Comparing the original to THE ABOMINABLE DOCTOR PHIBES got my attention, too.
(fortunately it doesn't sound like this new one is a DOCTOR PHIBES RISES AGAIN- style disappointment)

(ACTUALLY TRUE! his name is Doug Jones)

It makes more sense when you know that the guy in the Moon Man suit also plays half the monsters in Guillermo Del Toro films.

that is both super-paranoid and also a completely reasonable fear.

Is this a good place to point out sharks don't actually have skeletons?

Weren't they in TWILIGHT ZONE together? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GZMv…

BigbooTAY! BigbooTAY!

without checking, I'm pretty sure that would still be William Hartnell.

of course (and both McGann and Smith were good fits for the role, even when the scripts let them down)

yeah. I mean, the Hinchcliff/ Holmes era was my favorite run of WHO, and it's a shame Hinchcliffe was essentially pushed out (too many complaints from the Mary Whitehouse types)… but it was better for H+H to go out on top, and Tom Baker was a great fit for Douglas Adams' run.

or the money.

Smith wouldn't even have been considered, except that his agent pushed hard for him- which meant a LITTLE bit more in this case, because his agent is Wendy Padbury, and when someone who worked on the show alongside Patrick Troughton says "this guy was born to play the Doctor", you're going to be more inclined to give…

Technically, Peter Capaldi was too big for the part, too.

Seriously, Danny as Louie DePalma would be a better fit.
Of course, Louie as The Master and Christopher Lloyd as Reverend Jim is even better.

(I'm actually pretty ashamed of myself, but i don't often get a chance to be first. I JUST WANTED TO PLAY IN THE BIG LEAGUES!)

WHERE'S FIREFLY?

more serious speculation: It'll be Dennis Miller with a pre-approved script full of his 1990s-era Clinton material.

It's interesting that he shared that role with Peter Cushing; in a weird way, he was Cushing's heir, bringing a palpable life to genre roles (both actors frequently brought more to those roles than the films around them deserved).
And as a genre buff, it heartens me that the quality of the films around these…

How good was John Hurt?
He was so good, they bent the rules to get him in their movies.
The BBC let the producers of I CLAUDIUS get away with far more than the censors of the time were comfortable with… because who could look away from his Caligula?
They rewrote DOCTOR WHO continuity to make him a previously unknown…

But who takes over as Pope when he hibernates?