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Old 03-01-2010, 08:38
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This is in this week's Radio Times. Very interesting.

Because Matt is the youngest actor to play the Doctor, people might be thinking they’ll get a “young geezer” Doctor, but he isn’t that. He’s restored the more professorial aspect of the character – he’s very much the “nutty professor” Doctor.

What I least expected from Matt, given the nature of the modern Doctor, is that at times he’s very quiet, the strong, quiet man. I suppose I thought instinctively that he’d be a leaping-about, loud Doctor, as we’ve got used to. Yet some of Matt’s most powerful moments are when he’s very, very quiet... very, very gentle, in a way that a very powerful person can be. There’s a scene I watched just recently in which he was chillingly good: a big confrontation-with-the-alien scene, and instead of playing it – as he could have – in a much more bombastic way, he was very quiet, very matter-of-fact, very simple. It’s all implied strength rather than demonstrated bluster.

Matt carries off the gravitas thing perfectly and has no difficulty at all in lording it over other people. He has scenes with Winston Churchill – in which he behaves like Winston Churchill’s dad! And you have no difficulty in buying that on-screen. And then, of course, he’ll behave like a complete spoilt child, which is what the Doctor has to do – to suddenly become a huge big kid.

He is a terribly distinctive actor. And he has the most extraordinary face. He was born to play an alien, because it doesn’t quite add up. He’ll hate me for saying this, but he looks like a caricature of a handsome man; it’s all just a bit too much: perfect profile, perfect jaw-line, extraordinary. And the camera adores him. So you’ll be seeing a lot of that face, suffering, in close-up, I tell you!
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Old 03-01-2010, 08:52
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I think I must have posted this up a million times now, but Matt Smith is going to prove a lot of people - doubters - wrong. He's going to be one of the best Doctors there's ever been. I like what Moffat has to say about him very much here, and there are hints of it all in the trailer.

That some people (only a few admittedly) have written him off so soon is sad. But no matter come April. The Doctor lives.
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Old 03-01-2010, 08:53
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This is why I posted the article. People are really awful about Matt without any justification or even evidence.
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Old 03-01-2010, 08:56
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I don't understand the hate for Matt. I have a feeling he's going to be better than Tennant and have more range, but that will be due to the writing as often I felt Tennant was cheated by such poor writing at times.
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Old 03-01-2010, 09:00
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The people who are claiming Matt Smith will be a terrible Doctor and unable to do such a good job as David Tennant were the same people who claimed David Tennant was a terrible choice for Doctor and couldn't do such a good job as Christopher Eccleston.
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Old 03-01-2010, 09:30
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Matt is a fantastic actor and will blow the over acting Tennant out of the water. I am looking forward to it with relish.
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Old 03-01-2010, 09:43
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The people who say Matt Smith will be excellent as The Doctor have about as much claim to being right as the people who say he will be rubbish. Nobody knows yet how good or bad he'll be, we need a full episode at least (I'd say more like three or four IMO) to judge his performance.
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Old 03-01-2010, 10:27
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Gill P, I would like to read the quote you posted, but there's a bloody advertisement covering half of it in the top right hand corner. This really annoys me and i have complained to DS about it.

It tends to happen in threads when the OP's first post is a quote from another source.
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Old 03-01-2010, 10:37
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Gill P, I would like to read the quote you posted, but there's a bloody advertisement covering half of it in the top right hand corner. This really annoys me and i have complained to DS about it.

It tends to happen in threads when the OP's first post is a quote from another source.
OK, here is the post again.

Because Matt is the youngest actor to play the Doctor, people might be thinking they’ll get a “young geezer” Doctor, but he isn’t that. He’s restored the more professorial aspect of the character – he’s very much the “nutty professor” Doctor.

What I least expected from Matt, given the nature of the modern Doctor, is that at times he’s very quiet, the strong, quiet man. I suppose I thought instinctively that he’d be a leaping-about, loud Doctor, as we’ve got used to. Yet some of Matt’s most powerful moments are when he’s very, very quiet... very, very gentle, in a way that a very powerful person can be. There’s a scene I watched just recently in which he was chillingly good: a big confrontation-with-the-alien scene, and instead of playing it – as he could have – in a much more bombastic way, he was very quiet, very matter-of-fact, very simple. It’s all implied strength rather than demonstrated bluster.

Matt carries off the gravitas thing perfectly and has no difficulty at all in lording it over other people. He has scenes with Winston Churchill – in which he behaves like Winston Churchill’s dad! And you have no difficulty in buying that on-screen. And then, of course, he’ll behave like a complete spoilt child, which is what the Doctor has to do – to suddenly become a huge big kid.

He is a terribly distinctive actor. And he has the most extraordinary face. He was born to play an alien, because it doesn’t quite add up. He’ll hate me for saying this, but he looks like a caricature of a handsome man; it’s all just a bit too much: perfect profile, perfect jaw-line, extraordinary. And the camera adores him. So you’ll be seeing a lot of that face, suffering, in close-up, I tell you!
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Old 03-01-2010, 12:44
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Gill P, I would like to read the quote you posted, but there's a bloody advertisement covering half of it in the top right hand corner. This really annoys me and i have complained to DS about it.

It tends to happen in threads when the OP's first post is a quote from another source.
If you click on the pop-up the site being advertised will be opened and the pop-up will move to the side.... works for me anyway.
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Old 03-01-2010, 13:28
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Gill P, I would like to read the quote you posted, but there's a bloody advertisement covering half of it in the top right hand corner. This really annoys me and i have complained to DS about it.

It tends to happen in threads when the OP's first post is a quote from another source.
if you use firefox as your browser you can get a program called ad blocker, blocks them all.
Great little add on
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Old 03-01-2010, 13:34
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I can't use ad-blocker on them, when I right-click the pop-up the option for ad-block doesn't come up since it's a hyperlink or something like that >_>
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