4 January 2009
The REAL next Doctor
Anansi Girl wrote this at 12:15 pm:
It is done. The next Doctor will be Matt Smith.
I was wide awake and online at around 2am this morning, eagerly waiting the announcement of who will be the actor that will play — oh, frack it the next Doctor will be.
I admit I was disappointed. I really wanted Paterson Joseph to get the part — I thought he was wonderful and rather Doctor-like as the Marquis de Carabas in Neil Gaiman’s “Neverwhere” mini-series. I wouldn’t even have minded Russel Tovey, because he looks like hasn’t even gotten out of high school yet (he’s 27!), so I thought that would be interesting to see.
So what exactly do I know about Matt Smith? Nothing much, really. Apparently he was in “The Ruby in the Smoke” and “The Shadow in the North”, two television adaptations of Philip Pullman’s novels. I barely remember him from both movies, which does not bode well for the possibility of me liking him as the Doctor.
Still. Upcoming production boss Steven Moffat knows what he’s doing. Any fan of “Coupling” knows how great he is at picking actors.
Another thing concerns me, and it’s the fact that the next time Tennant regenerates will be the eleventh regeneration. Eleventh! That means when Smith finally regenerates, the Doctor he turns into will be the very last, as the Doctor can regenerate only 12 times. Tennant had already used up the 10th regeneration in the series 4 finale “Journey’s End”. (He regenerated to himself. There was a severed hand involved.) That leaves two more regenerations, one of which Tennant will have to use up to turn into Smith.
I really hope Moffat will find some way out of this dilemma. The Doctor must live! He is the last of his race, after all.
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