...... and good riddance!
Now back to an old Doctor - the way it SHOULD be!!!
The past 8 Doctors (Baker, Davidson, Baker, McCoy, McCann, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith) debuted when they were under 45.
The average age for a newly regenerated Doctor (not including Capaldi) is 37. Including him it's 39. If you want to include Hurt it's still only 41.
Classic Doctor average age is 41. NuDr average is 35.
But please, do go on about the kids on your lawn and how they made the series insanely popular.
Indeed, however, if you watch the 50th Anniversary biopic "An Adventure in Time and Space," they show the original idea for the show was a cantankerous OLD man as the Doctor. Now, things are organic and change over time, but they initially wanted the Doctor to be a somewhat crabby grandfatherly type. Every Doctor since Davison has really been anything but. SHOULD the Doctor be portrayed as a younger feller? Well, we've had that. SHOULD the Doctor be portrayed as an old guy? We've had that too. No reason we can't go back to that, especially if there is to be an homage to the First Doctor with Capaldi being the first Doctor of the new set of regenerations.
Oh, I can't wait to see Capaldi brings to the role. My point is that the Doctor isn't supposed to be any age. They're all different and really, they're all hundreds of years old with differing personalities.
Hartnell's age almost doomed the show.
