I have to say, I was going along with David Tennant with all his charging up corridors and yelling ALONSY and as per usual, they go and regenerated him , and to be fair it took me a good half season to start liking Matt Smith, but now, his one of my top 4 doctors ...so here he is.
Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982), more commonly known as simply Matt Smith, is an English actor. He portrayed the Eleventh Doctor on Doctor Who and in the 2010 two-part storyline Death of the Doctor for the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures.....Smith grew up in Northampton (located in the East Midlands of England) and attended Northampton School for Boys, mocked for having a face "with elbows". He originally wanted to be a footballer but had to give up this ambition after a back injury. He excelled at sports in school. Matt supports Blackburn Rovers. After encouragement from his drama teacher, he joined the National Youth Theatre. He studied at University of East Anglia, reading Drama and Creative Writing. He did not attend a Drama school.
Since being cast as the Doctor, Smith has also starred opposite Eva Green in the science fiction drama Womb (released on DVD as Clone), and has starred as the writer Christopher Isherwood in the BBC television film Christopher and His Kind.
He also appeared as himself in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and An Adventure in Space and Time.
Majestically exoubarant, occasionally flirty, and by and he has said himself, "a mad man", the Eleventh Doctor mixed youth with an old soul.....Crashing into the backyard and lives of Amy Pond, and her boyfriend (later, husband) Rory, he solved the mystery of the time-erasing cracks in the universe, escaped his own death, restarted reality and even found time to marry River Song.
Seven-year old Amelia Pond is visited one night by a mad man in box who eats fish fingers and custard, and who examines the frightening crack in her wall. She heads out to the backyard and waits for him to return, slight time mishap has her waiting for twelve years. When the “raggedy man” came back, Amy embarked on some rather stunning adventures with him, on the eve of her wedding to Rory Williams.
Amy and Rory later travelled together, got married – an event the Doctor attended only after Amy remembered him back into existence – and had a daughter, Melody.
In Amy’s own words, she went to sea and fought pirates, fell in love with a man who waited 2000 years to keep her safe, gave hope to Vincent van Gogh, and saved a whale in outer space. Touched by a Weeping Angel, Amy was catapulted back to 1938, where she lived a happy life with Rory and adopted a son.
In love with Amy Pond from his teens, Rory Williams became a nurse to try and compete with (what he thought was) her made-up friend, the Doctor. When the Doctor turned out to be real, there was initially some friction, but the two became good friends. Rory had a turbulent time in the TARDIS. He was killed by the Silurians and absorbed into a crack in time, before being resurrected as an Auton, who then killed Amy. After breaking his programming, he stood watch over her tomb in the Pandorica for 2000 years. When reality was rebooted, Rory ceased to be an Auton and returned to human form. While aboard the TARDIS, he and Amy became parents to Melody. Sent back in time to 1938 by a Weeping Angel, Rory lived a happy life with Amy. Their adopted son, Anthony Brian Williams, who visited Rory’s father Brian in 2012, bringing a heart-breaking goodbye note from Rory.
River was born with the power to regenerate but used up all her remaining regenerations when she saved the Doctor after she poisoned him because she was programmed to kill him... Very complicated....He first met her on the planet of The Library, so her journal is (or will be!) packed with information the Doctor feels he shouldn't know about yet. The tragedy is, he knows how River dies, so when the two of them have that picnic at Asgard and do whatever they did together at the Singing Towers, he'll have a terrible secret that he won't be able to tell her.
River shares the Time Lord's buccaneering sense of adventure, as well as his knack for getting into trouble. But as for just how much they meant to each other: spoilers!
THE PATERMOSTER GANG
Madame Vastra is, in her own words, ‘a lizard woman from the dawn of time’ who currently lives in Victorian London where she’s married to Jenny Flint. She has shown immense compassion to the Doctor and his friends but don’t get on the wrong side of this Silurian… She’s been known to eat her enemies!...Vastra understands the Doctor better than most and clearly feels an affinity with him. After his regeneration on Trenzalore, she told Clara, ‘I wear a veil as he wore a face. For the same reason…
The oldest reason there is for anything: To be accepted.’ And she was loyal enough to be stung by Clara’s problem accepting the Time Lord’s older appearance. ‘He looked like your dashing, young gentleman friend… But he is the Doctor. He has walked this universe for centuries untold! He has seen stars fall to dust!’....The Doctor first found Vastra in the London Underground system where, as she put it, she was ‘attempting to avenge my sisters on perfectly innocent tunnel-diggers’. He intervened, teaching her that ‘anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake’. It was a piece of wisdom she would remind him of much later, on the eve of the battle of Demons Run. ....
