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Ncuti Gatwa is the new Doctor! Love him in Sex Education. Looking forward to this
May 9, 2022 12:26 AM
donpat
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Ncuti Gatwa is the new Doctor! Love him in Sex Education. Looking forward to this
HisBabes
Well this will be interesting. I loved him in sex education. It was a great show.
themobileappisbroken
Goldenteckel
pizzapartyhard
That’s right.
TwoWheelsGoodFourWheelsBad
Yes.
burningeagle
Lastcentura
Thats kinda the point they don't like to cast big name actors as the doctor
Groose
Exactly. It's the best part of it
Katabare
NCUTI GATWA!
ScaredSpitless
This response is hilarious on many levels. +1
ahernandez
What are the other levels?
BatsArentBugs
Eric!!!
LANAAAAAAAAAA
He barely has and movie credits, I can't wait to see how he does. Fingers crossed he better be better than Jodie
modis
Jodie was fine, none of the stories were compelling.
FartmanMD
Agreed. In fact, I would say I really enjoyed her portrayal and loved the supporting cast
somnif
Chibnall is getting the boot, so at the very least the writing should (hopefully) improve. RTD did ok his first time around, so, we'll see!
SnarfyMcSnarferson
Won't undo the damage chinball has done, nor undo the retcon that kicked the 60 year history square in the nuts
gdex86
Who is nothing but plasma welding things on to existing canon and then working in support beams as needed to keep it upright.
FroggleBork
"Doctor! You're.." "Alive? Yes!" "No I mean.." "A man again I know" "I..forget it, you're still wearing a bra you know" "And?"
alpacasaurusrex
Ngl, that would be hilarious. Also, it was so creepy how oversexualized they made him realizing he changed genders.
frood42
Let's GOOOOOOOO
Cat3508
Never heard of him
ScaredSpitless
Cool. Gave a damn impressive performance in Sex Education.
Targe0
Now if only the writing improves enough to make use of it.
higaran101
I hope that he's still in it, but now probably not anymore
CommonGodDamnSense
Look if they get some actually good writers maybe they can recover but damn do they need to retcon a lot of nonsense first.
Lastcentura
Nice I hope the writing isn't shit
ibrokemyselflmao
I know who he is, and like his work, but my gripe is WHY ARE YOU TELLING US INSTEAD OF LETTING US BE SURPRISED DURING REGENERATION?!?!?!!?!?
DisUsernameAmsDildos
We passed that up a long time ago.
dogwithahumanface
I'm guessing to get ahead of the racists.
ibrokemyselflmao
Lol "ahead" of people stuck with misguided past views
dogwithahumanface
It's a common tactic for companies to announce something in advance that may be controversial in order to diffuse its impact. Sad but true.
Targe0
Because we live in a time where they need to build hype. Thus tell us 80% of the surprises long before we get to see them unfold.
thefeckamisigningupwithfacebook
They haven't done that since the 70's. We always know in advance.
Chosan1
for 'The Message'
thesmelge
If they make the announcement, they can do it on their own terms, instead of it leaking at some point.
gdex86
They've announced the new doctor before every previous modern doctor has left. This isn't new.
Asadsadsadclown
They are desperate to get some kind of good news out to stop the death spiral
Maulbert
They actually made a talk show-style special to reveal Peter Capaldi.
Flollop
I feel like they'd have a really hard time keeping it quiet.
ibrokemyselflmao
HOW THOUGH?!?! I don't recall ANY OF US KNOWING who WHO would be for the last 4 Doctors
TotallyNotVillain
Pretty sure they were all also announced (or leaked) ahead of time
themobileappisbroken
Any of us? Who you speaking for? Certainly not me.
Dracology
Maybe my brain is failing me but I feel like the first we found out about Capaldi was a cutaway shot to his eyebrows.
ibrokemyselflmao
Really? Perhaps I missed it? Too be fair, I'm in the US so perhaps there's different material being shared?
mssrdrippy
There was a whole studio based show presented by Zoe Ball with a full audience before Day of the Doctor aired. It was a little much...
