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Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman?
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Jennifer Finney Boylan writes in the NYT that for those who did not get beaten up in high school, 'Doctor Who' is a beloved British sci-fi series about a character called the Doctor who is able to regenerate into a new body whenever a mortal would die or whenever an actor grows tired of the gig. The Doctor has been played by 11 different men since the show went on the air in 1963 and with Matt Smith, stepping down this Christmas, many fans had hoped that this time, a dozen cycles in, the Doctorship would finally go to a woman. 'Maybe it was the election of Barack Obama that made it seem, fleetingly, as if there were no more glass ceilings, for offices from president to pontiff,' writes Boylan. 'Whether the 45th president is a woman (Hillary Rodham Clinton?) or a Latino (Marco Rubio?), it still feels, on a good day, as if we've entered a time when there are fewer limits on what men and women can aspire to.' But unlike presidents or popes, we may not get that many more chances at a glass-shattering Doctor. According to long-held Doctor Who mythology, the character's 13th regeneration could be his last. 'As the producers think about whom they want to take on the role next, they should keep in mind the way people's hopes are lifted when they see someone breaking the glass ceiling, even when it's for something as seemingly trivial as a hero on a science-fiction program. Equal opportunity matters — in Doctor Who's universe as well as our own.'"
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That is just absurd !!
It seems there is a subset of people out there who just can never be happy unless they are going against the grain. There will be people out there who make a big deal about who the next Doctor is regardless of who gets it. Not everything has to be groundbreaking or new. Sometimes tried and trusted are the way to go.
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No, because that means Samuel L. Jackson would be out of the running. (Admit it, you'd watch that.)
The Dr had a wife and child. Unless you are going to make the time lords all capable of changing sex, and boy could that get confusing with some times straight some times gay families, he cannot we a woman.
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Well it shouldn't be a woman just because of the gender. If they find a good woman to act Dr, let it be.
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It seems awful to me. The writing is bad. The characters are bad. The plots are bad. The props/special effects are bad.
Is it something we Ironically like because its so bad or does it have good aspects I've over looked?
Don't get me wrong. I love science fiction. But this seems like garbage.
Anyone have an idea as to what I'm missing here?
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In Curse of the Fatal Death.
It's not cannon, but it was the first Doctor Who "episode" of sorts that Steven Moffat wrote, and I have seen some minor gags in the series since Steven took over as show runner taken from Curse of the Fatal Death.
Will they be brave enough to do a Colin Baker on a female Doctor?
You know, Colin's first appearance as The Doctor was pretty psychopathic and violent toward his female companion.
David Tennant often displayed un-heroic tendencies against some of the monsters.
Hell, the very first Doctor was a barely human character who was definitely not a sympathetic or even mildly heroic character.
Would they be brave enough to not only show a woman Doctor, but show one who was as far from Dudley Do-Right as the male versions have been?
The clue is in the title. Who ever heard of a "Time Lady"?!
If you want a sci-fi story with a strong female protagonist, then feel free to write one. Leave the doctor alone. He is a he, has been a he, and should remain a he. He's had complex relationships that would be all too complicated and distracting to bring up and try to weave into a "she". And this isn't that kind of story. It's not meant to be going into social situations and analysing them. It's sonic screwdrivers, weeping angels, tardis and interesting companions. Go away with your politically correct nonsense.
I think that people who want to see the next Doctor be some sort of handicapped post-op lesbian hermaphrodite never watch the show but just want to push some sort of agenda to get some checkbox filled somewhere. They would never watch a single episode with their politically-corrected Doctor but that's not really the point.
If you want to kill what is left of the show.
If you ignore the reincarnation aspect and treat it as separate actors playing the same role you might ask if it's time for James Bond to be female?
It might be time for stories to be written about female secret agents, but that doesn't mean the one agent you've written about has to change genders.
BTW, nothing wrong with changing genders and in scifi scenarios where it was already written (lots of Ian Banks books for instance) it's welcome that the character might become female or male. If anyone wants to tackle Culture stories as a serial scifi show I would love it (as long as they didn't ruin it)
I think there is plenty of things wrong with doctor who currently (plot wise) that don't involve gender bending. If they introduced a female doctor it would mean at least two years of stories pretty much devoted to aspects and repercussions of the change. Even if they choose not to address it there would be an uproar from fans about not addressing it, and there would always be the undercurrent of novelty from it.. hehe, look at us we're edgy because we recast the Doctor as female.