, She was by his side as he battled the Great Intelligence in 1892 and the following year she helped him defeat Mrs Gillyflower and Mr Sweet...Perhaps it wasn’t coincidence that when the Twelfth Doctor needed help, immediately after his regeneration, out of all of the infinity of time and space where he could have landed, the TARDIS ended up within miles of Madame Vastra… And her reaction when she saw he had regenerated into what appeared to be a completely new man? A nonchalant, ‘Well then… Here we go again!’
Jenny Flint is married to Madame Vastra and lives with her in Paternoster Row, London. She is a skilled fighter, expert with a sword and the Eleventh Doctor suggested she was his ‘favourite lock-picking Victorian chambermaid’!....Jenny is the perfect foil to Vastra. Whereas her wife is blunt to the point of insensitivity, Jenny tries to remain tactful. When Vastra was clearly infuriated by Clara’s inability to accept the newly regenerated Doctor, for example, Jenny was gentler. ‘It’s still him, ma’am,’ she said of the sleeping Time Lord. ‘You saw him change.’...
We first encountered Jenny Flint in London during the 1880s where she appeared to be Vastra’s maid. When the Doctor needed a small band of friends to help rescue Amy and her baby, Jenny didn’t hesitate and looked delighted when Vastra said, ‘Pack the cases… And we’re going to need the swords!’...Luckily she’s got a thick skin when it comes to Vastra’s barbs about humans being apes, and she uses sarcasm as a response to some of her more questionable comments. When her wife explained, ‘Jenny and I are married. Yet for appearance’s sake, we maintain a pretence, in public, that she is my maid,’ Jenny raised an eyebrow. ‘Doesn't exactly explain why I'm pouring tea in private,’ she noted, adding, ‘Good pretence, isn’t it?’
Considering he’s a member of a clone race, Commander Strax is a remarkable individual. We’ve seen the Doctor encounter many Sontarans and whilst every other member of this belligerent species has been guided by a single-minded passion for war, Strax is a nurse. And a good one. We’ve witnessed him save the life of a child in a warzone, give medical advice to a weary soldier and Strax even had himself gene-spliced so he could be fit for all nursing duties. When baby Melody appeared to need a feed he proudly declared, ‘I can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid!’...
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Frustrated by the centuries-long stalemate/conflict between the Eleventh Doctor, the Papal Mainframe and the various enemies of the Doctor during the Siege of Trenzalore, Kovarian and her followers travelled back through time to "engineer" a psychopath to kill" the Doctor, and prevent the siege from ever occurring.
Rather than a specific race, The Silence are a religious order. Their agents on Earth have been there since before the dawn of mankind, directing human evolution. They use post-hypnotic suggestion to make people who see them instantly forget their existence. They believe that silence must fall when the oldest Question in the universe is asked. It will be asked at “the fall of the Eleventh” on the Fields of Trenzalore, and is hidden in plain sight. As a result, the Silence have tried to stop the Doctor reaching Trenzalore. They used their agent Madame Kovarian to kidnap Melody Pond, and raised her as the Doctor’s perfect assassin. Despite the failure of this plan, the Silence remain at large, determined to stop the Question ever being asked.
The Great Intelligence is a deadly parasite – a malevolent force lacking corporeal form that uses human beings as its servants, sometimes willingly, but often against its victim’s wishes. Before racing away to find Clara, the Doctor stared at Doctor Simeon’s business card and the name printed on it stirred a memory. ‘The Great Intelligence…’ he murmured.
