00:00Hello everybody, Ellie here for WhoCulture, and today we have a mystery to solve.
00:06Now, does anybody remember this all-important looking shot of the 15th Doctor?
00:12Because it just vanished, it just disappeared, never to be seen.
00:16So we thought we'd do a little bit of investigating.
00:19So, let's split up and look for clues.
00:23Scoob, you're with me!
00:24So first of all, let's journey back all the way to the 23rd of September, 2023,
00:30which feels like a really long time ago, even though it really actually wasn't in the grand scheme of things.
00:35And we got a 60th anniversary trailer just before Strictly Come Dancing,
00:39and the last shot in this trailer was the aforementioned shot that we're talking about here, of the 15th Doctor.
00:46Everyone assumed that this was a shot from one of those 60th anniversary specials.
00:50I mean, first and foremost, this was a trailer for the 60th anniversary.
00:53Because of the nature of it, because it was the 15th Doctor in the shot,
00:56most people assumed that it would be in the final of the three specials.
01:00I think a lot of people assumed that it was something to do with the regeneration.
01:04There was the regeneration sound was playing over this section of the trailer.
01:11In hindsight, would they have done that because, you know, is it massively spoilery?
01:17But at the same time, we knew that a new Doctor was coming.
01:20So we knew a regeneration was imminent.
01:23And at the time, we didn't know that there was anything special or different about this particular regeneration.
01:28So I don't necessarily think that it was suspicious for there to be some sort of regeneration shot in the
01:33trailer.
01:33But I think a lot of people, that's the assumption they had when they saw this was,
01:38well, that's going to be the ending of special number three.
01:41So then we jump ahead to the 25th of November, which was a very exciting day to the Star Beast.
01:47Nope, didn't appear in that episode.
01:48Okay, we wait to the following week, to the 2nd of December, to watch World Blue Yonder.
01:53Nope, not there either.
01:54Okay, well then, we'll jump to the 9th of December, the giggle.
01:58We know the regeneration must be happening in this episode, so it probably will appear here.
02:02And lo and behold, we get to the end of that episode.
02:05We've been introduced to Shu Tegatwa as the 15th Doctor.
02:08We've been introduced to this whole notion of the bi-generation.
02:12And we still have not seen this particular shot that we were teased all the way back in September.
02:20So then we kind of forgot about it, you know, there was a lot of things going on in the
02:23trailers.
02:23And I think then we just assumed, well, actually, we have got the Christmas special coming.
02:27So maybe it was a shot from the Christmas special.
02:29So we'll wait, we'll wait until Christmas Day.
02:31We'll watch The Church on Ruby Road.
02:33It's probably in that episode.
02:35And guess what, folks?
02:35It wasn't there either.
02:37So at this point, I think the most logical conclusion or assumption about this shot is that it was intended
02:43literally just for the trailers.
02:45Perhaps as a red herring to dissuade people from making conclusions about the regeneration.
02:51If you put a shot in the trailer that suggests it's just going to be a normal regeneration like we've
02:56known for however many years gone by,
02:59then no one's going to suspect that there's anything untoward or different about what we will be seeing, obviously, the
03:05bi-generation.
03:06And we know that there is precedent for them to have done this because we know there was another shot
03:11of Shooter Gatwa in that trailer.
03:13The shot where he says, well, someone tell me what the hell is going on here.
03:17We know that there was a false background edited onto that scene because we now know that that scene was
03:23on top of Stark Towers.
03:25And he was surrounded by all the unit people and David Tennant was stood right next to him.
03:30So we know that that scene was edited in the trailer to just have this sort of cloudy background.
03:33So we know there is precedent for them to throw in false shots or for them to tweak shots or
03:39throw in red herrings to throw us off of the scent.
03:42So this very well could have been just put in there to suggest that everything was normal and we had
03:48nothing to suspect.
03:49And as I said, we learned in the commentary for The Giggle from Russell T. Davis that things had been
03:53leaked.
03:54And so it does suggest, as I've just mentioned, that by including this shot, they were trying to mislead people
04:02into thinking that the leaks they'd seen weren't actually true.
04:05I guess that's kind of sneaky, kind of clever.
