Who DON'T you want to see as the next Doctor?

[Green Lantern]

There's been a lot of talk about who people want to be the next Doctor, but there's not really been much discussion about who people DON'T want. Here's my list of people I really, really don't want to be the next Doctor.

Olivia Colman
Gonna get a lot of hate for this, but still. Aside the fact, as many of you know, that I don't want a female Doctor, even despite that Colman would definitely be near the bottom of my list. In spite of her being a good actress, I just really, really struggle to see her in the role, it just doesn't click, I can't see it at all. Plus as she's been mentioned so much, I feel she's too much of a "default choice", much like Ben Wishaw for example, so it'd feel pretty underwhelming if she was chosen.

Miranda Hart
Come on now, be sensible. She's be a preposterous choice. She'd make the show a ridiculous non-stop comedy, it may draw in viewers for the first several episodes, but after it'd tank. I can't see her pulling off the role at all. She'd either be an awkward aunt or a clumsy mum like character, she's just way too quirky for the show. Could anyone actually see her tackle Daleks? I want to generally avoid comedians on the show anyway, but this takes the biscuit.

Ross Noble
My Dad mentioned this, so I felt I should mention him here, albeit in the opposite capacity. Much for the same reason as Miranda hart really, the show would be utterly bizarre, and once again I'd like to avoid comedians.

Emma Watson
Mentioned far too often. She's too big for the role, and I think also too dull. She'd play it too cautiously, but to painfully drab degrees. I can't even see her as a companion either, as I say, too big for the role.

 

[KennyB]

Just saw the odd-makers are saying Tilda Swinton is not the favourite? Has she ever mentioned wanting to do it? Seems she's got a nice gig going in motion pictures. I had never heard her name in the mix before.

 

[Starkers]

Danny Dyer or David Walliams would top my nightmare list.

 

[Relayer1]

Noel Fielding.

Then again...

 

[Sybok Was Wrong]

The Doctor should never be a woman.

I have no problem of a spinoff of a Lady Timelord. But changing genders is not what this show needs right now.

It needs to get back the audience pre-Peter Capaldi.

 

[Tenacity]

I think Weird Al Yankovic would make a excellent Doctor.

 

[TommyR01D]

Diane Abbott







Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba...
basically all the people who perennially get suggested whenever this event comes around. The next Doctor shouldn't already be a big star - he should be relatively anonymous and Doctor Who should be his primary reason for fame.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba...
basically all the people who perennially get suggested whenever this event comes around. The next Doctor shouldn't already be a big star - he should be relatively anonymous and Doctor Who should be his primary reason for fame.

Generally I agree but I think Alexander Siddig isn't that well known and would still work, assuming his age isn't an issue.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Just saw the odd-makers are saying Tilda Swinton is not the favourite? Has she ever mentioned wanting to do it? Seems she's got a nice gig going in motion pictures. I had never heard her name in the mix before.

She doesn't really do TV work, does she? Her androgynous/transsexual role in Orlando makes me think it would be interesting to see such a Doctor, but she seems too cold and aloof to play the mercurial side of the Doctor. Of course, it might be that she has become typecast and actually she does have the range that is required.

ETA: Another vote for not Olivia Colman. She's in bloody everything nowadays.

 

[Professor Zoom]

She doesn't really do TV work, does she? Her androgynous/transsexual role in Orlando makes me think it would be interesting to see such a Doctor, but she seems too cold and aloof to play the mercurial side of the Doctor. Of course, it might be that she has become typecast and actually she does have the range that is required.

You should see her (if you can find her) in Trainwreck, the Amy Schmuer movie. I didn't even realize it was her. And she was the farthest thing from androgynous. She was quite funny.

And, just because: I vote No Men. Not Siddig, not Cumberbatch, Redmayne. None of them.

 

[The Wormhole]

The Doctor should never be a woman.

We're going to have a female Doctor eventually. Maybe not the next one, but it is going to happen someday.

It needs to get back the audience pre-Peter Capaldi.

