BS: The next doctor? Who?

Subject: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Cats
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 11:55 AM

So in about an hours time we will find out who the next Doctor Who will be, but, who do you think from the folk world could be the next one? How about Pete Coe?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 12:10 PM

Do report back, please.

I've never seen Trainspotters (well, not ALL of it), but Robert Carlyle looks like a version of the doctor. As for folkies, Les Barker.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 12:12 PM

Who else but Billy Bragg!

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 12:47 PM

Jim Moray.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: goatfell
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 12:57 PM

Eddie Walker

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:01 PM

So its actually Matt Smith.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:06 PM

Who?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:06 PM

Nice hair. My daughter's in love already.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:09 PM

He's the youngest Doctor ever (26). I've seen him in a few things. He wouldn't have been my choice but I'll reserve judgement until I've seen him in the role.

Subject: BS: New Dr Who
From: Kampervan
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:17 PM

So, Matt Smith is the new Dr Who - youngest ever.

No doubt he'll be good in the role, he's a good actor.

But is young, white and male a bit predictable?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:20 PM

Dang! I was thinking it would be Tony Blair. He's free now, isn't he?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: astro
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:21 PM

Who News

~ Desert Dancer on Astro's and can't be bothered to re-log...

Subject: RE: BS: New Dr Who
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:23 PM

I have that problem with a lot of things I search for then start a thread on. The next thing I know, there is a load of permalinks to previousl created threads added to the top of my thread.

I think the search engine mocks me.

Maybe it's Daleks.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:24 PM

answer to your question

Subject: RE: BS: New Dr Who
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:30 PM

He had to be male but they could have gone for non white. Age is actually against the previous trend as he is very young. (And before you all shout why male bear in mind that there were female time lords and he had a mother and father. I don't think gender reassignment is part of regeneration)

Subject: RE: BS: New Dr Who
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:33 PM

Apparently Russell T Davies fancied Catherine Zeta Jones for the role...kinda makes you glad he's leaving. :)

Subject: RE: BS: New Dr Who
From: CapriUni
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:40 PM

I basically stopped watching the revamp of Who halfway through the first season... I still follow it, though, through comment threads like this, and spin-off fiction posted by friends on their journals.

One friend said she regretted that there were no other Time Lords around to mock him for his youth... The possibility of Romana making baby-sitting jokes was mentioned.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Acorn4
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:50 PM

I was hopin for Carol Vorderman!

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 02:06 PM

OH....he looks like a pretty boy....

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 02:12 PM

I'm not a real Dr Who fan but Carol is. I've been watching it with her. The third season of the recent CBC/BBC Wales series was the best imho. The Med student, Martha Jones, sidekick was by far the best and they had some decent science fiction plots. I don't like it much when they go into the past and interact with witches and werewolves and such.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Diva
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 02:16 PM

Well my daughter, like mrs ducks, is in lurve already. I saw him in Ruby in the Smoke and thought he was good in that.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Cats
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:01 AM

I like the idea of Les Barker being the Doctor.... Just thibnk of the poems he could create with his sonic screwdriver!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: DMcG
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:37 AM

He had to be male but they could have gone for non white ... I don't think gender reassignment is part of regeneration)

Artistically speaking, a female doctor would enable - literally!- dramatically different stories but I am pretty confident that such considerations are overridden by the commercial risk such a fundamental change would be.

Completely independently, my daughter and I came to the conclusion that while an Indian, Chinese, ... doctor would be possible the co-incidence of changing to a black doctor at exactly the time the US changes to its first black president would attract all sorts of bizarre criticisms that would not have occurred a year or two ago or in a year or two's time. And as before, the commercial concerns would want to avoid those.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Arkie
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:21 AM

I can't help but compare each new doctor to Tom Baker. I am glad someone keeps trying though and maybe one day we will have a worthy successor.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:44 AM

I don't think I have seen him in anything...but I could be wrong. I'll reserve judgement like others until I have seen him in the role. I think it would have been good if they didn't release the name of the new doctor so soon. It would have been nice to have the surprise, but then again I couldn't help watching the programme last night to find out!

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: goatfell
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:49 AM

and what is wrong with Russel T Davis and Catherine Zeta Jones?

is it because that they are both Welsh if that's the case then who's a racist now?

or a sexist?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: goatfell
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:51 AM

and you talk about Mr Manning.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 10:01 AM

Isn't it bleedin' obvious who the folkie Dr Who would be? Yes?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Cats
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 10:39 AM

Jon Boden did cross my mind then I thought again about Les Barker and came up with things like Cosmo the Fairly acciurate Time Lord and of course, for last years Christmas special, Is there any news of the Iceberg!! The more you think about it the sillier it gets.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 10:44 AM

I'd vote for Jon Boden anyday! *G*

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 12:22 PM

Too bad that William Shatner has gotten too large to fit in the Tardis, because I think he would be just dynamite in the Doctor Who role.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Bert
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 01:29 PM

Catspaw of course.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 03:50 PM

The Doctor concept has become corrupted over the years. The early doctors carried the sagacity of age, and were wise (even if eccentric). Now they are younger and younger, fail to look before executing a leap or bound, and rather than wise are "clever-clever".

It is a parable of society.

I msut be getting old, Doctors look like boys to me...

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:19 PM

The same thing has happened to the concept of newscasters. ;-) You can now expect to see a "hot babe" with big hair reading you the news, alongside a "hot" lookin' guy in a suit. They trade zippy one-liners back and forth between telling you about slaughter in Gaza or Sri Lanka and the latest stupid rumour about Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie. It's not news, it's Info-tainment, designed for tawdry minds with a 3 second attention span.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:58 PM

Maybe it's time to resurrect the Grey Panthers!

