I loved the way twitter exploded after the last episode aired. Some people got pretty angry and had misunderstood, didn't know who John Hurt was and thought it was the real name of the doctor.

Okay, now THAT is fuckin' funny! :D

isn't it amazing that plenty of people in the UK, think Dr Who is crap, but peeps in other countries love it. Then the series made in other countries, which are loved in the UK, always get cancelled ffs lol

I recognized him, but didn't know his name when I watched the season 7 finale. So I googled "John Hurt" after finishing the episode and was less confused (though still confused as to why they had to do the whole "introducing John Hurt as the Doctor" on screen thing...) about the name business.

I liked Matt a lot, especially earlier on. Sad to see him go, but I think fresh blood will be good at the same time. We really need to find that Doctor again who captures everyone and can stay on for a long time.

I love Moffat as well and his episodes are always well written, but I hop he bows out after another year or so as well... shake things up, get a new and perhaps more mainstream friendly writer in there. I love Chinball's episodes and feel he would run a good, more simple but more fun Doctor Who.

That's understandable, I was chuckling that people thought that WAS the Doctor's name rather than the actor's name, mostly. I can understand completely that some might not who John Hurt is.

Yeah, that caption was cringeworthy.

Netflix is streaming only outside of North America... possibly outside of the USA (as I'm not sure about Canada).

WAT? He didn't die on set... in fact he was still alive (but not in great health) during the Third Doctor's run (he appeared in a special called The Three Doctors).
I'm pretty sure he just wanted to retire.

Well, one's things for sure, I haven't had the chance to watch a lot of old doctor who. My fiance is the true expert and I suppose I may have mis-interpreted some facts, but there is a lot of facts, true and not so true, circulating around the not. That said, it did happen, just down the road, and it was indeed health problems. At least we can agree in that!

I'm a little confused on the Netflix though...only outside of NA? I've been watching on streaming. Or maybe we're talking about two different things.

They don't have all the classic on though, just some of the classic, and some of the newer (most except the specials I think)

Yeah, it's weird. He came up with a really excellent monster in the Weeping Angels and then proceeded to completely misuse them once he became showrunner. I mean, seeing them move? Really? And also in that episode they just broke people's necks. It's like he forgot the whole point of them.

First of all lets all remember not to jump down each other throat, we should already know the Doctor would not be happy about that.

As for how regeneration started "Doctor had been played by William Hartnell at the programme's inception in 1963. However, by 1966, it was increasingly apparent that Hartnell's health was deteriorating and he was becoming more difficult to work with."

I also know there was some information going around for the longest time that he did collapse on set and that reports claimed that is one reason why they came up with regeneration.

As for the whole season 26... Well yes it is season 26 however, the BBC decided to recount the newer seasons... go look at your blu ray/ dvd set you will see the newer season classified as season 1-7...

The big thing is with the newer Doctors is the fact that none of them want to stay on long enough. I was hoping to see Matt at least beat Tom Baker's years even if it was by a episode or two. Matter of fact Matt was quoted stating that was one of his big goals for Doctor Who. When he first started out I wasn't impressed but I did start to enjoy him a lot as I saw this Doctor grow and change.

I guess there was a few hints even though Matt stated he was staying that he was not leaving. The regeneration set has him on the front regenerating... Though I thought it was just mainly because he was the newest. There was also a lot of different quotes through out season seven about things having to end or nothing would begin... I shrugged those off but I guess the BBC showed me a thing or two.

As for the limit of 12 there was another report stating that the BBC stated that the Doctor will have an unlimited amount of regenerations. After all the world needs the Doctor to me he is really the only super hero that uses his mind more than physical strength to solve issues on hand. I think he makes a great role model and I can only hope that the character will keep growing and hopefully we will get some Doctors who stay on for a longer run.

By the way someone mentioned doctor who was not streaming on netflix in the USA??? That's odd because I was showing my friend old school Doctor who and new school on netflix and I am in the USA

While I wasn't bothered so much by seeing them move, I most certainly agree that the neck break thing was a colossal "fuck you" to the audience. I really want to like Moffat, and some of what he has done has been really quiet good, but it's things like that, and a fair bit of things in series 7 that was were really not very good. I mean RTD level of bad. I am falling under the belief, that a show runner should NOT be allowed to write episodes and simply oversee any series long arcs, or what have you. I know that will never happen, but it is my humble opinion on it.

Oh yes, just nothing quite as distressing as him dying on set.

My netflix comment was in response to your mailbox comment. I was saying outside of the US Netflix is streaming only, no disc mailing.

Ah, gotcha!