I think an American Doctor might cause riots at the BBC.
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DCJensen - Nov 20, 2009 6:13:40 am PST #10983 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Shir - Nov 20, 2009 6:15:12 am PST #10984 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I'm ready for an American Doctor.
One that will have to fake his/her accent, but I'm ready for one.
DCJensen - Nov 20, 2009 6:44:22 am PST #10985 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Alexis Denisof?
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2009 6:45:56 am PST #10986 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Alexis Denisof's American accent is more awkward than his English one.
I'm not quite ready for an American one. I see the franchise as so quintessentially British.
Jessica - Nov 20, 2009 6:46:22 am PST #10987 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The way they've been de-aging the Doctor with each regeneration, we'd probably wind up with Dakota Fanning.
Shir - Nov 20, 2009 6:48:08 am PST #10988 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Or her daughter.
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2009 6:56:26 am PST #10989 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt Smith will only be two years younger than Peter Davison was. There hasn't been a consistent de-aging trend of Doctors. Eccleston was in his early 40s, and Tennant mid 30s. But Davison the youngest.
Jessica - Nov 20, 2009 6:57:39 am PST #10990 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I meant during the new series' run. The older incarnations didn't follow much of a pattern at all.
beekaytee - Nov 20, 2009 7:39:06 am PST #10991 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I'm with Shir in thinking about WoM that there was something wrong with the Doctor from the very beginning of the episode.
Was he just wandering the face of Mars for the fun of it? That's a pretty desolate holiday, don'tcha think?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 20, 2009 8:28:33 am PST #10992 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
bonny, re WoM: The Girl and I spent the the second half of the episode repeating a 'This is why he needs a Companion' mantra.
I'd love an American Doctor, complete with American accent - or, indeed, any non-British incarnation. But given negative British reaction to the 'Americanizing' of the TV movie (which I quite liked, but many people didn't), it seemed that people still wanted their Doctor in British form back then. Whether things would be different now that there's a wider fanbase, I don't know. But, as great as Tennant's English accent is, it's interesting that RTD didn't want him to use his own Scottish accent for the Doctor. And it might have been a nice touch of variety, too.