Eleventh Doctor Puns

IIRC both David Tennant and Matt Smith were offered the chance to continue in the role of the Doctor. Both decided it was time to go. Although I think both of them leaving worked out well for 'Doctor Who' I'd still love to see what would've happened if either of them had chosen to stay for 1 more series.

So that leads me to ask which you would like to see more: The 10th Doctor in Series 5 (probably still with Amy, Rory and a bit of River) or the 11th Doctor in Series 8 continuing their adventures with Clara.

Of course changing just this one thing means we don't know how much the rest of the series and the episodes in it would change. Series 8 with the 11th Doctor might be completely different from the one we got with the 12th Doctor. Perhaps it would've been set mostly on and around Trenzalore and the time the Doctor spent protecting it.

What series 5 would look like with Tennant we know a bit more about because Moffatt has spoken about it...

>"My version of that series would be that the David Tennant Doctor would crash into the back garden about to regenerate and little Amelia would help him back to the TARDIS and he’d fly off. And the she’d meet him again when she grew up but he’d have no memory of that because we come to realise that was the Doctor from the future – we’d make our way through the series to the point where the Doctor gets back to that (I sort of used that idea again later).
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>So, that would have been the show and he thought very hard about it and he left me a message on my answerphone saying he’d thought very hard about it and, as I thought he would, he decided to move on.”

So from that I get the feeling we probably would've got a series 5 similar to what we did get but the big difference being it ends with the 10th Doctor's regeneration (which would also mean the 2009 specials would look a bit different too, I'm now realising).

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The first ten minutes of The Eleventh Hour do such a good job at reintroducing The Doctor and a new companion in a way that is almost the antithesis to what RTD would have done; we go from universe-ending stakes to a little girl worried about a seemingly mundane crack in her bedroom wall. This is The Doctor, now played by Matt Smith, who fits into the role like I do my very old socks, comforting a child and becoming her imaginary friend. This is such a unique spin on the Doctor-companion dynamic, of course based on earlier concepts by Steven Moffat – now showrunner. There’s a lot of similarities here between this episode and The Girl In The Fireplace but, due to the change in perspective, said concept feels different enough; the girl who waits for The Doctor. Most of the sci-fi jargon and plot-beats fall to the way-side in the opening and closing of the episode, replaced instead by lovable and memorable character moments – 11 eating a shedload of food only to spit most of it back out still holds up over a decade after the fact, and I’d even go as far as to say he has more initial chemistry with young Amelia than he does with adult Amy.

Speaking of, the decision to make her a “kissogram” still feels very odd, as is the way she is first introduced to us with a very leery shot of her legs. I think Moffat has gone on record saying how attractive Karen Gillan’s legs are so this scene irks me, but only slightly; there’s very – very – fine line straddled in the first half of Series 5 as 11 and Amy get to know each other. It’s both a dynamic represented by a fairytale character and his human accomplice but also an older man and the girl who wants to ravage him. Such dynamic is awkward at best and creepy at worst, represented in the ending scene of Flesh & Stone. Once the Smith Era continues, the 11/Amy dynamic becomes one of the best in the show, but I dare say it gets off to a rough start.

But the usual quality elements of Moffat remain; obscure quirks like using “that door in your house you forget is there” as a plot-beat to introduce an interesting inter-dimensional one-off villain. Prisoner Zero is an entertaining enough antagonist though, of course, he’s

During that brilliant speech in The Rings of Akhaten, the Eleventh Doctor claims: "I've walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman."

What exactly was he referring to when he said this? Was he referring to his encounters with the Celestial Toymaker? Or his bout in Castrovalva? Or is it something else?

1. Hide
2. The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
3. The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
4. The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
5. The Eleventh Hour
6. The Angels Take Manhattan
7. The Day of the Doctor
8. The God Complex
9. A Town Called Mercy
10. Vincent and the Doctor
11. The Crimson Horror
12. The Power of Three
13. The Rings of Akhaten
14. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
15. Night Terrors
16. The Wedding of River Song
17. The Lodger
18. The Doctor's Wife
19. A Good Man Goes to War
20. The Name of the Doctor
21. The Time of the Doctor
22. Amy's Choice
23. The Vampires of Venice
24. The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood
25. Nightmare in Silver
26. Cold War
27. The Curse of the Black Spot
28. A Christmas Carol
29. Let's Kill Hitler
30. The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People
31. Closing Time
32. Asylum of the Daleks
33. Victory of the Daleks
34. The Snowmen
35. The Bells of Saint John
36. The Girl Who Waited
37. The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
38. The Beast Below
39. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Please remember these are just my opinions, it's completely okay for you to disagree with me. I realise that some of these placements are unorthodox, I seem to be notorious for my contrarian views, but I will happily give details of my opinions on specific episodes providing that you approach the discussion with respect rather than belittle me for not conforming to accepted opinions.

I was just thinking about River's whole timeline and it got me thinking about whether 11 would have ever taken Amy and Rory to the Library? I think it's definitely possible but I'm not sure the Doctor would ever want to return, given everything that happens and his increasing bond with her.

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Or is it just me?

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And no other opener will ever be as good as it. Not even Rose.

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Over the last few years, fans have seen the Doctor regenerate and gain a new personality. But why was the Eleventh reincarnation so iconic?

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And no other opener will ever be as good as it. Not even Rose.