Who do you want to play the 13th Doctor?

[TJ Sinclair]

Uh... Heimdall? Strong, honorable, warrior, yes. But hardly aggressive. Charismatic out the wazzoo, to boot. He's my mother's favorite character in the film, and she's of the "casually racist and doesn't realize it" generation and thinks Chris Hemsworth is the most handsome man on earth right now. Elba also wasn't particularly aggressive at all in Prometheus. Elba, Fassbender and Rapace's performances were all that got me through that mess of a film.

Anyway, trying to bring this mess back on topic...

If we go younger again, I'd love Damian Moloney in the role. And while I've always been in the "someday Idris Elba" camp, over the last few days, I've come to think I'd rather see Lennie James in the role. Elba would make a much better Bond than a Doctor, I think.

And if the UK would ever go for an Irish actor as the Doctor (I don't think that's ever going to happen), then yes, James Nesbitt would be perfect.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^IIRC, Nesbitt has ruled himself out of contention but as I said in another thread today, I think he'd make a good Master opposite Capaldi. Scots meets Ulster-Scots!

 

[TJ Sinclair]

^IIRC, Nesbitt has ruled himself out of contention but as I said in another thread today, I think he'd make a good Master opposite Capaldi. Scots meets Ulster-Scots!

I think he would have made a perfect Master opposite Eccleston.

 

[DalekJim]

I'd like The Master to be less camp and manic next time, and a bit more stern and in control. It's more frightening.

Derek Jacobi was perfect, though I suppose it'd be a bit much having him regenerate back. Anthony Head would have been great, but we've already had him too.

Perhaps Jonathan Pryce?

 

[TJ Sinclair]

I'd like The Master to be less camp and manic next time, and a bit more stern and in control. It's more frightening.

Derek Jacobi was perfect, though I suppose it'd be a bit much having him regenerate back. Anthony Head would have been great, but we've already had him too.

Perhaps Jonathan Pryce?

I wanted so much more of Jacobi as the Master, it hurts.

But seriously, you want less camp and you suggest Jonathan Pryce? The man is camp defined.

 

[DalekJim]

That was the joke .

I do think Pryce would have made an excellent proper Master though.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^IIRC, Nesbitt has ruled himself out of contention but as I said in another thread today, I think he'd make a good Master opposite Capaldi. Scots meets Ulster-Scots!

I think he would have made a perfect Master opposite Eccleston.

Yes, that would've been interesting.

 

[TJ Sinclair]

That was the joke .

I do think Pryce would have made an excellent proper Master though.

He'd be a fine Master in general. And might work opposite Capaldi. They have a similar look to them, certainly, so that might be a fun aspect to play up.

But between Tomorrow Never Dies and Pirates of the Caribbean, Jonathan Pryce could play an excellent King Lear and I wouldn't be able to take him seriously. He'll always be a total joke to me, no matter what.

 

[Sindatur]

I'd like The Master to be less camp and manic next time, and a bit more stern and in control. It's more frightening.

Derek Jacobi was perfect, though I suppose it'd be a bit much having him regenerate back.

I wanted so much more of Jacobi as the Master, it hurts.

Yea, even in Scream of The Shalka, we don't get much of him as the Master (And Companion), but, it's fun what little there is

 

[DalekJim]

But between Tomorrow Never Dies and Pirates of the Caribbean, Jonathan Pryce could play an excellent King Lear and I wouldn't be able to take him seriously. He'll always be a total joke to me, no matter what.

Jonathan Pryce is a great dramatic actor. Besides, Elliot Carver was a very good Bond villain!

 

[Captain Crow]

You haven't been paying attention to Doctor Who in general, have you? The program has always delighted in time travel, temporal paradoxes, and other timey-wimey stuff.

Temporal paradoxes and [Moffat catch phrase] stuff is primarily a NuWho thing.

Nope.

Sorry but those two plot devices are used more in the 2005-present show more than is was in the 1963-1989 one. Especially in the Moffat era since those are some of his favorite plot devices to use.

The 1963-1989 run very rarely delt with those types of things. Off the top of my head I can only really think of a couple of paradoxial stories. "Day of the Daleks","Mawdryn Undead", and "Attack of the Cyberman".

Off the top of my head, I can also think of "The Space Museum," "The War Machines," "Pyramid of Mars," and "The Curse of Fenric." So it wasn't a rarely dealt thing.

