Chiwetel Ejiofor would make a great Doctor. He has a huge range, great presence and a certain intelligence and class to him. Plus he has a great name :P.
Chiwetel Ejiofor would make a great Doctor. He has a huge range, great presence and a certain intelligence and class to him. Plus he has a great name :P.
Yep, he's my best choice too. He even said he would take the role if offered! (or something along those lines. )
When it comes time for Matt Smith to hang up the Tardis keys, Daniel Kaluuya would make a superb Doctor. He has a huge range, but also is incredibly charismatic, and idiosyncratic, on screen. I've seen him in many things, but most genre fans will remember him from "The Fades", "Planet of the Dead", "Skins" - and his youth is no bar since Matt's star turn. If I was a writer producer I'd snap him up in a second, regardless of his skin colour. which would be irrelevant in this context.
It is clearly racist to suggest an shapeshifting alien can only be white.
The Doctor can be any skin pigmentation, and clearly any sexual appearance (but that's another argument!).
He doesn`t shapeshift, he regenerates. There`s a lot more to it that he tans or his skin would darken. There`s melanin and other stuff I could only guess at.
Same with making the doctor female. That penis doesn`t just drop off.
Really angers me this crap, the shows done ok for 50 years.
Ah to hell with it I`ll join in. I want to see a female, Indian, midget, amputee lesbian doctor and anyone who says no is a bigot
Chiwetel Ejiofor would make a great Doctor. He has a huge range, great presence and a certain intelligence and class to him. Plus he has a great name :P.
True.
There's a few good options in respect of the title of this thread, namely Colin Salmon, David Harewood & Adrian Lester.
He doesn`t shapeshift, he regenerates. There`s a lot more to it that he tans or his skin would darken. There`s melanin and other stuff I could only guess at.
Same with making the doctor female. That penis doesn`t just drop off.
Really angers me this crap, the shows done ok for 50 years.
Ah to hell with it I`ll join in. I want to see a female, Indian, midget, amputee lesbian doctor and anyone who says no is a bigot
I used shapeshifting to identify him with the mythological tradition he is part of. The show has not done well for 50 years, there was a time it became irrelevant and was cancelled, and the it had to be 'regenerated' for a whole new generation. Why would any body part drop off? Science fiction and fantasy (and a good imagination) is fu of solutions to such problems. Actually I just thought of one - the Doctor becomes female, his penis drops off, grows a brain and mouth, and becomes his companion!!!!!! Maybe not - I need to go and have a lie down!
I'm sure there'll be a black Doctor one day, but I'd also predict it will be some mostly unknown jobbing actor who just nails the audition. The Doctor isn't just gravitas, but charisma squared, slightly madder than a sack full of squirrels and with more energy than a toddler on a sugar rush.
It's a part so odd, that an actors past resume isn't that much help in picturing them in the role.
Oh, and there's also the fact that every established black British actor seems to be working in the US these days. Though perhaps that now works in their favour.
Well I must state the obvious, whether people like the idea that the Doctor could change skin colour or not, the programme has now established Time Lords can change ethnicity,certainly Melody Pond can.
Not to mention in The War Games the Doctor is offered a possible black incarnation.
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Yep, he's my best choice too. He even said he would take the role if offered!
Nah. Great actor but there's not gravitas there.
Same with making the doctor female. That penis doesn`t just drop off.
Really angers me this crap, the shows done ok for 50 years.
Ah to hell with it I`ll join in. I want to see a female, Indian, midget, amputee lesbian doctor and anyone who says no is a bigot
when Doctor 2 was forced to regenerate he was given the option of a black "host body??"
True.
There's a few good options in respect of the title of this thread, namely Colin Salmon, David Harewood & Adrian Lester.
I used shapeshifting to identify him with the mythological tradition he is part of. The show has not done well for 50 years, there was a time it became irrelevant and was cancelled, and the it had to be 'regenerated' for a whole new generation. Why would any body part drop off? Science fiction and fantasy (and a good imagination) is fu of solutions to such problems. Actually I just thought of one - the Doctor becomes female, his penis drops off, grows a brain and mouth, and becomes his companion!!!!!! Maybe not - I need to go and have a lie down!
It's a part so odd, that an actors past resume isn't that much help in picturing them in the role.
Oh, and there's also the fact that every established black British actor seems to be working in the US these days. Though perhaps that now works in their favour.
I think you've just invented a new Viz strip.
Well I must state the obvious, whether people like the idea that the Doctor could change skin colour or not, the programme has now established Time Lords can change ethnicity,certainly Melody Pond can.
Not to mention in The War Games the Doctor is offered a possible black incarnation.
All good options.