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 07:15 PM

Chappel would have been great.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: nickp
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 09:59 AM

Looks a bit like Seth Lakeman... wonder if he plays tenor guitar? After all, Patrick Troughton used to play the recorder...

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Bert
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 04:23 PM

Richard says ...The early doctors carried the sagacity of age, and were wise (even if eccentric)...

Sounds just like Catspaw to me.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: olddude
Date: 05 Jan 09 - 10:12 PM

Bruce Murdoch

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: akenaton
Date: 06 Jan 09 - 07:57 PM

Well I suppose its time to repeat my biggest claim to fame.
"I was a classmate of Dr Who!!"

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Bert
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 12:08 PM

Which one?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: akenaton
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 12:52 PM

Hi Bert...One James Kent-Smith, class clown and all round good pal.
We spent three years together as classmates in Dunoon Grammar School, before Jimmy moved on to make his name as the actor Sylvester McCoy the sixth doctor, while I sank without trace in the swamps of the Mudcat forum....Ake

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: GUEST,Firecat
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:36 AM

Hate to be pedantic, but Sylvester was the Seventh Doctor. Colin Baker was the Sixth Doctor.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 02:56 PM

akenaton - the plot thickens. I remember when he was Sylveste McCoy and worked with Ken Campbell, alongside Chris Langham among others (hope we haven't seen the last of him - he'd make a bloody good Doctor, come to think of it). Anyway, I noticed the name-change from Sylveste to Sylvester, but I had no idea the first one hadn't been his original name. James Kent-Smith eh?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 05:43 PM

He's my brother - Sylveste?

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: akenaton
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 06:57 PM

Naw that's Teribus...."Gotta row of forty medals on 'is chest"...:0)

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Amergin
Date: 05 Jun 10 - 07:25 PM

I've been watching the new doctor...and yeah I liked Tennant alot better. This guy is a bit of a weenie.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jun 10 - 07:42 PM

They should have gotten William Shatner for the part.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: terrier
Date: 05 Jun 10 - 08:56 PM

They should have given the part to Cesar Millan, then he could have gone round to Sarah Jane's house and berated her for keeping K9 in a cupboard under the stairs ;)

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: GUEST,David E.
Date: 06 Jun 10 - 02:25 PM

Doctor schmoctor...Hellooooo Amy Pond!

David E.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: terrier
Date: 06 Jun 10 - 03:37 PM

I think it's fitting that anagrams of Amy Pond are MAD PONY and DOPY MAN, sort of sums up the new series so far :)

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Bert
Date: 06 Jun 10 - 05:59 PM

Looking ahead to the next one, how about Michael Caine or Morgan Freeman.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: GUEST,Muppett
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 05:18 AM

Nay the next Dr. Who should be Dawn French, she'd be brill as the Dr.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 05:28 AM

Maybe they've already picked Alex Kingston!

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 02:20 PM

I agree with Richard Bridge. The earlier incarnations of Dr. Who were level-headed, thoughtful, relying on brains rather than brawn (read military might) to solve problems.
They were ethicists of sorts given to reflective yet creative solutions.

The new Doctor has too many temper tantrums to suit me. (Needs a diaper change?)

Karen Gillan suggests to me a Scottish Valley Girl.

I think that Billie Piper and Catherine Tate added dimensions to their roles.

Have to say though that my fave was Lalla Ward.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 06:46 PM

I like Karen Gillan. I remember her as a schoolgirl in "Rebus".

I was never convinced that Billie Piper was acting.

Bring back Katy Manning (and the dalek).

And whatever happened tom Susan? (last seen sneaking into Bob and Thelma's room in "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads" thinking Terry was there)

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Amergin
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 12:19 AM

I think Rowan Atkinson would make a better Doctor than the current lad.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: olddude
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 10:11 AM

which one was the early curly headed guy in the 70's?. Those were my favourite ones for sure.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Lox
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 12:33 PM

Tom Baker.














That is all!

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 01:55 PM

Tom Baker and Christopher Eccleston were my favorites although David Tenant grew on me as the writing improved. When I think of Doctor Who, I do think of Tom Baker first.

I think that Dr. Who is a good model for a new kind of hero, not one wed to solving problems with weapons or military excesses but one who thinks creatively, with compassion, a sense of proportion and a willingness to share a highly-developed brain for public good. I like it that he doesn't use guns.

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: GUEST,David E.
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 03:26 PM

"not one wed to solving problems with weapons or military excesses but one who thinks creatively, with compassion, a sense of proportion and a willingness to share a highly-developed brain for public good."


Yes, and he has the advantage of living in a complete fantasy world which behaves however the writers see fit of course.

David E.

(Tom Baker/Sarah Jane)

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 05:15 PM

The new guy doesn't do it for me, though he has his moments. Tom Baker was always "my doctor," though I liked a few of the others. Then David Tennant came along, and I was incredibly impressed. I still miss him.

I like Amy Pond very much, and feel that she carries the show right now.

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: RAT-W
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 09:10 PM

Well, Matt Smith has grown on me as the Doctor, although still not in the same league as David Tennant and Tom Baker (or even, to my mind, Jon Pertwee) but I'm not so keen on Amy Pond. The last few assisstants had something about them which I don't think she does. She seems to be there mostly as eye-candy. Actually, she reminds me somewhat of Joe Grant. But I still think it's the best show on TV.

RAT-W (actor, if anyone reads this thread when Matt Smith leaves in a few years)

Subject: RE: BS: The next doctor? Who?
From: olddude
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 09:54 PM

I like his antique police box ... I wish I had one ... I think it is really cool .. now if it came equipped with a time machine also ... I figure I could do some pretty good things for the world ...

Not to mention I would have a pretty good guitar collection also :-)