Rumor: Matt Smith Quitting Doctor Who After Second Season

[Amphoteric]

I always found this part very strange

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Isn't there a MASSIVE PLOT HOLE in the last episode, how did he get out of pandorica's box the very first time and why isn't there a dead lock seal on it so the sonic dosn't work. Itn't the pandorica supposed to be the ultimate prison with loads of security devices on it.

They handwaved that by saying

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"It's not hard to break INTO a prison, that's not what prisons are built to prevent."

So what they have essentially made is a safe with a combination of 0000.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Matt Smith is excellent as the Doctor, whereas David Tennant's constant shouting and running around got really fucking old, really fucking quickly.

Not quickly for me. But he did start to wear away at me near the end. I think he should have ended his run at the end of series 3, he really did become a parody of himself with the sparse episodes.

I actually felt that Tennant's Doctor had at least two to three more seasons left in him, and actually cried when he regenerated.
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Matt Smith is okay, the problem is he is following in Tennant's giant shadow of awesome. On a large note, I was really liking this last season. I was really interested in the whole crack in time thing, but the two part season finale killed the greatness of the story arch.

My analogy for this season is that for episodes 1 through 11 I was watching the awesome train chug along fast down the track, then on episode 12 the train teetered and wobbled, and finally on finale episode 13, the awesome train became a train of fail and epically crashed and burned.

The finale almost killed my love for the show, for about a two weeks I had decided I wasn't going to watch the season to come. What brought me back is the hope that Smith's Doctor would regenerate soon, and a much older but Tennant-like Doctor would be cast. I seriously hope Smith's Doctor regenerates at the end of his second season.

 

[PoliceBox63]

Uuuh??

The Sun reports...

Uhhh...zzzz

Exactly. The OP isn't British though so we have to let him off this time.

 

[DaleksvsCybermen]

Warning: Nerdy Rant


Here's my problem with this: From watching the earlier seasons (first series, before doctor 9) there's a significant amount of time the doctor spends in each body. For 400 years he was doctor 1, and doctor 4 lasted for 7 seasons. They established early on that a timelord can only regenerate 12 times (making 13 doctors total) but knowing the popularity of this series, they'll find a way around that.

The issue I have here is that we aren't spending enough time with these new doctors. The original series had story arcs that lasted 5 to 6 episodes each, and each doctor had several seasons of this, doctor 4 had probably 40 story arcs to his name. While David Tennant was in about 40 episodes as doctor 10, each episode was only about 45 minutes as opposed to 100. We're spending less time with each of the new doctors. Eccelston was only on for one season (12 episodes) Tennant ran with it for 3 seasons and 4 specials, which was a significant amount of time, but would be on par with that of one of the first three doctors, not doctor 4. And now Smith might only do it for 2 seasons? We're running out of doctors here.

At this rate, in about 5 years, Doctor 13 will die, forcing the writers to come up with some random loophole to keep him alive, or start a new chain of doctors, and they'll run through those even faster. Doctor Who is a fun and amazing series, and each actor seems to want to leave the role as soon as possible! It's not cool, man.

For the whole loop hole thingamajig Gallifrey or the eye of harmony or something wil come back to give the doctor more regenerations eg. in the 5 doctors the master is offered a new set of regenerations

 

[Levitas1234]

uhg matt smith is a terrible actor, but it doesn't even matter because the writting for the new seasons are so damn awful.

 

[Count Igor]

Meh. Fine by me.
He's an ok Doctor, but I just don't find him brilliant, like Tennant.

So, if there's a new one, cool!

But, one thing, wasn't there always at least one change with every season? Like Companions and such. I might be wrong, but it's in my mind.

 

[everlost516]

God, I hope this is true. Smith is AWFUL. Besides the fact that everytime I see him I think "poor man's David Tennant," his Doctor is an arrogant prig seemingly without memory or empathy. Add that to the writing and direction that beats you over the head with every plot point and the fact that I found Pond to be such a manipulative shrew that she could challenge Bella Swan to a harpy-off, and I would rather jab out my eyes with spoons than watch it!

So... um... yeah. Really not fond of the new episodes. Couldn't even make it through the last series.