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Peter Capaldi to leave Doctor Who after series 10

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That's too bad, I was hoping he would stay on another year. Oh well, change is a part of this show and I have no doubt he would do a future multi-Doctor special if asked and if he was still able to.
 
I want the next Doctor to be River Song or :

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I gave up on this series because Moffat clearly stopped giving a fuck.

Can someone provide a list of the best Capaldi episodes? Only good stuff please.
 
expected but unfortunate. Great actor and I'd love to see him stay on longer, though the last few season have been rather meh overall.

I'll be ok with a female doctor if it means we get hot young male companions
 
Cerium said:
I gave up on this series because Moffat clearly stopped giving a fuck.

Can someone provide a list of the best Capaldi episodes? Only good stuff please.
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Moffat leaving gave me hope. I figured if he was going Capaldi would follow shortly ever. The show needs to change up a bit.
 
I wish he would stay with a more consistent showrunner than Moffat, but there is no telling he would be better with Chibnall so good night, Twelve, thank you for the memories and please let Thirteen be new, fresh and awesome.
 
iFirez said:
I hope we get a return to form on regeneration scene, something less sentimental but equally as epic... also not the quick snap regen that 11 had.

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I've loved Capaldi as the Doctor, but I've hated most of the stories he's been given due to the writing. From what I can gather the overall viewership and interest in Doctor Who must be down; a few years ago everyone I knew watched it now I'm the only one. I'd like the next Doctor to be around David Tennant's age when he started, not as young as Matt or old as Peter. I'd also like to see this new companion for series 10 be a one off as well. I want Christmas to be a celebration as well as a fairwell and give us a glimpse at this new Doctor.
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Tennant regenerated so viciously he almost destroyed the TARDIS that it had to spend days repairing itself.

Smith practically sneezed into Capaldi.
 
Fantastic actor, superb Doctor but boy was he let down by a lot of shitty scripts.

I sort of feel bad for him, this was a dream role for him but can't help think it didn't end up staying that way for him.
 
The Real Abed said:
Tennant regenerated so viciously he almost destroyed the TARDIS that it had to spend days repairing itself.

Smith practically sneezed into Capaldi.
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I thought the idea was the Doctors kept regenerating more violently as they got closer to the last one. Or because of the radiation.
 
The Real Abed said:
Tennant regenerated so viciously he almost destroyed the TARDIS that it had to spend days repairing itself.

Smith practically sneezed into Capaldi.
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You mean after 11 had used his regeneration to wipe out a Dalek army and their ship? If anything, 11's regeneration into 12 was even more grandiose and indulgent when compared to 10's final goodbye travels, and not less. That sneeze was just a Monty Python-esque way to, "get on with it," after 11's superheroics and drawn-out goodbye.
 
Shame, but I think it's for the best. It was not his fault, but series 9 was really a slump. I liked series 8, but it lacked energy. Series 9 was even worse in this regard. Though it does contain one of the greatest pieces of television ever made in Heaven Sent, so that's something.
 
Olivia Colman. She's already guested on a Doctor Who episode, so you know she'd be interested in the series. She has taken long-term series roles on TV so she obviously is OK in terms of commitment. She's a great actress. She does both comedy and drama pretty effectively. She's younger than Capaldi and Tennant but older than Smith. She's a superstar in the UK and a known character actress but not a star in the US, which seems like a good profile.

And honestly it's time to blow the show up. Capaldi was an excellent casting choice squandered on boring, same-ol' material.
 
Stumpokapow said:
Olivia Colman. She's already guested on a Doctor Who episode, so you know she'd be interested in the series. She has taken long-term series roles on TV so she obviously is OK in terms of commitment. She's a great actress. She does both comedy and drama pretty effectively. She's younger than Capaldi and Tennant but older than Smith. She's a superstar in the UK and a known character actress but not a star in the US, which seems like a good profile.
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All this plus: She's worked with Chris Chibnall, and worked well with him. Basically the reason I thought she'd be the pick once he was announced as new showrunner.

