Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

He seems like a gap-year backpacker who's really into The Killers, The Kills, Dirty Pretty Things and, um, Crystal Castles. And this amazing dead poet guy called Nick Drake.

^^^^^^^^^^^^

OMG he has indie-ish hair and looks young oh the disaster!

Noodle Vague OTM, I'm sure he will be fine. Are people basing their reactions on seeing him play any remotely similar role, or just from looking at a few press shots.

Timelords should be 700 years old not 12

Welcome to the Doctor Who thread, where everyone is DJ Martian.

He looks, weirdly, less boyish than Tennant, in the Tardis photo. He probably has a good furious stare on him, which Tennant never really perfected.

(NB I'm not suggesting Tennant has been anything other than brilliant in the role, despite some of the shonk he's had to work with, but gravitas was never his thing).

I'm hoping he'll play the part in a sort of vaguely preppy thoughtful young Sherlock Holmes way. Possibly this is informed by the fact Moffatt and Mark Gatiss are working on a new Sherlock series at the moment (which I expect to be awesome).

My gf pointed out that the Doctor is getting progressively younger as he regenerates. Any reason they might try to work this into a story or is it just "hey let's get a new sexyface"

Except Peter Davison was still the youngest Doctor, until now.

Ah!

You know you're getting old when all Doctors start looking like they're 12.

by the 13th regen, they might actually be 12.

i hope that he at least gets a haircut.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01215/pdrwho3_1215574c.jpg

I hope he gets a better outfit.

He's got a Bowie circa Man Who Fell to Earth thing going on there. Which is good, obv.

just saw his interview thingy on youtube. he's all hand gestures, it's kinda mesmerizing.

Meh. But I also mehed at Tennant and Eccleston so I HAVE FAITH etc.

He's got more of a Prince Harry goes to a Killers concert look about him.

Can that mere child pull off grumpy dad eyes as well as a menacing stare in an effective manner?

^^what i'm bothered bout. i don't mind a young Doc but 26 might just be a tad too young to pull off 900-yo clever bastard convincingly.

still, moffatt wanted a middle-aged, older type so dude must have done something right to make him change his mind.

Like the hand gestures, voice is probably going to fit assuming he's allowed to keep his current upper-class tones (also assuming IT BREAKS etc)

The hair MUST DIE. GET A HAIRCUT MAN FOR GODSAKE etc. Unfortunately if they picked him for the hair as opposed to the hands he's more likely to get his fingers chopped off for the role than his horrible emo fringe thing. (Remember that electrifying moment when we thought David Tennant was going to be the Doctor with the ROBOT HAND? It could all have been so different!)

He should grow a beard for it if he can. (BIG IF I know etc)

26 might just be a tad too young to pull off 900-yo clever bastard convincingly.

yeah i'm trying to picture him delivering some of tennant's long moment-of-figuring-out-the-problem speeches and he just sound precocious in my head

He won't be the same Doctor though. Anything Tennant did doesn't apply to this new bloke.

Anything Tennant did doesn't apply to this new bloke.

Well, I hope he's good at least.

Haha, holy fuck, Matt Smith was the head prefect in my year at school and I was in the same class as him for psychology and English lit.

For those of you who are on some "ugh indie" tip, he was a 2-step DJ when we were 16/17.

He was captain of the school football team as well.

Oh good, another good thread is going to be infected by creepiness and resentment.

:-D

Nah, I'm still not going to watch a fucking sci-fi show.

he was a 2-step DJ when we were 16/17.

This combination of words just broke my head.

i just watched the xmas special and wanted to put in my 2 cents, or pence, or whatever:

-the xmas special was super mega weak sauce, i'm surprised so many people liked it. i didn't hate it, but the sheer number of plotholes and weird contrivances were a distraction.

-i have faith in this new guy. he's got a very "doctory" look. you know jack will be happy about it, at least.

So it's a foppish, posh-school prefect as the Doctor. He's like a young Bill Nighy, with a bit too much going on with his face and hair and stuff. If they'd waited ten years or so, he'd be perfect.
Still, a much better choice than all the other candidates, Chiwetel Ejiofor excepted.

I'm kinda disappointed it's not Johnson off Peep Show, I would've been intrigued to see that. Ejiofer would've been good, but he's too high profile probably. Never heard of Smith, and I'm going to reserve judgment.

boo what happened to our black Doctor

Paterson Joseph? That was just a rumour spread to drum up publicity for Survivors.

Chiwetel Ejiofor would have been fantastic. What's the betting he turned them down?

http://i39.tinypic.com/2zxml95.jpg

"Looks more like he belongs in SJA" I think they mean.

The thing is, the Doctor's kind of an asshole. It's hard for me to reconcile that aspect of his personality with Ejiofor.

(Though that could be a function of the roles I've seen him in more than his actual range.)

NicLOLe.

"He looks like a Sparklepire"

HAHAHAHA!

He does though, doesn't he? I think it's the hair.

I'm just very confused. What happened to the Marquis of Carabas? [walks away, scratching head]

I was just thinking about the cast of Party Animals the other day. They all leaped straight into something high profile - Andrew Buchan got Cranford and the Fixer, Shelley Conn starred in Mistresses and The Palace, Andrea Riseborough was in The Devil's Whore and the Thatcher biopic. The only lead I hadn't seen anywhere else (apart from an Arcade Fire gig, which doesn't really count) was Matt Smith, and I felt a bit sorry for him - there's always one alumnus from an ensemble show that doesn't do as well as the others. Obviously he didn't need my sympathy after all. Does this make Party Animals the most prophetically well-cast flop show since Freaks and Geeks?

it was a bullshit show though. f&g is classic material.

The singer Lily Allen is an early favourite, while sources say Strictly Come Dancing stars Rachel Stevens and Kelly Brook are high on the BBC's wish-list.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4108697/Search-for-new-Doctor-Whos-partner-begins.html

lawl agnes dean.

Do these people who keep linking Lily Allen to further TV work appreciate that she has the worst fucking speaking voice in the world?

oh my agyness deyn as sidekick and even I'd watch this trash