To be honest I got the impression Tennant was very much considered a heart throb, but I'm no judge
I would say of all of the modern male Doctors, he was the most conventionally heart throbby.
Who should become the next Doctor after Whittaker?
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I would say of all of the modern male Doctors, he was the most conventionally heart throbby.
Elementary box set has been streaming through my telly a lot lately, and Jonny Lee Miller would make a compelling The Doctor. Cumberbatch was rumoured to have been considered for Doctor, he would make a good master I suppose. It’s only a matter of time.
I think We need a next Master thread too. Sue Perkins gets my vote.
I think We need a next Master thread too. Sue Perkins gets my vote.
Much as I like Sue, I’ve never known her to act in anything. And ridiculous as it might sound, she could drift into being a little too arch/camp the character. She can go pretty full Kenneth at times.
Me obviously, and i would wear a kit and a Tam o'shanter and have red hair, and i would have a bag of short bread instead of jelly babies, and sonic bagpipes, and the tardis would be completly tartan inside and out, and the tardis vortex would also be tartan, and the theme tune would be played by the Scottish highland bagpipes regiment, and my catch phrase would be "Och aye the noo Jimmy", and i would have two companions, one English and one Irish and we would all walk into a pub in the first epsiode, and when it came my time to regenerate it would be because i tried to climb up some stairs or ate some salad.....oh and i would talk in a Welsh accent.
Of course the usual brigade would then start shouting about the Scottish agenda running the show again with not one bit of evidence to prove so.
Of course the usual brigade would then start shouting about the Scottish agenda running the show again with not one bit of evidence to prove so.
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Me obviously, and i would wear a kit and a Tam o'shanter and have red hair, and i would have a bag of short bread instead of jelly babies, and sonic bagpipes, and the tardis would be completly tartan inside and out, and the tardis vortex would also be tartan, and the theme tune would be played by the Scottish highland bagpipes regiment, and my catch phrase would be "Och aye the noo Jimmy", and i would have two companions, one English and one Irish and we would all walk into a pub in the first epsiode, and when it came my time to regenerate it would be because i tried to climb up some stairs or ate some salad.....oh and i would talk in a Welsh accent.
Of course the usual brigade would then start shouting about the Scottish agenda running the show again with not one bit of evidence to prove so.
Sylv tried for the Tartan and ended up with paisley. Still. I would love to hear that our international viewers had to put on subtitles. If you are unavailable...ach. No. Was gonna say could we have Greg whotsisname who play Rab C Nesbit. Complete with costume and bits to camera.
^^I will tell you this Davro's, i will tell you this!.....yeah, that could work. lol
I think I’ve said it already, but after seeing the Avengers, I’m going with Benedict Wong. He’d be great fun.
Um...so? That doesn't take away from the fact he's a great actor.
I think the Doctor needs a certain kind of physicality, and Colin Baker got a lot of stick. I can’t imagine what the imagined Richard Griffiths doctor would have looked like, but am not sure that would work either. I think it also changes the kind of gravitas that can be used...now, he can definitely do gravitas (I watched Marco Polo) but I don’t feel he’s that Doctorish. I used rotund to sum it up in one word. *shrug* It’s either that or I am terribly against Mancunians. I blame the Britpop wars of 1998.
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No.
A person's figure doesn't effect ones gravitas.
Short of Samo Hung, where it’s played with, historically speaking, how many action/adventure heroes do you see in popular media who are above average size? It’s an opinion, based on watching the show..that’s a lot of corridors to peg up and down, and we could do with the Sun making cartoons bout needing to widen the Tardis doors. You think it doesn’t affect things, I think it does, what do you want to do consult the iching?
Emphasis mine.
To be blunt: I'm having a really hard time figuring out what you in a Doctor. Upthread, you feel the Doctor is special because he's not a soldier, a meathead, someone who likes to punch is way out of a situation. The Doctor THINKS itself out of a situation.
Now, you're saying out want someone with a more action/adventure physique?
What does physique have to do with THINKING? And being smart?
It really, really helps when you are running down a corridor. I’d also throw in the role model thing again, where we go for healthy eating as a big thing these days, but we know the dark path that leads down. There has been precisely one Doctor for whom the physicality of the role was not a feature (Hartnell) and when Baker Two started to get a bit out of shape, it became something of a joke in the show itself as well as fandom. Every other Doctor has been physical in some manner. Now, no doubt the actor mentioned could handle it, but as part of the general air of the character...I just don’t see it, hence my ‘nah, how about this one’ response. I just don’t think ‘imposing’ works as a base characteristic for a Doctor, that and the coat was one of the reasons a lot of people didn’t take to Colin (Well, that and trying to off his companion, Capaldi got away with that one just about.) Doctors should find it easy to fade into the background sometimes I feel, and a physically imposing figure doesn’t work with that much of the time.
If you want to know what I look for in a Doctor, you could experiment with watching the last fifty odd years worth, or any of the suggestions I have made, despite disagreeing with the general idea that we should discuss Jodie’s replacement specifically. I’m treating it as a general ‘who would make a good Doctor’. *shrug*
Lots of rotund people can run down a corridor.
Melissa McCarthy does quite a bit of physical work.
Why would you say that? Why are you saying I HAVEN'T watched the last 50 years? Why are you being sarcastic?
And I see your suggestions. And your other comments, and I'm trying to reconcile them.
And I see nothing that would disqualify Wong.
*shrug*
It’s an opinion fella.
Like Marmite being good.
You can easily reconcile stuff if you stop making assumptions. In this case it’s the idea that ‘action/adventure’ is somehow dependent on ‘gun totin hunk’o’stereotype’. It’s like Lara Croft...some people prefer the cerebral puzzle solving, occasional action girl, some prefer her as a sort of Jane Bond, and some (god knows why) like the modern victim/mass-killer version. All are action adventure heroes, but they are very different portrayals across the games and stories (though she always has some gunplay, sometimes she’s a little more...pile em high.)
Now that would be the last frontier in debates over who should play the Doctor. And let me say that again so the distinction is made... "Should play" not "who can play" because we've established can play..
But it would be an interesting debate on weight versus fit. Could I see a large lady or man playing the part..? Hmmm...never thought about it really..a rotund Doc eh?
Intruiging idea! Fat shamers beware!
But it would be an interesting debate on weight versus fit. Could I see a large lady or man playing the part..? Hmmm...never thought about it really..a rotund Doc eh?
Intruiging idea! Fat shamers beware!
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