Oh, hum...neat.

[timepiececlock]

Interview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7808697.stm

Promo shot: http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo173/notknowable/smith_doctor_3.jpg


rashaka - It's the total opposite of "casting someone not as young and handsome so as to avoid this romance nonsense" which is what I'd been hearing in rumors.
irrel - Ha, yeah, cast a 26 year-old, that'll stop the sexual tension.

Oh BBC...

He looks like the Twilight kid! I don't fathom it. Or that guy from Dawson's Creek. Are we going to get a 15-year-old Doctor before Obama runs for re-election? We're going back by leaps of a decade or so each season. And what is with the Emo hair?

Anyway, I'll be terribly sad to see Ten go, because I love DT with all of his pathos and talent. But I'm excited for a change, too. And this might turn out quite funny...after all, he is pretty weird looking, and that's in the DW tradition. But his clothes in the promo shot are like a college student's. How is anyone going to take him seriously? Oh well, we'll get some laughs. Just imagine what Jack Harkness will think about the Doc's new body. His twenty-six-year-old body.


Still, a part of my heart wanted Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Comments

[irrel.livejournal.com]

And we have to wait more than a year to see him as the Doctor. I'm kind of excited about this now!

Appropriate icon is appropriate.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I should wear my t-shirt!

[irrel.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous!

[littleduchess.livejournal.com]

OMFG- Jack is going to LOVE this!
He does look a bit weird (v. long face) but I'm holding back. I've never seen him act but it would be quite cool if he does a lot of that finger thing he does in the end of that interview you've linked to. I can see the doctor with that tic... He could grow on me. I hope he does.

[flickums.livejournal.com]

His emo fringe disturbes me. Are we going to see a surge in emo!Doctor fics?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Nine was a Floppy Haired Guy without the actual floppy hair, Ten was a Floppy Haired Guy with Floppy Hair, but at least neither was an emo kid. A woobie, sure, but not emo. I don't think I can handle an emo babyDoctor. I hope he's actually just goofy and weird instead.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

So, are we getting a whole new companion as well?

*crosses fingers that they're starting fresh*

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I hope Mickey is there. Mickey would see this new Doctor and CRACK UP.

[mswyrr]

Goody for Jack Harkness.

Me? I hate the emo bugger.

[mswyrr]

Sorry.

They shouldn't have waved Patterson Joseph, serious gorgeous POC actor, in steampunk clothes in front of my eyes. I got all hopeful, and my hope has turned to bitterness.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I liked that guy and would have enjoyed him as an actor. However, I don't blame them [producers] for intern rumors. The studio never waved anyone in front of us, they denied all the way.

I don't know. I'll give him a chance. The first picture I ever saw of DT was horrible, in which he freaked me out with natty blonde hair and bug-eyes, but he turned out to be lovable and quite attractive. So who knows?

[mswyrr]

Point. If/when I watch Eleven's run, I'll try to come to it with an open mind.

Good thing I've got a year to work on that! ;)

[boosette.livejournal.com]

I knew I wasn't out there thinking he looked like a Meyer Vampire.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Except for the abnormally looming brow, he looks totally different in the promo picture than in the interview, at least to me. In the tardis pic he looks like the Twilight kid, and in the interview he looks like the guy from Dawson's Creek, with a long face and floppy hair and recessed eyes.

I am completely undecided at this point, and I'm holding out to see how he goes. I just hope that he has a different costume and hair than shown above.