You're the next Doctor.

[Togs]

Agreed.

My doctor would be something I wouldn't have to struggle to play, flippant, cynical, but loves a laugh. And I'd cure something that's bugged me for a while. Yeah, the Doctor's slightly pacifist, but he never gets his hands dirty anymore. I mean the Sixth Doctor knew martial arts. Or the Third. My memory's off here. And at least Eccleston would have gone to violence when it suited his character. "Oh, aren't you fun?" "Let me out of these manacles, I'll show you how much fun I am." *Stern Face* and when him, Jack and that ginger girl were arrested, he beat up one of the guards in their escape.

As I see it the dudes just come from the Time War and committing genocide against his own race- he's almost definately gonna be suffering from PTSD- his capacity for pant wetting violence is still there but he's mildly repulsed by the fact that he could and did do what he just did- think of a rabid bear in self inflicted restraints.

But then my interpretation of the Doctor has always been a little on the dark side, so I may be far wrong.

 

[Spineyguy]

I'm quite well-spoken, I generally dodge and whiz about doing eccentric things, and I am a colossal nerd, so I don't think I'd be too bad. I'd want to bring something original to the role, so maybe my Doctor would be a raging homosexual (Actually no, that would make it Torchwood. *shudder*) or maybe I'd be really obsessive, I could probably pull that off.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Doctor who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty, maybe a bit like Sherlock Holmes 'a la Robert Downy Jr'.
"I will quickly dismantle you in a fight, and I will waffle incessantly as I do it."

That said, the Doctor probably won't work in my scale, I'm only 5'8".

So yeah, manic midget Doctor.

Costume wise, I'm too short to pull of a long coat, so maybe something more along the lines of a classic military-style uniform, with big heavy boots and a hooded cloak for the winter.

 

[Lerasai]

I would be the absolute worst Doctor ever. Visually it'd be like they got rid of Matt Smith and replaced him with Amy Pond, except less hot and more American. From a writing perspective it'd be like they got rid of Matt Smith and replaced him with a door mat.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I'd be quite bonkers, and much like Matt Smith. Talking at a fast pace, always moving around, and always excited and in need of adventures.

 

[The Funslinger]

Agreed.

My doctor would be something I wouldn't have to struggle to play, flippant, cynical, but loves a laugh. And I'd cure something that's bugged me for a while. Yeah, the Doctor's slightly pacifist, but he never gets his hands dirty anymore. I mean the Sixth Doctor knew martial arts. Or the Third. My memory's off here. And at least Eccleston would have gone to violence when it suited his character. "Oh, aren't you fun?" "Let me out of these manacles, I'll show you how much fun I am." *Stern Face* and when him, Jack and that ginger girl were arrested, he beat up one of the guards in their escape.

As I see it the dudes just come from the Time War and committing genocide against his own race- he's almost definately gonna be suffering from PTSD- his capacity for pant wetting violence is still there but he's mildly repulsed by the fact that he could and did do what he just did- think of a rabid bear in self inflicted restraints.

But then my interpretation of the Doctor has always been a little on the dark side, so I may be far wrong.

Well that's just it, though. Although he weighed his choices, the ninth Doctor still did use violence when it was necessary. That said, I was very impressed with the Tenth Doctor's resolution of the Family of Blood. Very much a good example of his dark side. And really think on it, and you see there'd have been a lot of violence to freeze that guy in time, and wrap that guy in chains and kick him into a dying star (not sure how the second one constitutes being immortal, but still)

 

[TheSchizoid]

I'm thinking something like the good twin of Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Scary, unpredictable, potentially psychotic, but at the same time really interesting.

I thought that WAS the concept of the Doctor.

 

[Bebus]

I would marry Rory.

I am a man.

Oh, and I would forbid the reversing of the polarity of the neutron flow as a means of solving the problem.

 

[Lerasai]

I would marry Rory.

I am a man.

That is completely understandable. Rory is an amazing husband.

 

[Amgeo]

I'm thinking something like the good twin of Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Scary, unpredictable, potentially psychotic, but at the same time really interesting.

I thought that WAS the concept of the Doctor.

Yes, in many ways it is, but I feel that the Doctor has been subjected to too much character analysis. In some ways I feel that he's like the character of 'Dream' from Neil Gaiman's Sandman, (at least in some of it- I haven't finished it yet), in that he is almost entirely unlike us in every respect. I would play up the "unknowable"aspect, keeping the cleverness and silliness but emphasizing the fact that he is alien.

 

[Virgilthepagan]

As weird as this sounds, I think my Doctor would be more withdrawn and a bit haunted. Closer to Eccleston, but not quite so angry, more just sad. I mean, this is a man who is personally responsible for murdering his own race, and is now something of the boogey man to many galactic civilizations, it's enough to make anyone a little sad.

When it comes to making the tough calls though, he'd still be the Doctor and therefore infitely capable. I just feel like it's time for one of the companions to be the more extroverted and very quirky driving force, with the Doctor thinking and acting with less discussion and word vomit.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Damn that's a good question...

I'm gonna have to give that a LOT of thought.

 

[Glowbug]

A nice Davidson-ey Sylvester McCoy. Friendly and outgoing, but has everything under his iron fisted control.