David Mitchell as The Doctor? Page 4

Quote: AngieBaby @ August 3 2009, 1:49 PM BST

Personally, I think David Mitchell is not conventionally attractive enough to play the doctor. (Sorry!). The makers can't deny the popularity of young, good-looking doctors like Ecclestone and Tennant. Years ago the doctor could be a 'character', but now he's got to have his image on lunch boxes, dolls etc.... they can't risk losing all that revenue.

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Spot on Angie. Doc Who is a global brand aimed at teenage girls and homosexuals. As much as I like David Mitchell, it would take quite a leap of imagination to envisage him on posters trying to look all mean and hunkin'.

Quote: AngieBaby @ August 3 2009, 1:49 PM BST

good-looking doctors like Ecclestone

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Are you 'aving a giraffe?

Quote: zooo @ August 3 2009, 2:58 PM BST

Are you 'aving a giraffe?

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You have a problem with jug eared men?

I remember when the show only appealed to geeky teenage boys and their dads. They could cast any old trainwreck as the Doctor, so long as they had a nice bit of skirt as the assistant.

That one, yes.

You can call him rugged or something, but I won't have good looking.

Quote: Timbo @ August 3 2009, 3:01 PM BST

I remember when the show only appealed to geeky teenage boys and their dads. They could cast any old trainwreck as the Doctor, so long as they had a nice bit of skirt as the assistant.

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It was about time it changed then!

Realistically though, I don't care what the doctor looks like anymore.
They can even have an old one now for all I care.
Even old! Yes! Imagine that.

Quote: Timbo @ August 3 2009, 3:01 PM BST

I remember when the show only appealed to geeky teenage boys and their dads. They could cast any old trainwreck as the Doctor, so long as they had a nice bit of skirt as the assistant.

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Ooh, you can't go wrong with a bit of skirt, can you. Phwoooarr!

Quote: zooo @ August 3 2009, 3:03 PM BST

Even old! Yes! Imagine that.

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I'd like an old doctor, so that children are taught that old people are people too. With hopes and dreams and aspirations.

Quote: Timbo @ August 3 2009, 3:01 PM BST

I remember when the show only appealed to geeky teenage boys and their dads. They could cast any old trainwreck as the Doctor, so long as they had a nice bit of skirt as the assistant.

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Robert Webb counts as a nice bit of skirt, did you see him in that leotard on Comic Relief phwoor!

Quote: chipolata @ August 3 2009, 3:10 PM BST

I'd like an old doctor, so that children are taught that old people are people too. With hopes and dreams and aspirations.

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It's still quite cringe worthy when you see an elderly Doctor attempting to do anything physically demanding in the show - like running or having a fist fight.

Oh what do I care? I don't even watch the damn thing. I remember the moment I switched it off for good - it featured David Tennant and Billy Piper running hand in hand and gurning to camera whilst being chased by something unrealistic - and I thought, 'Why am I watching this rubbish?'.

Shouldn't this discussion be part of the 'Doctor Who' thread? I mean, surely you people have run out of any original things to say about that kids' programme by now? Why not have a whole episode where the Earth is being attacked by an army of Larry Grayson clones? Discuss that whilst you're at it.

*runs away to the hills, pursued by a baying mob with pitch-forks and sonic screwdrivers and B.O.*

Anyway, point is, David Mitchell can't be the Doctor. He has his own career path ahead of him, as the next 'Nation's Treaure', after Stephen Fry pegs it.

Quote: john lucas 101 @ August 3 2009, 3:22 PM BST

after Stephen Fry pegs it.

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From being too fat.

Quote: john lucas 101 @ August 3 2009, 3:22 PM BST

Anyway, point is, David Mitchell can't be the Doctor. He has his own career path ahead of him, as the next 'Nation's Treaure', after Stephen Fry pegs it.

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Too true. The BAFTA organisers are probably sizing him up as the next safe pair of hands. Who else are they gonna use? Johnny Ross? I think not.

Quote: sootyj @ August 3 2009, 2:27 PM BST

You're not referring to that ridiculous TV movie?

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No, just that I think the looms you're mentioning were dealt with in the books, maybe audios, rather than in a TV episode. They were going to be the basis of the McCoy episode 'Ghost Light', but in the end weren't.

Quote: chipolata @ August 3 2009, 3:27 PM BST

From being too fat.

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He's lost something like six stone; he was on Top Gear recently, I think, and looked all slim.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 3 2009, 4:26 PM BST

He's lost something like six stone; he was on Top Gear recently, I think, and looked all slim.

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But the damage is done. His skin's all saggy and baggy, like a scrotum.