MiniBrox
netutoring
I'd have preferred an older actor. The writing and acting will have to be exceptional to sell another young guy in the role.
somnif
It's pronounced "Shooty", if anyone is curious about his first name.
navagon
Oh thank you! I've been wondering about that. Shooty is nice and easy to remember.
ilhares
Well, that should make my fellow Americans love him just fine, then. /s
Aiev
What
broccolismoke
I love him in Sex Education!!
KobaandChurchill4eva
I don't care who plays him, I just hope the atrocious writers have been changed. I'm sure the internet will not overreact on this one.
YouTubeRed
Russell T Davies is back
Poppatohtori
Are they planning on doing some actual writing this season. Couldn't finish last season
qtRaven
Until they fix 'The Timeless Children' I don't care.
JustLetMeChangeMyUsername
Honestly the best thing to do is just do what they did with the 8th doctors movie and just pretend it didn't happen.
Targe0
Yep, they turned a character famous for being a no body at their core to being a chosen one. Such lazy and misguided writing.
Maulbert
Cool, but I'm just excited Chinball is leaving. Yes, I intentionally misspelled his name.
retrostone21
Looks like a doctor, Who is he.
TinyOctopus
Tiny octopus notes that the Doctor still isn't a ginger.
somnif
Watch him dye his hair orange for the role...
adolfnixon
We don't know that yet, haven't seen him actually in the role. Could wear a wig!
frigidmagi2
Was gonna say the same thing! I bow to your superior speed and culture.
gdex86
He's gone platinum blond before. I say it'd be fun for the second black doctor to also be ginger.
Dondarian
This is why TinyOctopus is ranked glorious
NonPoliticalChimpanzee
Ugh! Don't ruin the show with that BS
TinyOctopus
You aren't aware of the running joke? Tiny octopus is a little sad. Get a pair of trainers and go catch it then.
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TheRealGoddamnLochNessMonster
Bruh.
zekkzekk
Hasn't been downvoted enough.
SideEffectsOfJuice
Can't be easy to find a black GINGER for the role
snakeoilsalesman
How hard can it be? https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Ogron
SideEffectsOfJuice
But he's dead :(
vegivamp
The doctor will regenerate.
SideEffectsOfJuice
But a dead man cannot play the Doctor :(
AllysiaAiua
They had one in Falcon and the Winter Soldier
SideEffectsOfJuice
True! A good one at that
schempp37
The doctor has too much soul energy to be a ginger.
ConsumerAffairs
SuavessentSlim
The doctor has killed more people than anyone ever in the whole universe in all of time.
SuavessentSlim
There’s also a movie length special where he talks about this and how soulless he feels as a result. Let him be ginger.
songbirdsweetandsourjane
Now that would be going TOO FAR
Algebraicrhombus
Oh I see, yall looooove RHM but a ginger playing Doctor Who? Ridiculous!
cityedss
The only casting choice I can think of worse than Ed Sheeran as The Doctor is Mick Hudnall (shudder).
GetlnLoserWereGonnaOffendEveryone
Too forward-thinking.
TacoPuncher
Supposedly some other peep was saying there's some lore reason they'll never be ginger, can't confirm since I stopped in Matt Smith's run
GingeraffeTW
Everybody with integrity stopped in Matt Smith's run.
Cheomesh
I stopped with Colin Baker.
Doonesman
https://youtu.be/2LkZ6nKbqC0
ilhares
I didn't, but to this day he's still my most hated incarnation of the Doctor. Grade-A super asshole.
Cheomesh
The absolute goddamn worst.
TacoPuncher
It was bad, never checked out Capaldi's or Whittaker's run as a result of the writing already being rough that I couldn't finish Smith's
CrunchyLookingLeaf
The writing was amazing. The show running was the issue. All episodes are so dependant on each other you can't just watch 'an episode'.
battery1979
Capaldi had some pretty good stories.
WhereIsMyAppleQuava
Capaldi had some great episodes but the writing never matched his skill. There was one episode where it was just him and it was great.
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
The one where he did the same thing over and over just to punch that thing so he could get to the TARDIS?