There is a giant untapped group of people, the gallifreyans who are all time travelers. Some of them were female. They could get their own spinoff show. I know they're all dead now in the doctor who universe but there was a time when they weren't dead and the spinoff could be during that period.
I wasn't taking this seriously before The One showed up, but when she invoked him? Total Nonsense.
the character's 13th regeneration could be his last
Okay, first, the article means his TWELFTH regeneration, his thirteenth INCARNATION. Secondly, it's already canon that doctors can regenerate far more than twelve times.
That is all.
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So somehow changing an indubitably male character into a woman is a 'victory' for women?
Perhaps we could just work on creating an interesting, engaging, successful female character and celebrate her? Or celebrate one of the many strong female characters already present in media?
Perhaps there's a moral in here for the whole feminist movement.
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they should keep in mind the way people's hopes are lifted when they see someone breaking the glass ceiling
They should keep in mind the way people are offended when writers pander with a token character.
Surely a science fiction concept with a female lead can be developed outside of the current Dr. Who franchise. Or, a spin-off series featuring a female timelord can be developed in parallel, like Star Trek did with Voyager. The can have separate adventures and then guest star from time to time on each others' shows. Seems like you get more audience that way. Why is there a need to take an established character and turn it into something completely different?
Dr. Who will always be Tom Baker in my imagination anyway.
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... 'As the producers think about whom they want to take on the role next, they should keep in mind the way people's hopes are lifted when they see someone breaking the glass ceiling, even when it's for something as seemingly trivial as a hero on a science-fiction program. Equal opportunity matters — in Doctor Who's universe as well as our own.'"...
This is an ARTISTIC endeavour.
You have just asserted that someone's creative work should be altered so that your political views can be forced onto the world in the guise of behaviour-modifying propaganda. Might I suggest that if you want to see a SF program with 'equality' messages you should write one yourself?
And you are calling for this without any evidence - it is just your bare assertion that people (read 'you') will be happier if a 'feminist-friendly' Dr Who is created. For your information, my heart sinks every time I see art forced into the service of politics like this...
No! It's better to invent a new character and franchise for the ones that want a women
the new doctor has already been announced last sunday??? its was Peter Capaldi
The idea of a female Doctor comes up every single regeneration since Tom Baker hinted at the possibility (presumably in jest). It's no longer an amusing idea, and it is obviously not going to happen (since they have managed to resist the idea ever since then).
I think Doctor Who stands out these days for not having a female martial arts specialist who would blow over in a strong wind as the main character. I know, gross over-generalisation, but still . . .
Well, we've seen Superwoman/girl, Batgirl, Spider-woman, Wonder Woman, Power Girl, etc. so a female so Dr. Who wouldn't be such a big deal...
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Jennifer Finney Boylan writes in the NYT that for those who did not get beaten up in high school...
Whining about diversity and coming out with the stereotyping right out of the gate(and yes, it's a quote from TFA, I did check). Maybe she thought that was cute?
I had a nice rant with lots of big words about diversity not about messing with established characters and missing the point and all that, but you know what? Screw it.
Why should we bloody-nosed, inhaler puffing masses give a fuck what this imbecile has to say?
Why not? What other roles have been played by multiple actors that could have a little gender-bending?
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Really?
You of all commentators on the new Doctor might just be able to understand why regenerating as a woman, outside of a gag short involving a very elaborate fart joke juxtaposed with crossdresser jokes, might cause a problem for the character.
Who knows? Maybe that's what you're getting at?
I still remember throwing your book She's Not There across the room after you did something that's remained unobtainable for me for the past 10 years apparently without a single damned problem or setback. I guess maybe the real "glass ceilings" in this world are just fine for folks who need a damned job to keep a roof over their head because they don't have a way of making money rain from the sky like manna from heaven.
Look, you want a female Doctor? Dr. Song's pretty much outlived her character's story. Excuse my lack of knowledge about classic Doctor Who. What about Romana? Hell, there's a regenerated female clone of the Doctor out there somewhere galloping about the cosmos. Why not bring the Doctor-Donna out of retirement?
