As long as we're casting fantasy Doctors, how about Callum Keith Rennie? Who can play charming and quirky as easily as serious or haunted?
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
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Theodosia - Jul 15, 2008 1:41:19 am PDT #3638 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jessica - Jul 15, 2008 3:03:15 am PDT #3639 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I feel like if they were going to make the Doctor female, they should have done it with Nine, right at the start of rebooting the franchise. Doing it with Eleven (or Twelve) would feel very much like a stunt.
Edit: Tilda Swinton would be fabulous as well
Oh wow. Forget everything I said above, I want THIS.
Fay - Jul 15, 2008 4:00:44 am PDT #3640 of 30001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Callum Keith Rennie? See, I think that if he were to play an iconic British character, he should be John Constantine. If he could pull off the accent.
Tilda Swinton - oooh, yes indeed. Or Alexander Siddig - love him!
SailAweigh - Jul 15, 2008 4:28:05 am PDT #3641 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
My vote for the Eleventh Doctor would be Chiwetel Ejiofor. Playing Lola from Kinky Boots.
Vonnie K - Jul 15, 2008 4:36:57 am PDT #3642 of 30001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I keep hearing about Robert Carlyle rumour. Carlyle is a fine actor, but I think he's too much of a David Tennant type -- small and intense and wiry. I'd welcome some out-there choices. An older Doctor maybe? (Someone on my Flist mentioned Bill Nighy, and I think he'd be a riot.) A female Doctor or an African-Brit would be awesome, but I can't really see BBC going there.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 15, 2008 4:40:39 am PDT #3643 of 30001
"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
Bwah! I did offer him as a candidate in another discussion, but figured on a more conservative wardrobe. (He'd look great in a gray suit and bowtie, wouldn't he?)
And, following on from the Romana discussion, is it canon that male TimeLords regenerate as male, and female as female...?
That's the only way it's happened on the show as opposed to spoofs. But we've seen Romana briefly regenerate into an obviously unearthly humanoid, and Nine's discussion of the topic implied that completely inhuman regenerations were possible. If anything prevents genderswitch, I'd imagine it's the self-image of the Time Lord in question rather than any limitation of the process itself.
Dana - Jul 15, 2008 4:44:11 am PDT #3644 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Claudia Black.
IJS.
Vortex - Jul 15, 2008 5:27:05 am PDT #3645 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
(Edit: Tilda Swinton would be fabulous as well)
oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
sumi - Jul 15, 2008 5:28:54 am PDT #3646 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.
ION, have you guys heard of this show? - I like the cast AND Shaun Cassidy is the main creative guy. (Well, I really liked the cast when Toby Stephens was the lead but Lloyd Owen is also good.)
tiggy - Jul 15, 2008 5:30:08 am PDT #3647 of 30001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Claudia Black.
YES. this is the only female Doctor i can get behind.