Starting the New Year off on the Right Foot

[evilhippo]

Argh, guys, the new Doctor (contains new Doctor, don't click if you don't want to know) is barely more than a year older than me. What is Moffat thinking?! Other than, apparently, the Doctor ages backwards as he regenerates. Goshdarnit, I require my Doctor to be at least 30. Now I'm going to have to be sad that I'm too old to be the Doctor, too. Too old to be a child prodigy, too old to go to Hogwarts, and now too old to be an amnesiac incarnation of a Time Lord. Curse you, fiction! Curse you!



... Okay, I guess Davidson was only 28 when he was the Doctor, so maybe it's all right after all.

But I still won't be able to properly enjoy him as the Doctor without feeling like a teeny bopper.

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[yuukihikari]

But I still won't be able to properly enjoy him as the Doctor without feeling like a teeny bopper.

Yeah D: I agree.

Gah. I don't want a doctor YOUNGER than me. I liked having older eye candy for a change *bleh face*

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

At least I'm not alone! After Neil Gaiman mentioned him, I was kind of rooting for Paterson Joseph (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18930), because he looks like a Doctor to me. How's someone so young-looking supposed to have any sort of authority while he babbles intergalactic jargon? Sigh. (-;

Ah well, I'm sure Moffat's writing will redeem it.

[linen.livejournal.com]

But I still won't be able to properly enjoy him as the Doctor without feeling like a teeny bopper.

And Tennant's fangirls aren't teeny boppers (at least in behavior, which is really far more than actual age anyway)? (:

As Courtney says, though, he better be a damn good actor.

And she just offered the notion of his "standard outfit" being slicked back hair, stiff Victorian suit with sleeve garters, froofy cravat, top hat and cane, with mannerisms involving dramatic motions with a handkerchief -- a less fruity, slightly more prudish Oscar Wilde. Because he looks like he could pull that off. At least in the looks department.

... hi from Missouri. (:

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Tennant is a very, very tough act to follow. I dunno if anyone could do it well. This kid is going to have a bumpy ride for the first season, methinks, unless he's phenomenal.

I am all for Oscar Wilde!Doctor, though. That'd be fantastic.

Ah, you're closer than usual! You should come visit! (-;

[lisiche.livejournal.com]

Or they could completely bunk the whole british thing and make him a cowboy.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

... A cowboy with a vaguely Irish accent. That would be... well, it'd probably distract from the fact that it wasn't Tennant anymore. ^_^

[lisiche.livejournal.com]

And that is totally the name of the game for following Tennant. XD They have to make him as completely different as his acting skills would allow so any comparison would be apples and codfish.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

And it's not like Doctor Who hasn't ever been brain-breaking in its interpretations (the horrendous question marks all over Seven comes to mind).

To be honest, my biggest worry is actually that we're going to end up with this guy being another Romantic Doctor like Eight. Eight was adorable... this one is too young for that sort of thing, but, after what Moffat seemed to be implying with Silence in the Library, I'm very uncomfortable (I'm inclined to believe there's a serious trick to that episode that we can't piece together yet, but until then I'm going to be suspicious).

Unless of course Oscar Wilde is the new Romantic Doctor.

But oh, the retconning involved to get a Romantic Doctor out of the Doctor we have now, with his hearts having been broken so many times recently.