Your short list for The 11th Doctor

[The Mirrorball Man]

So given the immature responses to my post... I assume you think it would be good to feminize DW yet more? Awesome. I mean, they could always do what Star Trek did with Janeway - make a spinoff, why not? But to completely feminize him (more the Russel T. has already) would be just silly.

Shame to ruin a winning forumulae.

Why not make him a midget while we're at it? Why not make him a "How, me Indian" too? Or even better why not really go for the minority vote and make him regenerate into a one-legged lesbian with a liking for mullets?

"Now, I've noticed a tendency for this program to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I'm not having things getting silly. Those two last sketches I did got very silly indeed, and that last one about the bed was even sillier. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do... except perhaps my wife and some of her friends... oh yes and Captain Johnston. Come to think of it most people like a good laugh more than I do. But that's beside the point. Now, let's have a good clean healthy outdoor sketch. Get some air into your lungs. Ten, nine, eight and all that."

 

[Marx]

I still think Rickman would be an excellent candidate!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Izzard would be also be a terrible choice, IMHO. Collin Baker already fulfilled the fairy version of Doctor Who

I guess you haven't seen The Riches, The Cat's Meow, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, and Revengers Tragedy, among others.

 

[zenophite]

whomever they choose I just hope they have a less silly character for the doctor - I'm not really a fan of tenant's hyperactive bipolar interpretation.

 

[ClayinCA]

So given the immature responses to my post... I assume you think it would be good to feminize DW yet more? Awesome. I mean, they could always do what Star Trek did with Janeway - make a spinoff, why not? But to completely feminize him (more the Russel T. has already) would be just silly.

How has Russell (two Ls) feminized the Doctor? If anything, the Doctor is more overtly male now than he ever was in the original series - he's had love affairs of one kind of another, and he's kissed, or been kissed by, every single female companion he's had since the show came back (including Kylie Minogue). Seems pretty masculine to me!

 

[Sci]

So given the immature responses to my post... I assume you think it would be good to feminize DW yet more? Awesome. I mean, they could always do what Star Trek did with Janeway - make a spinoff, why not? But to completely feminize him (more the Russel T. has already) would be just silly.

How has Russell (two Ls) feminized the Doctor? If anything, the Doctor is more overtly male now than he ever was in the original series - he's had love affairs of one kind of another, and he's kissed, or been kissed by, every single female companion he's had since the show came back (including Kylie Minogue). Seems pretty masculine to me!

Sssssshhhhhh. Don't confuse the poor man with facts.

In any event, I don't agree with the idea of a female Doctor just because the essence of the character is masculine. Having said that, I see no particular reason that the next Doctor can't be an ethnic minority -- if the Doctor can change appearance so radically in so many important ways (height, build, etc.), why not in a relatively superficial way (skin color)? It's not like the Doctor's "whiteness" is intrinsic to the character, either; he's alien, it's not like they have to preserve the Doctor's Anglo-Saxon heritage.

 

[Tomalak]

Izzard would be also be a terrible choice, IMHO. Collin Baker already fulfilled the fairy version of Doctor Who

Are you saying Colin is gay?

 

[cardinal biggles]

Izzard would be also be a terrible choice, IMHO. Collin Baker already fulfilled the fairy version of Doctor Who

I guess you haven't seen The Riches, The Cat's Meow, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, and Revengers Tragedy, among others.

I guess he also hasn't watched any Sixth Doctor episodes. Colin Baker may have had a tacky wardrobe,* but there was nothing effeminate about the way his Doctor acted.


*And if we're going to play to stereotypes, no self-respecting gay man would be caught dead in that Technicolor nightmare of a suit.

 

[StCoop]

Izzard would be also be a terrible choice, IMHO. Collin Baker already fulfilled the fairy version of Doctor Who

Are you saying Colin is gay?

I believe he's also saying Eddie Izzard is gay, when of course he isn't.

 

[wamdue]

Izzard would be also be a terrible choice, IMHO. Collin Baker already fulfilled the fairy version of Doctor Who

I guess you haven't seen The Riches, The Cat's Meow, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, and Revengers Tragedy, among others.

I guess he also hasn't watched any Sixth Doctor episodes. Colin Baker may have had a tacky wardrobe,* but there was nothing effeminate about the way his Doctor acted.


*And if we're going to play to stereotypes, no self-respecting gay man would be caught dead in that Technicolor nightmare of a suit.

I dont think any guy would be caught dead in that suit.

 

[ClayinCA]

Sssssshhhhhh. Don't confuse the poor man with facts.

In any event, I don't agree with the idea of a female Doctor just because the essence of the character is masculine. Having said that, I see no particular reason that the next Doctor can't be an ethnic minority -- if the Doctor can change appearance so radically in so many important ways (height, build, etc.), why not in a relatively superficial way (skin color)? It's not like the Doctor's "whiteness" is intrinsic to the character, either; he's alien, it's not like they have to preserve the Doctor's Anglo-Saxon heritage.

I agree totally. For one thing, I think the Doctor almost has to be a man - if he was someone who could potentially be a woman, he'd never have been such an awful chauvinist (especially in his third incarnation)!

I guess he also hasn't watched any Sixth Doctor episodes. Colin Baker may have had a tacky wardrobe,* but there was nothing effeminate about the way his Doctor acted.

Right. In fact, his response to Peri calling the Fifth Doctor "sweet" was to take great offense and describe his former incarnation (very perjoratively) as "effete!"

 

[Meredith]

David Hewlitt

 

[ELURIA]

Colm Meaney.

How about an Irish Doctor for once ?

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Peter O'Toole.

"TOday, my deAR! We are going...back...in time."

"I'm the doctor...of what I.. am ..not ...exactly sure."

 

[Turbo]

Here's my fanwanky list:

1. David Hewlett
2. Eddie Izzard
3. Paul McGann (do retro stories)
4. Joanna Lumley
5. James Callis
6. Alan Rickman

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Peter Woodward, it's time for a bald doctor!

Joseph Fiennes, just to keep him from making any more bad historical dramas.

Jason Issacs...okay, he'd be a better Master.

Thomas Kretschman , a GERMAN Doctor...how awesome would that be?

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I would love to see Henry Ian Cusick as the doctor, but they say Paterson Joseph is the favourite at the moment.

 

[StCoop]

I'll be happy if it turns out to be somebody no one's ever thought of, because most of the names that get mentioned are far too obvious.

 

[Jim Steele]

Bruce Boxleitner ftw!

 

[Lonemagpie]

We know it'll be a bloke, the producer usually brings along someone he's worked with before, and we know the Moff said last season the Doc will always be around 35-40.

Which makes Paterson Joseph just a shade too old, and James Nesbitt passing out of range. Obviously the likes of Bill Nighy, Tony Head etc is well out.

Richard Coyle's star is fading, so I doubt it'd be him (the shadow of Strange also puts a dampener on him)

My money, thinking about, and looking at pics of the other blokes in Coupling and Jekyll, is on...

Jack Davenport.

Right age, popular with the laydeez, regular on Coupling, rising star with some US credits including Norrington in Pirates Of The Caribbean.

There you go, my semi-prediction is that Jack Davenport will be Doc 11.

Even if they haven't actually decided who they want yet.