Which ones? The Thick of It, * In The Loop*, The Crow Road are his best known performances and they are all in a Scottish accent.
I don’t watch Doctor Who, I’m just here to laugh at the confused 18 year old tumblr fangirls who are going EWWWWW HE’S ALMOST AS OLD AS GRANDPA.
I’m not sure if I’ll keep watching. Still haven’t seen the Clara episodes of Smith’s doctor. Moffat’s direction with the show after Davies’ departure just really let me down. There have been some individually fantastic episodes, but I kind of hate how it sort of became a Pond/Riversong/Doctor soap opera with a bunch of bullshit cliffhangers and drama. The writing just isn’t clever any more. There’s no subtlety in the connective threads that brought a season together really, like there used to be. There’s a lot of cliffhangers and unanswered questions, and that just kind of turned me off.
That being said, everything I’ve seen Capaldi in (and it hasn’t been much), has been great. I think he’ll make a great Doctor, regardless of whether or not I watch.
Several, including a prior Doctor:
Nicholas Courtney: first appeared as security agent Bret Vyon opposite the First Doctor, later cast as the Brigadier Alison Gorden Lethbridge-Stewart who got to play opposite most of the other Doctors.
Colin Baker: first appeared as commander Maxil of the Chancellory Guard, later cast as the Sixth Doctor. He’s been known to joke that he got the role of Doctor by shooting his predecessor.
Lalla Ward: first appeared as princess Astra, later cast as the Second Romana
Freema Agyeman: first appeared as Adeola Oshodi, later cast as Martha Jones, companion of the Tenth Doctor.
Karen Gillian; first appeared as a priestess in “Fires of Pompeii” (she’s under a LOT of make-up the whole time), later cast as Amelia Pond, companion to the Eleventh Doctor.
There might even be others, those are just the ones I remember.
He also speaks with a Scottish accent in Local Hero.
Eccleston’s Doctor had a Northern accent (“Every planet has a north!”) while Tennant’s Doctor had an Estuary accent. They don’t sound that much alike to me (beyond both being English), and I am also an American.
Black Caribbean would have been fantastic, or a ginger woman even better. I put yet another skinny white guy. I will watch it, and think he is a workmanlike actor so it will be well made - I will decide if I like him or not based on his body of work as The Doctor rather than anything else he did.
My Doctor is Eccleston, though I grew up watching Pertwee and Baker.
Snap. I had to google him. All I see are photos of a skinny old Scot with a head like a bashed crab.
Ah, I had things a bit confused–there was apparently some cut line about him “imprinting” on Rose’s accent. Which I sorta parlayed into him keeping Eccleston’s. Hey, like I said, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen Eccleston (or Tennant, for that matter).
I’m sure he’ll be great. It’ll be interesting to see if he keeps his own accent.
However, I found the last half-season of Doctor Who to be awful (I only liked the episodes in the submarine and the haunted house - Cold War and Hide) and I’m not especially enamoured by Clara, I really miss Amy and Rory, so my general enthusiasm level for Doctor Who has been somewhat diminished of late.
So… I passively await developments.
God yes and why not? Cribbins showed in 2-3 episodes that he could not only be a great Companion, but a steadying influence on the young-and-getting-younger Doctor (physically at least - but becoming more erratic as he gets older… some kind of Time Lord Dementia perhaps?). If the producers think they need some female sexay to spice up the show, they can have a few alien hotties as Monster of the Week, but I loved every second that Bernard was on screen.
I’m stoked! Of all the rumored folks I think he was the best choice. I don’t care that it’s another white guy- that’s how it’s always been for 50 years. I love Malcolm Tucker so much, I hope they let Capaldi play a more snippy Doctor!
Peter Capaldi is a brilliant choice. I hope we get this kind of Doctor:
“You know, I’ve come across a lot of psychos, but not a fucking boring as you. I mean, you are a real boring fuck. Sorry. Sorry, I know that you disapprove of swearing, so I’ll sort that out. You are a boring F-star-star-cunt!”
Yes.
I hope we’re meant to believe that Eleven aged a lot offscreen.
I remember him from Lair of the White Worm; that’s an entertaining little horror/comedy movie directed by Ken Russell and is worth seeing.
Capaldi was also Valmont’s servant in Dangerous Liaisons and was in one of the early hour-long episodes of Poirot.
I thought he was kind of cute back then, but really haven’t kept up with his more recent career.
That wasn’t his office ceiling. That was the slanted windows on the top of Pennzoil Pllace, seen from the inside. Across the street, the former Texas Commerce Tower was he exterior of Knox Oil. That was my Houston & the faroff Scottish village was such a magical alternative. I’ve liked Capaldi since then…
I think he’s a fine choice. I wish the Tumblr chicks would channel some of their anti-Moffat venom into real political activity. Are they actually working to support their oh-so-elite opinions? Surely there are Teabag (or UKIP) pols in their area who need opposing.
Although I’d love a non-white or female Doctor some day; we’ll another one in a couple of years. From The Hour (how sad it only got 2 series), how about Anna Chancellor? Bernard Cribbins is a fine guy but I doubt he’s up to running around…
While I’m not a Tumblrite, hearing about these distraught fangirls is nearly enough to make me go become one. Care to share a link or two so I can have a little bit of innocent schadenfreude? (Incidentally, I have plenty of anti-Moffat venom myself, but it’s for actual problems w/ the show (or imagined ones, depending on your opinion), not taking away my hunky heartthrob of a Doctor.)