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
Can’t remember the end of smith, watched all of capaldi,can’t remember it at all, watched one of Whittaker, was very aware she was *acting*.
atomright2718
It was so bad I had to use a ball peen hammer to blow the memories of that entire show from my thinking meat. What's Doctor Who?
Dimind
Tennent was the best Dr. but Smith had the best scene. I look forward to seeing how this guy does.
qtRaven
Which scene?
pistachio0506
All of them!
Dimind
https://youtu.be/ubTJI_UphPk
qtRaven
I couldn't really get into that episode.
DIDJAPUTYERNAMEINTHEGOBLETUVFIRE
PICKING A BEST SCENE?!?! Those be fighting words, it's going down, it's...? Oh right, that scene, fair enough.
Dimind
Best scene in Dr Who. The entire series. Fight me. :P
joshcrimson
Who?
gnomedeplume
you can Google things you've never heard of y'know
Lurkernomore86
Typing it into Google is just as much work as typing it here
ConsumerOfStories
Yes, exactly
nothingelsetodo
First base!
uplookdont
who's on second?
generictiff
What?
PutItInNeutral
BANNED IN FLORIDA!
Katabare
NCUTI GATWA!
ImAFoxButNotReally
Addrammelech
Tao, yeah
Flollop
The Doctor
vonkeswick
What doctor?
Lurkernomore86
Disrespect?
squishybaker
He played Eric in Sex Education.
GRZMNKY
That's Dr. Who to you...
SElfishDouche
Trumboner.
WhiteyHead
The Doctor
Asadsadsadclown
You may know him by he other name “Not Richard Ayoade”
marsilies
To be fair, that was a lot of people's reactions to Matt Smith's announcement. And David Tennant's.
PartTimeHobbit
The only one I’d seen in anything before their role as The Doctor was Jodie. So if they think this kid is good, I’m all for it.
blainetog
He's fantastic in Sex Education on Netflix. I highly recommend it... though maybe don't watch it with your folks.
Dergen89
This! The Doctor has been a jumping board got many careers.
ChaoticSquid
I've not seen him in anything other than sex education, but he was brilliant in that.
BatsArentBugs
He was the best part!
Margleblargle
I'm stoked for this
mackemforever
He hasn't really been in much other than that.
MutantPoptart
English though, right? Dr Who needs to keep the accent lol
Scorpius94
Bad news. He's Rwandan-Scottish
MutantPoptart
Scotland is UK, so keeps to the whole old scool police call box.
dandanthedrywallman
David Tennant is also Scottish. As is Peter Capaldi. That didn’t seem to bother anybody.
MutantPoptart
Once again, for like the 5th time. Okay, I meant UK... not just London, England. And I meant accent as I said. Not skin color. Snowflakes..
LusciousLucius
What? How is that bad news? He's an actor. They can do accents. Unless they've announced that he'll use his natural Scottish one?
Scorpius94
It's great news, but the comment I replied to looked like it was trying to say the Doctor should be English, aka White. I could be wrong tho
DigiT00l
Like Sylvester McCoy and Peter Capaldi?
MutantPoptart
Dunno, I think given the down votes people think I meant it as racist, meant it as lore friendly. Dr Who always preferred that accent
frood42
Ncuti Gatwa
jimfalconer611
gesundheit
Stressedvarmint
What's the doctor they're speaking of
TeddyMoment
He's the Dr Who...
Ajdamus
A who?
noneforgretchenwieners
Who though
BabyFaceMaroni
Exactly.
mithiwithi
No, just the Doctor.
ChaoticSquid
He's a great actor but this is super out of left field. Didn't expect this at all. Interested to see how it plays out.
SquireRamza
Apparently Capaldi injured himself on set and Whittaker had a lot of obligations that fussed with things. I can see why they want someone
SquireRamza
Young and relatively unknown
alpacasaurusrex
It is. Considering how all bets were hinged on nothing but women playing him from now on.
eadanke
I figured they'd go back to the "charming space boyfriend who takes a viewer stand in to explore time and space" recipe as soon as possible.
alpacasaurusrex
Tbh? I’m fine with that. I’d be fine with it with a woman or a gay doctor. It’s VERY obvious the Doctor is pansexual. I just don’t need him
alpacasaurusrex
porking anyone. 9-10/Rose was all the love story I needed. I prefer the unrequited love that turns into a deep non romantic love.
keenidiot
Bill and 13 worked great.
