First trailer featuring Matt Smith as the Doctor

So, the Doctor, as played by David Tennant, has died with a bang and a whimper. We knew it had to happen eventually, but it still stings.

A trailer has been released, showing Matt Smith in action as the new incarnation of the Doctor, and... Well, now I guess I know how a lot of UK Doctor Who fans felt back in the early 1980s, when the awesomely peculiar Tom Baker was replaced by a young and tentative Peter Davison. It's sort of like your mother abruptly divorcing your father and then bringing home some gangly college kid she wants you to call "Dad."

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