...and the next Doctor Who is...

[mrph]

...Matt Smith, who's ten years younger than I am (26, it seems). That's faintly weird.

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[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

I just said to Ed "Doctor Who is not supposed to be younger than me!"

I really wanted it to be Patterson Joseph.

[ladybirdintheuk.livejournal.com]

Never heard of him/seen anythign he is in, so will have to wait to pass judgement :) He is a spring chicken though.... although he doesn't ~quite~ come under the banner of even-younger-than-my-baby-brother which is of course the deciding marker with such things!

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[alterred.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7808697.stm

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

How did you find that out so early?

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Don't trust the timestamp. :-)

The post was originally "ten years younger than I am", based on the comments at the start of the show. Then I edited it once they finally mentioned his name. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pinkdaisy_/]

didn't we all! at least it wasn't billie piper, that would have just not worked...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, d'oh.

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

I was even less impressed with him than I was with my first sighting of Tennant, and that's saying something.

I want Christopher Ecclestone back :( Although Idris elba or Jack Davenport would be high on my list of ideal choices.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I really liked Tennant, though. And I generally trust Moffat to get it right - hopefully, this applies to casting as well as scripts...

Still, I was hoping for Paterson Joseph.

(Paul Cornell's blog should have some comments on this pretty soon. Curious to see what he'll have to say...)

[jorune.livejournal.com]

The Doctor is trending towards getting younger with each successive regeneration. Will the final change usher in Dr Who: The Boyband years?

While I cannot recall any of Matt Smith's roles the BBC news article gave me some measure of comfort. I shall trust to Stephen Moffat's ability as a writer and a producer to see it right.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Me too.

... at least it isn't James Nesbitt?

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is a relief. I did see Julian Rhind Tutt's name bandied about today which would have been brilliant in a slash-that-writes-itself sort of way.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

There should be more Julian Rhind-Tutt. I'm not convinced he'd be willing to sign up for the typecasting and the lack-of-life for eight months of the year, though.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

... I am so glad I didn't even know that was a possibility.

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

I agree, there should. Paul Bettany does quite a good impression of him in Inkheart.

I also need to pay more attention to missing hyphens and extraneous Ts. That's two people's names I've got wrong in the same post, which is very embarrassing.

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Or Don Warrington, who played Rassilon so well in the 8th Doctor radio/audio series, and also had a bit-part in the NuWho TV episode "Rise of the Cybermen" as the President of Great Britain (Cybus Industries parallel universe).

[livingarmchair.livejournal.com]

Don Warrington as Doctor Who - now that does work! Can he have an assistant called Rigsby?

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

getting younger with each successive regeneration

Discounting Sylvester McCoy, the line of best fit probably supports that. But isn't that reasonable? When he was young, he aspired to be old and wise (but was actually just sulky and prone to tantrums). When he gets old, he aspires to be young and impulsive (but is actually wise and weary).

Discounting the Morbius controversy, he's got another two natural regenerations after this; twelve regenerations plus his original body makes 13 lives for common male Timelords (females, at least aristocratic ones, appear to have either an unlimited supply of regenerations, or a casual attitude to wasting them; cf. Romana). But one Timelord has exceeded this; The Master. He is known to have the ability to steal regenerations from other Timelords and, prior to series 27, aimed to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations. With the rest of the Timelord race dead, it may be that the surviving Timelords have inherited all the regenerations of their fallen compatriots. The Master certainly didn't have any trouble regenerating the last time we saw him.