There is going to be a push for Eddie Redmayne, though. Especially since his Newt Scamander is basically The Doctor, and the actor the producers apparently initially tried to land was Matt Smith.
 
Stumpokapow said:
Olivia Colman. She's already guested on a Doctor Who episode, so you know she'd be interested in the series. She has taken long-term series roles on TV so she obviously is OK in terms of commitment. She's a great actress. She does both comedy and drama pretty effectively. She's younger than Capaldi and Tennant but older than Smith. She's a superstar in the UK and a known character actress but not a star in the US, which seems like a good profile.

And honestly it's time to blow the show up. Capaldi was an excellent casting choice squandered on boring, same-ol' material.
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She has been on Doctor Who once before-but with the whole Capaldi face thing that's not an issue anymore.
 
Capaldi has been fantastic, and it really sucks that his tenure is over. He's had two solid seasons, and I'm hoping series 10 gives him a solid exit.

That said, a new Doctor is always exciting. Add to that a new showrunner as well, it's almost like a brand new show is premiering next year.

Dan27 said:
New series of The Thick Of It, please.

We need it badly.
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Yes please.
 
The Real Abed said:
Tennant regenerated so viciously he almost destroyed the TARDIS that it had to spend days repairing itself.

Smith practically sneezed into Capaldi.
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Did you actually watch the episode or just watch those gifs? Because Smith destroys a Dalek ship with his regeneration energy.
 
I just posted this in the main DW-thread, but maybe this'll get some people wondering here too, as I'm pretty worried about the scheduling going on here. Here's what I said:

And I just finished rewatching the Capaldi era today. Sad but not entirely unexpected.

I love season 5 but I'm still saying 8 and 9 are probably the best the modern show has ever been. I know it's not to everyone's tastes but I love those two seasons. Some amazing stuff in there for me.

I'm wondering though: given that Capaldi announced this just now (he said he was hoping to play the role for a long time yet just a few weeks ago), and that he said that they asked him to stay longer but he decided to move on himself in that radio interview, I wonder what that means for the next Doctor. They're already deep into filming the upcoming season, it's not that long until it's actually going to start airing, and it sounds like a really recent decision. They'll need to do some very quick casting if a new Doctor is supposed to show up at the end of this season (not to mention the extra workload of a new head writer taking over anyway). That's a bit worrying.

I wonder if Capaldi (and Moffat?) is staying for the Christmas special, just to give the production team a bit of breathing room. And I also wouldn't be surprised if we're going to end up with another Who-less gap of a couple of months before season 11 can start.

Maybe they'll pull a Troughton and end the season with Capaldi regenerating without actually showing who he turns into.

Probably not, of course, but I am worried about how all of this is supposed to work with such a short schedule. And I already had my doubts about a Chibnall version of Who - although I'll give him a chance of course.

I'm willing to bet a decent amount of money that it's going to be an attractive young guy again though. I can't see Chibnall taking the (possibly non-existent) risk of casting a woman, and I think it's obvious the BBC sees more value in a Tennant or Smith-type compared to an older actor (the fools). If Chibnall's previous work on television shows anything, it's that he's not exactly a risk-taker. Hopefully he won't be white again though. That's something the world apparently needs these days, with what's happening in the US and across Europe right now. Show those racists who's boss.
 
Boem said:
I love season 5 but I'm still saying 8 and 9 are probably the best the modern show has ever been. I know it's not to everyone's tastes but I love those two seasons. Some amazing stuff in there for me.
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I think 9 is tied with 5 as the best for me.

It really confuses me how much a lot of people favour Season 1-4 over the Moffat series, most of the writing was mediocre or awful. The only really good episodes were written by Steven Moffat. Peter Capaldi hasn't had the best stories for his Doctor but most of David Tennant's were meh.
 
I feel like Chibnall's absolutely going to pick a woman.

