Re: Who will be the 12th Doctor?
I hope it is someone new and totally unexpected, there are some choice hotties in the land of Britain that they can call upon. I had my reservations on Matt but he has grown on me, this season in particular. So whoever they acquire to be the pilot of the tardis, I welcome with open arms.
Oh and will people get over Benedict Cumberbatch already... sheesh talk about overrated.
As for the Doctor's regenerations, I think its true that he has an endless supply of them, although I believe he kind of hints that going over 12 regenerations leads to some kind of vainglorious psychosis!
As for series showrunner, I do not like Steven Moffat as the lead show runner.
He is the Brannon Braga of Doctor Who! A great idea man with 1 or 2 awesome episodes which usually offered cool ideas and setups during the Davies era. For larger series archs, he fails miserably by trying too hard, timey whimey indeed.
I wouldn't mind if he occassionally wrote an episode or two because I think he genius lies in the compact stories as evidenced by;
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Girl in The Fireplace, Blink, Silence In The Library/The Forest of the Dead. Since then, he has not earned any kind of major praise probably due to the dilution of his talent to organizing a large scale story.
Although someone will argue why he has not been nominated or won any awards for this three seasons is because of his work on Sherlock Holmes, really though. Those stories are based on existing material rejiggled for modern sensibilities and such. Maw!
Anywa, Russell may have been a shitty writer for much of his series tenure but his series archs were exciting and epically fun, campy and sentimental and often emotional landmines. Heck, its why the show was a successful relaunch.
I also disagree about the Weeping Angels comment above, the series 5 re-introduction of them totally weakened them. Its like the Borg on Star Trek, rules were changed for that nemesis to humanize them much the same way the Weeping Angels were given a voice and some silly thing about looking at them, their image invading your vision or some crap. Totally dispelled any kind of mystique about them and let's not discuss the ridiculous chapter in the Weeping Angels saga with Angels in Manhattan... that is like the Spock's Brain of Doctor Who!
I thought he was adorable.
