Peter Capaldi was announced as the new Doctor......

[chillfactor]

during a "Doctor Who" special on BBC America and BBC One on Sunday!

[Behind the Aegis]

1. And many breathe a huge sigh of relief...

It's a boy!

[Dr. Strange]

2. A 55-year-old boy.

Same age as Hartnell was when he started playing the Doctor.

[TM99]

3. Well you just proved my point in the last thread.

Are you planning on jumping into every discussion of the new Doctor and push a political agenda?

I expect so.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. And you re-proved Bill's.

Homophobia isn't the only nasty shit we in the gay community face. Thanks for re-confirming.

[TM99]

8. I have supported the gay community in ways

that you can never imagine here.

But I don't want to devolve this thread any further. Let's get back to talking about the Doctor instead.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. I am sure you have...along with your "best friends."

Read up on heterosexism and heteronormative behavior.

[TM99]

11. I am sorry that you have obviously suffered

so much that you project so many fears and such rage on others.

I have never been a 'heterosexist' either, but if it makes you feel better, go on telling yourself that it is so.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. You obviously don't know what projection is, so much for wisdom.

If you feel you are knowledgeable instead of set in your ways, well, that will help you. It would likely explain your poor diagnosis.

[TM99]

14. Well, we can go back and forth if you would like.

Yeah, I understand projection very well.

You seem to crave change simply for the sake of change. You, therefore, think that anyone who might want any kind of tradition and doesn't always need constant 'newness' is somehow set in their ways.

You brought 'gayness' into these discussions on Doctor Who. If anyone doesn't support your ideas and wishes, then we are heterosexist, homophobic, set in our ways, etc. That's a script you are carrying around and repeating with me and others. You can now tell yourself that, see, another bastard who is against my sexuality like so many others have likely been in your past.

Trauma's and shame hurt. I see it daily. I have also experienced it. I am not your enemy just because I don't agree with what you might be saying and why you are saying it.

So truce. Enjoy the show.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. You may understand it but you don't predict it well.

You think you know the script, but no, you don't have a scintilla of a clue. That is very obvious. But we do agree, you aren't my enemy because you disagree with me, that is part of your script, not mine. Again, I suggest you do some serious reading. You can now tell yourself, you have another sad, angry victimized gay incapable of making sense of the world; that will help.

I am not interested in a truce, as none is needed, but I do realize your parody script and strawmen will never result in an actual conversation, and will simply result in more barbs; so enjoy...and don't forget to watch Dr. Who.

[Still Blue in PDX]

6. Even better, it's a MAN.

The Doctor needs to be a bit more grown up than he's been written and portrayed for the past few years.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. I saw something to that effect in an article.

I also saw a number of people arguing against it. They felt the younger Doctor's attracted new fans. But others felt he needed to be more mature in order to have more serious storylines (which I admit, I didn't understand that caveat).

[TM99]

10. Doctor Who has been around for 50 years

and they have never had a problem attracting new fans no matter what their ages. So trying to market to the youth with someone young in this case likely backfired.

Smith simply could not pull off the same gravitas and act convincingly that he was a nearly 1000 year old alien man. Tennant and Ecleston could do so.

One of the few nice things about growing older is that experience does give us more knowledge and if we are lucky a bit of wisdom. I will not miss Smith though I wish him well in other acting pursuits.

[Behind the Aegis]

13. Perhaps they needed a better younger actor.

I never cared for Smith. Maybe he will learn from his experiences, and not become set in his ways.

[TM99]

4. I am quite happy with the choice.

As I said in another thread, Matt Smiths 'immaturity' and goofy humor simply got to me. He has been my least favorite Doctor, and that is saying something as I started watching Doctor Who in the early 1970's.

I am very happy that he is 55. I expect him to bring a different sort of humor, gravitas, and a bit of aged experience that will serve well in his portrayal of a 900 year old alien.

I am very excited to see where things are going now. Moffat's push to make Doctor Who a kid's show might actually come to end with Capaldi as the choice. Seeing Clara, the Doctor, and the little kids turn the Cybermen into a joke was very sad. Cybermen and Daleks haunted my dreams as a child. They were terrifying and should remain so.

A toast to the new Doctor.

[Still Blue in PDX]

17. Well said.

[Still Blue in PDX]

16. He looks like The Doctor.

Okay, I'm shallow. I'm American. I'm a fan girl, albeit an almost 60-year-old one, but I started watching during the Tom Baker years and have seen all the Classics I could lay my hands on through Netflix and the public library.

I'm looking forward to Christmas.

[dipsydoodle]

18. Doesn't follow he'll talk like one

If you never seen him in other stuff search on youtube for peter capaldi swearing.