Whew!

Does anyone else watch the BSG preview "on demand"?

The Master and Lord Berusa also apparently went power-hungry and evil in their 13th incarnations, so there's at least a trend if not a hard-and-fast rule.

Am I do only one likes the idea of a season (or at least a few episodes) of an evil Doctor?

Well, it makes a certain amount of sense. You're an ageless being with the ability to recover from death. Suddenly your safety net is gone and the next time you die, it's for good. That's going to have a major psychological impact. It wouldn't necessarily turn one "evil" but it would probably lead to a major re-examination of how one lives their life.

Am I do only one likes the idea of a season (or at least a few episodes) of an evil Doctor?

Like I speculated before, I could kinda see it happening as a last-ditch effort to enable some greater good to come about, but we've just seen the Doctor come up against the temptation of saving his people and he refused (thanks to SJSs influence), so barring the "I'll kill myself and a couple dozen to save billions", I can't get behind an "evil" turnabout with his character. I don't see it as feasible, and also wouldn't be interested in watching such a black character development. Grey is far more interesting. "Doctor Who goes evil" is just too much mustache-twirling, and I can't see any legitamacy behind it.

Suddenly your safety net is gone and the next time you die, it's for good. That's going to have a major psychological impact. It wouldn't necessarily turn one "evil" but it would probably lead to a major re-examination of how one lives their life.

exactly. That would take us to a fascinating grey/morally-conflicted area, but the logical outcome most definitely would not be black/evil.

I could have sworn there was an episode waaaay back that implied that The Doctor might not have only 13 lives, or that he might have more coming.

I also seem to recall that the 13 lives was an artificial limit built into their race by the timelords.

I, however, have nothing with which to back that up.

can't find anything on the arificiality of the "13", just this from wiki

It was established in The Deadly Assassin (1976) that a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times before permanently dying, for a total of thirteen incarnations. In the 1996 television movie the Eighth Doctor explicitly said that a Time Lord has "thirteen lives"

From what I've gathered, RTD seems to be at least trying somewhat to stick to the (granted, self-contradictory) canon.

But really, I don't even want to think about the end of DW, or the idea of Ten being replaced. It's depressing thinking about burning through the actors/regenerations and the show ending, but it's equally depressing thinking about another decade or longer with a show I'll be obsessed with :/

OTOH? If the writing keeps up, I can't imagine a Who geek like Tennant giving up the job for a loooong time.

*wails*

I'm loving Tennant, but I just finished watching Casanova, and his mullet is now firmly entrenched in my brain. Could they have made the "greatest lover" look any more like a rat?

I think not :P

I was watching some cooking show with DT and his dad and there young David is, correcting one of the old gents on who the first Doctor actually was, hah! You gotta love an actor who's a bigger geek than you are.

Give in to the obsession, JB.

I do hope Tennant sticks around. I'm really loving the show right now, and I'd like it to keep going.