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[03/01/09] Doctor WHO?!
So, Matt Smith is going to be the Eleventh Doctor...
What? Who the hell are they kidding? Who is this person, and why wasn't he strangled at birth? Just look at him! With his face... and his nose... How dare he even pretend he can replace the last Doctor everyone thought they were going to hate?! This is even worse than when Daniel Craig became James Bond, and we all know how THAT one went down, don't we? I don't need to see a single frame of him in action to know I'm going to hate him and be on the internet within minutes of his first appearance registering my hate. Boo! | Oooh, interesting choice. I've never heard of him, but that's definitely not a problem - when you're talking about a character as iconic as the Doctor, having some genuinely fresh blood is probably a good idea. Not what I expected, which isn't what I expected at all. However he does in the role, about which we really don't know anything except that Moffat's in charge, that's a pretty brave decision and exactly the kind of thing that makes me want to watch the show in the first place. Looking forward to seeing it. Yay! |
In short, I'm waiting to see. We know that Moffat can write the arse off most TV writers, even after the BBC asked him not to keep littering their offices with fallen derrieres, and it's not like any Doctor ever hired has leapt up and made everyone go 'Oh, yeah, awesome'. The thing I like about the show is that every creative team working on it gets to put their own unique stamp on things, for better or worse, and if that's a younger Doctor than normal, it's hardly sillier than an intergalactic hobo, or a spoon-playing Chessmaster, or a man who pins his lunch on his lapel.
Besides, what's the worst that could happen?
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