In School Reunion the Doctor ran into Sarah Jane. He told her “You were getting on with your life.” to which she replied, heartrendingly “You were my life!”
Eh…a little too cute for my tastes. I’m not familiar with her acting work though.
I’m more concerned with the indications that Amy and Rory are going to have a final, unhappy encounter with the Weeping Angels.
I don’t mind stuff like that. But when Rose gets jealous of Martha and vice versa, it just makes them all look so petty.
[nitpick] Craig has had two episode with Eleven: “The Lodger” and “Closing Time”. I wouldn’t mind seeing him as a regular, except Craig being very much a stay-at-home kind a guy was a huge, major-deal plot point in one episode and an important character trait for him.
I hope this turns out the way I felt about Matt Smith: an initial “oh, NO, too much young!” followed by "I don’t give a crap about the actor’s age, this is good."
It would, however, be refreshing if she wasn’t human. Wonder what the odds are there will be latex or blue skin involved?
Yes, she got a raw deal. I want her back. She can teach The Doctor a thing or two.
I was going by Wikipedia’s count there, which said ‘Two episodes, one as Companion.’ I could see the argument that in “The Lodger” he’s just a guest star in a Companion-lite episode, but when the Doctor came back specifically to see him in ‘Closing Time’, he’s promoted to Companion. 
How about for once in NuWho we have a Doctor who doesn’t just get younger and more twee? Say, let’s have an Ian McKellan type? How freaking awesome would that be? (IMHO, and nothing against Peter Davison, but they picked the wrong actor from All Creatures Great and Small - imagine a Doctor Siegfried!)
Wake me when they announce a new Doctor. And/or when Moffet leaves.
They were planning to hire a guy in his mid-40’s or older after Tennant but apparently Smith so blew the others out of the water with his audition they went with him instead. Sure, I’d like to see an older guy in the role again, on the other hand, I can’t condone overlooking someone for the role just because he’s on the young side.
Yeah, but just because somebody does a good David Tennant impression doesn’t make him a great Doctor. I haven’t seen the most recent season but I have never warmed to Smith.
I never got the impression that Smith was simply trying to imitate Tennant. You may not have warmed to Smith, but he does manage interesting “echoes” of prior - by which I mean all the way back to the 1960’s era - regenerations from time to time which I like. Of course, it helps that he has access to the BBC archives and by now has undoubtedly seen every still existing Doctor Who episode. He’s not just a Tennant knock-off.
I haven’t seen the ‘prior’ Doctors yet, but I agree - Smith’s Doctor is great in a very different way than Tennant. David Tennant was the most human of the NuWho Doctors so far, and I’d say that Smith is the most alien - for a young guy, he really does great at conveying the sense of being older than most cathedrals.
Or a Hugh Laurie type!
Even if they go, someone will bring them back using the power of Love.
They way I see it, Smith plays a young man trapped in an old man’s body, trapped in a young man’s body.
Or Anthony Stewart Head.
(Actually, my favorite choice for the next Doctor is a bit radical: Chiwetel Ejiofor. Hey, he’s English).
…wow: Chiwetel would make an awesome Doctor! Of course that will never happen in my private universe, because I don’t want Matt Smith’s run to end!
Aye. Matt Smith sucks.
Matt Smith is made of awesome. So there. 
When Billie Piper was announced, there were cries of disgust. Same for Freema Aygeman
When Christopher Ecclestone said he was leaving and David Tennant was announced, people complained.
When Catherine Tate was announced people went bonkers with WTF???ery and ONOES.
When Matt Smith was announced, same as.
Now there will be more of it with this lady.
What is it about the Dr Who clientele that any sort of change is always met with proclaimations of how doooooooooooooom-laden and all round wrong that the new person will be, I wonder.
Whover they bring in to do whichever role always makes it their own, from what I’ve seen. So I’m sure this Jenna Louise Coleman will be the same.
I see she’s in Julian Fellowes’ big new Titanic thing, starting this week on British telly. I’ll have to give her the once over in that.
You are absolutely right. You’d think people would actually give the writers a bit of credit by now. Come back in a year, and everyone will love her.