User:NateBumber/Capaldi interview

I often cite an interview that Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman did for Serienjunkies while promoting series 9. Unfortunately the interview has been taken down from its original URL, and the Wayback Machine only captured the first of four pages. But thankfully, a friend from Discord had hand-translated the wiki-relevant portions from German and preserved them in the chatlog. I reproduce those portions here for posterity's sake. Emphasis mine! "Jenna Coleman: We should do an episode with the Beatles!

Peter Capaldi: The Doctor has already met the Beatles. They appeared in an episode.

-Really?

Peter Capaldi: In the 60s... I think... I hope I don't say anything wrong (laugh)

Jenna Coleman: Maybe it was just a dream? (laugh)

Peter Capaldi: They were in an episode. (Silence) Or maybe it was just a song in a jukebox. Or maybe I am totally wrong - and it just happened in my imagination (takes out his phone and starts typing) Maybe the Beatles were just mentioned... Hmm... We have to find this out... (deep in research)"

"-Did you solve the Beatles-mystery yet, Mr. Capaldi?

Peter Capaldi: Sadly no. I found a website that says that the Doctor met the Beatles quite often, but those were all novels...

Jenna Coleman: You should text Steven!

Peter Capaldi: Good idea! After all I found a picture of the Beatles with someone who looks like Matt Smith.

Jenna Coleman: Really?

Peter Capaldi: Yeah, there are so many different answers to whether the Doctor met the Beatles. I can't look through all of them now.

Jenna Coleman: I'm texting Steven... (takes out phone)"

"Jenna Coleman: Steven Moffat has answered: „No, but William Hartnell had a Time-Space-Visualizer and Ian Chesterton watched how they (the Beatles) played „Ticket to Ride“.“

Peter Capaldi: (claps his hands) So I was right! At least a little. Ian Chesterton watched the Beatles.

Jenna Coleman: And here (shows her phone around) Steven sent the picture you were talking about.

Peter Capaldi: He looks exactly like Matt.

Jenna Coleman: Matt is a real time traveller!"

In Diff/3099699 I moved the information Capaldi wanted from the page's 14th paragraph to its 2nd: the appearance in The Chase is simply the most important fact about The Beatles we cover on this wiki, and it should receive priority on the page. My T:SUBPAGE proposal would formalise this approach. See Diff/3099698 for a similar change to Musée d'Orsay!

– n8 (☎) 13:02, 6 September 2022 (UTC), edited 22:52, 27 November 2022 (UTC)