The recollection is because the Time Lord has confronted the Intelligence on two previous occasions…And there is also Walter Simeon, whose life changed forever during one snowy day in 1842. As usual he was playing on his own, watched over by his fretting mother who remarked, ‘He never talks to anyone... He’s so alone.’ But moments after she walked away, something incredible happened. Walter spoke to the snowman he was building and heard it reply. A sonorous voice concurred with his own thoughts. Don’t talk to them, the voice told him, they’re silly. Hadn’t he always said that? But still, the experience shook him… He began to run until the voice continued. ‘You don’t need anyone else!’ Walter paused… Whether he realised it or not, his life had just become colder…
The Day of the Doctor was the fiftieth anniversary special of Doctor Who, the first full-length multi-Doctor story of the BBC Wales era, the first Doctor Who adventure shot in stereoscopic 3D, and the first adventure to be broadly available in cinemas in a number of different countries.....
it was shown at literally the same time round the globe on 23 and 24 November 2013 on television, setting a then record for the largest ever simulcast of a television drama. In all, it was viewable in some 94 countries and 1,500 theatres worldwide
The episode featured the return of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and the appearance of John Hurt as a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor: the War Doctor, in what was the final chronological adventure for his portrayal of the Doctor. His only full-length adventure on screen introduced a new iteration of the sonic screwdriver and a unique TARDIS control room predating those seen in Series 1.
Furthermore, the War Doctor's regeneration was shown, into what appeared to be the Ninth Doctor, completing a missing link in the chain of incarnations that started when Christopher Eccleston debuted in the 2005 relaunch of the series, Rose. The process of resolving the regenerations issue was being enforced by executive producer Steven Moffat, as he wished to have a "complete set" in time for Matt Smith's upcoming final episode.....
Moffat also chose to requisition actor Paul McGann for one more outing as the Eighth Doctor in a mini-episode production, The Night of the Doctor one week after production wrapped on the anniversary special, resulting in a second former Doctor returning to the screen as part of the festivities. McGann filmed his own regeneration into Hurt's version of the Doctor, cementing the lineage of all Doctors up to Smith's incarnation onward.....
The Day of the Doctor saw the return of the Zygons, last seen in the 1975 Fourth Doctor serial Terror of the Zygons, 38 years after their initial debut.
And then there was .....
Dorium Maldovar alerted the Doctor to the fact that he would visit Trenzalore at some point in his travels, at "the Fall of the Eleventh". Maldovar also said to him that at this time and place "no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer." Here, the First Question in the universe would be asked.
The Doctor was drawn to Trenzalore by an endlessly repeating message emanating through all of time and space. Trapped in a pocket universe, the Time Lords were using a residual crack in time located on Trenzalore to send the message, which translated as "Doctor Who?" through all of time and space. Along with the Doctor, their transmission drew "half the universe" to the planet including the Daleks, Cybermen, Judoon, Silurians, Weeping Angels, the Sontarans, and the Papal Mainframe. The Mainframe arrived first and established a force field around the planet, preventing anyone from approaching and creating a stalemate which everyone was afraid to break due to the fear established by the message.
Teleporting to Trenzalore from the Papal Mainframe, the Doctor found the crack and realised what was going on. After learning what planet it was, the Doctor stayed on Trenzalore so that it wouldn't be destroyed, not willing to restore the Time Lords because a new time war would start due to the presence of so many enemies. For three hundred years the Doctor protected the planet from small incursions by various enemies with the help of the now-renamed Church of the Silence who dedicated themselves to stopping chaos from happening.
Three hundred years later, the force field protecting the planet fell and the Doctor's enemies attacked in force. The Doctor spent centuries protecting the planet with the help of his former enemies, the Silence. Six hundred more years passed before the fighting finally came to a close.
In time, all but the Daleks burned or retreated and the Doctor grew old, frail and forgetful. Tasha brought the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald to Trenzalore so that he wouldn't die alone as he was out of regenerations and was near death from old age. During a final attack by the Daleks on Christmas, the Doctor decided to surrender himself as demanded. But as he stood atop the Clock Tower, ready to accept his final death, the Time Lords, at Clara's request, granted him a new cycle of regenerations. Using the energy from his regeneration, the Doctor destroyed the Dalek forces assailing Trenzalore. Having done their part in ensuring the Doctor's survival, the Time Lords finally sealed the crack linking Gallifrey and Trenzalore, cutting themselves off from the universe to await another chance at returning. Meanwhile, with the siege over and the planet no longer in danger from his enemies, the Doctor, finally free of his obligations to both the Time Lords and the people of Christmas, regenerated into his twelfth incarnation.
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