Doctor Who's 12th Actor Revealed

[Mr. Q]

So we're getting a foul mouth director of communications with facial fuzz that would make Snidley Whiplash proud? I'm down with that. Slap a fez on him, get him some new threads, and hand him the keys to the TARDIS. ;P

In all seriousness, its a shame Matt Smith is leaving the show after 4 years but Peter Capaldi looks to be an interesting choice for the Doctor. I can't wait to see how he handles the role and what awaits him next season.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

I was holding out for Idris Elba.

Oh well, hopefully this won't be as crap as most of Matt Smith's episodes(that's a bit unfair, I feel that Stephen Moffatt is more responsible for the new "new" series of Dr. Who sucking rather than Smith himself).

Actually, yeah! BOO, YOU SUCK STEPHEN MOFFATT!

On that, we can concour. Especially after the spectacular double ball of fail that is The Doctor's Name. Seriously, way to piss on 50 Years of established continuity Moffat.

Slightly more ontopic, I'll have to see how it goes, but so long as Moffat remains attached to Doctor Who, I won't be getting my hopes too excited about it. Also, I too was hoping for Idris Elba, but this actor still seems a good choice X3

 

[Space commando 75]

Well i'm happy with the choice. Hopefully a new doctor will be able to pull the show out of the hole it been falling into.
Then again we still have moffatt in charge.

 

[saintdane05]

Also the parallel universe in which most of Day of The Moon took place in f

Day of the Moon took place on regular old Earth. The episode that you were thinking about is "The Wedding of River Song," which was all of time colliding until it would EXPLODE!!!!!!!!11!!!

 

[waj9876]

Huh, weird. I thought they had this thing going where each regeneration was younger than the last.

Eh, I feel exactly the same way I felt when David Tennant left and Matt Smith became The Doctor. Like I want to punch his fucking face in and tell him to go fuck himself.

And then I liked Matt Smith, not as much as David Tennant, but the role of The Doctor just really, really fit Tennant.

So anyway, yeah, I'll probably like this guy.

 

[thebakedpotato]

Does this mean that the new Doctor is going to turn around and call someone a f###ing c###?

I would watch that, I would watch that over and over and over. I am looking forward to this, at the risk of sounding mean I've found Matt Smith almost completely unbearable to watch. Not sure what specifically, but something about him leaves me chewing lumps of board after about ten minutes of him on screen. It's not an objective thing, I just don't like watching him as the Doctor.

Although, hopefully this isn't the last we've seen of Matt Smith, I think he could do creepy English bad guys extremely well (Marvel? Please?).

It's comes off like Smith was there to be a fluffy cute person. He seemed more of a background character to the Rory Amy River thing. Which I kind of liked.

The last season though... It seems like Moffat shot his wad. Leaving Smith to pull the weight. Which he couldn't pull off.
Capaldi though... well, he's got range. He's got some history in some famous British shows. And he's Scottish... Which gives him +5 to Sexiness.

 

[Mareon]

Finally an older Doctor! No disrespect to Eccleston, Tennant and Smith, but I was getting tired of the pretty boys that the femake companion could swoon over. I like my Doctor Asexual and Awesome, thankyou very much. As for Capaldi specificall, for what Little I have seen him in he seems well enough. Yeah, this is one fanboy that is not gonna hate.

 

[newwiseman]

I thought they were doing something with John Hurt, Tennant, and Smith before the Christmas special... or maybe that is the special... regardless, I'll be watching.

While I don't watch the show, I do posses a modicum of knowledge about the character (mostly thanks to SF Debris), so I gotta ask - Shouldn't the Doctor be running out of reincarnations by this point? I mean, each actor is supposed to be a different incarnation of the Doctor, after he dies/gets killed. And he's got a finite number of them. Doesn't he have like one left? Is this the last one?

The way it's explained is timelords have to save up regeneration energy before they can do it again. If they're killed too soon after a regen then their dead for good, but they can regen forever as long as they have time to charge up. One more thing, the time needed is different for every timelord and every incarnation of said timelord, or as I like to say "it's in the script". They went to the final doctor's grave but they were careful not to give him a number. They'll keep the Doctor around long after it's popularity runs out and bring him back again in a couple decades.

I will say this before he does, he's still not Ginger.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Well i'm happy with the choice. Hopefully a new doctor will be able to pull the show out of the hole it been falling into.
Then again we still have moffatt in charge.

Pardon me then, it has been some time.

I still stand by my point that Moffatt sucks.

 

[Mareon]

Something tells me that there will be a lot less 14 year old Girls on the next DOctor Who Panel at Comic Con -- and that can only be a good thing.

 

[Varun Garuda Maharaj]

This came to mind...