Doctor Who - Discussion Thread III (no untagged future spoilers)

Not that old, but the original series Doctors were all considerably older and I've got a bit bored with Matt Smith being so childish all the time. DT was once in a while but he could do serious as well, much better than Matt Smith. I'm hoping for someone mid-30s...

He's the 9th Doctor, the one who committed genocide.

Not that Matt hasn't been really good, I enjoy him, but I agree, it would be nice to have an actor who plays it with a bit of gravitas. Anyone for Benedict Cumberbatch?? We can wish.

Confused... How can he be the 9th doctor, that was C.E?

I think Benedict is too big a star now to bother with a TV series like Doctor Who, at least until he is a lot older and his star power has started to wane. Sherlock is different as they are of a higher calibre with greater appeal and exposure than DW but I can't imagine him doing more than one series after the current one.

I would have to disagree because Benedict always said he would be willing to do Dr Who, I think he even discussed it with Moffat (who also writes Sherlock) but nothing ever came of it. If Moffat stays on for Dr Who I could see it happening in a year or so. Plus Who has had some very big names on it (like John Hurt) because Dr Who is like a national treasure and the actors often watched it as a child.

The Doctor explained that, what he did was so bad that he did not do it in the name of the Doctor.

Note: I and many are guessing he committed genocide but it is known that he's the 9th.

Sorry if I'm being a complete idiot here, but Matt Smith is 11, Tennant was 10 and Eccleston was 9. So how can 9 have a different face? Or has he aged?

I thought Hurt would play either a future doctor/Valeyard or an incarnation before the 1st Doctor, and what he did was so bad it made him take on the name of the Doctor to stop himself doing anything like it again.


On another note I'm very surprised to Matt leave so soon as it always sounded like he'd be on for at least another series, in interviews etc.
Everyone is guessing big names for the next Doctor but it'll probably be someone quite unknown. I would have liked to see Iain de caestecker (from The Fades) or Ben Whishaw (Skyfall's Q) but both are quite young and I think we'll probably see someone older than Smith take on the role.

Hurt was the 9th incarnation, but what he did wasn't in the name of the doctor, he's not considered as the doctor - Ecclestone was the 9th Doctor, but the 10th incarnation of that time lord.

What?? So 9 is actually 10, 10 is 11 and 11 is 12? So the next Doctor will be the last regeneration?

Has this actually been confirmed or is it just speculation? Doesn't seem right that they can just rewrite like 8 years of Who (since its return in 2005).

MOFFAT!!!! *shakes fist angrily*

In today's BBC article with speculation on the next Doctor, one of the candidates is my godparents' other god-daughter. If she gets it, I could be almost related to the Doctor.

So they are genuinely thinking about a female Doctor?

Not too sure how I feel about that but only because Moffat seems to have a nightmare writing a developed and rounded female over the course of an entire series.


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Honestly I think Moffat should go too to be honest... while his first series in charge (with Matt Smith) was great I think they've really dropped in quality with Smith's second and third series. There's the odd good episode, yeah, but it feels to me like it's only one or two of the whole series that are decent, when, in older series, for me it was completely the opposite, only one or two were naff and the rest were great.

Still though, it'll be interesting to see where they go with the next Doctor based on who they pick - personally I'm not too bothered about it being a man or a woman, black or white, it'd just be different and I reckon I'd get used to it in time. However they should go with the person best suited for the role out of all the candidates, rather than just get a "token" non white/female lead.