PapersAndPaychecks wrote:Although Peter Capaldi is undeniably an excellent actor who was ill-served by his scripts, I feel the best actor to portray the Doctor so far was Peter Cushing.
I always forget about those Peter Cushing movies. But yeah, he definitely wins and Capaldi drops to #2
PapersAndPaychecks wrote:Out of the two realistic choices for Moffatt's successor, they picked Chris "Torchwood" Chibnall over Toby "Being Human" Whithouse.
I'm just glad they didn't pick Mark "The League of Gentlemen" Gatiss and saddle us with several years of nothing but twee historical stories
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PapersAndPaychecks wrote:I don't know how good Jodie Whittaker is but I agree with others that she'll stand or fall by the scripts. Out of the two realistic choices for Moffatt's successor, they picked Chris "Torchwood" Chibnall over Toby "Being Human" Whithouse. Whithouse is undoubtedly the better writer.
We'll see.
I see Chibnall wrote a couple of my favorite Torchwood eps, "Countrycide" and "Fragments," so I have some hope.
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So will she have male companions, or will it be an all-distaff cast? After the gimmicky gynocasting of Ghostbusters, I'm mildly skeptical, but we'll see...
ThirstyStirge wrote:So will she have male companions, or will it be an all-distaff cast? After the gimmicky gynocasting of Ghostbusters, I'm mildly skeptical, but we'll see...
No announcements on any new companions.
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I don't suppose its likely, but I actually wouldn't mind if Matt Lucas stayed on for another season as Nardole. I always like the dynamic when The Doctor has more than one companion (Mrs & Mr Amy Pond don't really count) and when there's a companion who's not just a contemporary-era young British woman.
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The Kris Marshall Doctor Who rumours just refuse to die.
Even though the early 13th Doctor favourite is obviously now out of the running for the title role, The Sun are claiming that Marshall is being lined up to play the new companion instead.
Yes, I know. They're quoting the Sun.
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JCBoney wrote:Personally, I think it's past time to have a female Doctor, and I can't understand all the flak I'm seeing on FB and other places. Give her a chance, for chrissakes.
Yup. I only started watching Doctor Who in the early-mid eighties as a very young kid but the question of what if the Doctor had a female incarnation was always on the table as far as I can remember. Some dudes are carrying on like someone stole their damn toys.
I'm positive I've seen the Comic Relief video. I can even picture it on the shelf at the video shop. I'll have to watch it again when I have a moment. Cheers!
I've been seeing folks talking about negative reactions to the announcement, but haven't seen any of that first hand. Either it's bullshit that's there's significant negativity (people exaggerating to virtue signal), or my Internet browsing habits are happily keeping me away from worthless areas.
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TRP wrote:I've been seeing folks talking about negative reactions to the announcement, but haven't seen any of that first hand. Either it's bullshit that's there's significant negativity (people exaggerating to virtue signal), or my Internet browsing habits are happily keeping me away from worthless areas.
I belong to a few DW FB pages, and there was some negative reactions there. Also, the BBC has caught some flak, but all in all, it's the minority. Most fans are either "woo-hoo" or "I'll wait and see."
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I also haven't actually seen any of these supposedly-pervasive negative reactions first hand, only a lot of condemnations and mockery of them. Another FB friend of mine posted the same thing: "I keep hearing that nerds are up in arms about this, but every reaction I've seen on my news feed has been either positive or indifferent." His point was about how much cooler-then-average his nerd friends must be, but it's still a supporting data point. It could very well be the "Buzzfeed effect" - i.e., if you trawl Twitter and FB/YouTube comment sections you'll pretty much always find at least a couple people saying dumb or hateful shit about anything, which you can gin up into a "controversy" if you choose to and it serves your agenda. 20 people out of 10,000 say something negative, Buzzfeed (or whoever) runs an article quoting all 20 of them and saying "OMG sexist nerds are literally losing their shit over this news! Drink up their bitter nerd tears!"
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Could also be that the internet is full of outrage and butthurt about it, but our own little filter bubbles are only feeding us what people like us are saying.
(K&KA's a terrible place to take the temperature of the internet because some narrow-minded arsehole of an admin keeps banning people with different opinions, sometimes without any warning at all. I wonder who keeps doing that.)
It does remind me a bit of all the extravagant outrage and headlines and emotional interviews in response to probably two anonymous twitter trolls raising outrageous complaints over the black stormtrooper in TFA.
francisca wrote:I gave up during Fez-heads run, and have been meaning to give Capaldi a look but have never been motivated enough to do so. In the interim, I basically quit caring about any Doctors after Peter Davison.
Wait - Karen Gillan was on the show, with legs all the way up to her chin, and you stopped watching?
