Ladies and gentlemen, the new Doctor is IN

[annathepiper]

For those of you who might consider this a spoiler, don't go look at the shiny newly released official BBC announcement.

For the rest of you, reactions behind the cut!


HAH, so I see that the trend of progressively younger Doctors is continuing. By this reckoning, whoever they get to play Thirteen is clearly going to have to be a kid. ;>

I'm kind of pleased--I have no idea who this Matt Smith person is so I have absolutely no preconceived notions about him. Which is something I was looking forward to, actually. It's good to have that feeling with a brand new Doctor and a whole new set of stories with a new producer.

We shall have to see as to whether I find Eleven nearly as swoonable as Ten. The pic included with the BBC article doesn't do anything for me, but he's kinda cute in the pic on his Wikipedia page. I kind of like too that he's not immediately striking me as 'handsome'. Tennant and Eccleston didn't, either--and both of them turned out to have thermonuclear charisma, which IMO is infinitely more important for a proper Doctor (e.g., Tom Baker). Or, you need to be comprised of so much cunning in every fiber of your being that you positively radiate Cluefulness (e.g., Sylvester McCoy).


This should be interesting and hopefully fun. Let the speculation about how the regeneration will happen begin!

ETA 10:58am: Ah, and here is the official announcement on the Doctor Who site.

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[annathepiper]

Well, the thing about Steven Moffat is that he is the producer now and that'll be his primary function; if he does the same thing that RTD did, he might write the opening and closing episodes in a season, and leave the rest to other writers. We'll see. :)