SHE'LL DO! :D

[elisi]

Watch on YouTube

(Seriously, just WRITING 'she'... Eeee. *flails*)

ETA: I love the aesthetic of these mini videos. The nature intertwined with the magical/otherwordly. It sits right, and also has a very different textural feel to Moffat. (Which is good. Nothing will ever be Moffat Who, so I want a complete change.)

Also Thirteen's personal aesthetic is very much to my liking. <3

ETA2: I THINK THEY CHOSE WELL:

"It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope. I can’t wait.”

— Doctor Who Magazine (@DWMtweets) July 16, 2017

Comments

[unfeathered]

I've never seen her in anything but the general consensus seems to be that she'll be good, so I look forward to learning more about her!

I'm certainly looking forward to how this will change the dynamic in the TARDIS - whoever we get as her companion(s) it will certainly be something new to explore. :-)

[elisi]

Yeah, I've never seen her in anything either. But I'm presuming she'll be brilliant, they wouldn't have asked her otherwise.

And yeah, a nice young male companion? ALL CHANGE! :D

[unfeathered]

Heh, absolutely. To be fair, I'd never heard of most of the other Doctors before either (excepting only Peter Davison and Christopher Eccleston, and Capaldi I'd only seen in DW/TW) and they all turned out great!

And oh gosh yes, a male companion who's actually as cool as all the young ladies have been, instead of annoyingly limp like Mickey and Rory (though they were great by the end)? That'd be fantastic!

[kerkevik_2014]

Rory was not limp! He was the only thing that kept me watching until halfway through season six of that era. Only male companion in my top ten of all-time (when I include those of the old show and the modern incarnation.

[unfeathered]

Oh no, not for long, I agree and I absolutely loved him by the end, but he always seemed to be presented as weak and sheeplike in comparison to Amy, just as Mickey was to Rose, and I hated that.

[elisi]

I'd seen Tennant in Casanova, and knew Peter Capaldi not just from the Thick of It, but also from Torchwood: Children of Earth, in which he was just phenomenal.

And I too shall say that Rory was far from limp! He's pretty much the only person who wasn't awed by the TARDIS. And that was on his first adventure! (Mickey was badly served by the narrative.)

[unfeathered]

Yeah, Capaldi was great in CoE. He is an amazing actor and I shall certainly be following him in whatever he does next!

Fair enough re. Rory. I do believe he was pretty cool underneath it all, it was just the way the scripts always seemed to be trying to make him seem all weedy, like just because he couldn't fight a vampire on his first outing or whatever.

[elisi]

Yeah, Capaldi was great in CoE. He is an amazing actor and I shall certainly be following him in whatever he does next!
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And Rory - I liked that he wasn't a great fighter (nevermind becoming a Roman Soldier etc). He was a nurse, and there should be good and important parts for boys that aren't centered on being macho.

[unfeathered]

There should, I totally agree. I just... I don't know, I felt like he was *supposed* not to be cool or something, even though he totally was, if that makes any sense?

[elisi]

I think he was just normal, rather than hyper-competent.

[kerkevik_2014]

I'd like to see a gender-non specific character, played by a woman myself (wishing Bill Potts was staying as I think it).

[elisi]

For the Companion? I think we'll do well if we get a nice simple straight boy...

(Mind you, as one of the posts I linked to previously, a male companion is going to be a FANTASTIC role model to young boys. Has to be secure enough in himself to let a woman be smarter, better and wiser, and in charge.)

[spikewriter]

She was charming in Return to Cranford</>, though I wouldn't necessarily take that performance as a measure of how she's going to do as the Doctor. For one thing, she was playing a rather Put Upon Victoria Maiden. Another, that was filmed 8 years ago, so there's a bit of water under the bridge since then.

[unfeathered]

Heh, this'll be a bit different then!

[ruuger]

I highly recommend watching Attack the Block, which is a very Doctor Whoish scifi movie about a council estate in London that gets invaded by aliens.

(as a bonus, it also stars John Boyega)

And I agree that the most interesting thing about this is how the dynamics will change.

[elisi]

I've seen Attack the Block! It's a while ago though, so can't remember her. I was more thinking of Broadchurch, which I guess I also ought to watch now.