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*Matt Smith has made several public statements — as on ''The Jonathan Ross Show'' and in the question-and-answer session following the [[New York]] theatrical premiere of ''The Eleventh Hour'' — taking credit for the tweed jacket, braces and bow tie that his incarnation eventually wore. He has also relayed that there was some reluctance from [[Steven Moffat]] and other top executives to the bow tie in particular, but that it nevertheless "sat right" with his performance. Smith's influence — according to [[CON]]: ''[[Call Me the Doctor]]'' and a mid-April 2010 appearance on [[Fox Broadcasting Company]]'s [[wikipedia:Strategy Room|''Strategy Room'']] — was the character of [[w:c:indianajones:Indiana Jones|Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr.]], as he was most often clothed on the campus of [[w:c:indianajones:Barnett College|Barnett College]]. | *Matt Smith has made several public statements — as on ''The Jonathan Ross Show'' and in the question-and-answer session following the [[New York]] theatrical premiere of ''The Eleventh Hour'' — taking credit for the tweed jacket, braces and bow tie that his incarnation eventually wore. He has also relayed that there was some reluctance from [[Steven Moffat]] and other top executives to the bow tie in particular, but that it nevertheless "sat right" with his performance. Smith's influence — according to [[CON]]: ''[[Call Me the Doctor]]'' and a mid-April 2010 appearance on [[Fox Broadcasting Company]]'s [[wikipedia:Strategy Room|''Strategy Room'']] — was the character of [[w:c:indianajones:Indiana Jones|Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr.]], as he was most often clothed on the campus of [[w:c:indianajones:Barnett College|Barnett College]]. | ||
:*''When queried about the exact nature of the bow tie, [[Karen Gillan]] told the audience of the [[2nd April]] [[2010]] edition of the [[CBBC]] programme, ''Laugh Out Loud'', that Smith's bow tie wasn't a "proper" bow tie, but instead a [[wikipedia:Bow tie#Current|pre-tied dicky bow]]. This can be confirmed by carefully watching him put on the tie in'' The Eleventh Hour'', although the action is somewhat obscured by the [[Atraxi]] projection.'' | :*''When queried about the exact nature of the bow tie, [[Karen Gillan]] told the audience of the [[2nd April]] [[2010]] edition of the [[CBBC]] programme, ''Laugh Out Loud'', that Smith's bow tie wasn't a "proper" bow tie, but instead a [[wikipedia:Bow tie#Current|pre-tied dicky bow]]. This can be confirmed by carefully watching him put on the tie in'' The Eleventh Hour'', although the action is somewhat obscured by the [[Atraxi]] projection.'' | ||
:*''It seems strange that there would be such resistance to the Eleventh Doctor's bow tie, as it hardly compares to some of the outlandish accessories of previous incarnations, most notably the stalk of celery that [[ | :*''It seems strange that there would be such resistance to the Eleventh Doctor's bow tie, as it hardly compares to some of the outlandish accessories of previous incarnations, most notably the stalk of celery that The [[Fifth Doctor]] wore in his lapel.'' | ||
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The Eleventh Doctor was the eleventh incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. He was erratic in behaviour and very alien compared to his previous incarnation, yet he retained his youthful vigour for defending the universe. Shortly after he began his travels, this incarnation of the Doctor encountered and gained his first companion, Amy Pond and later, Rory Williams.
Biography
Regeneration
The Doctor's tenth incarnation regenerated some time after absorbing a vast amount of radiation. During regeneration, he released a massive amount of energy, causing severe damage to his TARDIS.
Despite the destruction going on around him inside the TARDIS, the new incarnation's first priority was to do a personal inventory of his body to make sure all the proper parts were in place.
He again moaned that he was still not ginger, something his previous incarnation had also wanted to be. (DW: The Christmas Invasion, NSA: Shining Darkness)
Slightly addled by the regeneration, the new incarnation did not immediately realize the TARDIS was on fire and about to crash. Once he did, he actually seemed to enjoy the thrill of the moment, gleefully calling out "Geronimo!" as his TARDIS plummeted to Earth. (DW: The End of Time)
Meeting Amy
The Doctor could not control the damaged TARDIS, which eventually crashed in Amelia Pond's garden. The Doctor emerged and, after testing a variety of other foods, ate fish-fingers and custard with Amelia Pond. The Doctor then heard the cloister bell, signeling a imminent overload, and left in the TARDIS. Before he did so, he promised the young Amelia that he would return in five minutes and take her on an adventure.