This has absolutely nothing to do with "glass ceilings" and you know it. The only glass ceilings womyn-born-womyn have are the their own self-imposed ones; I've seen it enough times myself to become physically ill. And don't you dare try to drag a womyn-born-womyn through her own self-imposed glass ceiling! She'll call you "mean" for trying to make her move past "math is hard!" I am so utterly sick of hearing this line from womyn-born-womyn who truly believe this. What the hell am I supposed to do about it when they're too busy viewing me as "all men" and when feminism views me as a metaphysical rapist every time I take my estrogen in the morning?!
The only glass ceilings rich trans women have are... I don't know, you tell me? When you're rich enough, does that promote you out of the category of a rapist appropriating the female form into a position where you can use feminist buzzwords like "glass ceiling?"
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It's been confirmed that the Doctor is now more or so immortal http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/12/doctor-who-immortal-reveals-bbc
Margaret Thatcher was in power here 1979-1990. She fucked over the arts during that time. It will take a few more years to get over it.
maybe it would make up for great story ? Sory , but i don't see why the doctor who could not be a lesbian tranny black Muslim in a wheelchair.
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Half Dalek, Half Timelord! Time stream cross-species re-integration! Just kill off Dr Who and make the show about his kid. Then stick it in the Firefly universe for half the season until it learns how to use a Tardis properly. SHOVE IN ALL THE OPTIONS!
.. why? If gender doesn't matter any more why are we fixating on it here?
Seriously I am tired of the flamebait articles that publications / web news sites post in order to get page clicks. The whole "The doctor should regenerate into a woman" argument doesn't make any sense. Personally I want to know who the majority of British citizens feel about that. Since, you know, it's a British TV series.
Fuck tell JJ Abrams to reboot Star Trek again and gender swap Kirk. Do another time travel story that somehow causes his Y chromosome to while still in the womb.
To me the outcry should be for more TV shows (sci-fi or otherwise) with a female main character, who doesn't rely on anyone else around them to solve the big bad problem.
....just saying.
The general population here is incapable of conceiving of woman as equals.
Comments on articles like this continue highlight that.
If a balance of genders is ever achieved, people will simply stop caring but that's clearly not the case.
Anyone have an idea as to what I'm missing here?
Everything after 2005 that was written by Russell T. Davies.
You do make some points that I agree with - the sonic screwdriver has become the Deus Ex Machina of the series. He solves just about every problem with the fucking thing.
But, as an American, I find a character that solves problems using brains, cunning, and the 'bad guys' weaknesses against them refreshing.
Entertainment here in the US is all about brute force - usually a gun. The 'good guys' win because they are just stronger, better shots and luckier. It doesn't take much brains to pull a trigger.
It takes brains to trick your opponent into defeating himself. And that at least from 2005 - 2010 was the theme - or while Davies was the writer.
Or a man. Or black, or white, or latino, or asian.
I think the next Doctor should be the right person for the role. Everything else is irrelevant.
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I realize she's pushing for gender equality here, but the Doctor is male.
He had a wife and kids, and in the newer series someone made a partial clone of him which is now kind of his daughter. There were female time lords, be he isn't one. So why would his regenerations turn him into a female?
Now, I don't know how they'd drum up a TARDIS for her, but Jenny should still be out there in the universe.
I realize that with Doctor Who you may not need to worry about being strictly canonical, but there's never been anything to suggest (that I know of) that regenerations could flip your gender.
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The answer is: Yes. Next question please?
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who cares what they do, as long as there's a chase scene & lots of splosions.
Buffy. Tru Calling. Dollhouse. Birds of Prey. Dark Angel. Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Bionic Woman.
Any more?
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The actor to replace Matt Smith has already been selected and in Canon he is supposed to be the last regeneration.
It is probably a fluff opinion piece, just to stir up some mild controversy -- so she got paid this week. Ever noticed how Magazine articles on BBC news are similar, ask some brain-dead question with a hint of controversy, discuss it a bit, then back down from the controversy without reaching a definite conclusion. This is obviously what keeps 'magazine' readers entertained, and everyone gets paid. It is not to be taken seriously in any way.
The Doctor regenerates into a new shape, not a new person.
Go ahead and bring back female Time Lords.
Hey, while we're at it, let's bring back the Sarah Jane Smith spinoff series and cast someone equally inappropriate! I suggest Samuel L Jackson. Or Mr T.
