"I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth..."

Well, I know loads of people have been freaking out about James Nesbitt replacing their Divine Pretty, i.e. David Tennant but I'm kind of ok with that.  Tbh, he's exactly the kind of person I wanted to take over from DT-older, more mature, not so pretty but just as charismatic (ok, yes, I really do want Christopher Eccleston back).

I will certainly miss DT's aforementioned prettyness and gawkish adorableness, plus his random flailing, his exclamations of joy over mechanical parts and his occasional snogs with french girls but I can live with him moving on.  After S4 he will have done three years, which is quite long enough for any actor, and also about the average length of most of the Doctors, except Tom Baker, who did sveen years cos he was cool.

I think James Nesbitt  will do an excellent job, if it's not, in fact, a rumour; he isn't "tainted" by yellow pages adverys or any of the silly things people have been saying.  I watched one episode of Jekyll and felt physically sickened by the sheer glee and destruction in his performance, which is a very strong reaction to have, so I have no doubts about his acting ability either.

And, on the plus side, the Ten/Rose shippers might shut up about Rose rejoining the series now Teh Pretty won't be around.  Hah.  And, this might be wishful thinking, but I do think that he would have excellent chemistry with Martha.  I mean, srsly, scorching.

Oh, and also- Moffat replacing RTD as Head Writer?  Two things:

1) YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.  THANK YOU GOD MY LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDS.

2)  RTD and DT leaving at the same time convinces me of what I have long suspected: that RTD lives only to create Mary-Sueified versions of Rose as his little prop through which he can envision shagging David tennant.  Mate, we'd all like to shag David Tennant, but we don't slag off Martha to do it.