However, the Doctor's TARDIS rematerialized twelve years in the future, before locking up to reconstruct itself. After entering Amelia's house and discovering his mistake, the Doctor managed to save Earth from Prisoner Zero and the Atraxi who had come to recapture it. The TARDIS key then alerted the Doctor to the TARDIS's reconstruction being completed. The Doctor then made a quick trip to the moon to "run in" the TARDIS. He returned to Amy (unintentionally two years later) to take her on his promised adventure. Unknown to him, the Doctor had arrived the night before her wedding. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
Adventures with Amy and Rory
For their first trip, the Doctor took Amy Pond to the late 32nd century, where he demonstrated to her the TARDIS' space-travelling ability. After doing so, the Doctor landed on the Starship UK, where he and Amy saved a Star Whale from the unintentional cruelty of the Starship's inhabitants. While preparing to leave Starship UK, the Doctor got a phone call from Winston Churchill, after which the Doctor and Amy headed off to World War II London. (DW: The Beast Below)
Arriving a month after the call, the Doctor and Amy met Churchill, who had previously met the Doctor. (PDA: Players, The Shadow in the Glass) There, Churchill revealed to the Doctor discovered two Daleks that had survived the Medusa Cascade incident. They had created an android, Edwin Bracewell, who then claimed to have created the Daleks. Using this, the Daleks managed to infiltrate Churchill's war bunker and eventually provoke the Doctor into confirming that they were Daleks. This allowed them to activate a progenitor, creating a new generation of pure Daleks.
The five new Daleks destroyed the 'inferior' Daleks, and attempted to destroy Earth using Bracewell as a bomb. The Doctor and Amy managed to deactivate the bomb, but the Daleks escaped anyway, planning their next stratagem. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)
Intending to watch London from Primrose Hill, a boy called Stephen appeared in the TARDIS, ruining his plans. Stephen told the Doctor and Amy about Space Leeches attacking everyone in London. The Doctor realised why they had not attacked Stephen: he had a cold, which prevented him from being possessed by them. The Doctor made the cold super infectious using his sonic screwdriver, while Amy and Stephen touched everyone in London, freeing them from the Leeches. He then led the Leeches to the TARDIS to take them to another planet. (DWA: Attack of the Space Leeches!)
The Doctor and Amy then travelled to the Blue Boar Services in 1959, where they encountered a gang of teenage Petrolions. The Doctor tricked them by waiting until they ran out of fuel, and changed the direction of the fuel, taking the Petrolions off of their bikes. He then ordered them to return to their home planet. (DWA: Madness on the M1!)
After arriving in the Delirium Archive in the 171st century, the Doctor found a Home Box with a message from River Song, who was trying to contact him. After discovering what had originally occured via the home box, the Doctor rescued River and chased the ship that she had been on, the Byzantium. The Byzantium crashed on Alfava Metraxis, where River revealed that there was a Weeping Angel on board. The Doctor eventually managed to defeat the Angel and its army of other angels by tricking them into falling into a crack in time.