SteveMND
The bigger question is who is going to be doing the writing? I was perfectly happy with a female Doctor, but the writing of her episodes >
AnathemaNoreh
I felt like they tried to let her gender do too much of the work. I don't care about the Doctors gender or skin color, but I will be sad if/
AnathemaNoreh
this is the reason they stop the relationship with Yasmin from developing.
AnathemaNoreh
Although I don't see a wife for the doctor other than River actually working out so maybe it's fir the best
TheDreadPirateBoberts
WE GOT THE MOTHERFUCKIN RTD BACK LADIES AND GENTS
alpacasaurusrex
Russel T Davies. So hopefully they retcon 90% of the shit from Jodie’s seasons. And just bring back 12 long enough to say Jodie/That other
JEFFREYKRYPTO
Nope just gonna continue down the road of nobody watches anymore so destroy everything
alpacasaurusrex
rando never happened cause G-d all of her run was trash. I especially want all of Chris’ retconned cause he was whinging about how someone
alpacasaurusrex
was going to retcon his run.
Salpinus
You mean Eccleston? Dude was great, but he got hazed out. I'm torn between him and Tennant as the best doctor
alpacasaurusrex
See, 10 & 4 for me for top. 2/9 for 2nd. 3/1/11 for 3rd. I watched the OGs too.
Macadaynu
Russell T Davies (who wrote for Ecclestone and Tenant) is coming back as show-runner.
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KingMagenta
Sorry didn’t mean to upset anyone.
downrightmike
Thank god
Ohdearaudrey
This was my golden age for this series.
ThisGuyPostingThings
That still leaves the key questions of who will make up his writing staff, how involved he'll be in each episode, and the tone they'll seek.
thefeckamisigningupwithfacebook
Probably as always a mixture of writers. Some proven, some new, with occasional Neil Gaiman episodes if they can do it. :)
HuevosDiablo
(please be true)
dragonflyy69
It is.
WhereIsMyAppleQuava
YAS!
Mavgurian
Oh now I shudder in antici
Karukos
PRAISE THE FUCKING LORD! Ecclestone Doctor was my favorite
Wampa842
FanTASTIC!
HisBabes
Fucking fantastic! The recent writing has been so awful I stopped watching.
Woestkonijn
Thank fuck for that.
Lastcentura
Oh yay
NotACanadian
Oh shit man
Elerich
rip good seasons though. Doctor Who needs a good writer / showrunner
WeatherWiz
You’re saying he’s not? Chibnall was horrible as showrunner. Davies literally brought doctor who from the dead in 2005
somnif
As much as I love Ecclestein/Tennant though, RTD had some ROUGH bits back then as well. Fart jokes, reality TV, 'Love and Monsters', etc.
litelbrown
At least those were purposely stupid and not just stupid
somnif
But it's been 12 years since then, so, who knows, maybe he's matured a bit as a writer. We shall see!
JohnMike64
I mean that was common at the time DW is aimed at kids and young teens. Adults are a bonus
zeiji
moffat is a good writter, horrible fucking show runner.
modis
Soon as I saw “Written by Moffat” on the intro I knew I had to strap on my emotional seatbelt.
tinctures
Full agreement. He needs someone to manage him or he'll just make meandering overarching plots of "that seems neato".
SteveMND
< was so awful (IMHO), it turned me right off the show.
Boddokki
1000000% this!!! They could have been do good but the writing was AWFUL...
HagridGrangerWeasley
Truth!!
chelsiedagger
Amen the writing was trash, I was so disappointed
Bubbells
Agreed put the series down harder than a drunk walrus on Tuesday because of the writing
ITellBadPuns
Same. I didn't get far into it. It was written like a parody of a show written by someone who'd never seen a single episode.
tygerpsimatrix
Like the (NOT) Amazon episode where they end up planning on more human workers... Terrorism works was the lesson I got from that.
