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Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who"

First time accepted submitter Dave Knott writes "The BBC has announced that Matt Smith will be leaving 'Doctor Who', after spending the last four seasons in the titular role of The Doctor. Smith will remain for the upcoming 50th anniversary special, where he will star alongside a majority of the other actors who have taken on the character, and will exit following the yearly Christmas episode. No actor has yet been cast as the twelfth incarnation of The Doctor, although there was a teaser involving John Hurt at the end of the most recent season of the show."

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  1. Re:First... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You could have bought back Tom Baker with you

  2. Watch the age trend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    William Hartnell was the first Doctor, at about 55 years old.

    Matt Smith was 28.

    Obviously the Doctor is getting younger and younger. I predict that the next one will be around 18. Perhaps Tom Holland?

    1. Re:Watch the age trend by Nyder · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, they totally didn't announce him as the new doctor!

      You got to get the "non-schizotypic ignorance of the decade" award! ;)

      Ya, that is what I said in the post that you are replying to. I made a mistake, and admitted it. Now you are saying I'm ignorant, but in reality, that who is the ignorant one? Me, for making an assumption and then admitting I made a mistake? Or you, for replying to the post where I admitted I made the mistake and then tell me I'm wrong (which I admitted) and that I'm ignorant for being wrong?

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  3. Re:Often the best man for the job is a woman by webmistressrachel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thank you, unfortunately my TARDIS is having trouble manipulating the article / thread in further amusing ways because it's risky crossing my own timeline, so now I'm stuck going forward with the rest of you for a while!

    And, as an aside, even WITH a TARDIS I still can't think of a way to abuse my 15 mod points without causing a paradox and undoing my first post (and all of yours!)

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  4. Re:Not News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why is this crap on Slashdot ?

    Dr Who is stuff that matters.

  5. Who's next? by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So ideally who would like to see as the next Doctor?

    For me it would be Stephen Fry.

    1. Re:Who's next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Bring David Tennant back.

  6. Re:What I would like from the next series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More importantly: Less STUPID!

    The show got dumber and dumber every year. They are at 2.4 JJs* now! They just stopped caring if it makes any sense at all. (And yes, I did check for Dunning-Kruger effects. I can always show you the exact show-stopping non-sequiturs and inner contradictions of the stories.**)

    (* Named after JJ Abrams' "knack" for always "resolving" things with plain drooling retardedness and then calling it a day.)

    (** E.g. for Star Trek, I know it's not me being stupid, when the main one was Spock crashing a ship that has a ball of red matter the size of Chuck Norris' balls [~1m] on board, of which a *single* drop annihilates an entire damn planet, *into a fuckin' space-time rift! And the crew of the Enterprise just hovering there like drooling retards, instead of instantly going into full "This could end the fuckin' UNIVERSE" panic mode! ... Of course you can say that the moment they dropped Kirk on a deadly planet with not even a jacket nor compass and the nearest building miles away through extreme snow storms, excusing it with "Oh, he will find it!"... that that was the moment where the whole thing died and imploded in a vortex of FAIL. ... Followed by the whole Old Spock think and Scotty inventing teleportation just casually along the way, to add insult and piss in the face to injury.)

  7. Re:Yes you did by andrew7027 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    “dirt bag”, “stupid bitch” There’s no need to be so vile. It doesn’t help your argument. “This is how i treat all anonymous cowards.” I wish you wouldn’t.

  8. Re: No way by JustOK · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

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  9. Re: Often the best man for the job is a woman by UglyTool · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chill the fuck out.

    What you saw was some shitty, obscure fan-film made for fanboys at cons. It has absolutely nothing to do with Doctor Who, except for stealing the name. If people thought you meant Curse of Fatal Death instead of an awful movie that nobody else ever saw, then that's understandable. What you linked is NOT Doctor Who. It was a shitty movie that nobody watched.

  10. Re:Often the best man for the job is a woman by BasilBrush · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is not Doctor Who.