Moderator: NecronLord
To be fair RTD has not consistantly fucked up with characterization and utilizing talanted actors well, with Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred being one of the divisive Season Four's triumphs amongst the overblown and repetitive silliness. While Little Britain has fixed my image of Walliams too much, he has played lesser known dramatic roles in the late 90s and early 00s, so I wouldn't mind him turning up in the show.Patrick Degan wrote:Walliams, mostly known from Little Britain, did a serious psychological thriller, Capturing Mary, for BBC-2 last year, so he could well have the acting chops for the role if he's handled properly in the scriptwriting —better chance of that happening with Steven Moffat taking over as producer.
I hadn't really thought of it that way, and it does seem rather bizarre for the otherwise rather conservative Romana to do something as capricious as waste one to six of her regenerations in that manner. I've heard a couple of the novels have tried to explain this scene but without doing too spectacular a job of it.NecronLord wrote:The stupidity of that regeneration is not in that she could shape it (though there was none of the usual pyrotechnics and disorientation). It's that as far as we can tell, Romana threw away one of her lives for the sheer sake of being bored and raising a chuckle. It had already been established that time lords had a limited number of lives.Ryushikaze wrote:Granted, the way the regeneration was handled was probably a bit too humor oriented, along with the rest of the serial, but Time Lords having a say in their regeneration wasn't without precedent even then. Troughton's Doctor was offered a choice at the end of Troughton's run, though he rejected all of them. Presumably whatever let them shape his regeneration was at work in the Romana Regeneration.
Hell, as far as it's presented in the episode, she used up about six in taking on random different forms to adjust to taste.
It was Adams' first serial as script editor, and it shows. Fortunately, his later work in the series was immensely superior.
Heh, I dont see that happening.Enigma wrote:I wouldn't mind a more ruthless and heavy handed Doctor.
I really could not be arsed... I'm finding out from here or BBC News, can't be doing with half an hour of teasing and non-news to spin out a 30 second announcement.Dartzap wrote:Me thinks its going to be half an hour of back slappery before we find out....
QFT.Zac Naloen wrote:who on earth is matt smith?
I'd sooner have settled for Fielding himself. Time will tell, of course, but... come on.Dartzap wrote:Aye, its Matt Smith, a poor man's Noel Fielding from the looks of him
He doesn't look that bad in the pictures I suppose. Since I've never seen anything he's been in I will just have to wait and see. Although I am vaguely worried about the comments about him having a 'doctor-ness' about him. I hope he's not going to be a totally retread of Tennat's Doctor in style. That constant maniacness got rather grating after a while.The BBC Article wrote:
BBC NEWS
New Doctor actor is youngest ever
Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.
At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981.
Smith will first appear on TV screens as the 11th Doctor in 2010.
He was cast over Christmas and will begin filming for the fifth series of Doctor Who in the summer. Tennant is filming four specials in 2009.
Smith was named as Tennant's replacement in Saturday's edition of Doctor Who Confidential on BBC One.
He said: "I've got this wonderful journey in front of me where I've got this six months to build this Time Lord - and that's such an exciting prospect."
Piers Wenger, head of drama at BBC Wales, said that as soon as he had seen Smith's audition he "knew he was the one".
"It was abundantly clear that he had that 'Doctor-ness' about him," he said. "You are either the Doctor or you are not."
Wenger said a broad range of people had been auditioned, but they had not set out to cast the youngest Doctor.
Smith's TV debut was in the 2006 adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke, which starred former Doctor Who companion Billie Piper as Sally Lockhart.
He has also acted opposite Piper in the follow-up, The Shadow in the North, and in ITV2's Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
In 2007, he had a leading role in BBC Two's political drama Party Animals, in which he played a parliamentary researcher.
Smith's stage work has included stints with theatre companies such as the Royal Court and National Theatre. His West End debut was in Swimming With Sharks opposite Christian Slater.
He was born in Northampton in 1982 and studied drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
Creative team
Tennant said in October that he would stand down from the show after filming four special episodes in 2009.
The star is due to begin shooting the first special this month, just weeks after surgery on his back forced him to pull out of a London run of Hamlet.
The last of these special episodes is expected to run in early 2010.
With a new creative team in place for the 2010 series led by executive producers Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger, the casting of the Doctor was the first job to be completed before scripts could be finalised.
Doctor Who began in 1963, and seven actors played the Doctor before the show was dropped in 1989.
After a TV movie in 1996 - starring Paul McGann - the TV series returned in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Tennant took over the same year.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/e ... 808697.stm
Published: 2009/01/03 18:08:19 GMT
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