Largerabbit
Also watching the doctor fangirling over a corporation that hurt and exploited people was jarring as fuck
ITellBadPuns
At the end of the day, the writers clearly didn't "get" the character of The Doctor.
Northstar219
Did they switch up writers during at all? I thought they had done that with past doctors where people would write one or two episodes
AbelardSnazz
Chibnall wrote throughout, but the best episodes in Whittaker's run were all co-written with someone else
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
I gave up around Moffatt came in. Smith's first episode told me everything I had to know, he scared off the monster by showing them repeats>
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
of Dr Who! I mean.. Truth be told though, it took me 2.5 seasons to warm to Tennant, I loved Ecclestone so much. And I watched sporadically.
NothingPrince
She did very well with shit writers.
Canadoug
This exactly. I thought she did a good job conveying the doctor's quirkyness but the writing was so shit.
PhailRaptor
Unpopular opinion -- The Master is the Child of Time, not The Doctor. This can be demonstrated with episodes as evidence.
alpacasaurusrex
I mean, they’ve pretty much said that when good writers were still on in RTD and Moffat.
PhailRaptor
Yeah but the bad writers straight up contradicted that, with multiple characters in agreement
ChaoticSquid
I haven't watched much of the new ones but from the few I saw the cinematography was wacky. Lots of close-ups. Felt claustrophobic.
ItsTwoRaccooooons
Well with Davies back and Bad Wolf producing I think we're in for a treat
alpacasaurusrex
I hope he retcons almost all of Chris’. I watched like an 8 hour video from someone about everything wrong(and some good) with Chris.
alpacasaurusrex
Tbh, she was the worst of them all. Including everyone after the 5th doctor. I wish they had cast Liz 10. River already stated that you can
alpacasaurusrex
Focus hard enough to look how you want when you regen - so he could have just been thinking of Liz 10 as a memory & bam he regenerated as
alpacasaurusrex
Liz 10. She’s a better actress. But tbh, chris’ writing is such shit that even Oscar award winning actors couldn’t have saved that shit.
jimfalconer611
donpat
That's Ncuti Gatwa.. the actor who's playing the new Doctor
Choe8
E.R is coming back?
donpat
E.R. ?
LAMovieDesign
On what show? Sorry, I have no idea what this is in reference to.
Strazyplus
Does not matter who plays The doctor, if the writers suck it will suffer and fail. An actor can only carry a show by themselves so much.
Maulbert
Capaldi pretty much held up the show through some crappy writing.
somnif
RTD is back in the showrunner's seat, so there's at least some hope on that front.
ThaWhiteRanger
You're god-damned right. And we'll get some good companion arcs to go with it. Gillian Anderson for The Master? Anyone?
somnif
I say throw a curve ball: Jodie Whitaker for the master. Just let her run with it.
ThaWhiteRanger
That could be cool. The 10th doctor regenerated into himself (not Matt) so anything is possible.
netutoring
I didn't rate him very highly. I felt his stories emphasized fairy tale logic and soap opera emotional drama over the sci-fi horror I...
netutoring
....enjoyed in Pertwee/Tom Baker years.
somnif
He was rather hit-or-miss for me. But at least he never completely crawled up his own ass like Moffat, or huffed as much glue as Chibnall.
somnif
(well, other than the 20 minute mope-fest that was Tennant's send-off. That was a wee bit... much)
Targe0
Depend if there will be enough budget and if there's no studio interference. Both of those can prevent a good writer being good.
nabagaca
It's being produced by Davies own production company that is a subsidiary of Sony so hopefully both of those are solved
Targe0
Hopefully Dr.Who has always been short changed on it's budget compared to how much it earns.
TheSaltyCaptain
Can they repair the botched origin story though?
alpacasaurusrex
All it takes is a retcon. Bring back Peter for 10m, completely redo the regen & say Jodie was a fevered dream after he ate a funny whelk.