I know BBC wants a younger Doctor, period (I think they might still prefer he stay a man, though) but I feel like if Chibnall pushes it (and I can't see why he wouldn't push it) they'll go "Sure. Just get us attention again."
 
Good riddance. Most of the episodes have been good but he's undeniably the worst modern Doctor. The show just hasn't been the same since Matt Smith left. Hopefully they bring in someone fun.
 
Exterminieren said:
Smith's regeneration destroyed a Dalek fleet.
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Mister Saturn said:
You mean after 11 had used his regeneration to wipe out a Dalek army and their ship? If anything, 11's regeneration into 12 was even more grandiose and indulgent when compared to 10's final goodbye travels, and not less. That sneeze was just a Monty Python-esque way to, "get on with it," after 11's superheroics and drawn-out goodbye.
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Bluth54 said:
Did you actually watch the episode or just watch those gifs? Because Smith destroys a Dalek ship with his regeneration energy.
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I haven't seen the episode since it aired. But if you go by that GIF, it's not exactly that violent. Like you can tell Tennant is doing some damage, Smith just looks too quick.

I dunno.

I want Capaldi's regeneration to destroy the galaxy.
 
Drewton said:
I think 9 is tied with 5 as the best for me.

It really confuses me how much a lot of people favour Season 1-4 over the Moffat series, most of the writing was mediocre or awful. The only really good episodes were written by Steven Moffat. Peter Capaldi hasn't had the best stories for his Doctor but most of David Tennant's were meh.
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Yeah I agree immensely. I grew up with old Tom Baker tapes, tried to get into the show when it came back but despite loving the way they renewed it and the actors (I think both Eccleston and Tennant are great Doctors despite not loving their era's), I just couldn't enjoy it. It was basic, badly written (lot's of 'magic button'-solution at the end of episodes, or just plain weird stuff like Tennant turning into Dobby the Elf and the whole world wishing him young again, or the awful decision to develop a romance between a hundreds year old classic television character and the young teen girl he's travelling with, all the overly dramatic emotions and pouty faces in the rain - I could go on), and most damning of all: boring. Doctor Who can be bad, or weird, or taking too many risks, but Doctor Who being boring is the worst thing it can be).

RTD has confessed himself that he had a very improvisational writing style, often hammering out scripts way too close to the deadlines, often based on some vague visuals in his head he wanted to hit. I vastly prefer Moffat's more thought out approach. He wrote some stinkers but he also wrote some of the show's best for every single season he did. It's more nerdy and bookish, but frankly that's the kind of Who that speaks to me. He gets a lot of flack for repeating some ideas but he has done a lot of new things, and taken new risks every year. Every year had a different vibe and approach, and that needs to be applauded. RTD basically served up the same nonsense every time. I don't know anyone IRL that honestly prefers RTD outside of nostalgia, and it's pretty much the standard recommendation for new viewers to start with season 5, instead of watching the earlier 4 first.

But yeah, opinions and all that. I don't like how pessimistic this forum can be about Moffat's work. Too many people online keep going on about Tennant and RTD, and I just don't get it. It was just a bit crap most of the time. Even RTD (and I like him as a person, just not as a writer) admitted Moffat outshone him during his own time on the show and after. There was a noticeable leap in quality in every department when season 5 started. I'm still saying even Moffat's worst season (season 7 for me, which got way too close to the basic storytelling level of the RTD years) is better than any of the RTD seasons.

People will probably give me shit for it but seeing so many people here clamoring for RTD-style seasons and a Tennant-like Doctor (remember when people on Gaf kept going on about getting Sue Perkins as the Doctor just because she kinda looks like Tennant, even though she isn't really an actress?) feels like looking at an alternate universe to me.

Charlie Brooker (the writer of Black Mirror) explains my problems with RTD-era Who very well, even though he's kinder than I would have been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79XAEN9gAx0

Mostly the constant mugging. Needless to say Donna wasn't for me.
 
