ooooh they are announcing who will be teh new Dr Who tomorrow..

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who will it be?
DT will be a hard act to follow.

drama students are fine. I was one myself, as was DT and any number of others.

Maybe I should put the qualifier 'Pretentious, emo-teen' drama students

Maybe Moffat wants to spend all the budget on special effects so had to get some child labour to play the Doctor.

Your description of him is spot on, Kay

Ok he can act
but I wanted to be able to fancy the doctor. No fair
I'm only a year older than him and he looks like a baby to me.
Bring on the next series of spooks I have some lusting to do.

"Doesn't he come across as just an arrogant sh*t of a public schoolboy who's done too many drugs?"
Niiice. He went to the local boys school, FWIW.
I remember why I flounced in the first place now.
I shan't pretend to know him personally, I haven't seen him for a few years, but I do know people who still know him, and I remember his mum as a lovely lady.
I really hope none of them come across this thread.
So he isn't the doctor who for everyone, but maybe you're all just getting too old to fancy the doctor and that's what you're pissed about?

oh fgs at this

how bloody boring. an immature david tennant. brilliant.

I think he'll be fine He's quirky, and interesting and I have every faith that Moffat's vision of 11 will be worth watching.

I can now look forward to Tennant taking on roles that involve lewd acts and nakedness

Will go and read the whinging on the other thread now

Oh, and I mentioned Capt Jacks reaction to 11 to a friend I was texting during Confidential and she was inspired enough to run off and start some dirty slash good, clean fic.

VS - I was too old to fancy the last doctor.

Didn't stop me though....

Actually, like Kay, I think I'd really prefer not to fancy the doctor - after all, no one fancied William Hartnell, did they....

God he's even uglier than DT!!!

Could they not have found a handsome chap to be the new Doctor??

"He's quirky, and interesting and I have every faith that Moffat's vision of 11 will be worth watching."

That was kind of the one up thing I said to DH. Even if I dont like the doctor as much Moffat can only improve it in other areas

what is disapointing for me is how formulaic it seems

have just wayched clip of him, he basically looks like DT-same mannerisms, everything-only younger. worse, he looks like he is putting on DT's mannerisms very earnestly.

I just really wish they'd cast someone who wasn't a white male in their 20s/30s. Was hoping for Lesley Sharpe.

this is so unfair i thought i would have a few more years before i was older than the actor playing the doctor

Jnr Doctor Who with a young companion who am I going to identify with? Davros???

If I was 25 of course i would think it was a brilliant choice - (bigmouth shuffles off to find pipe and slippers....)

I don't see why he has to have a companion, or companions that are 'younger' than him. I could quite see him travelling with an older (looking) man (bear in mind he's 950+, so actually, everyone he's travelled with in NuWho is a lot younger than him....)

We should bombard Moffat with requests for a MN pleasing companion...... Does his wife MN?

lol @ motherinferior

i was somewhat surprised by the choice, but, can see why the have chosen him. I was ambivolent about DT when CE left, but, it turns out he more than met my expections (not that I am an expert or anything). I could be surprised again. I sincerely hope so.

I hope so serenity - I am really trying n ot to be an old fart about this but I really wanted Paterson Joseph - I will give young Matt a chance and with good writing etc it won't matter a jot but it just seems a bit to yoof friendly (although I like him as an actor).

And with a better mix of companions I agree it will probably work... just need time to adjust

Tbh, I didn't/don't want DT to go, but there have been potentials mentioned that have just made me cringe so a decent, fairly unknown (so nothing to get past to see him as the Doctor) actor is more than fine with me. I'm not saying I didn't have a little freak out over his age, but I squished it down whilst cooking dinner and then watching Demons (which was very enjoyable) I'm quite looking forward to scouring the 'net for spoilers in the summer

My mother, who has watched Dr Who since the off, disputes the 900 years old thing. She says he was supposed to be 750 in Tom Baker's day. I did try to suggest that Time Lord years might be somewhat different to Earth years but she insists not that* different.

• She admits to giving up over Colin Baker and missing quite a lot in the 60s when she was at university discovering sex and drugs and rock 'n roll.

edam, your mother's not wrong, they even had that clip in the Confidential, didn't they?

But it's not like Trek, it doesn't really have a proper canon, so the rules are very stre-e-tchy. Which is why I can thaw out over TeenDoc fairly quickly

I figure that there are vast periods of time when the Doctor is off travelling and not being on the show, which is how he's managed to get to almost 1000. I mean, he could be standing in front of me right now, bugger off in Rjkhvnilhh XXI for a couple of centuries and still get back in front of me 5 (subjective) minutes after he left. It's that timeywimey stuff, innit?

Look at all those Big Finish adventures he's done.....

I suspect that the Time Wars probably account for a lot of that 200 years discrepancy

VSis - if he went to the local boys school (do state schols still segregate??), then why the pretentious-emo-from-the-private-school act?

LOL at the must be getting too old to fancy the Doctor! I thought the Doctor was supposed to be about 1000 years old - which means that I've got a fair few years left in which to fancy him

No, my 9 year old dd assures me that he is simply not handsome - but aside from the handsome/not handsome issue, he just doesn't have that certain something that most of the other Doctors did.

Exactly. I both curse and bless the Moff for the phrase timeywimey.

Trek has a genuine, official book-bound canon.

Who has 'Wibbly-wobbly Timey-Wimey'

LOL at MI "does he have a dad"

He is young enough to be my son, sadly (well I'm 45 next week).

Still, maybe DT will now do lots more live theatre in his yummy Scots accent

Who fans can be up themselves enough with the canon as fluid as it is. If you gave them something concrete, and official, they'd all explode within 30 seconds! Who survives (and prospers) because of its fluidity. Rules suck, I prefer our gently flowing guidelines