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Doctor Who: the only series to have a whole programme on the main channel, at prime-time, dedicated to introducing the new actor playing the main character. Boy did they drag out the announcement that the new Doctor will be... Matt Smith.
...who? (Hah.) *checks IMDb* I wish I'd watched Ruby In The Smoke like I'd intended to do, because now I'll be conscious that this guy is going to be the Doctor.
Apparently Doctor Who is also All About The Hair. Dear god, the Doctor is five years younger than me. That feels rather unpleasantly landmark.
I'll miss David Tennant. :( But I'm looking forward to see what Stephen Moffat and Matt Smith do with the series. And I want to watch the Ark In Space again. And the whole of the Peter Davison era. And damn, I wish there'd been more Paul McGann, I must get some more of the audio dramas.
So that's... interesting.
...who? (Hah.) *checks IMDb* I wish I'd watched Ruby In The Smoke like I'd intended to do, because now I'll be conscious that this guy is going to be the Doctor.
Apparently Doctor Who is also All About The Hair. Dear god, the Doctor is five years younger than me. That feels rather unpleasantly landmark.
I'll miss David Tennant. :( But I'm looking forward to see what Stephen Moffat and Matt Smith do with the series. And I want to watch the Ark In Space again. And the whole of the Peter Davison era. And damn, I wish there'd been more Paul McGann, I must get some more of the audio dramas.
So that's... interesting.
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I've never heard of him, but then, I think the only Doctor I'd ever heard of before he was cast was Peter Davison--and I'm not even sure of that, because I was watching All Creatures Great and Small and DW on PBS and CBC at about the same time, so I might have known him as the Doctor first.
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They just keep getting younger all the time, don't they? Actors, students.... sigh
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I keep meaning to watch those - I've read one of the books. Hopefully they'll replay them, now he's Doctor-to-be, and I can get some idea of what he's like.
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And yes, Dr Who is now All About The Hair, Emo anyone??
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Well, maybe by spring 2010, he'll be... still very young. Eh.
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(I was hoping for Paterson Joseph, I admit.)
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Paterson Joseph has just the right RADA-style for the role. I'm not surprised they didn't choose him, though.
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Great minds think alike! *g*
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Heh! Well, yes, that ought to make it easier for you...! :D
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Also Press Gang.
Therefore he is a GOD.
(I'm afraid that I am one of those fans who loves my show unreasonably. Yes he is young and a bit daffy, but you know what...I still think it'll be Dr. Who and FUNN!!)
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*is still dubious about the guy's age and funny hair, though*
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On the other hand the cast changes on Doctor Who have always worked for me. I thought I'd never get used to Ten or Martha or Donna, but I always ended up loving them.
I've been meaning to start watching the older Doctor Who episodes since Netflix has them available to watch for free.
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And, true - in recent Doctor / companion changes, they've all been good (although I still wish they'd kept Martha around).
I'm feeling slightly... maliciously pleased? Because this is the sixth change of Doctor I've seen, and the third time it's slightly broken my heart - and I feel that the new fans are probably starting to really understand just what this series periodically does to viewers. :7
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But yes - Martha and Donna were fun together. I liked that they made them allies, and not rivals. Heh.
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(Although, ha! He's still four years older than me!)
Ruby in the Smoke was good - I mean, I liked him. He didn't stick out too much (which, I guess, is kind of the point of acting) - I was busy focusing on the difference to the books a lot.
But, we'll see. I'm not overly enthusiastic, but I'm unreasonably filled with David Tennant is GOING woe. Because... he IS the first Doctor I've seen new episodes for oer a long period of time, really (and Ten had more glee than Nine). And I'm unreasonably attached to Doctor and Donna combo. But.. I trust the Moffat. I'm really glad it is him taking over, even if Piers Wenger just looked hungover and red around the eyes...
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Hee - you wait. Someday there'll be a Doctor younger than you, and you'll feel like you've crossed some invisible barrier. *g*
And yeah, that's mostly the problem I'm having. I'm not averse to a new Doctor - I just don't want David Tennant to GO! *clings*
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And... it's not just Ten I'll miss - it genuinely is David Tennant, and his geeky fanboy-ism and his love of all Who. Because that's not just been fun to watch, it really has been great for the show (From the whole five minutes of footage, I get the feeling that Matt Smith is a bit like me, and grew up in the Gap Of No Who; there was only the film between me being two and me being eighteen).
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Oh, but you can bet that, if the series is still going strong, they'll find a way around it. They've already got the Master as a canon example. I was talking to someone about it earlier, though, and we wondered if, by then, the series will be waning in popularity - and if so, whether they'd choose to end it then. They'd have the opportunity to do something spectacular.
Still, even if they do end it after 13, I would still bet it'd come back again, a few years (or decades) down the line. Barring the collapse of western civilization.
Yeah, I see what you mean about David Tennant. He's always so gleeful about Who, when he's interviewed - it's so adorable to see someone who genuinely cares about the show, and geeky about the history. When they did that snippet with Peter Davison, I found that so moving, because he was my Doctor, too, and David Tennant was kind of saying that for me, and for everyone else whose first Doctor was PD. I guess David Tennant has established himself enough for new fans to have the same feeling, when he goes. (I just don't think Christopher Eccleston was around long enough to do that - at least, not on a grand scale.)
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Or maybe they'll do a "every Time Lord except the Doctor because he's special and the last one".
Time Crash? It was less a mini-adventure and more a love-letter from Tennant and Moffat to Davison and classic Who, and that was brilliant by me.
I think you're right about Chris Ecclestone - he was good, and I worried about whether his replacement was going to be as good, but he wasn't so firmly embedded in my head (Tennant's going to end up being my Doctor, methinks). When you said "Doctor Who" to me, I still thought of Tom Baker, because my Who knowledge was random episodes on a Saturday afternoon on BBC2.
Chris Ecclestone was.. respectful, but he didn't love it like Tennant seems to, who kind of gave kids the idea that it was okay to love the show that much, because he does, too (it's kind of what I love about the entire Who production team - a lot of the writers were fans, first; including James Moran who apparently turned up to his Torchwood readthrough wearing a Dalek T-shirt to give them a hint. But hey, it worked, he got Pompeii).
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Man, I feel old now, and I really think 32 is a little early for that... :-/
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The Doctor = Merlin... have they done that? They must have done that sometime.
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(Anonymous) 2009-01-18 10:10 am (UTC)(link)Re: Don't Hate
Doctor Who began as a series aimed at children. I don't believe that means that all the adults watching can't also hold an opinion about it, or love it just as much.