Apparently, the BBC are getting ready to announce who they’ve picked as the new Doctor sometime tomorrow. As Betty suggests, now is the time for any final last-minute predictions.
So here are mine. Any one of these could be true. The new lead for Doctor Who‘s fifth season will be:
- David Tennant. That’s right, it was all just an elaborate April Fool’s Day joke that went too a bit too far. You can’t believe everything you read in the British papers.
- Russel T. Davies. No longer content to live vicariously through the Doctor, the real reason Davies resigned as executive producer was so that he could now be the Doctor. Although as Nyssa suggested, Davies might actually prefer being Rose…
- Rowan Atkinson. What? It’s not as if he hasn’t been the Doctor before…
- A Dalek. Well, it would be ironic, wouldn’t it?
- The other ten Doctors before him. Through clever editing of past episodes — there are decades of them to choose from! — an judicious use of CGI, no one will ever be the wiser. Call it “The Ten Doctors” or something and fans will eat it up!
- No one. Other characters will constantly refer to the Doctor, but he will never in fact appear on screen. Think of all the money they’ll save! And obviously, anyone they cast is going to disappoint someone. This way, you equally disappoint everyone!
Will any of these be the new Doctor? Only time — and very little time at that — will tell.
Hee! Well, they’ve basically done #1 already, haven’t they? And I was actually voting for Rowan Atkinson to do it for real for quite a while, but of course the BBC never listens to me… which is probably just as well, I admit.
#6 is a great suggestion, though. I mean, they’re already basically doing that for one episode a season, so it’s not like it’d even be a novel concept!
Anyway, what’s really scary is that your choices are no less insane than some of the rumors I’ve heard… I mean, Joanna Lumley? John Simm?!
Well, Lumley’s obviously another carryover from Curse of Fatal Death, and I think Simm is pretty unlikely. It’s funny how the rumors almost always circulate around people who have appeared on the show already. The only one I’d heard before, though, was Paterson Joseph, who appeared in the first season.
I think they’d be much better picking someone completely unexpected.
I like #6, which would breathe new meaning to the title of the series.
My guess is that it will be Daniel Craig, who will portray a gritty, realistic, and tougher Doctor Who. We will finally get to see the Doctor as the deep, complex, conflicted person he is, and perhaps find out more about his background and why he is the way he is. Also: parkour.
I think #4 could make for some interesting, if short-lived, episodes.
Maybe Matthew Goode. He could pull off a decent Doctor Who.