At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981.
peter davison was just horrible... and could arguably have been the reason the series started to die in the early to mid 80s. colin baker, tom's son, was brought in to try and save it... but the death blow had been struck.
eccleston did a fantastic job of reviving the series... brooding over his roll in the demise of the timelords. and now with tennant leaving, a shame really, we'll see how it lands this time.
i hope it does well... i'm definitely a revived fan.
and for ANYONE that hasn't seen the show... you MUST watch this episode: blink, #186 series 3 episode 10 (try to avoid the spoilers)
it's a fantastic episode and gives the first time viewer a proper seat as the mystery of what the show is about is revealed.
oh yea... and watch it on a dark night with the lights very low.. preferably on a windy and stormy night :)
>>oh yea... and watch it on a dark night with the lights very low.. preferably on a windy and stormy night :)
Heck YEAH! One of my favorite creepy and scary episodes.
That was a bad bit of casting. I really enjoyed him as Tristan, the younger brother of the veterinarian in "All Creatures Great and Small"
Davison may have been the single best actor to play The Doctor in the original series! And Colin Baker is not Tom Baker’s son. Unless you meant that as a joke.
And, the promising thing, is that Moffat, the man behind Blink is the new guy in charge of the show.
Makes one hopeful that he has an idea and a plan with these younger actors that might work.
Moffat was also behind the one with the gas mask kid with Eccleston, and the lady in the fireplace in season two. He’s behind virtually all my favourite episodes of new who.