The new Doctor Who
It’s a brave move to be sure, swapping the pasty skinny white guy with stupid hair for another pasty skinny white guy with stupid hair. Quite the departure.
Posted on January 3rd, 2009 at 6:25pm under Culture, media and sport
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I approve of this guy. (Though I confess to being all of the above.)
The hair I’m not too down with really. Maybe I’m just getting old.
Is it August already?
I first mis-read him as MEL Smth. Imagine my disappointment.
Smith, even
He’s from Northampton.
Which is bad in itself.
I beg to disagree. Andrew Collins is from Northampton and he’s a prince amongst men.
There’s not an implied “despite”?
I’ll play my joker: Alan Moore. Born there, lives there, writes about there.
(Why the hell I’m suddenly defending Northampton is anyone’s guess. I used to have to go on training courses there and hated the bones of the place.)
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Andrew Collins and Alan Moore cannot save the barren wilderness that is Northampton.
“Andrew Collins and Alan Moore cannot save the barren wilderness that is Northampton”
Amen brother, but considering it’s proximity to the cultural vacuum of Milton Keynes, Northampton’s ability to produce vaguely amusing tv reviewers, grouchy fiction writers and awesomely ugly actors is actally pretty impressive.
My initial reaction was ‘huh?wuh?who?’, compounded by the guy’s undergrad/youthful looks, leading me to the carefully considered kneejerk judgement of ‘Nah!’
And yet….I was wrong about Catherine Tate, who actually turned out to wildly exceed my expectations, so I’m willing to wait and see. But seems to me that whoever plays the Doctor should have the capacity for gravitas, and Matt S is yet to convince.
He was in that ‘Party Animals’ debacle. He was the one who was like Jarvis Cocker without the machismo.
My first thought on looking at him was ‘He’s got Bruce Campbell’s chin’, but that looks less obvious from other angles. As for the hair, it’s a toss-up between A Flock of Seagulls and a receding hairline (and we’ve never had a bald Doctor). Beyond that, I’ll reserve judgement as I’ve never seen the guy in anything (unlike the feeling that I was the only one who watched The Catherine Tate Show and felt she’d be fine in Doctor Who).
Am a 42 year old man, an 0ld doctor who fan. Please dont let history repeat itself by brining in a new actor that just doent feel right and just doent compare with David Tennent. When Tom Baker left it went all down hill with the new regenerated doctor whos name slips my mind.(which just goes to show).I regained my interest when David Tennent came on the seen. This new chap( again I cant think of his name) just doent feel right. Just because he looks like his from out of this world doesnt mean his the right choice.