The Doctor Who panel with Neil Gaiman, Mark Sheppard and Toby Haynes took place at the WonderCon convention in San Francisco today, and various coverage from the Q&A has started appearing online!

Firstly, Assignment X have quotes from Gaiman discussing his episode, The Doctor’s Wife. The writer explained that the story – which he revealed was originally going to be Episode 11 of Series 5 – was moved to Series 6 so that “there would be enough budget to make it properly”.

“At the time it made me sad but it now makes me happy because I have Rory in it, who didn’t exist in Episode 11 of the last season,” he said. ”Getting to write for Arthur Darvill and dialogue between him and Amy and the Doctor is so much fun.”

He went on to reveal that his story will be a rollercoaster of an adventure, promising a host of ”funny stuff and scary stuff and exciting stuff and heartbreaking stuff”, as well as lots of “running down corridors”, which is surely a given for any Doctor Who episode!

He admitted: “This may be my only opportunity to ever write an episode of Doctor Who, so I’m going to put everything I’ve ever loved about Doctor Who into this one episode. The whole of Doctor Who began in a junkyard, so I thought, let’s start it in a junkyard! I got to put everything into the episode that I love about Doctor Who.”

Plus, from what we know, River Song is to be an ominous figure throughout the new series, and interestingly Gaiman teased that his episode is “almost” a River-free one…

Elsewhere, io9 has posted details of two new clips that were shown! The first is from the opening US based two-parter, while the second is taken from Episode 4. Spoilers!

They’ve also revealed more of Gaiman’s intriguing words, including him sharing one of his favourite moments from his episode. “Amy tells Rory off for leaving the Doctor, and Rory says, ‘He’s a Time Lord, he’ll be fine.’ She looks at Rory with infinite compassion and says, ‘It’s just what they’re called. It doesn’t mean he knows what he’s doing’”…

…and a nice little quote from director Toby Haynes to finish! “I was making Doctor Who when I was a kid, about sticky plastic and bits of sellotape, and I’m still doing that.”

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