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Matt Smith exit prompts Doctor Who speculation
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Posted on 06/03/2013 8:10:43 AM PDT by Perdogg

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1 posted on 06/03/2013 8:10:43 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; skinkinthegrass; ...

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2 posted on 06/03/2013 8:11:37 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
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3 posted on 06/03/2013 8:22:01 AM PDT by Rio
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To: Perdogg

I love Dame Helen Mirren, but NO!

(Make that Doctor? NO!)


4 posted on 06/03/2013 8:28:20 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: Perdogg

Two Words.

Hugh Laurie.

The House is in The Doctor (evil grin)


5 posted on 06/03/2013 8:30:40 AM PDT by Salgak (<a href="http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com/">100% all-natural snark</a>)
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Helen Mirren needs no TARDIS to go beyond Space and Time. . .

As SNL showed us. . . (Borderline NSFW)

6 posted on 06/03/2013 8:33:55 AM PDT by Salgak (<a href="http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com/">100% all-natural snark</a>)
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Ooops...not available on this server...whatever THAT means! LOL!


7 posted on 06/03/2013 8:36:32 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: Perdogg
While I find the show entertaining, the problem with British shows is the scarceness of episodes. In 4 years how many episodes has Matt Smith actually done (42 according to Wiki).
8 posted on 06/03/2013 8:40:04 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Perdogg

Sheesh. Just as I was finally getting used to Matt Smith after the trauma of losing David Tennant.

You cannot allow yourself to get attached to any of the Doctors. LOL!!!

Another poster mentioned Hugh Laurie, which would be vastly entertaining, but I am afraid he would end up acting too much like the House character. :-/

My guess is that they are going to pull in an older actor in order to pay homage to the fact that there hasn’t been a “grandfatherly” Doctor since the reboot.


9 posted on 06/03/2013 8:48:14 AM PDT by RMDupree (I'm not really here.)
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I haven't watched Doctor Who for a long time.

Has there ever been a female Doctor before?

After Tom Baker in the 1970’s, every new Doctor has been something of a disappointment for me.

I think James Bond fans are going to feel the same way when Daniel Craig retires.

Some actors just “own” a role and viewers can never completely let go of it.

10 posted on 06/03/2013 8:52:38 AM PDT by zeestephen
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HO, HO, HO! Slap my thigh!!!


11 posted on 06/03/2013 8:58:30 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: zeestephen
I think James Bond fans are going to feel the same way when Daniel Craig retires.

Some actors just “own” a role and viewers can never completely let go of it.

Who?? Was he a villain; or did he have a role assisting Sean Connery? /s

12 posted on 06/03/2013 9:14:27 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Perdogg
...already prompted speculation on the identity of his replacement.

A host of names have been suggested in Sunday's papers, among them Idris Elba, Dame Helen Mirren and John Hurt.

What speculation?

John Hurt appeared at the end of the series finale (season finale to us Yanks) and was more or less said to the the next Doctor.

13 posted on 06/03/2013 9:39:29 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: zeestephen
After Tom Baker in the 1970’s, every new Doctor has been something of a disappointment for me. I think James Bond fans are going to feel the same way when Daniel Craig retires. Some actors just “own” a role and viewers can never completely let go of it.

Daniel Craig?! I've felt that way ever since Sean Connery retired... and that was several years before I was born.

14 posted on 06/03/2013 9:47:39 AM PDT by Sloth (Rather than a lesser Evil, I voted for Goode.)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
"John Hurt appeared at the end of the series finale (season finale to us Yanks) and was more or less said to the the next Doctor."

That's how I remember it, too. Could it be that Freepers are better informed than some journo?

15 posted on 06/03/2013 10:04:41 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: RMDupree

Oddly, it seems that they keep getting younger with each doctor.
Maybe they wil get Justin Bieber for the next role. /s


16 posted on 06/03/2013 10:34:57 AM PDT by Delmarksman (Pro 2A Anglican American (Ford and Chevy kill more people than guns do, lets ban them))
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Oddly, it seems that they keep getting younger with each doctor.

I posted in another thread a long time ago that the doctors were getting younger. And, since the current [Smith] is supposedly the last, the 'next' would be a baby, which would signal the rebirth of the Time Lords.

In related speculation, I would like to see Andrew Lee Potts as the new doctor. We basically watched Andrew grow up in Primeval.
17 posted on 06/03/2013 10:50:23 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: zeestephen
"Has there ever been a female Doctor before?"

Only in the parody Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death

18 posted on 06/03/2013 11:02:01 AM PDT by Boogieman
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“And, since the current [Smith] is supposedly the last”

Wasn’t that before River Song kind of “recharged” him with her regeneration energy? Who knows if he is the last now?


19 posted on 06/03/2013 11:03:21 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Perdogg

I just saw the season finale and they introduced John Hurt as The Doctor.

Ed


20 posted on 06/03/2013 11:03:49 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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