Doctor Who

[Jaq]

I was talking about this to my best friend, and we're in shock, since we both think Matt Smith is the best Doctor period, and she mentioned first a lady doctor, and then suggested they get a red head to play the Doctor so he could finally be ginger.

So I said "fuck how much it would confuse people, cast Karen Gillan as a lady Doctor!"

Hey, it'd work for me 

[Heretic]

Tears. This is exciting, but also heartbreaking...

[Kotowboy]

I was talking about this to my best friend, and we're in shock, since we both think Matt Smith is the best Doctor period, and she mentioned first a lady doctor, and then suggested they get a red head to play the Doctor so he could finally be ginger.

So I said "fuck how much it would confuse people, cast Karen Gillan as a lady Doctor!"

Hey, it'd work for me 

It would certainly change Dr. Who forever.

[robwebster]

I go out for ONE DRINK and this happens!!

Christmas just got a lot more exciting.

[robwebster]

Okay. Here's series four, final round...

And here's series five. The Victory of the Daleks font is wrong. It'll be smaller, with decapitalised conjunctions, when it wins or loses. (SPOILER: Loses.)

Fuck. I get to learn Matt Smith's leaving TWICE!!

[senecadawg2]

I'd like to get a smooth Idris Elba as the next doctor.

[robwebster]

Oh, god. This is just sinking in.

I'm going to have to change my avatar!! Matt Smith is so completely my Doctor, right now. I love him to bits - he could play the role for another three years and I'm sure he'd find so many wonderful, new, exciting ways to play it. But! So will the new man. Or, woman. Serious option, since TDW clarified that can happen.

Crikey. Huge shoes to fill. The most incredible, Doctorriest Doctor of the twenty-first century. And the shoes he had to fill were huge enough already.

[Kotowboy]

Indeed ! How do you replace the guy who replaced David Tennant ?

[senecadawg2]

Jimmy Carr would make a good doctor 

[El JoNNo]

Jimmy Carr would make a good doctor 

YES!!!! LOL

[Kotowboy]

Ugh. God No.

" Hi. My name is Amy Pond. "

" I think you're a cunt and you love a cock in the arse. "



However- that WOULD change Dr. Who forever !

[Kotowboy]

Alan Davies could work.

[Super Dude]

I am very saddened by this. Matt Smith was such a great Doctor, and I thought with this Clara business things had finally gotten going with him.

[Heretic]

The next Doctor will be a metacrisis combination of me and robwebster.

[JRundquist]

I may be alone on this but the next Doctor should be Hugh Laurie. He basically played the role for 8 years on House, he was just missing the TARDIS.

[senecadawg2]

I don't know how I feel about that. Hugh Laurie's a good actor and all, but I'd like to have a playful doctor and I'm not getting that vibe from him. Then again, wtih Matt Smith's incarnation being a generally playful character, it would be interesting to see a switch back towards the more serious side of things.

[abydos]

I thought Matt had said earlier that he will stay (as well as Clara) for another season. This is kind of a surprise for me.

inb4 Clara is the new Doctor.

[masterthes]

Seconded for Hugh to being the next doctor, only if Stephen Fry is his companion

[GuineaPig]

I thought Matt had said earlier that he will stay (as well as Clara) for another season. This is kind of a surprise for me.

inb4 Clara is the new Doctor.

I remember Smith's "confirmation" of being in season eight came out quite a bit later.  I suspected he would be leaving after the 50th.

And seriously, I wouldn't bet against Clara being the next doctor.

[ariich]

Smith never really confirmed anything, but news sites reported it as such. Although fair play to Digital Spy, they were clever to qualify it by saying that he "appeared to have confirmed" it. https://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a482463/doctor-who-star-matt-smith-i-will-be-back-for-series-8.html

Read his actual quotes. I remember when I read that, I thought it sounded very vague, and the sort of thing he'd say if he was leaving.

[Sketchy]

I'd like to get a smooth Idris Elba as the next doctor.

Matt Smith's look in that just makes me think "Cybermen, I will end you"

[hefdaddy42]

Yep, sad to hear about this.  Just as I was getting back into Doctor Who after a 30-year break!

[XJDenton]

Technically, given the events of the finale, shouldnt this also be the last Regen?

[ariich]

Technically, given the events of the finale, shouldnt this also be the last Regen?

As far as I'm aware, the official stance on the whole 13 regenerations issue is that it doesn't apply. When Matt Smith appeared in the Sarah Jane Adventures (which is pretty much canon) he confirmed that in theory he can regenerated indefinitely.

[Kotowboy]

You kinda paint yourself into a corner when you establish that your character can only be played by 13 actors and then actors keep leaving.