04:07But if the leaks are already out there, then you're not going to stop people from listening to them, reading
04:12them, jumping on them and ripping them apart.
04:14But from a creative point of view, I mean, it's not a difficult shot to create.
04:18So if these leaks were made, then it's not difficult for them to go, oh, shooty, would you just stand
04:23here?
04:24We're just going to get a close-up of your face and we're going to edit it in a way
04:27that we can kind of throw people off the scent of these leaks
04:30and suggest to them that everything is fine and normal and that they shouldn't be listening to these leaks because
04:35we want it to be a surprise.
04:37So it could have very easily been a last-minute addition just to throw people off the scent, as I
04:42said.
04:42And it is something that is common practice within marketing campaigns.
04:45We've seen it probably most famously in the trailer for Avengers Infinity War, where we had the Hulk running in
04:53Wakanda.
04:53But we later learn by watching Infinity War, spoiler alert if you haven't seen it, but the Hulk is never
04:58the Hulk.
04:59Bruce Banner never hulks out in that entire film.
05:01But the trailer suggested that he was there with all of those heroes.
05:04Whereas, and while he was there, it would have been a spoiler to show him in a big Iron Man
05:08suit,
05:08so they just edited the trailer to mislead the audience to kind of lie to us, basically, but for the
05:16better.
05:16So that's one suggestion, yeah? It was a fake shot for the trailer. Case closed.
05:21Good looking for clues. We've unmasked the bad guy.
05:24But there could be more to it than that.
05:27At the end of The Church on Ruby Road, we then got a trailer for Season 1.
05:30And we also got confirmation that Season 1 will be coming in May 2024.
05:35And then, interestingly, the official Disney Plus Twitter page posted a little promo.
05:41I think it said, uh, new home, new who?
05:44Guess what the only shot in that teaser was?
05:47You're guessing right, folks. It's that same shot that's just been floating around but mysteriously disappearing.
05:51So is this a shot from Season 1?
05:54And the thing is we need to remember as well is they started filming Season 1 all the way back
05:59in December 2022.
06:01So they would have had shots of that season ready and waiting to go.
06:05The other thing that makes that a potential possibility is if you look very closely at what, at the collar
06:12in that teaser,
06:13it looks very similar to what we saw Shooty Gat were wearing at the end of The Church on Ruby
06:17Road.
06:18Again, that just lends itself to the suggestion that this is a shot that we may be seeing within Season
06:231.
06:23So I think there are three possibilities here.
06:26Of four possibilities, it was a fake shot intended for the trailers only to mislead people.
06:32It was an actual shot that was intended to be in the 60th anniversary but was cut.
06:38It's a shot from Season 1 that we are yet to see.
06:41Or it's a shot that was created for the only purpose of marketing.
06:46Now that does happen. They do plenty of promo shoots.
06:50They stand and pose as their character in different positions.
06:52We've seen plenty of those promotional images of the characters all posing together.
06:57You know, the famous one with David Tennant doing his little pointing.
07:00Because now we are moving on to the age of social media and streaming, then the promo stuff advances with
07:10that.
07:10So rather than having the promotional images, then it is very, very possible that this was a shot that was
07:16created just for the marketing.
07:18Just for promotional content.
07:21It's not a difficult shot to achieve.
07:23So it's very simple.
07:24And look, it's got us all talking.
07:25But it did seem like a very important shot to be seeing.
07:29And it did just seem slightly odd that we ended up not actually seeing it.
07:34I guess the only other thing is, if it is a shot from Season 1, why was it in the
07:3860th trailer?
07:39Other than the fact that most footage of the 15th Doctor that could be used from the Giggle would have
07:46been massively spoilery.
07:48But then we've seen them edit footage from it to suit the trailers.
07:52So there's just a lot of mystery surrounding this random shot.
07:55It's much more fascinating than it probably should be for all of about three seconds worth of footage.
08:01But we like to get those discussions rolling.
08:04So let me know in the comments down below.
08:06Let me know your theories.
08:08I know a lot of you are probably going to go, it's just a shot.
08:11Get over it.
08:12And that's fine.
08:13But I like the conspiracy theorists out there.
08:15So join me in speculating what happened to this mysterious shot of the 15th Doctor.
08:31So join me in speculating what happened to this mention in the next video.
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