My thoughts on Eleven..

[tencrush]

QUICK ASIDE: Demons! It's Ross Jenkins! Can't get over Glenister's accent, though.



I LOVE HIM. Seriously, I love him. For a number of reasons:

• He's on the wrong side of attractive. He really is, his face is all wrong and I love it. The fact that Who fandom will probably lose a shitload of squeeing fangirls when this guy takes over is making me very, very excited indeed, I will not miss them one single bit.


• He's 26!!! Knowing what we know about Moffat, and Moffat's opinion about a young Doctor, this guy has to have REALLY impressed him, and there's a part of me that can see why. I've actually never seen Smith in anything at all, but there was a brief two second clip of some girl asking him a question about how she looked or something and him answering "... yeah" after something of a pregnant pause that blew me away and made me laugh out loud.


• Yes, he looks like a bit of a toff. Is that actually that much of a problem? I quite like that sort of Pertwee-esque "I'm considerably awesomer than you" vibe, lookswise, and I think that's where he'll go with it. I love him. Have I mentioned that I love him?


• I can totally see this guy wearing a FREAKING RIDICULOUS OUTFIT and pulling it off. And the outfit is IMPORTANT, yo.


• Have I mentioned I trust Moffat? I think I have. If Moffat likes him, that'll do for me. Every opinion Moffat has ever expressed about what kind of guy he thinks the Doctor should be, about his favourite writers and favourite Doctors and favourite stories has always been quite similar to my own tastes and I just generally trust the man to deliver something I think I'll like and Approve Of. Whether or not anyone else likes it is something I can't really predict.


• Yah, I love him... I have happy, happy feelings about this guy. Trust me.

Comments

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

Tennant's never overwhelmed me, but then I never quite got over finding him as the Doctor slightly irksome visually. (Mainly the outfit.) That icon may have broken me slightly though. Clearly what Ten needed was more skullpr0n.

Am relieved not to be only person to think Ooh, nice hands because that would have been sad.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I would've never thought I would like Ten as much as I did after adoring Eccles so much, so this time around I'm far more laid back. Let's see if Smith works. If the team thinks he does, then there must be something to it.

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

I am quite liking the sense of New and Unknown that there is about it all. Not that I expect or even necessarily want epic innovation, just that everything has seemed weirdly backward-looking for some time, in that RTD seems reluctant to leave anything he's done behind, ever. I have yet to watch season 4, so maybe that'll be more doable now that I have more of a sense of there being life after it. And also now that I've had some time out from the horribly negative way my head was approaching it all. (Maybe I shall watch it as handpr0n with occasional plot. I am almost shallow enough.)

I'm assuming they wouldn't cast a mere infant without a bloody good reason, which is why the youngness is on balance positive in my head now that I've recovered from the initial feeling of being a crone. And he seems to have played vaguely interesting things and not to have a "playing himself" to default to, which is always nice.

I have never been that into Five, but the version of his era that I've reformed in my head around the basic ideas of said era are quite nifty, so maybe it'll be vaguely like that. I hope he's grumpy. And slightly less energetic so I don't feel quite so tired watching it. But mainly I am interested to see what happens, and that's always nice.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

The sense of a new era approaching is definetly exciting, no matter how many emo tears I'll cry when Ten breaks his neck. I'm looking forward to what he'll bring to the role.

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

Lots of neurotic fic writers panicking that they've become creepy cradle-snatchers! That'll be joyous in itself!

I love the way we have about twelve years to go until then. It is quite hilariously long.

[off_coloratura]

I'm assuming they wouldn't cast a mere infant without a bloody good reason

Which may be "will agree to exclusive contract whereby you're stuck in Wales working a grueling schedule for most of the year and doing marketing tie-ins for the rest of it, without demanding a correspondingly huge salary"?

Sorry, was that cynical?

[tencrush]

Out of my thread with your cynicism! I'm totally spreading the love for this foetal weird looking freak. HE'S AWESOME.

[off_coloratura]

I do think he's kind of dishy in a big-chinned way.

And I'm madly curious what his uniform will be. They haven't done Elizabethan yet!... I CALL DOUBLET!

[tencrush]

YES!

[off_coloratura]

I've been looking at more pics of him. Damn he's got a long neck. I didn't think it possible that anyone could have a longer neck than Tennant, but I think we have a winner.

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

indeed. big chin...big blue eyes...pretty little cupid's bow mouth...hrm...i wonder where we've seen that before? :)

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

No cynicisms! Cynicisms bad! Future bright and shiny!