{"id":11784,"date":"2009-01-04T18:12:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/01\/04\/11784.html"},"modified":"2009-01-04T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T02:12:47","slug":"going-to-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/01\/04\/going-to-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <cite>Guardian<\/cite> provides info on relatively unknown actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Smith_(British_actor)\">Matt Smith<\/a> being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2009\/jan\/03\/doctor-who-matt-smith\">chosen to play the eleventh Doctor<\/a> on <cite>Dr. Who<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine everyone who cares already knows that David Tennant will (sadness!) be leaving the show in early 2010 after a series of four specials to be broadcast this year. (Plus the 2008 Christmas special, which has already aired in the UK but not in the US.)<\/p>\n<p>I'm dubious about Smith, especially after watching his nearly content-free interview with the BBC about being picked. However, I was dubious about Christopher Eccleston as the ninth Doctor, but was won over quickly; and then I was very dubious about Tennant when he took over--and he may well now be my favorite Doctor. So I'm willing to give the people in charge the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<p>I had been thinking that the day was ever-faster approaching when they would have to decide what to do after number twelve, but actually it turns out that (a) a Time Lord gets thirteen bodies total (twelve regenerations, not twelve bodies), and (b) there's a suggestion that that limit may have been a social limit rather than a physical one. The BBC's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/s4\/faq\/plot_continuity.shtml\">series 4 plot and continuity FAQ<\/a> (that page contains spoilers for the latest season) says, in response to the question \"How many regenerations does the Doctor have?\": \"Now that his people are gone, who knows? Time Lords used to have 13 lives.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian provides info on relatively unknown actor Matt Smith being chosen to play the eleventh Doctor on Dr. Who&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speculative-fiction","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}