Yawn

[avevale_intelligencer]

So, for anyone who hasn't already found out, David Tennant has confirmed what we've all known for ages, that he is leaving nuWho after the specials. Speculation is rife all over LJ about who will/should replace him: I've commented here and there that someone who is capable of playing the Doctor would be nice. As in older, not a sexpot, damn well upper class British thank you so very much, not prone to sexual entanglements with other species, and able to convey that s/he is not a doormat or a scapegoat. I have had the hangdog look up to here.

We'll see what happens.

Comments

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Ah, but when I was younger I could tolerate younger Doctors. :)

Seriously, I thought at the time that Davison, Tennant and McGann were all too young for the role. Eccleston had so many other problems for me that his age was entirely overshadowed. The others, apart from Hartnell, mostly managed by sheer presence to make age irrelevant to their portrayal, which is the ideal...but in general, you can only be ageless if you've aged a bit. Otherwise you're just young. Tennant is still young. It doesn't matter how many times his Doctor says "I'm so old now" and such like, he is callow and unfinished and easily cowed and just not right.

The pictures I've seen so far of David Morrissey look young in the same way, though that may just be the character he's playing, and it's unfair to judge a performer on a still picture. But I believe there was a conscious decision to make the Doctor more accessible to yoof, and I think it was a wrong decision, and casting someone--okay, not necessarily someone in his or her fifties, but someone capable of playing him as the timeless alien that he is, would go some way to redress that mistake.

They won't, though.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I think the rot set in after the first three. None of the others really gave me that "timeless alien" impression (mostly neither timeless nor particularly alien) so I stopped expecting it long before NuWho.

[aunty_marion]

I think I successfully suspended disbelief for Tom Baker (though I haven't seen all the episodes by a long chalk - I was out of reach of a TV for a lot of the mid-70s and early-80s!), but I think the rot really set in with Colin Baker.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Baker T was fine as far as I was concerned. Davison would have made a better fist of it if he'd done it at the age he did Campion (38, so not that much older); he'd perfected that "still small voice of authority" thing he does. Baker C didn't get a fair shake due to other factors, but he's grown into the role quite nicely on audio. And again, I was fine with McCoy.