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I think he should have the moustache and goatee from The Musketeers for Doctor Who. It gives him a little bit of that "eccentric scientist look"

I was always disappointed when Matt Smith got rid of the beard in Day of the Moon... it made him look older and more intimidating. For some reason though the Doctor just seems to have a thing against growing beards, unless he's fighting a Time War.

Not that I think it matters too much either way, but generally, when a doctor has a look, they don't like to mess with it. It's why Matt had to wear a wig in his final episode because he had shaven off his 'doctor' hair for another role, but they thought he wouldn't look right without it in the show.

Plus, as I say in the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter, but as a personal opinion, I think he looks better clean shaven.

PC''s hair was pretty short in series 8 and it just got longer and puffier though season 9

True, the hairstyle became more bouffant, but I think a large beard on a usually clean shaven doctor is a much bigger difference to his look than slightly puffier hair.

As I say, the beard thing is just personal opinion. I personally think he looks better shaven, but even if he turns up with a gandalf length beard at the start of series 10, it's not exactly going to change how much I might otherwise enjoy the episodes.

Yes keep the beard.

Why not. Very distinguished!

Missy could have one too.

the more hair the better

Personally prefer him without the beard.

The bigger Series 9 hair grew on me (pun? unintended?) but I wasn't a fan to start with. I think I still probably prefer the shorter Series 8 hair but the longer hair is more than fine as well. I'm not big on facial hair (totally a resentment as I can't seem to grow a beard myself!) and suspect again I would get used to it but I do think his Doctor would look better clean shaven, personally.

Someone mainip'd how he'd look in his doctor burgandy coat with the beard

https://twitter.com/brinatello/statu...936704/photo/1

Oh yeah, there's something very Time L;ord about that beard.

Extract from a future episode:

Missy: "I see you've redecorated your face."

(The Doctor reacts, looking pleased)

Missy: "I don't like it."

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No. Sorry, I just don't like beards.

I think the fact that this conversation is being had is proof that we've pretty much run out of newsworthy things to talk about.

It's going to be a news barren few months people (until filming starts that is)

I am shocked there is zero media speclation on the new companion, instead they are talking about who the next doc might be maybe 2 yrs from now. weird.

Maybe he could turn it into a goatee by way of a tribute to the Delgado and Ainley Masters

Like this?

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/med...4_72209213.jpg

It seems appealing as a novelty but I think it kind of goes against the Doctor's character to have a beard.

A beard is usually present for one of two reasons:

A tidy, groomed beard. This is aesthetic. This is essentially vanity and not something I could not see the Doctor being bothered with.

An unkempt or natural beard. This speaks more towards indolence and carelessness and I feel like this is something that would irritate the Doctor, having this unnecessary mess on his face so as he would feel obliged to shave it off quite quickly, in the same way most of us would not want to start the day without washing our face.

I'd agree there. We know fact that their will be some sort of new companion in 2017, yet it's only a maybe that there might be a new doctor, and that will be in 2018 if true.

I suppose it's just because the doctor is the bigger draw, that a 'maybe' about a change of doctor peaks interest more than a confirmed idea of a new companion.

Definitely too early and jumping the gun for potential doctor names to be getting thrown around at this point. We'll have all that usual stuff when Capaldi's leaving is announced for real (whether that be sometime next year or sometime in a few years)

True, there are too many IF"S to be speculating on a new doc.

Much as I too dislike beards, I think your reasoning is flawed, Tom.

Surely to be clean shaven is as much of an aesthetic choice and vanity as a "nicely" trimmed beard? The choice is about following social norms to gain social acceptance within our society and current male fashion within our culture, nothing more.

Having an unkempt beard is the natural, unaesthetic choice.

I didn't say I disliked beards... that would be a tad hypocritical of me :P

Being clean shaven can be about vanity but it can also be about keeping very simple maintenance, like, say, shaving your head. And that is how I see it being for the Doctor. To maintain an orderly beard you have to take care shaving. Not so with going clean shaven: there you just have to be thorough in removing the hair. And I would imagine the Doctor would have some very quick and straightforward way of doing that. I don't imagine he sits with a straight razor. More likely he stands in front of some sort of futuristic hair removal device or uses nano bots or something equally Sci-Fi.

Of course this is a fairly trivial matter of characterization (as it's a trivial topic in fairness) but I just see the Doctor as someone not especially vain (at least aesthetically speaking) but fastidious enough to want to have a tidy appearance, if only for practical purposes and the self-awareness of having to be around other people. To me the best expression of that is clean-shaven. Why have unnecessary maintenance?

Of course, following the same logic he would shave his head as I noted above...

Of course he did shave his head, sort of, once, and then had to wear a wig, to fit our expectations of what his appearance should be.

Is the Doctor vain at all? He seems to take a great deal of care choosing his clothing after a regeneration.

And what does that suggest might happen if he ever regenerates into a female Gallifreyan? In our culture it's perceived that women generally take more care over their appearance than men. One of the few references we have is Romana and she seemed quite choosy about appearance in a conventional, human way.

All in all, I agree this is a trivial matter, especially in respect of a TV show embedded in liberal western culture and values.

If he keeps the beard, I think it should only be for the Christmas Special. He's been captured, hence him growing it. The new companion breaks him out. After dealing with the villain who captured him, the new team leaves in the TARDIS. Next episode, he'll have shaved.

Who knows, maybe there is a story reason for him to have a beard in the 2016 Christmas special and since there was a break between filming he decided to grow it for real, rather than wear a fake one.

If he does have one for the special though, I like you, would prefer it to be gone thereafter. In the grand scheme of things and my enjoyment of the show, it would only be a small niggle rather than some big deal either way, it's just that for me, the usually clean shaven Capaldi doesn't look properly like his doctor with a big beard (the same way Tennant doesn't look like the 10th doctor as much when he has a beard)

Doubt it, he's just always grown a beard when he's not working.