Capaldi leaving Doctor Who

[danny la rouge]

I just got a BBC breaking news alert for this.

Actors leaving shows is not news.

This isn't just "a show"; it's Dr Who. I wouldn't still be watching it if it was just "a show".

 

[kabbes]

Shame we never saw him with some decent writing

 

[Nanker Phelge]

People still watch Dr Who?

 

[DaveCinzano]

People still watch Dr Who?

Knock Knock

 

[danny la rouge]

People still watch Dr Who?

People still say "People still watch Dr Who?"?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

People still say "People still watch Dr Who?"?

I watched the new ones until Matt whatsisname, then just stopped.....it was getting a bit daft...

 

[Cid]

I watched the new ones until I stopped taking ketamine.

 

[danny la rouge]

I watched the new ones until Matt whatsisname, then just stopped.....it was getting a bit daft...

I agree. That was the point at which I remember stories dissolving into mush that they seemed to think was "clever".

 

[krtek a houby]

I didn't like the fuss in some quarters concerning Capaldi's age when it was revealed he was taking the role. I imagine that was from the fickle audiences who were used only to Matt Smith and David Tennant. Whatever. Capaldi was excellent, really nailed the role but by damn he needed better stories. There were a few but none that really stick out - perhaps the one with the 2D people?

 

[ruffneck23]

I quite liked Capaldi as the DR but he has been so let down but Moffatt

 

[Santino]

Punching through a diamond wall.

 

[Spymaster]

This isn't just "a show"; it's Dr Who. I wouldn't still be watching it if it was just "a show".

It's a children's fantasy adventure show. It's got monsters in it.

 

[danny la rouge]

It's a children's fantasy adventure show. It's got monsters in it.

It's Dr Who. A cultural treasure, despite its continual mismanagement, and more important than Stonehenge.

 

[billy_bob]

Richard Coyle
Michael Sheen (he could play anybody playing the Doctor)
Idris Elba
Mark E Smith

Just kidding. Let's not start that now eh

Mark E Smith would so be the Sylvester McCoy of New Who.

Capaldi was well cast but let down by increasingly lazy/smart-arse plots, as others have said. It's really very frustrating: it's not as if it was just shit, and could be dismissed. I think Moffat has interesting ideas, enough so that you can usually see how good an episode could have been if it had been better thought through and executed, and less time was spent on the emotional life of the companion.

 

[krtek a houby]

Ben Wishaw cropping up again but no Paterson Joseph?

Doctor Who: Who could replace Peter Capaldi? - BBC News

 

[danny la rouge]

Ben Wishaw cropping up again but no Paterson Joseph?

Doctor Who: Who could replace Peter Capaldi? - BBC News

That article's hilarious! Anyone can write, for example "Maxine Peake, known for TV's The Village and Silk, is a hugely versatile actress who would bring both steel and wit to the role". Yes she is, but has anyone linked her to the role other than this article?

 

[Santino]

That article's hilarious! Anyone can write, for example "Maxine Peake, known for TV's The Village and Silk, is a hugely versatile actress who would bring both steel and wit to the role". Yes she is, but has anyone linked her to the role other than this article?

Is it true that you have not yet denied that you have been offered the role?

 

[billy_bob]

perhaps [Olivia Coleman's] Broadchurch co-start David Tennant... could return as her assistant

FFS, that's the last thing it needs - more sly winks to camera.

 

[krtek a houby]

That article's hilarious! Anyone can write, for example "Maxine Peake, known for TV's The Village and Silk, is a hugely versatile actress who would bring both steel and wit to the role". Yes she is, but has anyone linked her to the role other than this article?

It's the first I've heard of it, that's for sure. At the end of the day, I don't really care too much on who is chosen - bring the scripts back to the levels we saw with Ecclestone and Tennant; before it hit this current patch of E-Space.

 

[danny la rouge]

Is it true that you have not yet denied that you have been offered the role?

It's true that I have links with Capaldi, but I have always said that I've never said I hadn't been offered the role.

 

[danny la rouge]

Will Smith is a famous actor. He would be the first American to play the Doctor. Doctor Who: Who could replace Peter Capaldi? - BBC News

 

[Santino]

Ardal O'Hanlon previously played a cat in Doctor Who and would be the first former cast member of Father Ted to take on the role.

 

[Santino]

A inanimate piece of furniture: Previous Who storylines have seen many pieces of furniture such as chairs, tables and desks make an appearance, but is it time for an inanimate object to take centre stage?

 

[danny la rouge]

Bruce Forsyth presented the Generation Game, in which role Roy Castle stood in for him when Bruce was ill. Roy Castle was in the Peter Cushing Doctor Who films. Bruce Forsyth would be the first Doctor to die before making a single episode.

 

[Santino]

Not casting anyone at all: There has been much speculation about diversifying the role of the Doctor, but perhaps it is time for a more radical step - simply not having anyone play the part at all.

 

[krtek a houby]

A inanimate piece of furniture: Previous Who storylines have seen many pieces of furniture such as chairs, tables and desks make an appearance, but is it time for an inanimate object to take centre stage?

Nearly inanimate

 

[Santino]

Someone out of one of the new Star Wars films, or perhaps Star Trek: There is a long tradition of sci-fi franchises casting actors from other sci-fi franchises. Star Wars films are always successful at the box office, however negative the reviews. Carrie Fisher was also in When Harry Met Sally, and the Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe.

 

[danny la rouge]

A dead actor. Richard Burton was a great actor. Is it time to cast a dead actor in the role? This could work because CGI.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Elvis

 

[billy_bob]

A dead actor. Richard Burton was a great actor. Is it time to cast a dead actor in the role? This could work because CGI.

Why not just get Peter Cushing? He was quite good in Rogue One. (Although you could hardly pick a person who looked more like a cadaver when he was alive, so he can't have taxed the CGI guys' talents too much.)