New Doctor Who Again

A major spoiler here for the end of Season 1. However, if you care enough about the show to be bothered by my spoiling you, then you probably already heard the news months ago. And in this way, we take our chances...



Eccleston was good but he's gone. Apparently he didn't have fun shooting on a Welsh industrial estate for eight months straight so he didn't sign for a second year. Though having been fifteen months in the sticks now myself, I only dream that I could have spent that time being Doctor Who. Rumour has it that the B.B.C. has the new guy, young David Tennant, on a one-year contract too. Have they even read the script? He's got three lives left then it's game over.

Tennant's had his initial photo session and he looks fab; an altogether more refined kind of English gentleman. I approve! (Let's hope some of it rubs off on Rose.) If his few onscreen words so far are any kind of yardstick, he's gonna be a lot less manic than his predecessor. Kudos to the costume people also, for helping us forget about the 1980s. We're back to stylish yet unassuming, but not so plain that I wouldn't wear it. (That's a nice suit, I'm telling you.) Being able to easily blend into a variety of situations was sort of the whole point of the show, so thanks for bringing that back.

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