After bidding River farewell, the Doctor was asked by Amy to bring her home, where she revealed to him that she was getting married, and attempted to seduce him. Resisting her advances, the Doctor instead sought out Amy's fiancé (DW: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone)
Collecting Amy's fiancé, Rory Williams, the Doctor took the couple to Venice, calling it a "wedding present". Once there, they discovered a group of fish-like aliens masquerading as vampires, led by Rosanna Calvierri, who were attempting to flood Venice. The Doctor managed to foil their plans and as the group departed, the Doctor and Rory noticed that silence had fallen all around them. (DW: The Vampires of Venice)
While travelling, Amy, Rory, and the Doctor fell into the traps of the Dream Lord, a mysterious entity who antagonized the three by giving them a choice between a dream world and the real world. After dying in both "realities", all three awoke in the TARDIS. The Doctor then revealed that the Dream Lord was a manifestation of the Doctor's dark side by Psychic pollen. As the Doctor restarted his TARDIS, he briefly saw the Dream Lord's smirking face on the console, a reminder that he was still inside him somewhere. (DW: Amy's Choice)
Although the Doctor planned to take Amy and Rory to Rio de Janeiro in the year 2020, the TARDIS took them almost 6,000 miles off-course, depositing them in Cwmtaff, Wales. The Doctor found that a drilling operation had disturbed a Silurian city and its inhabitants were retaliating. The Doctor failed to strike a treaty between Humans and Silurians and resorted to putting the Silurians into deep sleep until a time when Earth would be ready for peace. On the way back to the TARDIS, Rory was shot by the Silurian Restac and his body was absorbed by a crack. The Doctor then tried to help Amy to remember Rory before he was erased from history, a task he failed in completing. (DW: The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood)
Out of guilt, the Doctor took Amy to visit Vincent van Gogh, where they found that his village was being attacked by a Krafayis, a beast only Vincent could see. The Doctor and Vincent's battle with the Krafayis ultimatley resulted in the creature's death, which troubled Vincent deeply. (DW: Vincent and the Doctor)
The Doctor and Amy encountered Hubert Crimp, a slave trader, at the Trans-Vegas Casino, where they freed all of his slaves and won all of his money, giving it to his slaves as compensation. (DWA : Winning Hand) The Doctor then returned his books to the Library, where they encountered Book Monsters. They discovered that they needed to feed them stories, and they were saved by telling them a story about Space Wolves and Sky Sheep. (DWA: Booked Up) He then solved the problem of the TARDIS' arrival sound annoying the inhabitants by muffling the sound with a fire extinguisher. (DWA: Bad Vibrations)
The Doctor was left behind when the TARDIS dematerialized in a park in Colchester, with Amy still inside. The Doctor rented an advertised room in Craig Owens' flat in order to solve the mystery of something on the top floor interfering with the TARDIS's ability to land. The Doctor found that the flat upstairs was actually a makeshift TARDIS and the ship's holographic computer was trying to find a suitable candidate to allow the ship to leave. The Doctor and Craig managed to stop the ship from killing anymore. When the TARDIS returned, the Doctor and Amy left, saying they might return one day. (DW: The Lodger)
Restarting the universe
Eventually, the Doctor and Amy visited Planet One, where they found the phrase "hello sweetie" and temporal co-ordinates written on the oldest cliff face in the universe. He followed the co-ordinates to 102 AD, where he found River Song acting as Cleopatra. She gave him a painting of the TARDIS exploding. The Doctor deduced that the name, "The Pandorica Opens", meant that the legendary Pandorica was real. He also knew that if someone had built it, they would want to remember where it was, whereupon he, River and Amy rode to Stonehenge. There, he found the entrance to the underhenge, a secret passage underneath Stonehenge. In the cavern, the Doctor found the Pandorica. When he touched it, it began to open.
River detected signals from the pillars in the cavern, which revealed at least ten thousand ships were orbiting the planet, including Dalek saucers, Cyberships, Sontaran flagships, Slitheen vessels, Judoon Rockets and Atraxi. The Doctor sent River back to the Romans to gain their help and bring the TARDIS to him. In the chamber, the Doctor and Amy were attacked by a the remnants of a Cyberman. They were saved by Rory, who had become a Roman.
