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WHOVIAN EXTRAVAGANZAFebruary,APRIL, 2017 2017 F I C T I O N O P H I L I A noun. the love for one or many fictional characters. Fictionophila is run by A.C Engholm, a fictionophile who strives to share her love of the fictional worlds with the “real” world.

Capaldi Come Away 24 Hour Time: With the beloved Peter Capaldi leaving after Series 10, The Adventures of the 24th Doctor who’s next in line for a doctoral regeneration? Here are some rumours... Part 3 A.C Engholm Anthony Phoebe River’s gaze trailed line after line through her TARDIS diary, Head Waller-Bridge ankles crossed tidily as she leaned back in her armchair, turning each page as gently as she would have caressed the Doctor’s cheek. It was bucketing down outside and a smile danced across her eyes Tilda Kris and upon her lips; she was reliving many a’ adventure with her Swinton Marshall beloved Doctor, her reading taking her hand and pulling her down memory lane. The record player on the table beside her stumbled over Lord Huron’s “The Night We Met”, and while the record was ARE YOU READY?! old and scratched, River adored it. The song reminded her of him, “Doctor Who” and though its melody was slow, melancholy- haunting- she would is back this month! Here’s the rundown: not rather be listening to anything else. Her mind began to trail to

★ Bill will be the Doctor’s new companion and the first the last time she’d seen him- when she’d lost both of her parents to openly-gay companion, creating more representation the Angels, in Manhattan. It was still a touchy subject with her, for the LGBTQ+ community. after all, she hadn’t exactly had what you could call a “proper” ★ This will be Peter Capaldi’s final series (series 10) as childhood, having barely lived with Amy and Rory. She didn’t the beloved 12th Doctor. want to remember, but there she was, remembering. However, one ★ John Simm returns as the Master! memory stuck out to her the most. ★ Show-runner Steven Moffat steps down and Chris “Travel with me, then”. Chibnall takes over. “Whenever and wherever you want. But not all the time. One ★ Bill is rumoured to be leaving at Christmas… psychopath per TARDIS, don’t you think?” ★ BBC has announced that they miss the Tennant era and the part of the 13th Doctor will be cast as a A cacophony of whirring and wheezing cut through the peaceful “dashing male actor, in his thirties”. lull of the looping vinyl. River looked up slowly, then leapt up ★ As any devoted Whovian will know, a Time Lord is with a cry as her eyes fell on the materialising form of the not supposed to regenerate beyond his twelfth body, TARDIS, hugging her journal to her chest as The TARDIS door but without the Time Lord council to stop him, the swung open with a joyous creeeak, and River grinned. Doctor will do just that. However, it is possible that “Hello, Sweetie”, she said. any “Doctors” beyond Capaldi’s will be more

“rogue”. For more reading, check out the BBC website! To be continued...