My choice this time round would go to Olivia Colman. I believe now is the right time for a female Doctor with all the groundwork that's been laid for it in Moffat's era. Olivia Colman also has that naturally quirky look to her that Steven Moffat calls 'unconventionally attractive'.
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I do feel like Steven Moffat has created a glut of characters who are supposed to have a huge impact in the series but are pretty hard to like. Out of all of them River Song is the one I hate most .
He tries to expand at a crazy rate to fill in lore that should be doled out slowly.
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My choice this time round would go to Olivia Colman. I believe now is the right time for a female Doctor with all the groundwork that's been laid for it in Moffat's era. Olivia Colman also has that naturally quirky look to her that Steven Moffat calls 'unconventionally attractive'.
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Oh yeah 100% agree there...I'm also getting a bit tired of every companion having to have some title or some huge effect like "The girl who waited" or "The Impossible Girl".... (Even though Karen Gilian will always be my #1 fave....)
He tries to expand at a crazy rate to fill in lore that should be doled out slowly.
He tries to expand at a crazy rate to fill in lore that should be doled out slowly.
Karen Gillan was great, in spite of some of the writing, and I think that's true of loads of actors who've been in the new series.
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My choice this time round would go to Olivia Colman. I believe now is the right time for a female Doctor with all the groundwork that's been laid for it in Moffat's era. Olivia Colman also has that naturally quirky look to her that Steven Moffat calls 'unconventionally attractive'.
I'd rather blow my brains out.
I've always been against the move, but it doesn't stop me thinking about actresses that fit the bill. Tamsin Greig, years ago, would have been excellent. I like Vicky McClure as well – really interesting face. Don't know her work very well though.
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The only person I want if they decide to go the female Doctor route is Tilda Swinton. But for me the Doctor is played by someone from the male species and always should be unless Tilda Swinton comes along... 'Long live the Doctor'.
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The only person I want if they decide to go the female Doctor route is Tilda Swinton. But for me the Doctor is played by someone from the male species and always should be unless Tilda Swinton comes along... 'Long live the Doctor'.
I feel like an androgynous actor would mistakenly signal that that is what the Doctor is, rather than the more alien notion that Time Lords probably no longer have a gender to speak of and just inhabit their different bodies whatever sex the body may be. It seemed likely to me over the years that as soon as the Time Lords invented regeneration their normal reproductive cycle would have dulled and become obsolete over the millions of years they've been around. So by the Doctor's time it's completely redundant, and explains his general lack of interest in it .
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He's such a charmer isn't he ?
I've always been against the move, but it doesn't stop me thinking about actresses that fit the bill. Tamsin Greig, years ago, would have been excellent. I like Vicky McClure as well – really interesting face. Don't know her work very well though.
The only person I want if they decide to go the female Doctor route is Tilda Swinton. But for me the Doctor is played by someone from the male species and always should be unless Tilda Swinton comes along... 'Long live the Doctor'.
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He's right though. You don't want anybody too attractive for the role of the Doctor. It needs to be someone with a slightly odd look to them. Even if you look at Peter Davison he didn't (and still doesn't) have the kind of look you'd expect fangirls to swoon for.
Paul McGann's usually considered to be the best looking of the lot, but he also had, and still has, a very unusual look, particularly his eyes. I wonder whether that's partly due to his insomnia? .
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I'd kinda like Ann Widdecombe to get the gig, just for a one-off special. Only problem is I can't think of a single adversary that would be brave/stupid enough to take her on
Am not being entirely serious so don't bite my head off - it would be a fun episode though imo.
Am not being entirely serious so don't bite my head off - it would be a fun episode though imo.
I'll tell you who I was thinking of for each new Doctor of the new series:
2005 – Bill Nighy. He was actually announced in one newspaper as having been cast, but that was a mistake. In retrospect, I'd have preferred him to Christopher Eccleston.
Post-Eccleston – David Tennant because there was really nobody else who was better suited at that moment.
Post-Tennant – I was thinking Paddy Considine (who apparently wasn't interested); Tom Hardy (whose film career would have made it impossible). In the end I was really happy with Matt Smith, who I didn't know.
Post-Smith – Idris Elba sounded good, but no firm ideas.
2005 – Bill Nighy. He was actually announced in one newspaper as having been cast, but that was a mistake. In retrospect, I'd have preferred him to Christopher Eccleston.
Post-Eccleston – David Tennant because there was really nobody else who was better suited at that moment.
Post-Tennant – I was thinking Paddy Considine (who apparently wasn't interested); Tom Hardy (whose film career would have made it impossible). In the end I was really happy with Matt Smith, who I didn't know.
Post-Smith – Idris Elba sounded good, but no firm ideas.
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I don't know though, I'd have thought Davison was pretty conventionally good looking at the time, as was Colin Baker around his The Brothers phase.
Paul McGann's usually considered to be the best looking of the lot, but he also had, and still has, a very unusual look, particularly his eyes.
Paul McGann's usually considered to be the best looking of the lot, but he also had, and still has, a very unusual look, particularly his eyes.
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I see what you mean about Paul McGann. His eyes look very alien. I'd say the same about Matt Smith's too - for a young actor he has very ancient eyes.
I still like Smith and it's a shame I didn't get to see his full run really. I think he's a really good actor and I appreciate the way he played the Doctor. He always pitched it exactly right.
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I remember at the time McGann was cast Philip Segal was saying that "he looks like an alien" and it's certainly, partly, down to that 'stare' he has. I'm not sure his brothers have exactly the same intensity, and Mark of course auditioned before Paul.
I still like Smith and it's a shame I didn't get to see his full run really. I think he's a really good actor and I appreciate the way he played the Doctor. He always pitched it exactly right.
I still like Smith and it's a shame I didn't get to see his full run really. I think he's a really good actor and I appreciate the way he played the Doctor. He always pitched it exactly right.
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I'll tell you who I was thinking of for each new Doctor of the new series:
Post-Smith – Idris Elba sounded good, but no firm ideas.
Post-Smith – Idris Elba sounded good, but no firm ideas.
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It helps that he basically just plays the Doctor as himself, given he already has a natural quirkiness to him. Like Tom Baker in that regard.
I don't need every Doctor to be as quirky as tennant or Smith, even though I love that take, but even the serious ones need to be able to pull off that side every now and then to sell the whole "Same guy, new skin" approach...Idris Elba has always struck me as very serious and I can't imagine him playing that crazed cat in the hat type either...
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Yeah, exactly. The beauty of Smith was that, on a very basic level, all he had to do was turn up . Other actors like Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell were really good at playing certain eccentricities, even if they themselves weren't like that.
The Doctor, noncommittal, replies "Tell him to go and stand outside then". That's more the tone that I think suited Eccleston and it's a pity they couldn't have gone for it more, instead of all that forced grinning and larking about.
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It'll be interesting to see how Matt Smith works in Big Finish audios - because I'm sure he'll do them eventually. Audio only may lose some of his Doctor's natural quirks.
That was a great line. It reminds me of the 12th Doctor's line in Into The Dalek too, when he introduces Clara as his 'carer'. 'She cares so I don't have to'.
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Post-Smith – Idris Elba sounded good, but no firm ideas.
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