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This is a weird post. I obviously wouldn't ever want to make fans of Life sad, so take it as read that I don't wish unhappiness on any of you. This is just my personal, selfish desire, for which there were no indications it would ever have come true anyway.

Screwy enough for you so far?

Remember, this is just my goofy-ass fantasy.

I had had hopes, putting aside the fact that it would have made the fans sad, that Life would have been canceled after last season. Because Damian Lewis would have been frakkin' awesome as the eleventh Doctor.

He can be a total dork (this is a clip from Shakespeare Retold, in which he plays Benedick, who co-hosts a morning tv news morning program with Beatrice. This is the parallel scene to her being sent to ask him to come in to dinner).

He can be terrifying (please excuse quality of clip - no idea wtf, but it's his voice).

He can sing (why this matters to me for Doctor Who? I don't know. Also again, please excuse the video, because... I have no idea what is going on or why. Maybe just close your eyes and listen).

He can switch out emotions on a dime. (More Much Ado--the post-wedding-fiasco scene with Beatrice.)

HAI.

O HAI FEETS.

DID I MENTION HAI?

Plus? GINGER. He always wanted to be ginger!

Instead, we have...well,

Seriously, don't scroll down if you don't want to see Eleven, or read my personal, negative opinion.

Last warning!

Matt Smith, a 26-year-old who, remember, MY opinion only, looks like Sean Penn and Amy Winehouse had a child, and then bounced his face off of a plate-glass window.

I completely and totally understand that the Doctor doesn't have to be a good-looking guy. I really do. I have never been attracted to Christopher Eccleston, but that had no bearing at all on how much I liked him as the Doctor. But... this guy? And... 26? I wanted them to cast older (yeah, yeah, it's all about me). Not that younger itself is in itself a bad thing, but, not so young as to be... well. That. And this kid might be a great actor, but I'll never know, because I won't be watching.

So, there you have it.