I'm sure they'd make great adoptive mothers for the two alien kids...
The Doctor should never be a woman. We have seen how that turns out in the spoof "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death", where the female Doctor notices the sonic screwdriver has "three settings".
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Curse_of_Fatal_Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p18DKN27IZQ
Say maybe an Honor Harrington series or a Kris Longknife series or a mini-series based on Bujold's "Cordelia's Honor" or....
Somebody in Hollywood, or at the BBC, or ITV or somewhere start using some different stuff. There's lots of material if only producers and studios would try it.
My biggest fear is how badly some of these studios would mangle these works.
Really, do we need an entire run with the TARDIS crashing into everything?
Margaret Thatcher was in power here 1979-1990. She fucked over the arts during that time. It will take a few more years to get over it.
That was a *woman*?
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Of all the things you pick out that she did wrong you choose fucking over the arts?
I'd say that's one thing she did right, it was refreshing having a PM that actually put science at the core of policy rather than made up shit.
She fucked things up because she was a simplistic Tory who thought complex problems had simple answers and wasted money from an oil boom on paying people off from their jobs to sit at home instead of paying them to do things with long term benefits. Gender had nothing to do with it.
If The Doctor had started out as a women, I think I'd be just as much a fan. Now, keeping in mind that regeneration is fantastical to begin with, to me, the doctor becoming a woman would be like turning James Bond into a women. Different actors or not, James Bond is James Bond, and The Doctor is The Doctor. As Stephen Moffit said, the different Doctors aren't different people; they're all the same man who just can change his appearance. From a genetic point of view, I'm assuming his DNA doesn't change much when he regnerates, and that in Time Lord DNA, there are markers for gender like there are for humans. So turning into a woman would be a more substantial rewrite. And would he really be a woman, or would it be more like a sex change operation? (This is not a debate on gender reassignment, because as far as I'm concerned, people should have control over their appearance and identity. Even The Doctor, I guess.)
I feel that Doctor Who has done much weirder things, and much of the series from the beginning (if you really want to be honest) has been kinda lame, particularly Series 7 Part 2. I mean aside from "The Name of the Doctor" (which was awesome), the most of the rest of Series 7 has been dreadful. And I could point out more than a few classic serials that were pretty darn awful as well. If they do pick a woman for the role in the future, I'll just continue to watch the show like I always have, on the lookout for those few episode gems, like I always do. However, I might be inclined to assume that they chose a woman mostly because of social pressure, not necessarily because it's a good idea. It MIGHT INDEED be a good idea, but any indication that the producers reasoned based on anything but coersion would not be evident.
This isn't any different from all the pressure to write a multi-Doctor episode. Stephen Moffit addressed this issue when he (as I mentioned above) pointed out that they're all the same man who can change his appearance. He was only willing to write a multi-Doctor episode if it make a really good story (which is ironic given some of the recent episodes). So likewise, the producers should be willing to gender-change The Doctor only if it's going to do something really good for the series. And that being said, there are LOTS of female actors who could do a fabulous job in the role. Given that any woman they'd pick would be under much closer scrutiny by the fanbase (many of whom would blame the actress for what is really just bad writing), I think the producers would be smart enough to (a) carefully choose an actress who epitomizes the role, and (b) do a better job on the script writing to avoid misdirected criticism.
And given that last bit of reasoning, I think I'd rather like to see it done. It'll force the writers to do a better job and make the show all-around a lot better.
BTW, as for the number of times he can regenerate, the producers have said they're not going to respect the limit of 12. In a Sarah Jane Aventures episode, he said he could generate 507 times, which I assume to be just a big number be picked to be funny. Another suggestion I've heard is that because of the time war, the Time Lords reengineered themselves to have no limit on regeneration.
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Look if the change was part of the plot structure in a very basic way sure it would work. It would not be a problem if the story is about a transgender character or the character is genderless to begin with, sure go for it. BUT, in case of Dr. Who the doctor is a dude, who has not shown any, transgender tendencies it would be a huge distraction from all of the other (already subtle) plot points which make it good. An interesting example of this going both right and wrong was "The Tempest", Dame Helen Mirren for all her awesomeness is no Prospero, but Ariel (an undefined esence) was excelently cast as generless and changing.
As for woman power and all that, sure they diserve equal footing (disclamer i'm a man) and would love to watch more SciFi where women are not meerly sexual objects and are self worthy. But just fliping the switch on an existing character is not the way to do it.
