Okay, so the new Doctor is going to be a 26 year-old creepy-lookin' guy. Great. Awesome. What an underwhelming, anticlimactic choice. Why do they keep getting younger and younger? At this rate we'll have a teenager as the Doctor before 2012.
That said, I trust Stephen Moffat. I'll wait to see him in action. I'm not so excited anymore, but I'll wait and see.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
What Is a Matt Smith?
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Consider this the 'Twilightification' of Doctor Who...
If it doesn't work out, there's a Dalek with this guy's name on it & the 2nd runner up (if he's not working on an American series) pops up
I thought the same thing--on the one hand, a young doctor keeps it "hip" (whatever that means...) but the implausibility level goes up... I wouldn't let that guy run into a burning building to save my cat, much less save the universe from... anything?
Tennant was on the cusp--young looking but still able to win over confidence. Smith looks too young.
But like you, I trust Moffat. But I was really hoping for Nesbitt.
Little bit of a Crispin Glover vibe going there.
Kinda reminds me of a very young Michael York in this photo. "Underwhelming" is a good word. The Doctor ought to be mid-30s at least, IMO.
Timothy: Oh, man, that's a perfect word for it.
On Smash: There you go.
Carl: I agree exactly on the implausibility level. And on Tennant. I wasn't sure about him at first because he was so young. And I was hoping for Nesbitt, too. I'd like to see an older guy and a couple of kids again, if they could keep it from becoming cloying, but that's just me. I don't want to see another romantic companion. I thought we'd finally gotten away from that...
Bubs: Like a baby Crispin Glover.
Yet another great band name: Baby Crispin Glover.
Jason: I agree with you. I wonder if a guy this young is going to have the kind of gravity to be a 900 year-old Time Lord.
I remember Bill Nighy's name was commonly bandied around and that Eccleston guy got it. I was a little confused by it. Loved Eccleston about 5 minutes into the first episode.
Then there was someone else I was rooting for, I can't even remember . . . then Tennant got it and didn't know who the fuck he was. Checked out Casanova and loved that. And Goblet of Fire, of course. Didn't love Tennant though till Series 3.
So now I've been waiting in anticipation for Paterson Joseph. Really excited about it because he's sooooo perfect for the role. Instead, I get this guy. I've seen the two Sally Lockhart movies and he didn't impress me - not in that didn't impress way that he was bad, more in the he was fine, nothing amazing.
But I figure if I can tolerate 2 - who I only like in his guest appearances later on - and 6 - who I only like in his audios, he sucked on the TV show - then 11 will be fine as well. Even when I wasn't super enthused about Tennant, he wasn't what ruined Series 2 - a bunch of terrible scripts and the horrible characterization of Rose were the culprits there.
It's the burden of a Who fan to watch and wait and accept . . . so it goes. Everyone has their favorite and their least favorite, but it's never destroyed the show. Matt will be just fine and he may even surprise us.
Jeeze, can we all do some prejudging here? All you've seen is a photograph, and everyone leaps to a lot of pointless, stupid conjectures, based on NOTHING!
You're always complaining about STAR WARS "Fantards" bitching about stuff in STAR WARS. Well this post, and even worse, the above commentors, are all fantarding DOCTOR WHO to the nth degree.
I've been watching DOCTOR WHO longer than you've been alive, and EVERY time the Doctor changes, we get these same fantard complaints. "Oh [New Doctor] will NEVER be as great as [Old Doctor] was! He's all wrong He's too [Young-Old-tall-short-fat-thin-funny-serious-hot-homely-famous-obscure-white-not white-male-different from my dad] to be The Doctor!" BORING!
Then, a year later, they're all in love with him. And three years later: "NO ONE ELSE CAN EVER BE THE DOCTOR because so-and-so (Whom I've forgotten I condemned before I saw him in the role) is PERFECT!"
We always have to put up with these stupid, pointless, complaints-from-utter-ignorance every time the Doctor changes, yet it has always worked. Out of 11 Doctors, only 2, Colin Baker and Paul McGann, turned out to suck, and McGann was only in the role for 2 hours.
Almost 30 years ago, when Tom Baker left after 8 years (So many viewers had never even seen another Doctor. No home video back then.) and Peter Davison came in, you know what the fantards all railed? "He's TOO YOUNG to play the Doctor!" Where have I seen that recently? Oh yes, right above this comment! Fantards, if you MUST be so tiresome as to complain about an actor you haven't even seen play the role yet, try being ORIGINAL! Guess what? The Doctor is 900 years old. ALL living humans are "Too young." And if they'd cast an actor who was, say, 50 (Younger than Hartnell or Pertwee were when they played him, and what Troughton was when he left the role), you'd all be bleating "He's too old!"
It's long established that The Doctor can regenerate into any random adult age. Get over it. (If I could regenerate, I'd want as young a body as I could get. Wouldn't you?)