The Doctor awoke and passed over Rory before noticing it was him. He wondered how Rory had survived, but dismissed it. When the ships arrived at Stonehenge, the Doctor warned them that he was in possession of the Pandorica. The fleet then left to discuss how to proceed. River phoned the Doctor and told him about her discovery: she had tried to pilot the TARDIS, but was taken to 26th June 2010 at Amy's house, where she found a book, "Pandora's Box" and another picturing the Romans at the site in Britain. The Doctor ordered her to leave that time, but she could not, and was locked inside the TARDIS. At Stonehenge, the Romans, including Rory, were revealed to be Autons, and captured the Doctor. Many aliens then teleported into the chamber and revealed that they were there to stop the TARDIS from exploding and destroying every universe. They locked the Doctor inside the Pandorica despite his protests. The TARDIS exploded anyway and every star in the universe began to go supernova. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)
The Doctor was released from the Pandorica by the Auton Rory on the orders of the Doctor's future self, using his future self's sonic screwdriver. They put Amy in the Pandorica so she would be healed, and the Doctor used River's vortex manipulator to travel to 1996. The Doctor arrived at the museum to find a young Amelia Pond and Amy both there and found a fez, putting it on. A Stone Dalek was brought to life by the restoration field from the Pandorica. Rory arrived, dressed as a night guard and shot the Dalek, shutting it down. The Doctor led the group away as the Dalek began to restore. The Doctor held a mop when Rory told him that that is how he had looked when he had told Rory to let him out of the Pandorica.
The Doctor then travelled back to 102 AD and told the past version of Rory to let him out. He returned to the National Museum and Amelia told him she was thirsty. He asked how Amelia knew to go there, so she gave him a leaflet and note, both with his handwriting on it. He travelled in time to Amelia's house one night before she visited the museum and left her the leaflet telling her to go there. He then visited her while she was visiting the museum, stole the drink she had at the time and left her the note. He returned and found Amelia had disappeared, as time was shrinking. The Doctor, Amy and Rory began to head for the roof when a future version of the Doctor arrived at the top of the stairs, injured. The future Doctor fell down before apparantly dying. The three went to the roof and found the TARDIS still exploding, acting as a sun to the Earth. The Doctor found that River was inside, locked in a time loop. He teleported in and saved her. River returned and destroyed the Doctor's fez with the help of Amy. The Dalek then hovered to the roof so the four then returned inside.
Inside the Doctor worked out a way to fix the universes' destruction using the Pandorica. The Dalek shot the Doctor and he travelled back in time to the stairs. There he told his past self to pretend he was dead, creating a distraction. River, Rory and Amy returned down to the Pandorica and found the Doctor inside it, having fixed the vortex manipulator. The Doctor said farewell to Amy before flying the Pandorica into the heart of the TARDIS' explosion. The Doctor then woke up in the TARDIS one week prior, rewinding through his timestream. He passed through several events, attempting to talk to Amy, before being able to do so aboard the Byzantium. He then returned to 1996, finding young Amelia asleep in the garden. He took her to her bed and talked to the sleeping child about the TARDIS. He then entered the crack in Amelia's wall, closing them forever. At Amy's wedding reception, Amy remembered the Doctor's description, thanks to River's diary and the old wives saying, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". She brought back the Doctor, using her memories of him. He arrived in the TARDIS, fully dressed in a tux and top hat.
The Doctor introduced himself to Amy's friends and family before moving the TARDIS and dancing. Later, outside Amy's house, the Doctor encountered River and returned her diary. He asked if River was married, to which she gave an ambiguous answer. The Doctor asked who she was, but she replied by telling him that he would find out soon and then teleported away. The Doctor returned to the TARDIS and Rory and Amy entered. They told him to take the day off, though the Doctor was still concerned about "the silence". The Doctor then received a call from a queen about an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express. He told Amy and Rory that he must now say goodbye, so Amy opened the TARDIS door and waved goodbye to her life in Leadworth as the Doctor started up the TARDIS. (DW: The Big Bang)
Reunion with former companions
The Doctor left Amy and Rory on a honeymoon planet shortly before his TARDIS was taken by the Claw Shansheeth, leaving him trapped on the Wasteland of the Crimson Heart.
The Shansheeth pronounced the Doctor dead and held a funeral for him, planning to drain Sarah Jane Smith and Josephine Jones of their memories of him. Using Artron energy within Clyde, the Doctor was able to perform a biological swap. He then confronted the Shansheeth, who attacked him. He escaped by performing another swap, and another, and then took Sarah Jane and Jo to the Wasteland. With their help, he completed his device that orchestrated the swap, allowing him to be on Earth without swapping places with Clyde.