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I wouldn't object if the BBC chose a woman or a person of color, etc... however, I DO object to such a strong American Point of View on this summary and in the article.
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'Maybe it was the election of Barack Obama that made it seem, fleetingly, as if there were no more glass ceilings, for offices from president to pontiff,' writes Boylan.
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yeah, because this completely USA-centric view of the universe is topmost on the BBC's and series creators minds.
Seriously people, I've been a Dr. Who fan since Tom Baker was still playing the role, and I've loved and cherished it for all its quirky British sensibilities, and I for one believe that the show's been doing fine for the better part of 50 years (Colin Baker's run notwithstanding)
I just would hate to see more US-Centric views spilling over onto the show.
Take, for instance the BBC America version of the show openers during Amy Pond's run - if you were new to the series, the opening would make you think that it was the Amy Pond show and that the Doctor was just the Mad Man with a Blue Box as a plot device for her. That was BBC America "Americanizing" it a bit to try and appear to the US audience.
Good gods, have any of you seen the American version of Top Gear? It's rubbish... completely and utterly fails to capture the charm and wit of the British version.
American IT Crowd? The Office? Coupling? Maybe I'm going to piss some folks off, but I think that Americanizing British stuff simply never ends well.
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Nonsense. If the arts weren't successful it was their own fault for being badly organised. Why the fuck should the taxpayer have to pay for the arts failure to raise their own money? The arts need to build up a working business model, not constantly rely on handouts from the taxpayer. Failure should not be rewarded.
... may be a transmogrification too far.
Maggie has already appeared in Who, though... http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Helen_A
has everybody forgotten Jenny??
i would love to see the "Hi dad whats new??" scene
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Mr. Pickens, you do realize that the UK had a female PM in the 80's? Or that Dr Who is British so why would American polotics matter so much? Or at the very, very least; that Barack Obama is not a woman.
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Dude. I can understand someone with only a double-digit IQ misspelling "closet", but misspelling "is"?
To be fair though he is able to spell "is" correct 50% of the time.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
I think having the doctor regenerate into a woman would break Who canon.
The Doctor is a male, so he always regenerates into a male. Unless they wanted show a regeneration gone wrong, and a transgendered woman doctor, he will always be a man.
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Follow the series. There is a female Time Lord.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/KclCmdr/Motivator/Gal_DoctorsDaughter_HiDad.jpg
Also, River Song is a Time Lord,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Song_%28Doctor_Who%29
Who regenerated as a black girl at some point.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110828154546/tardis/images/2/2d/ThreeMelodys.jpg
In addition, there is a spoof where Dr. Who regenerates into a woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM
What we do know from the series so far is males stay male, and females stay female.
If genders were dynamic then you would wind up with some very inconvenient time lord marriages. They could end up the same sex depending on how the regenerations go. What do you do then? Suicide until you get a compatible one? It definitely would cause psychiatric issues if they ended up preferring one particular set of equipment. What happens when they die giving birth ans switch sexes?
It opens too many well, boxes, that would make a mess of the show. NO TRANSGENDER DOCTORS PLEASE. And if they do go through with it, it will be seen as copping to some social equality agenda. Don't politicize our show and trash it in the final regeneration.
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Based on what was revealed in the last episode before the 50th special, Peter Capaldi is regeneration #13. However, he can be still considered the 12th Doctor, because John Hurt's character is said to have rejected that title.
The Doctor is a man with an almost all powerful tine/space ship that picks up companions... usually pretty girls and runs about time and space having adventures. Come on... don't try to tell me that the viewers aren't mostly geeky males who enjoy that sort of show because they secretly fantasize about BEING The Doctor! (or at least like him) Making The Doctor a woman would be awesome for a couple of episodes, just to shake things up but would quickly alienate the core audience if it continued beyond that. Likewise, a short-lived regeneration would only severly piss off the 'break the glass ceiling' types that want to see a female doctor.
Don't get me wrong, there are female geeks who would enjoy their turn. But.. even if they were equal in number with the male ones (no way that is true) it wouldn't make any sense to change an already existing show for them. You don't spend decades building up your presence in one market just to leave it and start from scratch in a new one! It would be much better to make a new product (show) for the new market while maintaining the old one.