Only one poster even admits to having seen Smith act before, and his assessment of Smith's performance in the Sally Lockhart films differs from mine. (And I love that he's already worked with Rose Tyler.) Any of you see him onstage in THE HISTORY BOYS? I didn't think so. This guy is a respected stage actor. And some men are older at 26 than others are at 70.
"Carl said...
I thought the same thing--on the one hand, a young doctor keeps it 'hip' (whatever that means...) but the implausibility level goes up... I wouldn't let that guy run into a burning building to save my cat, much less save the universe from... anything?" (Why the question mark, Carl? That wasn't a question. It was a stupid statement.)
I lie awake nights worrying about the "Plausibility" on a show about A 900 YEAR OLD TIME TRAVELLER! Yeah, it would be terrible if there was something implausible on DOCTOR WHO, the most realistic show in the history of television.
Do you check the age on a fireman's ID before you "Let" him run into a burning building to rescue your cat? Here's a news flash. Your cat wants out of the fire; he doesn't care how old his rescuer is. And he's pissed at you for not having the balls to rescue him yourself. Stupid, stupid remark. (And does someone need YOUR permission to "Save the universe"?)
"Bubs said...
Little bit of a Crispin Glover vibe going there."
You get "Vibes" from a photograph? You're a bigger idiot than Crispin Glover.
"jason said...
The Doctor ought to be mid-30s at least"
Says who? Where is that written in the Doctor Who Show Bible? Peter Davison was 29 when he got cast as The Doctor. You want to dictate the Doctor's ages, become a really excellent TV writer, and go get the job of producing it.
"SamuraiFrog said...
I don't want to see another romantic companion. I thought we'd finally gotten away from that..."
You know what direction the as-yet-unwritten plots will take? That's quite a superpower you have there. You do realize, don't you, that you writing "I don't want to see another romantic companion." is you doing exactly what you are always complaining about STAR WARS fans doing, don't you? In any event, since the companion HASN'T EVEN BEEN CAST YET, it is WAY TOO EARLY to complain about what shows that won't be shot for another year will consist of.
"I wonder if a guy this young is going to have the kind of gravity to be a 900 year-old Time Lord."
Well since you have no way of knowing, why not just wait and find out? Your very question implies you doubt he has it. More fantardisness. By the way, what kind of gravity does it take to be a 900 year old Time Lord? Sylvester McCoy's? Tom Baker's? Patrick Troughton's? GEorge Bush's? The most-successful Doctors have all been rather fey.
So here's a suggestion, why doesn't everyone just SHUT THE HELL UP and wait until you've actually seen him play the role before you leap down his throat?
Rant concluded, but I am archiving it, to trot out in three years, when you're all complaining that "Oh this awful new guy will NEVER be as great as Matt Smith was!" Besides, for years, whenever The Doctor needed a name, he always said his name was "Smith". Well now, it IS!
John: I didn't end up watching any of the news shows until just before series 3 started, and I didn't have much in the way of expectations as to who would be the Doctor. I'd liked Eccleston previously, and I loved him in the role; I didn't know David Tennant and the change was jarring at first, but I came to like him. I didn't think he was as good as Eccleston, but the writing has been mostly fantastic.
That said, of course, I'll watch the show whoever plays the Doctor. I'm just not as enthused about the choice of actor, but I think Steven Moffat has more than proven he knows what he's doing with the Doctor.
Douglas: I haven't actually conjectured a thing. I said that I found the choice underwhelming and anticlimactic and that, as a fan of Doctor Who, I was a little annoyed that they picked such a young actor. That just comes from me being a little tired of everything having to be about kids. Big deal. I have an opinion. I'm not racing around crying about Steven Moffat ruining my entire life because he picked an actor I don't know as the Doctor, as if I know better what he should do with it. I'm expressing misgivings that, I thought I stated fairly clearly in the post, I'm perfectly willing to have dispelled by the actual episodes.
I think what's more boring is watching you have a senior moment all over my blog and insulting everyone in the comments section over something that it seems rather pointless being so passionate about. Talk about fandementalism! How tiresome is that? I don't think I or anyone here has expressed the kind of passion you're embarrassingly spilling all over the place. There's a big difference between having some misgivings about some casting and leaping down someone's throat.
It's possible to doubt someone's ability when he's a somewhat unknown commodity among the potential audience. BFD. I know, I know, me having an opinion on something like Star Wars fans renders me utterly incapable of ever expressing an opinion about anything else, especially when you've missed the point of (it appears) several posts regarding the subject. But whatever, you're going to think whatever you want and be as precious about it as you are right now, because, you know, this is really worth getting into a ridiculous argument over.
Luckily, I'm sure you're strong enough to get over it. I know I am. I see five of these a week from people who get shaken up by the opinions of others.
And as for "too old," my personal choice for the Doctor is still Patrick Stewart.
Whoo! I got flamed! And by someone taking my hyperbole seriously!
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