Yet Another Minis Catch Up Post; Part 6968.3. Probably.

I have a theory. Some time back in the late 70s or early 80s a wargamer REALLY pissed off John Nathan Turner. I'm not sure what it was he did exactly, save that it must have been terrible. Terrible enough that JNT swore bloody vengeance on all painters of little metal people, from that time onwards. And in he waited, and plotted, and when the time was right he unleashed a torment such as the world had never seen before.

No, not that one. A DIFFERENT torment.

And thanks to that one nameless fool we're all still paying the price to this day. Because there will come a time in the life of everyone who shares both miniature painting and Doctor Who as hobbies when they suddenly realize that they're going to have to try and paint the 6th Doctor.

Wacky Race Wars

So then, Matt Smith recently announced he would be stepping down from Doctor Who. This news came as a great shock to pretty much no one who actually pays attention, since he has actually been doing it for 3 years now, and that's pretty much the average.

	Start	Finish	Duration
1st Doctor	1963	1966	3
2nd Doctor	1966	1969	3
3rd Doctor	1970	1974	4
4th Doctor	1974	1981	7
5th Doctor	1981	1984	3
6th Doctor	1984	1986	2
7th Doctor	1987	1989	2
8th Doctor	1996	1996	1
9th Doctor	2005	2005	1
10th Doctor	2005	2010	5
11th Doctor	2010	2013	3
AVERAGE			3.09

I even have the maths to prove it.

And of course, once the current Doctor announces he's leaving the rumor mill starts spinning faster than William Shakespeare in his grave after being told Michael Bay was rebooting Hamlet.

G.. O... F..U... C.. K... T..H..Y..S...E...L...F....

And what's interesting about that is, excepting specific names, we always end up having exactly the same discussion. Perhaps it's a testament to the lasting legacy of the The Mighty John Nathan Turner that, regular as clockwork, no sooner has a Doctors departure been announced than somebody somewhere will start a rumor that the next Doctor might be..... A WOMAN!!

Or even WORSE (depending on where exactly you fall on the hateful internet prick spectrum of bigotry) NOT EVEN WHITE!!

You know, like those dudes from the Power Of Kroll.

 The thing is, there is actually some interesting point to think about with the issues that get raised when these sort of questions come up. Sadly they're not ones that you can easily get any intelligent discussion about because this is, after all, the internet. Still, we can always have a go, can't we?