I don’t know what his TARDIS looks like. I don’t know what his catch phrase is or what he’s going to wear. I don’t know who his Companion(s) will be. I don’t know what his accent will be or how/if he’ll react to being Black…on Earth…today. I don’t know if he’ll remember Martha. (I wonder if he’ll ever meet her…or Rose…or Donna…or Amy…or Clara…)
(ADDENDUM:Of course he’ll remember Martha. He’ll remember all of the Companions and their partners—especially dear Rory.)
I don’t know anything about him…but, gahtdammit, I already love him. I mean…Look At Him! He looks so damn cool. He looks like he Knows Shit. (Some of it sublime, some of it heartbreaking.)
I can’t wait for the first time he knows who he is, and says “I’m The Doctor.”
They say “You never forget your first Doctor.”
There are kids from all backgrounds around the world who are gonna fall in love with their first Doctor, and I’m glad it’s this guy: and his name is Ncuti Gatwa. (nSOOtee GAHtwa).
And he’s a Scottish - Rawandan - Brit…Gallifreyan.
david tennant as the doctor was such an experience. always smiling but with something so deeply incurably sad in his eyes. you think he’s a soundly good person with all he says and does but then you realise that goodness is a thin veneer holding back this tidal wave of grief and apathy and unending loss for his long, long life that (in hindsight) he’s constantly leaching into the air around him, if you know where to look. it took him a few bad days to more or less reach a god complex and you’re unsure if he’s even wrong for thinking so. all that and he still pranced around like bambi in the fucking forest
people will start summing up peter’s era now (before even seeing s10 obviously), and i assume a lot of people will be saying - are already saying? - he wasn’t a good doctor, and to that i can only say heaven sent, one of the best episodes in who history, was almost exclusively a one-man show by peter, and the sheer gravity and emotion and incredibleness of it could never have reached the same heights without peter’s superb talent - subtle and full of class and utterly unforgettable
