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And the new doctor is... here

Ok, first off, I admit that I'm kind of excited despite myself. I was really, really hoping that the show with Moffat in charge would have the guts to do something unexpected, like, Idunno, have the doctor not be young, hip and pretty. Instead we have a 26 year-old who looks like the lovechild of Robert Smith and Morrissey. I am not allowed to be older than the guy playing The Doctor. Srsly.

That said, I do like the guy. I would have been happier with him if he didn't mean following three years of a younger, hipper, wackier version of Eccleston with what looks like to be an even younger, even hipper, even wackier version of Tennant (though I do hope he keeps the hair), but something about his personality makes me at least curious and... cautiously optimistic?

Here's hoping.

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Agreed with everything - especially the trendtastic prettyboy nature of yet another Doctor - but I think he'll work out. I think he'll be okay... except the Hair. I have issues with the Hair.

I can't shake the feeling that they've gone and cast a companion as the Doctor this time around.

Edited 2009-01-04 00:12 (UTC)

OH GOD YES. Oh man- can you imagine him meeting Donna? She'd tear him up one side and down the other. It would be a thing of beauty. She'd make a better Doctor than this guy would, I think.

See Twitter. But yeah. This guy annoys me. To me, the Doctor is someone you can rely on to fix things in a crisis. Tennant flailed around a bit too much to really be taken seriously (And it's even been addressed in an episode), but he got the job done.

This guy, I want to tell him to stop wearing his sister's jeans, wash his hair, and get me my damn fries.

Can I have Donna as the Doctor now? She'd be much better at it.

And if we can't have Donna as the Doctor, the very least Steven can do is give us Wilf as a companion.

That would be awesome.

*grumbles*

I was really, *really* gunning for Paterson Joseph.

Mostly I'm disappointed because he looks like David Tennant's kid brother, and I'm rapidly tiring of Tennant. I liked the show when it had both a sense of humor and an edge about it, but it seems to have lost the latter in favor of the former as it's gone on. The Doctor hasn't screwed up in a while now, had some choice come back to haunt him. I'll hold out hope that the new kid will be, if not more interesting, at least different, but it's hard to do so. (He's three years older than me! WTF? It's a role that seems to demand an abnormally large dynamic range from a performer, and I'm not convinced anyone my age could pull it off. I know I certainly couldn't.)

Wait, wait, wait; I'll grant the younger/hipper, but Tennant's Doctor was "wackier" than Eccleston's? I dunno, man. Maybe more . . . irreverent, is I think the right word. But "wackier" is a harder sell.

Also, hasn't the Doctor been getting younger each time since the inception of the show? Wasn't there even some obscure early bit of canon about how he actually was getting biologically younger when he regenerated (which certainly makes sense)?
Also-also, haven't the recent Doctors actually been comparatively tame vis-a-vis wackiness (Tom Baker and Mr. Celery lapel come to mind)?

Overall, though, I've really liked Tennant (which I feel obliged to bring up only because of all the vitrol, above). The stories haven't always been superb, but that's not really his fault; the character-as-played, I think, has been interesting, engaging and, leaving aside the "900+ year-old undying time-traveling alien" consideration, believable (which, considering how much of a colossal Mary Sue the Doctor is on paper, is no small accomplishment IMO). Aside from the weird romance/emo crap that the writers inexplicably thought was a good idea, I really enjoyed the tenth Doctor.

Also, no to the above suggestions; no more (long-term) Doctor Donna. Yes, she's awesome, fine. She'd be *too* awesome as a Time Lord, though, which would make for very boring stories. Her power level would exceed 9000 in a big way.

am i the only one in the world who doesn't think he's dishy?

answer: no.
jess says "i was hoping for someone older, too. if he's going to be young he might as well be somewhat attractive and not looklike he got dropped onto his head in chernobyl as a baby"

maybe the doctor is like merlin, gradually getting younger as he gets older until he disappears or something. i'm going to go watch EXCALIBUR thank you very much

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