fajrdrako | To be or not to be the Doctor...

From Matt Smith: "I try not to rest on my laurels really, I'm trying to keep pushing the boundaries. It's kind of like Hamlet but for television because it's boundless and you can reinvent it every day."

I'm not sure I like that. Hamlet isn't boundless: he's bound by the words he utters. The Doctor isn't boundless either, because a personality with no boundaries at all isn't a choate being - there has to be consistency on some level for there to be a meaningful story.

Or maybe I'm just disappointed that he wants to be the Doctor for years and years, because he doesn't interest me as Eleven the way Nine and Ten interested me. And maybe part of the reason for that is that he sees the Doctor as a boundless template, and I want to see him as a person.