Mostly, no one's entirely sure how long DT is staying with the show past this season, assuming he's not already regenerating at the end of it.

Was the last ep that everyone has talked so much about (in blessed white font) not the season finale? wow

Was the last ep that everyone has talked so much about (in blessed white font) not the season finale? wow

Oh no. That was the season finale. But I, personally, have no idea what happens. Because while I'm lightly spoiled, I'm not that spoiled.

rewatching the new Who, on the second ep, End of the World and I'm realizing that perhaps part of why Nine chooses to show Rose the death of Earth is so that she can feel a little bit of what he feels over the death of Gallifrey. Not even close, but perhaps closer than she otherwise would have been able to understand.

and he's totally been just regenerated prior to Rose. No question. But I wonder if RTD had the Time War in mind for that pilot, because there's simply no darkness there at all. No hints of "I'm being jaunty and smiley because I hold within me a deep dark angsty secret". No seething rage. Although he IS rude and short-tempered in that pilot.

Also, Chris Eccleston! (I've been trying for months to hunt down the first season since my DVDs are out of state) *hugs*

They used to use something called the Transduction Barrier to explain why the doctor didn't cross his own timeline (much) or encounter other Time Lords earlier in their subjective timelines than their last meeting. It was apparently a universe-wide effect maintained by the Time Lords, and only occasionally violated at great risk to the cosmos. I assume it is "still" in operation for all the former Time Lords whenever/wherever they might have journeyed, though perhaps the Doctor is now freer to cross his own recent past or perhaps visit a post-flight Master prior to their last encounter.

Unlikely that he'd do it, though. He left "Hamish Macbeth" because he was becoming too much of a movie star.

Well, except for that interview where he said he wouldn't rule it out...

I'd be a bit boggled - I thought Eccleston was the edgiest actor I'd see as the Doctor, but Carlyle would be seriously intense.

I don't know if this means anything so far into the series, but "Bad Wolf" was mentioned in the second ep of season 1, and the darkness was mentioned in the third ep!

There was a lot of talk of the Time Wars before RTD rebooted the franchise.

I distinctly remembered it (heh), so I sought out this [link] to the wiki.

I guess it's best called "the last great Time War."

Or at least the most recent, chronologically speaking.

Lisah, everyone already said it - but it was my question, and I've not seen any of Season 4. I'm a bit spoiled, granted, but that's not why I asked the question. It was just an idle thought.

Someone on LJ a few years ago was very smitten with the notion of Rachel Weiss as The Doctor, and I confess this did rather charm me to death. Adrian Lester, Robert Carlisle and the lickable Damian Lewis - all lovely notions, though!

If you are going to nominate Rachel Weisz, I'm going to nominate Brendon Frazier.

Well, he's a lot of fun to watch, and I'm thoroughly looking forward to watching The Mummy, but, you know, (North) AMERICAN!!!!!

Which is to say: no. No no no no.

(...yes, I know this is hypocritical, since I'm always gleeful about Brits cropping up as Americans on American shows. I'm good with the hypocrisy. This is The Doctor, damn it! And he's a quintessentially BRITISH alien.)

That aside - I think Fraser's too big, strapping and pretty - too Leading Man. Too Captain Jack Harkness, in fact.

John Hannah, on the other hand...Or Omid Djalili...

...I suppose David Bowie is totally out of the question.