movieking

Love the Elba and Nesbitt ideas. Also would have loved actually seeing David Morrissey as The Doctor for a couple of series..,

JasonF

Your rumored Twelfth Doctor:

Josh-da-man

Xiroteus

I have liked all the current Doctor's yet I am curious to see what a new one can do.

RobLutter

I personally think Stephen Mangan would be great ... and googling shows that others agree with me.

Russel Tobey is 10/1 odds... loved his performance in Being Human (where he does comedic and dramatic well... important to a Doctor since the Tennant years) and he's already been on Who in the RTD years.

I also think Chiwetel Ejiofor would be a great Doctor.

LOL... the odds have Bill Bailey at 50/1.

orangecrush

That would be very interesting.

chess

I guess I'm in the minority, but I actually like the writing these past few seasons under Moffat. There have been lots of clever concepts (Angels/Pandorica/Silence/River Song), even if a few fell flat, and they haven't relied on the Daleks and Cybermen as a crutch they way the prior group did. It seemed like one of the two was on every other week before Moffat.

I guess I'm also in the minority in that I liked David Tennant's doctor a little (but just a little) more.

Timber

I think the Silence were the best villians in years so I don't think we'll be seeing them anymore or they will be changed to the point of sucktitude when they come back. Love River Song as well, in fact I think the show needs even more River but who knows how they'll work her in with a new Doctor.

RoboDad

I've been enjoying the Moffat era as well. Sure, there have been a few episodes that seemed to meander, but for me, the worst episode of Doctor Who is still better than most of whatever else is on TV.

I'm not saying he can do no wrong, but I do give him a bit of slack. After all, Blink is still the single best episode that I have ever seen.

And I have to say, I was thinking that the Impossible Girl arc was going nowhere, but the finale pulled it all together brilliantly.

With all that said, I'm kind of glad that Matt Smith is moving on. It took me a long time to warm up to him, and even then, he was a poor replacement for David Tennant.

Meglos

That's not a minority opinion; more like the popular one.

Tennant is actually my least favorite Doc. Now that is a minority opinion.

Supermallet

Tennant is my least favorite NuWho Doctor, but he's definitely not my least favorite Doctor (looking at you, Patrick Troughton).

ddrknghtrtns

My least favorite would have to be Colin Baker. Right from the start he came off as a major jerk. I should probably place equal blame on JNT for deciding to change the Doctor's personality.

The Antipodean

I've got a real soft spot for Chris Eccleston, and wish we'd had more than one series with him. For that matter, more than a single movie with Paul McGann would've been pretty cool too.

Sylvester McCoy remains my least favorite Dr, although I don't know if I've ever actually seen any with Colin Baker starring now that I think about it.

kenbuzz

Having just found a blog post from 2007 by Neil Gaiman, I understand now why his Marquis reminded me of The Doctor so much...
Linky: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/0...infection.html

kenbuzz

McGann's body of work - scores of hours and hours of ongoing Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish - is incredible. He is absolutely believable as The Doctor, and I wish he had had more than 2 hours screen time to demonstrate that.

McCoy's audio work, and certainly Baker's as well, are also very good. I got a chance to meet McCoy at a convention in Chicago last Thanksgiving. My son went with me, and his school had given him an assignment over the holiday - interview someone to ask them how Thanksgiving was different when they were his age. He approached McCoy, who has happy to help, provided that my son agree to one condition - that he be able do the interview "In Character".

So my son got to interview The Doctor, and learned about how Thanksgiving was celebrated (well, or not) on Gallifrey nine centuries ago. It was cool....



And after that was an impromptu lesson on playing the spoons.



Prior to becoming the Doctor, McCoy had enjoyed a successful vaudeville career - he is considered by many to be an expert spoon player. Understandably, our household is made up of pretty big fans of Sylvester McCoy - so my objectivity regarding his performance as The Doctor should probably be called into question.

ddrknghtrtns

Colin Baker's run was so plague ridden, he was fired after the Trial of The Time Lord season. McCoy had to wear a curly hair wig for the regeneration scene.

Pizza

I think it would be interesting if the Doctor regenerated into a past doctor. Even if they did it for a half season or a few eps, it would be nice to see a familiar face or two.

Meglos

This is an awesome story.

Meglos

And this is how wonderfully diverse Who fandom is to me. Colin is actually my second favorite Doc (after Tom). But I can see how other fans wouldn't like him.

But not liking Troughton? That's just crazy town bananapants, man.

Tracer Bullet

Rumors are flying around that Helen Mirren is a contender, and that she'd love to do it. Personally I can't see it happening, but it would get me to watch again, that's for sure.

TheNightFlier

Another new Doctor contender? Rory Kinnear.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ctor-role.html

The Valeyard

It's already been denied via a friend of his:

Everything in the papers about Rory Kinnear being asked to be the new Doctor is 100% bollocks, just so you know. He's a bit sick of it.

— Liz Buckley (@liz_buckley) June 9, 2013

RocShemp

Just to fuck with people, they should give the role to Eric Roberts. He has played a Time Lord before.

Meglos

I think Gordon Tipple would be better at the role.

Groucho

At this point, I think it's easier to just list British actors who AREN'T rumored to be getting the role.