-Ding

[NyssaTheNerd]

Or, as a better pun, Suteggkh

[Mattie1711]

https://x.com/RadioTimes/status/1909131799357186168
Despite his affection for the series’s past, Davies explained that he remains keen to introduce new monsters and villains rather than rely on an established rogues’ gallery.

It will be very funny if Rani and Omega appear lol

[Tian]

Why? You can introduce new viewers and use old villains. Look at Dalek from 2005.

[Tian]

I would say that RTD is really good at mixing old and new villains. He usually has one old one per season, and I think that is a good balance.

[MrColdStream]

And he usually has one big returning one in the finale:

Series 1 - Daleks
Series 2 - Cybermen and Daleks
Series 3 - the Master
Series 4 - Davros and Daleks
Specials - The Master and Rassilon
Season 1 - Sutekh

[Tian]

Season 4 had Sontarans as well. But yes, I would say that is a good balance, and he definitely does not “rely on an established rogues’ gallery”.

[Mattie1711]

Yeah i’m sure im just saying that he says he’ll introduce new villains.

[Tian]

And he will. We already know that. The cartoon one is new, for example. He did not say that he would only have new ones.

[MrColdStream]

What do you call the Bogeyman, Maestro, the Ambulances, Roger ap Gwilliam, the Finetime slugs, the Chuldur and Mr Ring-a-Ding then? Plus the other new monsters from S2? That’s more new than old, even if there are returning faces.

[timeywimeythespian]

I think RTD brought back the Daleks wayyy too much in his first era (they sort of lose their appeal as the biggest bad ever if they keep on showing up and being defeated every season), but generally, there’s a good balance imo.

[Tian]

But that is not an RTD problem; that is something that has run through the whole history of the show. They were present in all Moffat seasons as well. CC (and RTD2) is the only modern showrunner that did not use them like that.

[timeywimeythespian]

I haven’t watched all of the Moffat era, which is why I forgot about that. Although, I don’t remember them being in series 6.