DigiT00l
I mean, the Child of Time story may not have been great, it does have a useful function, it prevents soke of the drama Smith had at his end
DigiT00l
With the running out of extra lives
WhereIsMyAppleQuava
I skipped Jodie's season, someone explain, plz?
MelodyLightfoot
Doctor was a girl all along and time lords are all based on her DNA now...
MelodyLightfoot
Because Chibnall could not shit himself out of a paper bag.
CaveHunter3000
WhereIsMyAppleQuava
Understood. I will stick with Tennant.
PhailRaptor
The Master is the Child of Time, not The Doctor. Prove me wrong.
Targe0
No that would ruin the Master, it's some as of yet unknown Time Lord who will never be used again and quickly forgotten.
alpacasaurusrex
Tbh, not really. They’ve been vaguely hinting at it since John Simm.
ilhares
Oh, like Romana?
alpacasaurusrex
They literally set up the Doctor’s Daughter. Idk why they had to make him female. They could have had two huge shows.
ilhares
She's too busy being Tennant's wife and mother to his children to engage in a regular live-action show, but I agree, Georga is cute as hell.
Targe0
I mean they seem to have no issue with making brand new Time Lords so they could pick anyone functionally.
themobileappisbroken
I always look forward to seeing how new doctor's play out. Not too sure how I feel about Russel t Davies coming back though.
Icecreaman
Dr who was trash after Capaldi, I look forward to anything that might make it good again.
ITellBadPuns
Considering what we got after he left, I'm welcoming him back with open arms
corpofilth
Better than Chibnall
alpacasaurusrex
I’d rather be waterboarded with corpse water than watch anything Chibnall did. I watched 2 videos that encapsulated what made her run such
alpacasaurusrex
shit. One was 1hr23m and the other was 5hr14m. The videos are better done than the entire Jodie run.
Targe0
Which is sad because I really liked Jodies version of the Doctor but the story lines she got were terrible, characters were ok, not the plot
alpacasaurusrex
Tbh, I don’t like her and haven’t since Broadchurch, so I was sort of biased. And then I saw her and was like “this could be used as torture
TacoPuncher
I might start watching again, I stopped cause Moffat can't write his way out of a bag. Never finished Matt Smith's run, cause of it
Targe0
Moffat just sucks at ending. He can set up a interesting story but never knows how to finish them.
Lastcentura
You think Moffat is bad wait till you watch Chibnalls trash
TacoPuncher
If it got worse than Moffat I just feel bad for whomever Doctor's run that was
Lastcentura
That was Jodie sadly
TacoPuncher
Allobarrister
The show did decline after he left. Moffatt was too family friendly and it got fo a Pont where there stopped being danger in his stories.
Targe0
He literally made his fan-fictions cannon. People have found Moffatt's old story's online and quite a lot of it made it into the show.
alpacasaurusrex
Some of Moffatt’s were the most popular ever. Hell, 1/2 my favorite episodes were his. And he was a writer during RTD & those were some I
alpacasaurusrex
loved too. I loved the Beast Below, Vincent, Girl in the Fireplace, and countless others. To be honest Russell to Davies and Steven Moffat
alpacasaurusrex
Make one hell of a writing team. Most of the best stories were written by Moffat or Davies with one or the other as co-writer.
transientmind
Mostly I’ll never forgive Moffat for ruining the weeping angels. Leave some mystery, guy.
transientmind
Moffat was clearly too proud of how clever he was. The spaceman/death of the doctor stuff was laboured to fuck.
Targe0
Moffatt's biggest issue is he sucks at endings. He is great at set ups but almost always fumbles the end.
alpacasaurusrex
I agree, sometimes. The 3 I mentioned were fantastic one-offs. I prefer maybe one 2 parter a season. He just needs someone to reign him in.
SquireRamza
Moffat is good when you limit him to a single story with 42 minutes to tell it in. His multi-season long mysteries were the worst
Targe0
Even for his stand alone's his endings are not his strong suit and it's often where the quality drops the most.
alpacasaurusrex
Moffat was best when someone reigned him in. I really got sick of the multiple 2 parters. I don’t mind if there’s a season arc with tiny