I think part of the reason Daniels was so open and magnanimous about it in this interview was to show the BBC that he'd jump at the chance given the opportunity to play #13.
"Keep me in mind, guys! Plus, look! I'm ginger!"
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"Keep me in mind, guys! Plus, look! I'm ginger!"
How can you sum up what was obviously a multifaceted and multilayered performance in such a simplistic way? Are you watching the same show I am? Because what I see with Matt Smith's Doctor is someone playful, dark, exhausted, emotional, clever, funny, experienced, protective....all at once.Oh man, I think I would have preferred Daniels.
Still, at least we don't have a female doctor or another teenager jumping around the tarids all the time.
To characterize him as a "jumping teenager" is just patently incorrect. And incomplete.
^ Amen.
How can you sum up what was obviously a multifaceted and multilayered performance in such a simplistic way? Are you watching the same show I am? Because what I see with Matt Smith's Doctor is someone playful, dark, exhausted, emotional, clever, funny, experienced, protective....all at once.Oh man, I think I would have preferred Daniels.
Still, at least we don't have a female doctor or another teenager jumping around the tarids all the time.
To characterize him as a "jumping teenager" is just patently incorrect. And incomplete.
Dark? I've seen episodes of Coronation Street that were darker than Matt Smiths doctor. I've seen more emotional episodes of Eastenders than Matt Smiths Doctor. The only exhausted things about Matt Smiths doctor is the writing and the overused style Smith plays his doctor in. Smith doesn't give me any hints of being experience at all either. Playful, funny, clever and protective, I'd give you those, but where on Earth are people seeing the dark side to Smiths doctor from? Matt Smith's the furthest away from dark we've ever had in a doctor.
He's not obligated to tell us anything. We're not entitled to a blow by blow description of every process the show goes through in casting, writing or any other aspect of production. Moffat and anyone else involved with creating art or entertainment are well within their rights to use any technique at their disposal to keep things secret. Including false information.
He's allowed to say anything, it just makes interviews with Doctor Who showrunners more boring than ones with other showrunners, such as Vince Gilligan.
There are only so many times you can hear "It's going to be a game-changer!" or "It's going to be big and bonkers!" before you start to zone out.
There are only so many times you can hear "It's going to be a game-changer!" or "It's going to be big and bonkers!" before you start to zone out.
Which I guess is your opinion, but the thing is, your opinion is wrong.
Which is different thing than keeping the casting choices or plot development under wraps.
Oh it's not just PR guff that that occurs, people talking absolute bollocks, claiming they know what they're on about when clearly don't does it to me every time.
Sing it brother!
The whole triumph of Matt Smith's portayal is not that he's a young Doctor, it's that he's a grumpy old man suddenly in an exctible young body, and he plays it to perfection 99% of the time.
Still find him annoying though. Well, at times at least. Varies time to time so much.