Once back, Jo and Sarah Jane were captured by the Shansheet and attatched to a Memory Weave, in an attempt to create a TARDIS key from their memories. The Doctor instructed them to instead think of all their times with him. This overloaded the Weave, which exploded, killing the Shansheeth. The Doctor then reclaimed the TARDIS and took the group to Bannerman Road, where he, Jo and Sarah Jane shared goodbyes. (SJA: Death of the Doctor)
Christmas travels
The Doctor met Kazran Sardick, a man who refused to help him save both his companions and 4001 others. The Doctor then used time travel to alter Kazran's life, hoping to change him into a better person. Every Christmas eve, the Doctor, Kazran and Abigail Pettigrew visited various places. At one point, the Doctor actually ended up marrying Marilyn Monroe, although later he was defiant that it was not a real chapel. Eventually, the Doctor's efforts paid off, and with Abigail's help, he was able to save his friends. (DW: A Christmas Carol)
Undated/Unchronicled events
- There are several gaps in which a number of adventures may have happened:
- Between Rory's death and visiting Planet One.
- The Doctor and Amy visit Arcadia and the Trojan Gardens during this time.
- After Amy and Rory's wedding.
- The Doctor and Amy go in search of the Doctor's favourite painting. Rory is not present. (WC: The War of Art, WC: Amy's History Hunt)
- Between Rory's death and visiting Planet One.
- The Doctor and Amy discover the Daleks have taken over Earth in 1963. Following them back to Skaro they are able to undo the damage they have done. (VG: City of the Daleks)
- The Doctor and Amy discover an ancient Cybermen army hidden underground in the Arctic circle, being undug by Cyber Slaves - events occured on May 4th 2010. (VG: Blood of the Cybermen)
- The Doctor and Amy visit Smyslov 3 for the first time, in their perspective, and learn that their future selves visited there. (WC: Wish You Were Here)
- The Doctor and Amy fight the Entity inside the TARDIS. (VG: TARDIS)
- The Doctor and Amy visit Smyslov 3 and disable Tanik's missiles. (WC: Wish You Were Here)
- The Doctor gets captured in Vorgenson's minimiser, fights the Supreme Dalek and escapes. (SP: Doctor Who Live)
Psychological profile
Personality
The eleventh incarnation was highly energetic and very lively, with additional liveliness during his post-regenerative period. He was extremely brash and unafraid to show his eccentricities, appearing to act alien. He was also easily agitated when people or objects did not do as he wished them to, and would resort to physical confrontation and somewhat reckless behaviour to achieve his goals. He had, like a number of his other incarnations, fantastic leadership qualities. Much like his ninth and tenth incarnations, he also had a large amount of knowledge of Earth slang and colloquialisms. He appeared to have remembered a few of his predecessor's catchphrases. He was extremely resourceful and quick thinking, able to spin things to his point of view, and could find positive outlooks in negative situations. He was somewhat more melodramatic in his brilliance. When thinking about a problem, he blocked out all outside distractions, to the point where he told Amy "you're dying, shut up" so he could solely concentrate on working out how to save her. (DW: Flesh and Stone)
Much like his second incarnation, this incarnation showed a childlike recklessness, but always had a grander scheme behind his actions. Also similar to his second incarnation, the eleventh had a knack for acting smug, occasionally boasting about his feats, knowledge, and reputation.
