i'm the doctor. basically, run.

[chicafrom3]

Congratulations to Peter Capaldi, and welcome to the Doctor Who family!

I was going to say I have seen you in nothing ever, but then I looked up your IMDB, and apparently I saw you as John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children Of Earth, and also as Caecilius in Doctor Who: The Fires Of Pompeii, thus proving once again that the Whoniverse likes reusing actors. Oh, and Islington in Neverwhere, that's me pleased.

Honestly you have a very impressive IMDB page, but mostly I'm excited for an older Doctor again (55!) and another Scottish Doctor; hopefully you will use your own accent.

Yay for casting news!

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[tallyen.livejournal.com]

If the fan theories are true and John Hurt's character is the biological 9th regeneration then Peter Capaldi is the last incarnation of the Doctor.

Of course he won't be but that's still rather terrifying. :D

[tallyen.livejournal.com]

Oh and we've finally reached the point where the Valeyard should manifest. :D

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

I am REALLY EXCITED to see how they handle the Valeyard. \o/

I don't for one minute believe the show will actually stick to the 13 incarnations rule, but I am hella curious as to how they're going to handwave it away. I can think of so many ways and I'm not sure what I'd actually prefer.

(Yes I am. I want the Doctor to believe this is his final regeneration and then when he's fatally wounded or whatever gives a speech to his Companion(s) about how this is finally it, the end of his long travels, brave heart, you'll have to be strong without me, etc., and then he regenerates in the middle of his monologue, is caught completely off-guard, and is kind of offended that he didn't get to finish his epic farewell-universe speech.)

[tallyen.livejournal.com]

Me too! Because the plot has been left open for so long! Possibly the longest unanswered plot in scifi.... mb?

I definitely want the Doctor to think this is his final life. Will he be the same man, or less willing to stick his nose in when trouble appears? And I really want to know how they will address the 13 limit, assuming Moffat is the one that tackles it, I assume is will be simple yet complex at the same time.

...I'm going to miss Matt though. His portrayal of the Doctor may have seen some amazingly dreadful episodes (7A!) but was just as amazing as the other 10.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

It might be!

Will he be the same man, or less willing to stick his nose in when trouble appears?

Or more willing? I could see it going all three ways. (Arrgh, I want all the details of Capaldi's Doctor.)

I'm going to miss Matt, too. 11 quickly became my second-favorite Doctor, and Matt really did a spectacular job of pulling off old-man-in-a-young-man's body, and was disturbingly alien at times, which is exactly as it should be.

[tallyen.livejournal.com]

11 rewatch? :O

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

YES PLEASE.

[tallyen.livejournal.com]

Hop in my box!