{"id":36646,"date":"2013-06-01T21:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T03:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/the-next-doctor.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:12:34","slug":"the-next-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/the-next-doctor.html","title":{"rendered":"The Next Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"
Setting aside all discussion of the final episode of this most recent series (which +<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and I have seen, but +<\/span>Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has not), apparently this is in fact true, after the 50th Anniversary Special and Christmas Special, Matt Smith will be turning in his fez.<\/p>\n

I'm not heartbroken. \u00a0I've never warmed to Smith's doctor the way I did to previous actors in the role. \u00a0He took the zany, absentminded naif just a bit too far (how much of that was Smith and how much was Moffat is difficult to tell). \u00a0It didn't put me off the show, but it made the episodes much more of a spectacle and circus than a story.<\/p>\n

There's a lot of ways the next Doctor could go. Hopefully yet-still-younger isn't one of them (and , for that matter, I'd enjoy seeing someone of a different skin color, or gender, take on the part).<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Geek Native<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Matt Smith will quit Doctor Who this Christmas<\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.geeknative.com\/40116\/matt-smith-quits-doctor-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The news was under embargo, this blog wasn't included but the British newspaper has broken ranks and the embargo .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Setting aside all discussion of the final episode of this most recent series (which +Kay Hill\u00a0and I have seen, but +Margie Kleerup\u00a0has not), apparently this is in fact true, after the 50th Anniversary Special and Christmas Special, Matt Smith will be turning in his fez. 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