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Your short list for The 11th Doctor

wamdue said:
why is it bookies & the media are so dumb when it comes to what makes someone the 11th Doctor, the preview pretty much rules out Morrissey as the next Doctor, and coming up with a list of actors who have already been in Who, is not going to help either.
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I've wondered this... They cast both Martha and Gwen (Torchwood) based on previous appearances in Doctor Who then linked it back through some eye-rolling mention of "did you have a cousin that looked like you?" or something.

I'm hoping they'll at least be a little more original with the choice for the MAIN CHARACTER, but judging by last season, I wouldn't bank on a surge of originality :p

As for who the new Doctor should be, I haven't got a clue... I'll take a wild guess it'll be some Holby City or The Bill actor though...
 
The said:
Basically, who would you cast as the 11th Doctor (or The Doctor, in general)?
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Francis Wilson who does the weather on Sky News :)
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One day...
"And these things here... these white wispy things... these are clouds. Yeah... clouds. All these things down this side here are all clouds... I'm a weatherman. Francis Wilson's the name. Nice to meet you ;)"

The next day...
"And these things here... these small robotic things... these are called Daleks. Yeah... Daleks. All these things down this side here are all Daleks... I'm the Doctor. Just The Doctor. Nice to meet you ;)"
 
jongredic said:
judging by last season, I wouldn't bank on a surge of originality
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Well, last season was written, produced, and overseen by people who will have nothing to do with the upcoming season or the new Doctor, so I'm not sure why you would judge by last season as any kind of benchmark or originality or otherwise for what's coming next.
 
captcalhoun said:
Starkers said:
Can Camilla be his assistant? :drool:
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yes, but he'll have 3 companions, Camilla, Ola and Lillia. he saves them when Daleks attack Strictly and so they spend the next three adventures in their skimpy dance outfits. :p:drool::bolian:
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Nah no Lillia, we don't want to overdo things. Suggest Craig goes too to provide critical analysis the next time the Daleks start their Vienesse waltzing ala Journey's End :)
 
ClayinCA said:
jongredic said:
judging by last season, I wouldn't bank on a surge of originality
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Well, last season was written, produced, and overseen by people who will have nothing to do with the upcoming season or the new Doctor, so I'm not sure why you would judge by last season as any kind of benchmark or originality or otherwise for what's coming next.
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Because I can :p

One example I'd use to back up that statement is that Steven Moffat's Silence In The Library two-parter came off as a merging of his previous episodes Blink and The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (both of which were excellent); but I was left a little disappointed... I'm hoping now he's become showrunner, he won't fall into a pattern for forumlaic stories. I actually want to be proved wrong on this, and we'll find out soon enough :)
 
^I think Moffat has been a little hamstrung by only writing one story a season. Also people have kinda come to expect that one story to be dark and/or romantic. I too found the S4 two parter a bit of a let down (actually correction the first part was excellent, it was part 2 that was shakier) and I sincerely hope he doesn't reuse the 'everybody lives' notion for quite some time to come.

As a fan of his work long before NuWho I can't wait for his take on a silly or more light hearted story, I do fear that there's always a risk of some repetition when one person writes so many episodes (Take RTD's finales) but even though I felt RTD was perhaps burning out of Who tales to tell he proved me wrong with Midnight so who knows.

I do feel some of the repetition comes from placing of episodes as much as the writer. When every first and last ep is written by one man, and when the first episode has to be light and the last a super-mega-universe shattering epic this doesn't help.
 
I'm not real famililar with UK actors, but Steven Mackintosh (more approachable version,) Stephen Fry (more erudite, larger than life version) or Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (very dark version) might be offbeat choices.
 
captcalhoun said:
TOM CHAMBERS!
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As a Phoenix, Arizona native, I hope you're talking about the former Power-Forward who played for the Phoenix Suns during the early 1990s. I doubt that's who you're talking about, but I can dream.:p

Starkers said:
I sincerely hope he doesn't reuse the 'everybody lives' notion for quite some time to come.
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Maybe, although I'll take that a dozen times over the everybody dies ending of "The Horror of Fang Rock." (Seriously, would it have killed them to have allowed ONE guest star to survive that one?)
 
He'd only talk endlessly about the time he was "handbagged" by Maggie. I read his otherwise excellent book about the Thatcher's legacy on the Tory party, and it's clear his ego is the size of Westminster.
 
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