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This is a big test of Matt Smith for me, as I still havent warmed to his version of the Doctor.

He's not shit or anything like that. - To me, hes more middle of the road " oh that'll do " territory.

This series is where the guy should really have settled into the role. I will be expecting great things.

I suppose thats the strange thing about Doctor Who these days. Very marmite.

You've got to be joking? He nailed it from his first episode.

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Garwoofoo

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This is a big test of Matt Smith for me, as I still havent warmed to his version of the Doctor.

He's not shit or anything like that. - To me, hes more middle of the road " oh that'll do " territory.

I'm also not a fan. He's not middle of the road - he's very good at what he does - I simply don't like this incarnation of the Doctor.

To me the Doctor should always have a certain warmth, some quality that makes you want to go off in the TARDIS with him. Smith's Doctor, though, crosses the line from "lovable eccentric" to "gibbering weirdo" - he's the kind of guy you'd cross the street to avoid. You wouldn't get into a car with him, let alone a time machine. He's just too odd.

Admittedly this wasn't helped by the fact that I didn't like the last series at all - the story arc was far too clever for its own good, there was too much variation in tone between Moffat's episodes and the rest, and I'm utterly sick of River Song. I think an ongoing series arc is, on balance, a good thing but it doesn't need to be anywhere near as complex as what we got. Oh, and the Christmas episode was shit.

So this series is perhaps the first one ever that I'm not even slightly hyped for. I'd be happy to see both Moffat and Smith move on and see someone else's take on the Doctor now.

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The best thing about Smith, for me, is that he is frequently a total fuck up.

RTD (and maybe in old Who as well) hinted at the theory of 'maybe The Doctor follows trouble, or maybe trouble follows The Doctor'. He is a hero, of course, but he should be an alien explorer and scientist first and foremost.

Tennant's Doctor got delusions of grandeur, come the end, and was patently smarter than most of his foes he faced, from the off. Smith frequently gets things wrong and doesn't know what the hell is going on - and he admits it too.

This seems more alien, by definition, and I agree with Davros's on how I prefer my Doctor's.

As a note, I loved Tennant's Doctor, and still do, but feel 10's incarnation got too bogged down by RTD's emotional direction of the show. Re-watched some old Tennant episodes recently and some of the lines he delivers when 'being serious' are plain cringeworthly. Compare it to the scene below - this still gives me goosebumps (bad quality, but I can't find a better version). 11 is elitist and has delusions of grandeur, but there's less of a love of humanity in his rhetoric, which I find less patronising.

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Hello Goaty ♥

Hello Goaty ♥

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You've got to be joking? He nailed it from his first episode.

I think he's a just little bit too young to be believeable as the Doctor really. Nail on head for me.

He comes across as a " Young Indiana Jones " type. ( even if he is about 700 years old! )

The Doctor actor needs to be rugged and middle aged or well into his late 40's at the very least.

Even Tennant was too clean faced.

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it gives that extra sense of authority.

What it boils down to in 2012 of course is the target audience.

Those two old duffers/geniuses above were perfect for the geeky target Doctor Who audience years ago.

The re-invented Doctor Who franchise thats emerged is a big hit visually and socially online with pretty much everyone, so they went with some fashionable and marketable lead actors/actresses for the show.

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Cushing wasn't a proper Doctor. :quote:

It's worth reiterating as well that Smith was chosen after Moffat was specifically looking for an older actor. He wasn't chosen for being young, he was chosen for fitting his vision of the Doctor.

Also if you're going down that road, until Smith the youngest Doctor was Peter Davison back in 1981.

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Nick Knowles on this Lottery thing looks scarier than anything I've ever seen on Doctor Who... Christ... he's like a wax Nick Knowles.

Great episode, scary, funny and as clever as we'd come to expect. Nice to see Moffat flex a bit of muscle away from a story arc as well!

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So was that "new companion" thing just a bluff with the tabloids and she's not actually the new companion after all?

Given she made a big point at the end about remember, and Moffat likes to play with time travel and meeting in a different order I'm not sure we've seen the last of her.

If it was a bluff in the media, well played to the makers.

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