So.. As RobertLTux says... Bring Back Jenny!!!! I'm thinking giver her a big role for a season and then spin her off if all goes well. If she gets spun off, make sure to have crossover episodes, those are always fun.
But, is a spinoff good enough to imply the glass ceiling is broken? Well.. would that be the same glass ceiling that other's have pointed out didn't stop Buffy, Lost Girl, the Underworld movies, Resident Evil and others from being made? Give it a rest already!
Of course... I'm not Brittish so maybe my ideas of ratings, etc are inapplicable. Maybe things are different over there.
Yes, I'm sure the makers of the show will start Saying No to Money in order to keep from violating the 12 regens constraint. Just like how [SPOILER ALERT!] Calculon's character stayed dead after that Tragic! [dramatic pause] Episode! [dramatic pause] of All My Circuits, and we never saw Spock again after Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Also, I totally don't get the part about lack of glass ceilings for presidents. Are you saying that American voters are willing to vote for non-corrupt non-rich people? Seriously? Office of President will always be closed to you people. That's what we the voters have decided and we're not changing our minds.
The USA didn't give a poop about Dr. Who until 'recently'. It isn't a lame show made in the US with nice PC characters. Dr.Who can kill, lie, and deceive, and make monumental blunders. If it was written in the US he'd be nice and strong. He is male, and regenerates as a male, to regenerate as a female would mean a gender change, just to please a small whiny few. OFFS! The US networks kill good Si-Fi so leave the rest of us alone.(Firefly).
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It would seem so.
Seeing as how they already announced the new Doctor last week and all?
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I was dead set against it until I realized it would make an interesting River Song episode. Would we get an episode where that British Doctor from ER kisses another girl?
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Who says the next doctor won't be a Fabulous Doctor Who. By the end of his first season he'll have dropped the sleaze and picked up one of Tolkien's* favorites for a companion. A "Hobbit" like chubby little boy toy complete with a lispy falsetto voice, ticklish rolls of fat and an annoying giggle. And sure to be a fan favorite, an embarrassing blush at every innuendo. Now there's diversity for y'all.
But my vote is for a Lesbo Doctor Who. My first wife's lesbo cousin always had the prettiest "companions".
* During a late 70's bookstore visit, on the "reduced" shelf, was a book that described Tolkien as the most fabulous of Dons. A tall flamboyant character complete with bright color lined capes and chubby little boy groupies. In a book - must be true!
Doctor Who is a creative work. To ask if a new Doctor should be anything aside from meeting certain plot points or general variety would be to ask if "Harry Potter should have been a female..." or "The lead animated character in Cars should have been an automobile made in India."
The creative works do not belong to "the people" and thus doesn't have any obligation to meet their self-imposed standards of fairness or equal representation.
That said, I thought the next Doctor should have been Sue Perkins partially because female, but mostly because her personality is inline with the Doctor's.
I think the gender issue is really a non-issue. Good writers could make a plausible explanation (though some fans will still complain) and a compelling character.
Considering that both Colin Baker and Peter Capaldi played supporting characters on the show before taking The Doctor role, I'm sure we could find some past supporting female actors up to the task. My suggestions in order of preference:
BTW, does anyone remember the campaign for a female Boba Fett? The site is gone, but here it is on the Wayback Machine.
Tilda Swinton... no one else should be considered
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Then they should definitely do it next time round provided (a) they can get a good actress and (b) come up with some good scripts. In the show's "reality" there's no reason why it couldn't happen*, and this is exactly the sort of debate that SF/Fantasy can and should provoke.
Female Doctor + male space-marine type companion could be fun.
*Aside from the whole Corsair transgender-regens-do-happen thing, they've missed an opportunity this time to get round the 12-regen limit: they could have had the current Doctor really die and let another character take up his mantle. Plenty of candidates: Clara's now all twined up in his timeline, Jenny (female clone) is still out there, as is Donna (human/doctor mashup - if she can somehow remember without her brain exploding) and although River is technically dead, she's still available for download.
However, they've gone for Peter Capaldi. I don't doubt he'll do a good job. Actually, nobody out there seems to doubt that he'll do a good job. Maybe they've played it a bit too safe?
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We've had female timelords before in earlier Dr Who storylines.
Why all the sudden need to change the sex of the lead character - why not just do a spinoff. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.
