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Who will be the next Doctor Who? (Discussion, not news)
2017-01-31 | Vanity

Posted on 01/31/2017 6:58:21 AM PST by dangus

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To: kosciusko51

I kind of type casted him after seeing him in Harry Potter. The shock of his role in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas hit me for a loop.


21 posted on 01/31/2017 8:03:11 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: dangus
Tobias Menzies. Outlander fans will recognize the name.
22 posted on 01/31/2017 8:03:20 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: kosciusko51

Martin Freeman should be free now that Sherlock is done.


23 posted on 01/31/2017 8:05:40 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: dangus

“Why not Kim Kardashian? Kanye West? Beyonce?”

Because I don’t like them and I think they’d suck as Doctor Who.


24 posted on 01/31/2017 8:06:53 AM PST by Chengdu54
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To: dangus

I don’t care who it is as long as the Doctor wears a fez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obnblNruPiU


25 posted on 01/31/2017 8:11:24 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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I don’t care who it is as long as the Doctor wears a fez

I want him to like jelly babies too.

26 posted on 01/31/2017 8:13:02 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: mware

Oh, and wears trainers with his suits.


27 posted on 01/31/2017 8:13:41 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: dangus

Wasn’t it a meme that Time Lords only had 12 regenerations? The Master got around that by taking over someone else’s body, but that was evil, and the Doctor wouldn’t do that. So he could only come back as one of his earlier regenerations. Perhaps the 12th Doctor was supposed to be a recycling of the 1st Doctor; they looked alike.

So any actor selected to portray the Doctor would have to resemble one of the first 11.


28 posted on 01/31/2017 8:15:45 AM PST by VietVet
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To: Chengdu54

Well duh, that was my point. You seriously think Woody Allen would make a good Doctor Who?


29 posted on 01/31/2017 8:21:05 AM PST by dangus
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“You seriously think Woody Allen would make a good Doctor Who?”

Maybe. He’d certainly be an amusing one!


30 posted on 01/31/2017 8:22:08 AM PST by Chengdu54
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To: VietVet

He’s already on his 13th. John Hurt, the War Doctor, is not among the 12.


31 posted on 01/31/2017 8:22:16 AM PST by dangus
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To: mware

Maybe because of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, “The Hobbit”, and “Sherlock”, I can’t see him in this role. He does well as the character that is always a bit befuddled. But if he got the role, I would watch.


32 posted on 01/31/2017 8:22:21 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Chengdu54

Sure, why not Dave Chapelle? Or Judy Tenuta? Steven Wright? They’re funny.

But they’d make terrrible Doctor Whos.

(Plus Woody Allen hasn’t been funny in 30 years.)


33 posted on 01/31/2017 8:23:56 AM PST by dangus
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To: dangus
After Smith, I was kind of hoping Andrew-Lee Potts might get the part. He is youthful and was entertaining in the Primeval series.


34 posted on 01/31/2017 8:24:35 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: kosciusko51

Did Conviction not get picked up? I was watching Haley Atwell in that.


35 posted on 01/31/2017 8:25:03 AM PST by PLMerite
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It looks like Hayley Atwell's TV series Conviction has been given the chop
36 posted on 01/31/2017 8:28:26 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

Dr Who has long been played as slightly befuddled, as a result of a jumbled timeline and multiple regenerations. The past few doctors have forgotten that, but it’s essential to his character.


37 posted on 01/31/2017 8:32:06 AM PST by dangus
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Still, “Mr. Bean” as the next Dr. Who would be decent.


38 posted on 01/31/2017 9:00:24 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: dangus

I’ll miss Peter Capaldi...

...he was the most entertaining DR for me and I’ve been watching since ‘72.

As far as the new DR goes hummm, I dunno.


39 posted on 01/31/2017 9:05:27 AM PST by exPBRrat
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To: dangus

I agree Dr Who needs that befuddled part of his character. I thought David Tenant pulled it off in a manic hyper but still fun fashion. I also think that Martin Freeman could do it.


40 posted on 01/31/2017 9:15:22 AM PST by freefdny
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