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  • Steven Moffat seems to be learning a thing or two from Davies in Doctor Who. He made a statement saying that he wouldn't use monsters that only appeared in the classic series by the time he took over RTD in favor of creating new ones. Then came the trailers. Hey, aren't those Silurians? (Rule one: the Doctor lies. Rule two: River Song lies. Rule zero: Steven Moffat lies.)

    • In April 2011, prior to the airing of the sixth series, Moffat announced one of the main characters would die — "We're not lying, we're not cheating. One of those four people is going to die." The Doctor proceeded to die in the series opener (SPOILER)but was revealed to be a robot duplicate. If you're really, really charitable, (SPOILER)he dies briefly in the middle of the series in "Let's Kill Hitler" by poisoning, but gets brought back to life right after.

    • In 2012, he assured everyone that we wouldn't find out anything about Jenna-Louise Coleman's character until Christmas. A week later, on the first of September, Jenna-Louise Coleman prominently showed up in the season premiere, though the only things we would find out about her character in that episode are a lot of questions.

    • In 2013, Moffat said that "The Day of the Doctor" would feature (SPOILER)no classic series Doctors in the flesh (IE: non-Fake Shemped appearances) because they're too old now. This was designated another lie in retrospect: (SPOILER)Tom Baker makes a cameo appearance in the final scene as a museum curator who may or may not be a distant future Doctor. He also said (SPOILER)Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi wouldn't appear, which also turned out to be a lie.