There are several ways of doing this that don't involved the actor playing the Doctor, or even could be done with Capaldi still in the role. Something as simple as consistent broadcast schedules would be a start.

Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba...

To be fair, I'd say all those three are a bit out of the league for playing the Doctor. Besides, Idris Elba needs to be the next James Bond.

 

[The Four Doctor]

About comedians: Jon Pertwee was a radio comedian and many Doctor actors have had substantial comic roles.

 

[Starkers]

We're going to have a female Doctor eventually. Maybe not the next one, but it is going to happen someday.

There are several ways of doing this that don't involved the actor playing the Doctor, or even could be done with Capaldi still in the role. Something as simple as consistent broadcast schedules would be a start.

To be fair, I'd say all those three are a bit out of the league for playing the Doctor. Besides, Idris Elba needs to be the next James Bond.

Too old.

 

[Jax]

The Doctor should never be a woman.

Oh please do one. Sick of hearing this nonsense, ffs it's 2017 move on.

 

[ihno]

Oh please do one. Sick of hearing this nonsense, ffs it's 2017 move on.

Yeah, let's make it like Star Wars and have only 23-27 year old females as the next two or three doctors. Let's change one sexist stereotype with another and let's call that diversity.

 

[Jax]

It's a bird, it's a plane...no it's insecure men.

 

[ihno]

Yeah, that's always the simplest answer, isn't it? Reality is more diverse though.

Personally I think that it will be an actress this time and I don't mind if the next doctor will be female or not. But that will be anything but original or new or ground-breaking.

I like Missy very much, a character like that would be nice, a female Matt Smith would be just as bad as the male one.

Hollywood (and other production-places) bring us clichees and that hasn't changed much despite the new proclaimed "diversity". How "diverse" would Emma Watson be?
I think Capaldi is more diverse (because of his age) than a 30 year old female model-like actress would be.

"diversity" as I understand it would mean: people who don't look like models, fat people, small people, ugly people, old people, gay people (or people who are all of that together and who are not based upon clichees). But where are those in leading roles?

 

[Jax]

"diversity" as I understand it would mean: people who don't look like models, fat people, small people, ugly people, old people, gay people (or people who are all of that together and who are not based upon clichees). But where are those in leading roles?

So Doctor Who is responsible for Hollywood now? No show has to tick off all the boxes on its own and we've never had a female lead as The Doctor in Doctor Who (Also can be a non white woman too) so for Doctor Who it would be ground breaking. So unless we are going to tick several boxes off at once, we shouldn't bother?

 

[ihno]

They are two or three doctors too late to be "ground breaking" with a female lead. Now it would be just a "trend", just like the new "ground breaking" gay character on the new Star Trek show. (It's okay to follow a trend but be honest about it, don't make a fuzz about it)

Doctor who is a show, which - since Davis wasn't involved any more - insulted sexual minorities occasionally. I vividly remember jokes about "transsexual horses", so that straight people can have a laugh. I felt offended.

And if the BBC would now claim to be "progressive" because they choose a female lead, I would not agree automatically. They should give a better look at their scripts first.

I want a good actor or actress, a person you can remember. A person starring in a good show with good scripts - something that doctor who didn't have any more in the most recent years.

So that's what I want to see. Again: I like Missy, both the actress and the character are just great. If they come up with something like that, that's fine by me. I would love it.

But I can't say much about the names in this thread. Except for Emma Watson I've never heard of the names that are mentioned here.

 

[The Wormhole]

Doctor who is a show, which - since Davis wasn't involved any more - insulted sexual minorities occasionally. I vividly remember jokes about "transsexual horses", so that straight people can have a laugh. I felt offended.

What? I really don't see how the transsexual horse is meant to be offensive. But regardless, even RTD threw in jokes about sexual minorities, hell he even used the word "gay" as a pejorative. After the first time he did it (Aliens of London, Rose describes Jackie slapping the Doctor as "so gay") people actually accused him of being homophobic(!) because of it.