This incarnation also had a more serious side to his character. He showed little tolerance for dire mistakes and being belittled by others, even threatening to leave Amy back at home after one mistake. (DW: The Beast Below) He often took his frustrations out on others by exploding with anger and coldness. (DW: The Beast Below, Flesh and Stone, Amy's Choice) He was also more prone to violent actions and sometimes used them as his first option to achieve his goals. He also appeared to be almost downright threatening to the Atraxi after they surveyed a projection of him, using his near-legendary reputation to his advantage. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
This incarnation also possessed a sense of arrogance, stating to Amy that "time is not the boss of me" (DW: The Time of Angels) and "you don't ever decide what I need to know". (DW: The Beast Below)
The eleventh incarnation shared many, but much milder, traits of the sixth incarnation, such as the solemn nature when not being taken seriously and the belittling of Humans. Also reminiscent is the lack of interest in his companions, much more than his previous incarnation's, even ignoring them when busy with his work. He also largely preferred his companions to follow his instructions but usually fell back to his previous incarnation's habit of letting his companions try their own plans. (DW: The Vampires of Venice) This incarnation seemed slightly annoyed with River Song instead of enjoying her, as he could not stand that River knew more about his own future than he did, and resented her apparently superior control of the TARDIS. He also did not believe in using white lies, nor did he dabble around with the truth like his tenth incarnation. Also like his sixth incarnation, this incarnation occasionally badly misjudged people. (DW: Flesh and Stone, Attack of the Cybermen)
The eleventh incarnation's more extreme emotional moments seem linked to making hard choices and the potential that innocents may suffer and die as a result of them. When it appeared he had to lobotomise the Star Whale in order to save it more pain, he seemed disgusted with the situation and himself, remarking that he would have to change his name because he wouldn't be the Doctor any more. (DW: The Beast Below) He also had a tendency to think aloud when he was panicking or stressed. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)
Much like his fourth, sixth, and ninth incarnations, this Doctor was much more outwardly alien and wasn't as in touch with Humanity as his fifth, eighth and previous incarnation were. The eleventh incarnation believed that a Human's ability to feel pain and suffering defined their Humanity. (DW: Victory of the Daleks) He was unable to comfort an upset Vincent Van Gogh (DW: Vincent and the Doctor) and found it difficult to act like an average Human when staying with Craig Owens. (DW: The Lodger) This incarnation was also aware of the flaws Humans had and reminded them of those flaws. He seemed to suggest that he saw Humans as beneath him. (DW: The Time of Angels) The eleventh incarnation still showed a deep respect for Humanity, calling them an "extraordinary species" and telling Alaya that it was dangerous to underestimate them (DW:The Hungry Earth)
The eleventh incarnation had shown a dislike of war and the use of weaponry, at least for violent means. He fired a gun to detonate a gravity globe and expressed no displeasure against weapons being used on the Weeping Angels, though this could have been because the weapons clearly had no effect on them. (DW: The Time of Angels) However, he became almost threatening when Ambrose Northover suggested they use weapons against the Silurians, claiming it wasn't how he solved problems. While posing as a normal Human, the Doctor played football on Craig Owens' team and was disgusted and became threatening when one of Craig's friends asked him if he would help "annihilate" the other team. (DW: The Lodger)
The eleventh incarnation had also shown a tendency to refer to Amy by her surname. This Doctor was not keen on hiding his emotions, usually making his anger obvious. However, unlike his previous incarnation, he seemed unable to respond well in a romantic situation with Amy Pond. (DW: Flesh and Stone) Despite this awkwardness in response to an attempted seduction, the eleventh incarnation did show an ability to be affectionate and comforting with Amy. (DW:Victory of the Daleks, Flesh and Stone/The Big Bang).
This incarnation was shown to have resolved much of the survivors guilt seen in his ninth and tenth incarnations, to the extent that he referred to the Last Great Time War as simply a 'bad day'. (DW: The Beast Below)
This incarnation seemed more willing to sacrifice himself. Several times he told Amy and Rory to return to the TARDIS in times of great danger, and sacrificed himself to create the big bang two. (DW: The Time of Angels, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Cold Blood, The Big Bang)
Habits and Quirks
This incarnation of the Doctor appeared to have incredibly good eyesight as well as an eidetic memory, and was able to scan an entire scene and pick up little details. He implored others to observe every detail in an area and make brilliant deductions from doing so.