[Jaq]

The 13 regenerations thing has so many outs around it that you can safely ignore it. It was done at a time when the show was on its fourth Doctor, and likely the production staff simply wasn't thinking in terms of actually getting to 13. The simplest out is to say it's a rule that was enforced by the Time Lords and with them gone, no one's to say how often a Time Lord can regenerate. Or best thing, just stare patiently at the fans until they stop being so pedantic.

[ariich]

The simplest out is to say it's a rule that was enforced by the Time Lords and with them gone, no one's to say how often a Time Lord can regenerate.

This is probably the best way out of it, and actually would fit perfectly within the canon. If we're going by the classic series, then the Master during the 6th Doctor's reign is supposed to have used up his regenerations which is why he needs to take the body of another person to stay alive, and then later he is granted more regenerations (and indeed in the new series continues to regenerate as we see both Derek Jacobi and John Simm playing him).

I don't know why people would harp on about the Doctor running out of regenerations while glossing over the fact that the Master is still around.

[robwebster]

Possibly, I'd think, cos the Master's devious and fears death like the Doctor doesn't - he's happy to steal regenerations.

That said, the Doctor was a hardened time warrior. First off, I don't really believe a Time Lord has exactly thirteen bodies any more than a human has exactly eighty years - it's an approximation. Good behaviour can extend it, poor choices can reduce it. Second, regeneration seems to be tied to that yellow energy. Doesn't seem a stretch to presume they had huge stockpiles of it on Gallifrey. Stockpiles that they might start doling out willy-nilly if there were some kind of crisis. In my head, this is how the Master regenerated, too.

Also, S5R2.

[El JoNNo]

The 10th Doctor regenerated without change using his severed hand. So there are ways around it.

[Mister Gold]

I think I'll probably like whoever they get as the new Doctor, but I'm hoping for it either being Damien Molony or Harry Lloyd. Anyone else having any personal hopes for who gets cast as Twelve?

[Sigz]

Technically, given the events of the finale, shouldnt this also be the last Regen?

As far as I'm aware, the official stance on the whole 13 regenerations issue is that it doesn't apply. When Matt Smith appeared in the Sarah Jane Adventures (which is pretty much canon) he confirmed that in theory he can regenerated indefinitely.

I think Denton was referring to the face that Clara said something like "I saw every version of you - 11 faces, all you".

[Heretic]

That's because had she not stepped into the timeline and saved the Doctor, he would have died right there. So there were no other faces FOR her to see, because his timeline was seemingly ending. The GI stepped into the timeline and started reverting his previous victories, not his future ones, as those wouldn't have killed Eleven. Clara stopped this from happening, and thus allowed the Doctor to have future regenerations.

The most peculiar thing is that they made such a deal of the window on the TARDIS glass being broken, and then seeing the same break in the TARDIS that had leaked on the outside becoming a massive grave piece. I do not think we are quite finished with Trenzalore, especially since the episode ended with Eleven still in his own timeline at Trenzalore.

[ariich]

I think I'll probably like whoever they get as the new Doctor, but I'm hoping for it either being Damien Molony or Harry Lloyd. Anyone else having any personal hopes for who gets cast as Twelve?

Personally I can't see it being anyone who has been in the show before, so that would rule out Harry Lloyd. I wouldn't be surprised if they do what they did with Smith (and to some extent with Tenant) and get someone who's not very big yet, so Molony could be an option.

That's because had she not stepped into the timeline and saved the Doctor, he would have died right there. So there were no other faces FOR her to see, because his timeline was seemingly ending. The GI stepped into the timeline and started reverting his previous victories, not his future ones, as those wouldn't have killed Eleven. Clara stopped this from happening, and thus allowed the Doctor to have future regenerations.

Yeah I didn't get any implication that she meant all of his faces including in the future - as you say, the whole idea was to cancel out his past victories. I also think the constant references to the number 11 support the idea of John Hurt being between Doctors 8 and 9.

[abydos]

Now is the time to cast Samuel Jackson as the Doctor. Just think about all the possibilities.

[robwebster]

That's because had she not stepped into the timeline and saved the Doctor, he would have died right there. So there were no other faces FOR her to see, because his timeline was seemingly ending. The GI stepped into the timeline and started reverting his previous victories, not his future ones, as those wouldn't have killed Eleven. Clara stopped this from happening, and thus allowed the Doctor to have future regenerations.

The most peculiar thing is that they made such a deal of the window on the TARDIS glass being broken, and then seeing the same break in the TARDIS that had leaked on the outside becoming a massive grave piece. I do not think we are quite finished with Trenzalore, especially since the episode ended with Eleven still in his own timeline at Trenzalore.

Matt Smith's words, from the press release:

"It's been an honour to play this part, to follow the legacy of brilliant actors, and helm the TARDIS for a spell with 'the ginger, the nose and the impossible one'. But when ya gotta go, ya gotta go and Trenzalore calls. Thank you guys."

Could be an analogy, but... yes, Trenzalore calls!