Comments on: Official: Matt Smith announces his Doctor Who exit

By: jules

jules — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:41:15 +0000

I was hoping for another season too. I miss the hey-days of River Song and want him to get his married groove on. Now that 11 is 12 and 10 is 11 and Hurt is 9 we all gotta reshuffle. OK the Hurt Doctor may not go by “Doctor” but he still gets only 12 generations!! Moffat is giving me anxiety.

By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:44:58 +0000

Presidents and prime ministers have also four-year stints, but for fans four years translate to three seasons. One season short, for sure, because he has just recently found Clara. They will not have even a full season together!

Good luck, Matt, thank you for a lot of great episodes.

And hello, the New Doctor, whoever you will be. I like an idea of Tom Hiddlestone (he looks a bit of Tom Baker-ish to me), no Freeman (Martin or Morgan), no Cumberbatch.

By: pirko

pirko — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:04:19 +0000

I will be honest this seems very out of the blue and sudden. At least with David leaving we had time for it to go in but this does seem really rushed. I also think its a bit odd considering that the doctor has recently changed his outfit ad the title sequence so it does seem odd why now he’s decided to leave.

Having said that he’s done a good job being the doctor (not my favourite sadly as I found him a bit bland after a while)and he has done a good stint of 3 years as the doctor so maybe now is a good time to go.

Probably going to be controversial when I see this but I see a very a strange pattern developing recently with people leaving the show all of sudden….

First Piers wenger and beth willis leave, then a couple of the past crew, then Caroline Skinner and now Matt Smith has suddenly announced he is going. Might just be me but I’m sensing maybe moffat may have something to do with this trend lately

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:22:53 +0000

Okay, soo theres two choices… he either regenerates into a seven year old or a seventy year old!!! since he keeps looking younger

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:02:34 +0000

I’m surprised hes not been mentioned but what about Martin Freeman? Or Colin Morgan as he could grow into the role just like Matt. One of them for me but will be interesting.

By: Jc

Jc — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:41:30 +0000

Having said that, I don’t have a problem with his fans, I just don’t like him and I’d rather he stayed away from Doctor Who.

Only my opinion.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:32:53 +0000

I despise Benedict Cumberbatch more than I can put into words and for numerous reasons.

Just wanted to put that on record, lol

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:59:46 +0000

Ideally, Benedict Cumberbatch would be a perfect 12th Doctor, but even though his connection to Moffat through Sherlock i doubt he will commit to something like Doctor Who, something tells me thanks to Star Trek Into Darkness AND Sherlock his ego has taken a turn for the worst :-/

By: PRBates36

PRBates36 — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:17:40 +0000

Absolutely devastated and shell-shocked. This is way too soon.

I’ve just been feeling terrible since this was announced. I just can’t believe it.

Matt is my Doctor, much as I love the other ten. I don’t think I’d ever be ready to say goodbye, but my money was on him leaving at the end of series 8. Not now. This is just too soon.

By: jules

jules — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:14:27 +0000

I am in shock–I had hoped for one more season–it is such a big time with the 50th. I just hate to see him go. My Doctor was Tom Baker, my introduction–but my Doctor has been Matt–he reminds me some of Tom. David was beautiful, energetic, talented and a great Doctor and Matt was such a wonderful follow up to compliment him. I cannot wait to see them together in the 50th. But saying goodbye to Matt is difficult. I am now looking forward even more to attending London in November to be among “my people” for the 50th. I have no one to commiserate with here! Oregon, USA—London–can’t wait–