Future Doctors

[dalekboy]

By now most of you will have heard that Matt Smith is to be the 11th Doctor.

I trust Moffat and co. to have chosen carefully, but I am a little worried about the future if recent trends continue. At this rate, another fifteen years we'll have a foetus behind the console!

Comments

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

This may be extrapolating the trend a little much. :) I don't think I've seen anything he's been in (maybe a few minutes of the pullman stuff) But then there's very few of the Doctors that I've actually seen in stuff before I saw them as the Doctor. Sylvester McCoy I think is the only one I remember having seen in stuff before.

They seem to think he gave a good interpretation of the role, and the rest of us will just have to wait and see what new slant he brings to the role, while maintaining the essential Doctorness.

[sonictail.livejournal.com]

but if he's a foetus, he'll be the most powerful thing alive!

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I'm finding it hard to articulate to people that I am deeply disappointed with the choice based on available evidence (he could've been black, he could've been Asian, she could've been a woman, but instead they picked the young David Tennant by the looks of things), yet am reserving judgement until I actually see Smith in action.

The one thing I didn't think they should've done after Tennant was make him younger. To me the Doctor works best as a middle-aged man - the weird uncle that the kids like. While I like both Davison and Tennant as the Doctor, I still think they were too young. Now they've gone even younger.

I used to want to be an actor so I could play Doctor Who. Today I've woken up to learn I'm too old to play Doctor Who. : )

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or is the Dr getting thinner and thinner with each incarnation? Is he forced to leave behind some matter each time?

[tikiwanderer.livejournal.com]

Well, this explains why I was hearing random references to "Matt Smith". I was wondering if there was any point in googling such an indistinct name to find out why people might be talking up the man - was he a dead mountaineer? a political exile revolutionary? a media personality from Malbonia who groped the to-be-princess Kate? But no, he's going to be a Doctor. I'm not sure if I'm delighted or disappointed by this.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

If the Doctor is getting younger and younger, would that Lex a chance to be 13?

[pre-vet-girl.livejournal.com]

I guess it will be a case of seeing how he works out. I seem to remember (a few years back now) when Sylvester McCoy was cast, the only thing anyone seemed to know about him was that he used to put ferrets down his trousers...
This guy does look very young though...