Actor Matt Smith Will Be 11th Doctor Who 330
Jerry Smith was among a large number of readers letting us know that the 11th Doctor Who has been named. It's Matt Smith, 26, who will be the youngest actor to play the time-traveling Doctor. The head of drama at BBC Wales said this about Smith's audition: "It was abundantly clear that he had that 'Doctor-ness' about him. You are either the Doctor or you are not."
Re:Waiting (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe this explains why they put wrestling on SciFi.
*shudder*
So what are the adults supposed to watch?
Re:Matt Smith (Score:5, Funny)
No, just The Doctor
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At this rate, the 12th Doctor will be sperm.
Re:Hmmm getting close to the 12 regenerations limi (Score:4, Funny)
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Sorry, but you're mixing up your spacetime continuum. Let me fix it:
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Welcome to "Gallifrey 90210"
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I am boycotting the 21st century. Maybe if it gets better I'll participate but until then I'm sticking with my tomes, and abacus.
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You're waiting to see how he does before starting to judge? You must be new to /.
Deus Ex Machina (Score:3, Funny)
> here are lots of ways of extending the number of regenerations too ... implied ... regeneration ... Time Lords who are joined with time capsules ... connected to the Eye of Harmony ... the black hole ... so the amount of energy
Here's an idea. We have a special-combo episode where the TARDIS meets The Enterprise whose crew beam aboard with Chief Scientific Officer Deus Ex Machina who adlibs technobabble, not just giving the doctor as many regens as the BBC needs but tying up all the plot holes since the series began. Everyone knows Tie ins help ratings and since Dr Who is increasingly a "Beautiful People" show, what about one with Bay Watch too?
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I've already seen these episodes.
Given the challenges he faced, I thought that Matt did a good job.
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Be honest... Doctor Who has been moving towards being a lame version of Buffy the vampire slayer.
Well, except for the emasculation of every male protagonist and the moral lessons of high-school health class ("Don't go to a frat party or you will be sacrificed to a lizard god," comes to mind), yeah. So basically, it's becoming a Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Buffy the Vampire Slayer! And with a TARDIS, an endless supply of Daleks, a weirdo guy calling himself an alien, more aliens that look alien, and time travel.
So basically, if by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" you mean "Doctor Who", then you're exactly right!
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My mom said politely when she said his face has "character". Me I think he looks like the guy in the film "Mask".
Now that you say it, the guy does seem to look a bit Ax Crazy.
Re:12 Regenerations? (Score:3, Funny)
Allowing infinite regenerations could easily be done without breaking continuity, but it would destroy the show by making the Doctor's death totally meaningless.
Kinda like playing Zork.
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. ...
> West
Game over. You have been eaten by a grue. Start again? Y or N?
> Y
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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Will Smith would make an excellent Doctor. He'd do a rap solo every episode and remix the theme music to a hiphop/rap version. Plus he would wear sunglasses and dress up in the latest rap or hiphop fashions. Every planet he visits he is street smart. Plus they would have to cast Alfonso Ribeiro as his companion Carlton for comic relief. Carlton would get The Doctor and his female companion into trouble, and then The Doctor has to figure a way out of that trouble, all the while lecturing to Carlton that he needs to grow up and stop being such a dork.
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Peter Davidson's clearly an outlier.
On the other hand, I think you may have nailed the reason Timelords only get twelve regenerations ... they'd be a non-viable fetus after the 13th.
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I hate spunk.
Re:Audience age? (Score:3, Funny)
Scrubs. But Zach Braff would make a terrible Doctor.
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Chis Eccleston and Billie Piper are quicker to react: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1HuDYlJ6g [youtube.com]
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By lower, you mean actually allowed to look like a human being you'd want to date, rather than a giant set of ultra-white teeth jammed in a tanned manequinn?
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WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF DOCTORS, PEOPLE.
However, that would be a good opportunity to reboot the series, so we could finally get rid of those damn 60's props and update the Daleks. *ducks*
I'd like Rowan Atkinson to be the 13th Doctor... (Score:4, Funny)
Imagine a doctor as cunning and stupid as the Black Adder...a major TV hit!
Re:Hmmm getting close to the 12 regenerations limi (Score:3, Funny)
It's understood that time lords only expected to live a long time when they had dull monastic lives on their home planet. The Doctor grew to an age of just over 900 before he stole a time machine and went off saving planets, and he's been burning through his multiple lives at a shocking pace ever since.
Then again, all the other time lords got themselves killed in a war with the Daleks, so who's the reckless fool now?
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Billie Piper is disgusting
Ah, internet standards.
Idiot. She's quite stunning [pctapety.cz] by any normal metric. And quite unlikely to be interested in your fat, sweaty internet nerd ass.
She was just playing a character on Doctor Who anyway.
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Like, exterminate.