He also showed a penchant for talking with his hands, being able to calculate a situation with hand gestures. (DW: Flesh and Stone) He also had a habit of spinning in circles when walking and spinning around in a complete counter clockwise circle to look in one direction instead of turning to the right. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, The Big Bang) This incarnation was also fond of bow ties. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
This incarnation had also shown some concern about his legs. Immediately after his regeneration, his first act was to make sure that he still had legs. (DW:The End of Time). Later on, after he had thrown himself into the explosion in the heart of the TARDIS, the first thing he did was check to see if his legs were still there. (DW: The Big Bang)
Much like his tenth persona, this incarnation had horrible social skills. He went into detail about his encounter with Amy at Rory's Bachelor party, (DW: The Vampires of Venice) and often interrupted himself, and others, to tell someone to "shut up!" Also, this incarnation was frequently out-done verbally by Amy, to the point of becoming flustered at some of her wittier remarks. He also had a habit of making various subtle light-hearted innuendos with Rory (DW: The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice) but ended up clueless when Amy tried to flirt with him. (DW: Flesh and Stone) However, he had become a little more adept at dealing with, or at least deflecting, such innuendos by the time Amy and Rory were married. (DW: The Big Bang)
He also had a habit of rambling, making rapid amendments to his speech, to the point where it seemed like he was talking nonsense. (DW: The Time of Angels, The Vampires of Venice) A habit that seemed to mildly disturb the Doctor when Amy pointed it out to him was his propensity for tasting things in order to determine their chemical and mineral composition. This ability recalled one he displayed in the early days of his tenth life. (DW: The Christmas Invasion, Tooth and Claw, The Idiot's Lantern)
Frequently, this incarnation had asked his companions and others to trust him before he began any plan. This Doctor also frequently hushed others while he trying to think. Before the eleventh incarnation pointed at someone or something, he usually clicked his fingers and then pointed. When he walked somewhere at a pace, he usually did so with his head looking at the ground. He also displayed a preference for sitting down casually and nonchalantly with leg crossed, appearing quite comfortable and in control during crises or tense situations, as with his reference to the "comfy chairs" in the Byzantium starship. (DW: Flesh and Stone)
This incarnation displayed a penchant for unexpectedly pulling miscellaneous objects out of his jacket when needed, akin to his fourth and tenth incarnations. This incarnation also had the habit of referring to his companions by their surname, much like his first incarnation did with Ian Chesterton. (DW: The Eleventh Hour, The Big Bang, SJA: Death of the Doctor)
The eleventh incarnation showed several uses of his telepathic powers, once apparantly using them to influence Amy's 'dream' of her younger self joining him so that she dreamed of Prisoner Zero's true form. (DW: The Eleventh Hour) On another occasion he filled Craig Owens in on his true past by head-butting him to apparently 'force' his memories into Craig's head, although this experience was apparently disorientating to both. (DW: The Lodger) He also used them to leave Amy a message when she woke up and was released from the Pandorica, telling her to rest. (DW: The Big Bang)
Appearance
This incarnation had long, dark hair which initially made him believe himself female. He confirmed that he wasn't by the presence of an adam's apple, but was still annoyed that he was not ginger. He had a large chin, which seemed to initially unsettle him, and green eyes. He commented on his nose though noted that he'd had worse.
Clothes
For most of his first adventure, the Doctor wore the tattered clothes of his previous incarnation. Like his third and eighth incarnations, (DW: Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who) he stole his clothing from the staff room of a hospital. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
The eleventh incarnation's primary outfit consisted of a plain brown tweed jacket with elbow patches, a dress shirt, a bow tie, braces, a gold wrist watch, rolled up navy-blue trousers and black boots. He would then change the colour of his shirt, bow tie and braces from burgundy to blue.
His jacket had pockets which were bigger on the inside, as the Doctor was able to produce a large UV lamp from his inside pocket (DW: The Vampires of Venice) along with many other things.
His second jacket was checked in design (DW: Victory of the Daleks, The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone) though he lost it while escaping from Weeping Angels aboard the Byzantium starship. After that incident, he resumed wearing his first jacket. (DW: The Vampires of Venice onwards) The jacket became tattered after the Doctor was shot by a Dalek.
