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."

Comments

First...

[webmistressrachel]

I got first because I went back in my TARDIS... ;)

Re:First...

[Anonymous Coward]

You could have bought back Tom Baker with you

Re:First...

[VortexCortex]

I'm jealous. My 2nd-hand model doesn't work well. It's less like a noble police box and more like a trashy Bill's and Ted's phone booth. Nav-circuits are broke so it only takes me to places the TARDIS has already been -- Doors won't open till the other TARDIS is gone. Great for watching re-runs though. I call it the RE-TARDIS.

Often the best man for the job is a woman

[auric_dude]

An Alternative History of 11 American Female Doctors http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2013/05/doctor_who_american_female.php & The Other 11 Doctors http://www.scifind.com/features/the-other-11-doctors/

Re:Often the best man for the job is a woman

[Anonymous Coward]

That was The Curse of Fatal Death and Joanna Lumley was the Doctor. It was, indeed, a spoof and quite a welcome one during the Dark Time of the Hiatus.

This is horrible

[houghi]

How can the show continue if the lead role leaves? Perhaps we should start a petition

Re:This is horrible

[Noughmad]

That's Doctor Whooosh to you!

What I would like from the next series

[Chuck Chunder]

Less SHOUTING. Too often they seem to try and create a sense of excitement through the sole mechanism of having the Doctor get excited and shouty. I don't think it Matt Smith's fault, he does do some of the darker, more ponderous moments very well. I think the situation should be exciting in itself and the Doctor then rising above it.

Re:What I would like from the next series

[Anonymous Coward]

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.)

Who's next?

[CanadianMacFan]

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

For me it would be Stephen Fry.

Re: No way

[Anonymous Coward]

Wasn't it first said that time lords have 9 lives?

No, you seem to be getting time lords and cats mixed up.