So the internet seems to have mobilized rather quickly behind Hayley Atwell.
Although I know Eddie Redmayne's said he does want to do it

I think my favorite pitch has been Mel & Sue from Great British Bake-Off as the Doctor and her companion. Doesn't matter which is which.
 
Boem said:
Yeah I agree immensely. I grew up with old Tom Baker tapes, tried to get into the show when it came back but despite loving the way they renewed it and the actors (I think both Eccleston and Tennant are great Doctors despite not loving their era's), I just couldn't enjoy it. It was basic, badly written (lot's of 'magic button'-solution at the end of episodes, or just plain weird stuff Tennant turning into Dobby the Elf and the whole world wishing him young again, or the awful decision to develop a romance between a hundreds year old classic television character and the young teen girl he's travelling with - I could go on), and most damning of all: boring. Doctor Who can be bad, or weird, or taking too many risks, but Doctor Who being boring is the worst thing it can be).

RTD has confessed himself that he had a very improvisational writing style, often hammering out scripts way too close to the deadlines, often based on some vague visuals in his head he wanted to hit. I vastly prefer Moffat's more thought out approach. He wrote some stinkers but he also wrote some of the show's best for every single season he did. It's more nerdy and bookish, but frankly that's the kind of Who that speaks to me. He gets a lot of flack for repeating some ideas but he has done a lot of new things, and taken new risks every year. Every year had a different vibe and approach, and that needs to be applauded. RTD basically served up the same nonsense every time. I don't know anyone IRL that honestly prefers RTD outside of nostalgia, and it's pretty much the standard recommendation for new viewers to start with season 5, instead of watching the earlier 4 first.

But yeah, opinions and all that. I don't like how pessimistic this forum can be about Moffat's work. Too many people online keep going on about Tennant and RTD, and I just don't get it. It was just a bit crap most of the time. Even RTD (and I like him as a person, just not as a writer) admitted Moffat outshone him during his own time on the show and after. There was a noticeable leap in quality in every department when season 5 started. I'm still saying even Moffat's worst season (season 7 for me, which got way to close to the basic storytelling level of the RTD years) is better than any of the RTD seasons.
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And don't forgot the TARDIS towing an entire planet (Earth) or the Earth being put next to a bunch of other planets in Journey's End. That finale was a lot of fun because it was the reunion of old characters, but like a lot of RTD episodes it was a logical black hole. I started watching 1-4 on Netflix after half of Matt Smith's episodes, and they were just on a different, lower caliber, not only because of the production values. I'm still fond of them, but more of the idea of the characters like 10 and Rose than the specific stories. 9's greatest story, in WW2 was written by Moffat, and 10's greatest stories were written by Moffat, topped IMO by The Girl in the Fireplace. There were a couple of good duologies like the Human Nature and Satan Pit ones, but there were a ton of mediocre or bad/cringe-worthy (Love & Monsters) episodes.

Steven Moffat isn't perfect, the resolution of his stories can be underwhelming and the Return of Doctor Mysterio was absolutely awful, but he's earned it with such excellent episodes as The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink, The Silence in the Library, The Eleventh Hour, the Angels episodes, the Pandorica episodes, A Christmas Carol, The Impossible Astronaut, A Good Man Goes to War, Listen, The S9 premiere, Heaven Sent. Really the best stories of Doctor Who.

To me, his Doctors, 11 and 12, are the definitive Doctors. They embody the alien qualities and timelessness of his character. And I'm not sure there will ever be a better Doctor/companion pairing than 11 with Amy and Rory and Clara for as much hate as she might get is difficult to beat too. The momentum DW had around The Day of the Doctor with 11 being the last was fantastic. I think the direction he took Doctor Who in was excellent. Meanwhile, Chris Chibnall has only written a couple mediocre episodes and the awful Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. I don't want to be pessimistic, but I'm not looking forward to the end of Moffat's time.
 
Makes sense. New showrunner, new Doctor. It's likely for the best.

I hope 13 is either a female or black, or something different from the white British guy we always get.
 
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