Steven Moffat Teases a Little for Season 7 of Doctor Who

Now this bit of news comes from kind of a weird source, so bear with me.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will be performing The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, which just sounds all kinds of awesome. According to their press release it will be:

A musical celebration with the Doctor on the big screen and a host of live monsters including Daleks, Cybermen and The Silence invading the venue.

Those who attend the Spectacular will receive a program, inside of which is a foreword written by Steven Moffat. Strangely, he uses this platform to give us a few tantalising teases for the upcoming Season Seven. He says:

Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary is coming. In Cardiff, we’re gearing up for the biggest, the best and the most ambitious season we’ve ever made. There will be shocks, surprises and heartbreak – the Doctor is about to say goodbye to his very best friends, Amy and Rory.

And then he’s about to say hello to someone very different – the Doctor is going to meet someone very new in the very last place he could ever have expected…

Now I was a little saddened at hearing the Ponds would be leaving the show when it was announced way back when. Amy, Rory and the Doctor have been, for me, the best combination of Doctor + companions for a while. I would even go as far as to say the best since the new series started back in 2005. Throw in River Song and you have some highly enjoyable, first-rate sci-fi adventures.

But all that’s going to change. I do wonder what the “very different… very new” refers to re: the new companion. I was kinda hoping that River Song would be his new travel buddy and did at one point have a little theory that the new companion would be a younger version of her. But the more I think about it, the more I realise River’s story has been told. Whether that means she will also be leaving remains to be seen.

I have no doubt that Season Seven of Doctor Who will be as good as Moffat claims, it is after all the 50th anniversary of one of science fiction’s most popular and enduring characters. And I’m glad Matt Smith will be the one in the driving seat of the TARDIS for all the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey shenanigans.