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if only "sent back in time" Rory had changed his name to something like Rory "there's an angel here, get back in the tardis right sharpish" Williams (though he'da needed a bigger headstone) then present-day Rory could have avoided being touched by the Angel and sent back, by acting on this warning....
Though, maybe, just maybe, when Amy turned up in the past, and they had a little chat, they decided to leave things be and enjoy their life together.
I'll also mention that I was sure that Amy was going to reveal that she was pregnant early in Manhattan and so she and Rory would be retiring.
In the "Power of Three," the Doctor says that Amy always gets what she wants and "they got what they wanted". I interpreted that as meaning the people got what they wanted out of the cubes (Brian just wanted his to move a little; the Doctor wanted his to do something dramatic); and Amy's cube sampled her blood and then blipped with a heartbeat. I was sure that the cube repaired her reproductive tract with nanites or something and the title therefore was a reference to "baby makes three".
Crap.
Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.
Who-hoo, Who-thread?! Where have you been all my life?
My quick 2 cents. I disagree with many other Whovians and people in this thread on many things. (For example, my absolute favourit character? River Song. Yes, I agree, "Lets Kill Hitlers" writing needed fixing and should have been a two-parter, Mels should have been introduced earlier, yada yada instead of "flasback in same episode" Lost-style)
I also am happy to be rid of Amy+Rory. Amy alone was way better companion, the Amy/Rory dynamic annoyed me, I don't see what she sees in him, and I'm glad to be rid of that character.
As for fav doctors I can't really pick a fav, they all have their moments, but Matt is currently hitting it out of the park and as I was discussing w. my son the other day, he has brought proper humor back.... how often was Tennant actually funny? There are a few places, but not in the physical way that mr Smith is. You have to go back to old-series doctors to get the same level of "Funny" methinks (tho I freely admit only to have watched very few select pieces of old series doctors, mostly Tom Baker stuff)
I could never understand why people liked this show so much, but I watched it on Netflix whenever I had some down time out of my desperate need to understand all cool British things and finally became a fan. Matt Smith's Doctor has now taken over my internal monologue.
So, let's discuss our candidates for the 12th Doctor, shall we?
I'd LOVE to see Rupert Grint do it. First off, he's great in the HP series, and I recently watched "Into the White", which is a great little movie, where Grint plays a Scouse. Brilliant job of it, too.
Also, our Beloved Doctor would finally be ginger.
Of course, some would say he's too young for the part, but so was Matt Smith, at (then) 26. He's doing a great role thus far, I'm just not into the storyline he's been thrown into. Moffat's getting out of hand these days, and cluttering too damn much. IMHO, anyway.
Bill Nighy would be immensely classy as the Doctor, but we might lack some craziness in his eyes. I'm probably just saying that because I'm currently having the time of my life watching Tennant as the Doctor.
Chiwetel Ejiofor would be awesome. There is nothing to say The Doctor can't be black. There were rumours of there being a black Doctor just before Smith got the part. Apparently an actor by the name of Paterson Joseph was close to getting it. Although he had already been in the episodes 'Bad Wolf' and Parting of the Ways' as a cowardly game show contestant (the one up against Rose in The Weakest Link) so who knows if that was true.
I'd LOVE to see Rupert Grint do it. First off, he's great in the HP series, and I recently watched "Into the White", which is a great little movie, where Grint plays a Scouse. Brilliant job of it, too.
You just blew my FREAKING mind man... this would be amazing.
Saniss: Bill Nighy's kind of not an option, though, as he was a prominent extra in "Vincent and the Doctor". Now, I know Freema Ageyman was in the season 2 finale before coming on board as martha, and that Karen Gillan played a soothsayer in "The Fires of Pompeii", but those are companions, and I know I didn't even recognize Gillan anyway.
So...the nerd portion of my brain, which admittedly is nearly all of it, is currently playing through an episode of Doctor Who with Grint as the Doctor and Watson as the companion...
So...the nerd portion of my brain, which admittedly is nearly all of it, is currently playing through an episode of Doctor Who with Grint as the Doctor and Watson as the companion...
I like it. I like it a lot.
Thank you brain.
Yeah, no, that's a bit too much.
But also, Simon Pegg. Or Stephen Fry. ALthough mostly the latter, since Pegg's already been a sub-villain.
I'm pretty sure that Bill Nighy was offered the role when the series first came back, but turned it down. I'm also sure that Chiwetel Ejiofor was one of choices for the 11th Doctor.
According to imdb; "Names thrown out who were considered to play the Eleventh Doctor include James Nesbitt, Robert Carlyle, Bill Nighy (who expressed interest), David Walliams (who also expressed interest and came extremely close to being cast, but conflicts with Little Britain USA forced him to turn it down), Harry Lloyd, David Morrissey, Paterson Joseph, David Knijnenburg, Daniel Radcliffe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Simm, Russell Tovey, Sean Pertwee, Russell Crowe and Randy Orton. "
That does not sound like a list of people actually considered for the role by anyone actually involved with the show. Not saying some of them might not have been possible at one point or another, but I'd assume most of those names come from interviewers asking random actors if they'd consider it, magazines doing '5 people we'd like to see as the Doctor' lists or something else dumb like that.
FCW: Tom Hardy is a horrific choice. As is Johnny Depp. Both good actors, Hardy couldn't pull it off, and Depp probably would pull it off too damn good
That list sounds like the one that one of the betting shops put out just because Matt Smith was announced. David Morrissey hadn't yet appeared in an episode called 'The Next Doctor' for example.
