Doctor Who's Eleventh Doctor.
 

Matt Smith.

Damn, he's pretty jittery and creepy. I like it. Doctor needs a bit of oddity after Tennant's dreamboatyness.

Wow.

First Doctor I actually think is kind of hot.

The rest have been hella ugly.

What the hell is wrong with you Leto, Tennant was fine.

Also; I don't like this new guy. Better than Ecclestone though

Tennant was a weasley bastard and I never got the appeal of him.

At least this guys got the kind of Crispin Glover thing going for him.

Aww, I liked Tennant. This guy seems alright, though.

So, David Tennant is a weasley Bastard... and Crispin Glover isn't?

Yes.

First actor playing the Doctor I’ve never heard of before. This works in his favour, but I haven’t taken to him at all. So, it all comes down to his actual performance in a year’s time.

Personally, I suspect he was chosen just because his name is Smith.

I can't see the name Matt Smith in massive bold letters on the title sequence, however.

Matthew Smith, perhaps. But not Matt.

Smatt Mith?

I couldn't watch that video in full. His mannerisms just irritated me. But, as Max says, we'll see what he's like once he's actually acting.

Oh, how I miss that accent :crying:

Also, I partially agree with Leto. The new Doctor is somewhat endearing.

Alcar...

Am I the only person here who thinks that Dr. Who is a massive shit fest? A poorly written, worsely acted shit fest?

I agree completely. Though I do enjoy the old ones (at least from the '60's to late '70's), but they were funny because of the low budget and less-than-mediocre acting.

It’s one of those things that’s both gut-wrenchingly, despair-inducingly terrible and glee-fillingly, bone-tinglingly brilliant at the same time. I’d like to give more examples to help solidify this genre, but there is nothing that springs to mind that isn’t a spin off. Stargate Atlantis springs to mind, though. Possibly True Blood, except that tries to be just good.

I almost had a heart attack when I saw someone doing a Sookie Stackhouse nod last month. Is it a yes or a no? Who can tell?

I definitely understand the concept. My favorite show EVER is 'Dark Shadows', which (for the uninitiated) is an American soap opera that was made in the late 60's. I even own over 250 episodes of it on dvd (eventually I will have all 1200).

Maybe it's a culture thing, because no matter how many times I am told that this is the show's allure I just become extremely irritable when watching an episode. I actually tried to like the show. I just couldn't do it.

I used to watch Stargate Atlantis, but stopped when they decided to milk the cancelation by spacing out new episodes by two week intervals.

I like it because the Doctor is always such a well-acted character and the sets are sometimes really decent. I love the sets.

I think there's a factor in that the episodes are incredibly inconsistent. It shouldn't happen in a tv show that only makes 13 or 14 episodes a year, but the scripts vary incredibly between the utterly sublime to the incredibly stupid. Admittedly, whilst most DW fans agree on that statement, they don't always agree on which episodes are the good ones and which are the bad ones.

Polished Turd.

I didn't like DW at first either, but it grew on me and I came to appreciate the more subtle details of the show. I love the kinds of characters and concepts that I rarely find all bundled up into one show. Yeah, it can be goofy and eccentric at times, but the eclectic nature of the show is what gives it its charm and keeps it exciting IMO.

I've always loved doctor who. Always. well, for the 4 years I've been watching it.

This new doctor seems to be ok, but you can never quite tell with actors...

It's difficult for me to appreciate the newer Doctors, as Jon Pertwee raised the bar. Not saying anything against Tom Baker. He was just a brilliant as Pertwee, only in a different way.

I find them to be cheap and unimaginative, myself.

Yeah, but they try, is the thing.

Star Trek basically had 3. Alien Bar, Some sort of ship, and rocks.
Battlestar Galactica? Boring metal ship, and the local forest with some weird-arse filtering.

Doctor Who seasons have had Spaceship made out of human bodyparts, titanic, very nicely-done Ood ice-planet, etc.

I like the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe, myself.

The Library -- fucking awesome.

The Library was a fantastic episode. In fact, every Stephen Moffat episode has been the gem of it's series. I'm thrilled he's RTD's successor. I can't wait to see a Stephen Moffat series finale.

I was also happy about Stephen Moffat's appointment, until I saw the ending of the Library episodes and saw that EVERYONE LIVESSSSSS!!!! again. I hope that doesn't become a recurring theme.

on the topic of Stephen Moffat. Muuuuuuuuummmmmy. are you my mummy?
Awesome episode(s), one of my favorite.

On the other hand, as freaky as Miss Evangelista’s immediate post-death scene was, the skeletons lumbering about chanting ‘Hey, I’ve been eaten by shadows’ was highly lame, as was the mid-episode cliffhanger for that story, and the Convenient Trapdoor Escape To Nowhere. Moffat is not flawless, and some flaws in his stories are some of DW’s most painful.

I think this is one of my main complaints about the show. I think it works okay as pulp nonsense but I see so many people discussing it as if it were intelligent and important television. It's Lost In Space for fuck's sake. It's fun, sure. But it's not exactly high brow.

You would think it was lame. You figured out how they would get out of it minutes after it's broadcast :p

Because they showed a hole-in-wall blasting gun three minutes before. And even if they didn’t have that, they could have climbed the bookshelves.

Does anyone else think in the next series of Doctor Who, we will see the Doctor's "daughter"?

Also am I the only one who thinks they may make a spin off concerning her?

Elenth doctor ?

In this song they mention more than 11 of them.



I dont think you counted Richard E Grant who only played the role in the 40th anniversary BBC interactive webcast adventure.

I agree, it's the only way I can watch it.

Yes, since it was Moffat who had the script changed to keep Jenny alive, I do believe she will be brought back at some point in the future. I was in the for-me unique position to watch that episode with friends, and as soon as she flew off at the end we all agreed there should* be a spin-off series. As there should* be a spin-off with Jackson Lake fighting alien threats in Victorian London. That would satisfy everyone disappointed by the Next Doctor turning out not to be the next Doctor.

They mention Peter Cushing as well, but non-canonical stories don’t count. You might as well count Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley from the satirical Comic Relief special Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death. It is referenced in the final Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, The Gallifrey Chronicles, after all. ¬_¬

* Note that the word ‘should’ in these instances is not used to mean ‘should’.

I think my Nerdometer has fallen off.