Obligatory post

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, David, it was fun. Thank you.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

So who would you like it to be next?

[tree_and_leaf]

Bill Nighy, but it's never going to happen outside my head....

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Bill Nighy could do an excellent job.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Can I come inside your head too? I would start watching Dr Who if Bill Nighy were the Doctor.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think he'd be brilliant, but I suspect they will want another pretty young man....

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I only just saw it. Sigh. Ah, well. It's been a good run.

[tree_and_leaf]

It has - and I think he's right to go before he gets fed up (many doctors have gone a bit soon, but T Baker dragged on far too long, in my view)

... but I'm still a bit sad, nonetheless.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I grew up with Tom Baker as the Doctor and was very sad when he gave up. I didn't feel that he went on too long; however, that could well have been youth speaking. Though I did quite like Peter Davidson as his replacement.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

I am going to miss him, but my egotistical part also hopes that he'll do a lot of stagework in the future, especially as soon as I have got the time and money to go to Britain again. ;)

[tree_and_leaf]

That's true. it's an ill wind...

I am just hoping that someone will do a DVD of the current Hamlet; I would have loved to have seen it, but I was too slow off the mark (curses!)

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

altariel told me that they did publish last year's Lear with Ian McKellen, so our chances to purchase a DVD aren't too bad, I assume.

But won't the production be taken to the London stage? You might then have an opportunity to watch it there.

[tree_and_leaf]

*crosses fingers*

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I was just on the verge of getting fed up with him. I dare say I can live through a few more specials and then bid farewell.

I'm getting fed up with Pretty Young Men, too. I've always seen the Doctor as a sort of uncle figure, and being expected to fancy him is Just Wrong. (I may be misjudging the poor dears, of course; that may not be the rationale behind casting Pretty Young Men at all.) After all, the chap's getting on for a thousand; there'd be no harm in letting him look fifty. Pfft.

[tree_and_leaf]

I actually liked him ever so much more in the last season than I have before, which makes the situation mildly frustrating. But I do wish they'd cast someone older next time - in fact, he must be over 1000, despite what Ten keeps maintaining. I think it's probably the Gallifreyan equivalent of being repeatedly 35....