I didn't say that I listed the only ones I said those are the one I could remember off the top of my head. I'm sorry that I don't remember every single story name at the moment. I didn't relise you'd twist my words around since I didn't make an itemised list. Out of 159 stories there's maybe about 20 or so actually delt with paradoxes in some way. If that's not considered rarely I don't know what is.

Also I'm a bit curious, what in "The War Machines" was paradoxial?

Again, god fobid we get an interesting plot idea that dosen't get erased in some form by the end. I really like the idea of an actual Time War Doctor rather than having the conflict of whether it was 8 or 9.

If that what's make you happy, I guess. Doesn't mean much (or really anything) as far as the show, though.

Got it. I'm a Stupid fan who has misinterpreted that Hurt is an incarnation of the Doctor... even though Smith's Doctor said he was.

As I pointed out Moffat has already put in a way for Hurt to exsit but still have the NuWho Doctors retain their numbers.

And as I pointed out, there is past precedent for there to be alternate versions of the Doctor that exist outside of his regeneration cycle.

You're right. I was stupid to even dare think Hurt was an actual incarnation of the Doctor. There's no possible way he can be the actual Doctor since that would shift 9-12 to 10-13. Apparently I'm just batshit crazey and imagined the ending to "The Name of the Doctor" where Hurt was identifed as the Doctor and the piece of dialog that would allow Doctors 9-12 to still be labeled as Doctors 9-12.

 

[TJ Sinclair]

But between Tomorrow Never Dies and Pirates of the Caribbean, Jonathan Pryce could play an excellent King Lear and I wouldn't be able to take him seriously. He'll always be a total joke to me, no matter what.

Jonathan Pryce is a great dramatic actor. Besides, Elliot Carver was a very good Bond villain!

I know he's a good actor, but I'll never be able to get those two roles out of my mind, and so I'll never be able to take him seriously, even if he's doing something powerfully dramatic. It's a problem with me, not with him.

 

[Starkers]

The Doctor should definitely be a male, and preferably be white too though I am open to suggestions. Definitely a big fan of the idea of Alexander Siddig in the role. I wouldn't mind a non-white actor if they actually suited the part. The problem is almost none of the non-white proposed candidates ever do fit the part. Patterson Joseph? What!? That guy was terrible in Series 1.

You're judging Paterson Joseph based on one small character he played in an episode of Who?

THIS is the reason he'd have made a great Doctor. I've thought it since the first time he turned up in Neverwhere.

Elba, no way he just doesn't say Doctor to me (great actor though, just not Doctor material) but Joseph, or Chiwetel Ejiofor, or Adrian Lester would be great as Doctors.

Saying Elba should be the Doctor is like saying Daniel Craig should be, it's just wrong.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I didn't like Pryce's Carver but he's been great in a lot of things, including a good Sherlock Holmes for the BBC. I think he'd make a decent Master and I don't really think his having been COTFD would be a problem for most viewers.

 

[DalekJim]

You're judging Paterson Joseph based on one small character he played in an episode of Who?

THIS is the reason he'd have made a great Doctor.

Well, at least now I can kinda see it. Not my ideal choice but I'd say there's more merit for his casting beyond his skin colour, unlike Elba.

 

[Sindatur]

You're judging Paterson Joseph based on one small character he played in an episode of Who?

THIS is the reason he'd have made a great Doctor.

Well, at least now I can kinda see it. Not my ideal choice but I'd say there's more merit for his casting beyond his skin colour, unlike Elba.

I actually didn't even realize that character was Patterson Joseph in S1 Doctor Who, as I became familiar with him after watching Eccelston's Series (And I haven't rewatched NuWho yet, aside from the occasional repeat viewing of new episodes, or the occasional repeat on BBCA. Scribbles rewatch NuWho down on my DVD watch list). For me, it was his role in Survivors that sold me he'd possibly be good as a Doctor.

 

[Starkers]

What's somewhat ironic is that all those years ago I identified someone from Neverwhere as a future Doctor...I just picked the wrong one!

 

[TJ Sinclair]

What's somewhat ironic is that all those years ago I identified someone from Neverwhere as a future Doctor...I just picked the wrong one!

Yup. But Neil Gaiman himself is pushing for Paterson Joseph, so you're not the only one.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I liked PJ as the demented employer in Peep Show but actively disliked his performances in both Who and Jekyll. I didn't watch Survivors and don't really remember him in Neverwhere. He may have made a good DW but I'm happy that they went with Smith and then Capaldi.

 

[DWF]

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