Doctor Who

[womblingfree]

Thank god, a proper eccentric grown up actor person. Even if the scripts are sometimes poor I'd expect Capaldi to bring weight to them. I'll watch Dr Who again now.

[NecroMorrius]

Who is going to be the sidekick though? If they get another Hollyoaks style idiot the whole thing will never work.

[Not Thread Owner]

My FB feed is full of people wondering about the regeneration limit. My response of "it's a fucking TV show for fucks sake and you are happy to accept that an alien with two hearts who flies through space and time can die and regenerate his body but, lo and behold apparently he can't fucking do it thirteen times because that would be too hard to believe" isn't going down too well.

They already dealt with this in the show anyway.

[Bacon Horsemeat]

Was he also the guy he shot himself and his family in that Torchwood episode with the aliens using children as drugs.

"We are cumming"

I remember that.

[womblingfree]

Just watching this on iPlayer. So happy Bernard Cribbins is alive!

[womblingfree]

Christ...when he walks out after the announcement...He IS the fucking Dr.

[Gregory Wolfe]

Just putting it out there. Capaldi is the best actor to be cast as the Doctor.

[Stig]

Why do they announce it? Surely it would be so much better to do the reveal in the actual show, keeping people in suspence.

[Harsin]

They couldn't keep a secret in the 70s, how the hell would they manage it now what with Twitter and mobile phones and hip-hop.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

Why do they announce it? Surely it would be so much better to do the reveal in the actual show, keeping people in suspence.

Do you know my take on this?

They KNEW people were getting hacked off with Doctor Who.

And so, they've made an announcement show... Which granted caused excitement.

And got a top actor in , to reboot the thing.

[JPickford]

They always announce it.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

They always announce it.

In a live show with guests on a Sunday night though? Bigger deal than on the news.

[Unofficial Who]

So many people on Twitter moaning that he's already been on the show in the Pompeii episode. I really don't understand why that is bothering people.

Mostly, but the are quite a few unhappy younger people.

And the impossible girl was previously on in one of the Winston Churchill episodes. That didn't bother anyone. (Although why they didn't ret-con that in later as being completely deliberate is beyond me.)

[womblingfree]

Peter Capaldi will be the Dr my little niece and nephews remember as theirs. Best thing since Tom Baker.

[JPickford]

In a live show with guests on a Sunday night though? Bigger deal than on the news.

It wasn't live last time but they had a half hour special.

I don't think there's anything to your conspiracy theory.

[Gregory Wolfe]

And the impossible girl was previously on in one of the Winston Churchill episodes. That didn't bother anyone. (Although why they didn't ret-con that in later as being completely deliberate is beyond me.)

Colin Baker was in it before he was the Doctor.

[Gorf King]

Glad to get the news here, as I'm afraid I couldn't actually get far enough into the show to receive the news there, due to insurmountable technical difficulties with my reception of the broadcast.

Good that they've gone for someone who bucks the terrible modern susceptibility to 'dem yoof can only relate to someone near their own age' schtick. Not that it means he's going to be any good - he's an actor, obvs, not Malcolm Tucker. He'll only be as good as the show and the script let him be.

[JPickford]

It's pretty common in on-going shows for producers to cast people who've played small roles before. I guess they know the person and know they can work with them. It happens in soaps all the time.

[Gregory Wolfe]

Glad to get the news here, as I'm afraid I couldn't actually get far enough into the show to receive the news there, due to insurmountable technical difficulties with my reception of the broadcast.

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Good that they've gone for someone who bucks the terrible modern susceptibility to 'dem yoof can only relate to someone near their own age' schtick. Not that it means he's going to be any good - he's an actor, obvs, not Malcolm Tucker. He'll only be as good as the show and the script let him be.

I predict Tom Baker levels of amazing-ness.

[Davros sock drawer]

Very pleased with this choice. Really quite excited to have an older actor back in the role.

[BossSaru]

What's big and small at the same time?

Lenny Henry

[Comrade]

EDIT: And here's the Radio Times letter:

[HarMGM]

Really starting to warm up to the fact that we'll be trading in Matt for Peter. In part because i've been laughing non-stop at Malcolm Tucker videos on youtube for the past 2 hours.

...I'm gonna have to watch 'In the Thick of It' now, right?

[Gommy]

I watched all the last series but have to say I was finding it pretty dull. Capaldi has got me interested for the new series again so got to say in that respect it's definitely worked.

[Captain Kelsten]

The Doctor's Law:

If some cunt can fuck something up then that cunt will pick the worse possible time to fuck it up because that fucking cunt's a cunt.

On asking if his new assistant will join him on a journey through time and space:

Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off

On cybermen and daleks:

You know, the gay robots and their pedal bin pals

On 'The Master'

The guy is an epic fuck up. He's so dense that light bends around him

On his sonic screwdriver:

It's useless. Absolutely useless. It's as useless as a marzipan dildo.

[Space Gibbon]

With an older Doctor I think we need a second companion.

[Jug McKenzie]

On 04/08/2013 at 23:44, womblingfree said:

 

[Sprite Machine]

Jesus, BBC! Spoilers!

[Commander Jameson]

Obviously, don't listen to this in work. Contains swearing of the highest calibre.

[womblingfree]

So how do the producers go about changing Doctors? I presume some are pushed and others jump. I'm guessing Smith may have been pushed?