While in the National Museum, the Doctor found a fez in one of the displays. He decided to start wearing a fez with his outfit stating that "Fezzes are cool", as he had of bow ties. The fez was later removed by Amy and destroyed by River Song, both of whom disapproved of it. While rewinding through his own timeline, the Doctor felt for the fez on his head, but it was not there. He concluded to himself that he could easily buy another. (DW: The Big Bang)
While attending Amy and Rory's wedding, the Doctor wore a formal tuxedo and trousers, along with a white bow tie, white scarf, and a black top hat. (DW: The Big Bang)
At Christmas, because his other jacket had become tattered, the Doctor wore a new tweed jacket with a pattern, and also a checked shirt with his burgundy bowtie and braces, new black trousers and new boots. While visting Abigail Pettigrew every Christmas Eve, he wore a mutitude of different apparel, including a long multicoloured scarf similar to ones worn by his fourth incarnation, a white tuxedo and black bow tie while visting California in 1952, and a fez, which he previously expressed affection for. (DW: A Christmas Carol)
TARDIS
- Main article: The Doctor's TARDIS
As a result of the damage caused by his tenth regeneration, the Doctor's TARDIS itself underwent a regeneration. While its interior radically altered, the exterior was also slightly affected. Most noticeably, the right exterior door was again emblazoned with a St. John Ambulance symbol, as it had been on the First Doctor's TARDIS. The light on the roof once again resembled a fresnel navigation lamp, the blue was brighter and the windows had changed to include white borders around the glass panels and alternating frosting on the bottom panes. Overall, the exterior configuration was similar to the design the first incarnation used.
At some point, the Doctor threw his much-abused TARDIS Instruction Manual into a Supernova. He later justified the move by saying he "disagreed with it". (DW: Amy's Choice)
Behind the scenes
- The comic strip The Crimson Hand, published in Doctor Who Magazine from issue 416 in December 2009, was the last strip to feature the tenth incarnation. Similarly, the American comic book publisher, IDW Publishing, announced at the New York Comic Con in February 2009 that it will begin publishing original comic book adventures featuring the eleventh incarnation as of issue 18 of Doctor Who Ongoing, scheduled for publication in December 2010.
- Benedict Cumberbatch (star of Sherlock, another show by Steven Moffat) was rumoured to have been offered the role of the eleventh incarnation and turning down the role,[1] however, he denied this.[2] Coincidentally Matt Smith auditioned for Sherlock for the role of John Watson but was rejected for being "more of a Sherlock Holmes."[3] That audition ended up causing Smith to be a prime candidate for the eleventh incarnation.
- British tabloid The Sun has reported that the eleventh incarnation's costume would be changed for Matt Smith's second series as the Doctor. The reason for this, the article cites, is that the majority of the series will be filmed in winter months and the tweed jacket isn't warm enough. The article does not specify if the entire costume will be changed or simply a warmer tweed jacket will be found, but language used in the article seemed to indicate the Doctor's "professor-style outfit" will be changed, suggesting the former.[1] However, pictures from the filming of the 2010 Christmas Special revealed that the basic outfit had not changed.[4]
- Matt Smith has made several public statements — as on The Jonathan Ross Show and in the question-and-answer session following the New York theatrical premiere of The Eleventh Hour — taking credit for the tweed jacket, braces and bow tie that his incarnation eventually wore. He has also relayed that there was some reluctance from Steven Moffat and other top executives to the bow tie in particular, but that it nevertheless "sat right" with his performance. Smith's influence — according to CON: Call Me the Doctor and a mid-April 2010 appearance on Fox Broadcasting Company's Strategy Room — was the character of Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr., as he was most often clothed on the campus of Barnett College.
- When queried about the exact nature of the bow tie, Karen Gillan told the audience of the 2nd April 2010 edition of the CBBC programme, Laugh Out Loud, that Smith's bow tie wasn't a "proper" bow tie, but instead a pre-tied dicky bow. This can be confirmed by carefully watching him put on the tie in The Eleventh Hour, although the action is somewhat obscured by the Atraxi projection.
- It seems strange that there would be such resistance to the Eleventh Doctor's bow tie, as it hardly compares to some of the outlandish accessories of previous incarnations, most notably the stalk of celery that The Fifth Doctor wore in his lapel.
External links
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1298040/New-Sherlock-Holmes-Benedict-Cumberbatch-turns-Doctor-Who-role.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
- ↑ http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/08/20/sherlock-star-benedict-cumberbatch-wouldn-t-fancy-being-doctor-who-115875-22500295/
- ↑ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a201372/matt-smith-rejected-for-bbcs-sherlock.html
- ↑ http://www.geeknative.com/12624/first-pictures-doctor-whos-new-costume/
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