Pete is very miffed about the fact that they keep casting younger and younger for the Doctor. I say the new boy looks decorative.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Atropa - Jan 03, 2009 10:09:40 am PST #2555 of 3486
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Juliebird - Jan 03, 2009 10:43:15 am PST #2556 of 3486
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
oh god, he comes pre-packaged with an already annoying physical twitch. I'll of course be reserving judgment for when I see him in action for a couple of episodes.
I suppose the hopeful thing about a youthful actor is that it could represent the Doctor shrugging off his angst of old (erm, of Ten and Nine) and re-embracing life with a more sunny outlook and less anger. ::crosses fingers::
tiggy - Jan 03, 2009 10:47:29 am PST #2557 of 3486
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
[link] - the BBC interview on youtube.
Barb - Jan 03, 2009 11:21:10 am PST #2558 of 3486
“Not dead yet!”
Casting young doesn't bother me if the kid has the chops. I mean, Eccleston was 39-40 when he was cast and Tennant in his mid-thirties, so it's not like there was a hugely appreciable difference.
I kind of like the idea that the Doctor doesn't necessarily have to look old in order to project wisdom.
Then again, I'm listening to the Benjamin Button soundtrack, so that may be coloring my opinion somewhat.
JenP - Jan 03, 2009 2:48:10 pm PST #2559 of 3486
Tennant is younger than I am, so I jumped that hurdle already; however, Matt Smith is young enough to be my son, albeit of a mid-teen mother. Still, technically... That's weird! To me. I don't really care that he's younger if, as Laura and Barb say, he's got the chops.
Now I'm off to watch videos and read articles about the youngster.
ETA: Heh, well, I can declare that I find him to be a cutiehead.
sumi - Jan 03, 2009 3:17:50 pm PST #2560 of 3486
Art Crawl!!!
He is a cutiehead. I think that the handfluttering thing is also cute.
I hope that the hair was for a role. . . other than Doctor Who.
BTW, do "summer casting" rules apply to this? Meaning, we can write of it openly in black font in Boxed Set in one month's time?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 03, 2009 5:33:50 pm PST #2561 of 3486
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
He'd better bring a heaping pile of more-gravitas-than-his-age-would-suggest to the role. I've spent 2 years trying to watch Jewel Staite play an allegedly competent chief of medicine, and despite loving the actress and knowing she's extremely talented, it just Does. Not. Work.
Who'll be Twelve, Daniel Radcliffe?
JenP - Jan 03, 2009 5:45:07 pm PST #2562 of 3486
I hope that the hair was for a role. . . other than Doctor Who.
Seconded.
sumi - Jan 03, 2009 6:05:17 pm PST #2563 of 3486
Art Crawl!!!
Over on TWOP they're suggesting that Twelve will be played by a fetus.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 03, 2009 6:47:06 pm PST #2564 of 3486
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I suppose they could always give us the female Doctor everyone's speculated about for decades.
Assuming Dakota Fanning has enough room in her schedule.