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Who Is Best Suited to be Number 11?

Wow, you really will answer anything. I was just being bitter. It is great to see more content on the blog though. Let's get your opinion on the new Doctor. Do I have to phrase it in the form of a question? I love a good gimmick, so I will. "Oh, Great and Knowledgeable Jay! I beseech you! Who Is Best Suited to be Number 11?"

 

Oi, takin the piss!

You know there's no good answer to that, unlike Neal McDonough for Captain America.  I will say that I've got faith in Steven Moffat and most any choice I'd make he'd make as good or better a choice.  I would've never thought of River Song or what it was that the empty child really needed

(excuse me for a moment)

(And dammit, stop playing that Spinanes album, Jay!  It's not helping you!). 

He also knows more about who's currently working in the UK than me, that's for sure.  My only gripe with the Paterson Joseph speculation is that he's been on the show before.  True, Colin Baker was too, but he didn't look like Colin Baker that first time.  And Joseph played a human, which would be harder to retcon explain, if they wanted to, than why Eve Myles and Freema Agyeman had been seen before as different humans. 

However, since my opinion's as real as anybody else's for the moment, let's say, who would I like to see that couldn't or wouldn't?

Jonathan Pryce (and after all he's already played The Master)

Ewan McGregor

Gary Oldman

 

 

How do I get Number One

Dear Jay,
How do I get Number One on Eloquent Eloquence?
Heart,
Optimus 

Would that there were a simple answer to that question.  Aye, I've pondered it myself occasionally.  One could count up the hours of raconteuristic toil and be astonished at how little one is able to reap after soooo much back-breaking plowing and sowing.

That one time I got it?  A throwaway one night while I was at work.  Just a short answer to Ms. Larson vainly inviting me to play a books edition of Trivial Pursuit, with no attempt to be witty.  Prisco said it happened to make him laugh when he read it.  There's a couple of pictures I've taken that have struck people's fancy when they seem fairly unremarkable to me.  Sometimes you've gotta take your audience's word for it.  Not that you should second guess your creative endeavors and think "I've gotta do it the way they like it again!".  That is the deadest of ends, and it's easy to get there.  But you can't argue when something hits.  Your muse doesn't always let you know when she's working, just like my mind didn't tell me I was stressed out and went directly to my abdomen instead.  I thought I had an ulcer but it was just my brain coaxing me to calm down, instead of telling me that it was upset in the first place, like a knuckley punch in the upper arm to say "you're swell!"

See?  You can't trust your own mind, nor its creative pursuits.  And you are not going to just know that this is the one, this is the hit!  So just keep working.