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[edithmatilda]

I am generally OK with The Casting but am a bit concerned that I won't be able to get past the Blatant Yah Face. That is my class issues and not his posh-faced fault.

Yes, I know you never knew Neil Kinnock was posh.

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[twofootsmall]

I'm generally Blah with The Casting. How boring. And not solely due to the Blatant Yah Face.

[edithmatilda]

Ooh, it could be anyone at all! Any colour any gender any species oh look here's a drama school whiteboy! Huzzah!

[twofootsmall]

Yes. This.

And I was still holding out hope for a woman. Julia Sawalha, perhaps.

[edithmatilda]

She can be companion again and then there will be a monopoly of proper-sized noses on the Tardis and I will feel special.

Julia Sawalha is my Ethnicity Twin and thus I would Sue her horribly in either role. Oh how I fail.

[diarytypething]

I'm just pleased that they didn't cast Russell Tovey. Patterson Joseph would have been really good at it, but it's nice that they're going with someone relatively unknown (although I doubt he was rescued from building site obscurity like Tom Baker). Yeah, posh face, but that could be much less obvious when he's acting and it starts moving about. His track record as a stage actor bodes well, because it would be far more difficult to fake being any good at all when it's live.

I would put a small amount of money on him having had plastic surgery in the recent past, because his nose is a different shape in the DW publicity pictures from any of the earlier ones. Perhaps it is just Photoshopping, but it will be difficult to tell without seeing more up-to-date moving footage, but in case it isn't, I want it known that I called it this early on.

[edithmatilda]

His nose reminds me of mine from the front, ie madly wide at the top and looking like someone drew a triangle on his face. This pleases me. And I have seen footage of him looking less damp-lipped, which helped. I find his crap hair brilliant and hope no "improvement" occurs.

He seems good from clips and such, and I like how his hands were flapping about in that interview as though they were slightly out of his control. I have missed Weirdness.

[ispahan]

Blatant Yah Face is the term I've been looking for! I've seen people calling him pretty and I'm mostly meh, he's very... generic?

[edithmatilda]

At least he's not twee, I suppose. I just have an instinctive ARG YAH FACE reaction that has yet to leave me.

Also he seems better when moving than not, which is probably the right way round. Watchable on telly and bizarre on icons! Fun times!

[ispahan]

Maybe that's why I'm still meh, I've yet to see him moving/talking. I only have IMDB headshots and those BBC stills to judge him by.

[edithmatilda]

I think we should reserve judgement until the Beeb produce footage of him juggling owls for our amusement.