A nice self-contained mini-series expanding the storylines for Romana (who stays female), or The Corsair (who changes sex).
The answer is no.
"Wrath of Eukor" does it seriously, "Curse of Fatal Death" does it humorously. It does work. It's fine. It doesn't matter. Also, not worth making a big deal about. Since the community can't seem to be gender neutral, if I were a programming officer at the BBC, I would probably advise against it...just to avoid the banal public discussion.
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If you want to make dr who a woman ok that's fine, but don't do it for "equality or political correctness" because if you do it for that reason you will be guaranteed to make a inferior product.
Putting a woman in now would be too predictable though in this day and age.
What about a female Superman? Male Phoenix!
How about, and this is really out there, create a female character of some female protagonist NOT The Doctor!
I don't see anyone trying to cast a male actor in the role of Angela Langsbury, do you? That's because rather than make an old character the opposite sex "because we can", they go ahead and MAKE A NEW CHARACTER FOR THEM.
The same problem with the USA's version of the "new" Sherlock holms, with Watson as a female. Would have been a hell of a lot less lazy to write a new cop show based on that dynamic.
To the guy from the last episode of the Key of Time series with Tom Baker. I don't remember his name, but he was a dropout from the Academy who was working for the Dark Lord while trying to get his own tardis up and running?
Seems like he'd be a perfect candidate for a spinoff. Y'know other than his actor being like 70-80 if he's not already dead :D
Margaret Thatcher was in power here 1979-1990. She fucked over the arts during that time. It will take a few more years to get over it.
On what do you base that conclusion, when we had TOM BAKER as the Doctor from 1975-1981 followed by PETER DAVIDSON from 1981-1985? Then we had such other Britcom greats as Blackadder, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blake's 7, Red Dwarf, Antiques Roadshow, East Enders, The Young Ones... plus the rise of British New Wave and Heavy Metal, etc.? Okay, the Bond franchise went from four solid Moore films to the questionable Living Daylights and awful License to Kill starring Tim Dalton, but surely that wasn't all Maggie's fault! And we did get The Elephant Man, The Empire Strikes Back, Chariots of Fire, Excalibur, Gandhi, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Henry V, Highlander...
46. The Hobo smiles, his eyes glaze over, and he burps. "Beware the man who has lived longer than the Wasteland."
Both my friend and I agree not only with that, but that Kenzi is the character which really carries the show (Followed by the Blood King and the Muse, with Bo/Werewolf dude coming in a distant 4th and 5th.
Who cares?
It is not the job of any particular work of art or entertainment to tick all of society's many well-intentioned boxes. My suggestion is to go out and create that vision of art that you want to see.
If you want to see those characters, create 'em. Say something new. Make a new world with new stories to tell.
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Mary Tamm is the first who comes to mind as a Doctor I'd like to have seen. She would have been much better than many who came after Tom Baker who sent the series into hibernation. Terribly sad that she's gone.
So I guess that's equal proof you're just misandrist, right?
I think you meant defiantly.
Doctor who is just that, a story about a man who is a timelord.
Don't even think for a second that a woman would be appropriate.
You want a spinoff, go for it, but the Doctor, is a man.
I'm all for equal opportunities, but stop messing with what YOU think things should be, not what WE want them to be.
I'm not about trash talking either, but I'm sick and tired of gay preaching equality and taking over everything and now women? Screw that, and screw you.
I'm not ignorant, I'm not biased, but leave this story alone. You want something comparable JUST because you want a female main character? Make your own.
Stupid effing women-ists/feminists, whatever. Go away.
Screw that! Elizabeth Warren or Wendy Davis, maybe.. Or even better Chaka Khan. Hillary always leaves me with that 'not so fresh feeling'.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
The Doctor regenerates a male body every time because that's what he wants, he gender-identifies as male. It's the same reason that we've never seen a Doctor who's too fat to walk and moves around in a wheelchair; he doesn't want that kind of body, so he doesn't ever regenerate one that's like that.
For fuck's sake. Why is it that Obama getting elected somehow makes everyone think it's actually possible to walk on water?
The only thing Obama's election indicates is that it's possible for America to elect someone that's dumber than they are, and Americans are pretty fucking stupid.
Wake up, America. If you thought you were the laughing stock of the rest of the world when Bush was President, you should see yourselves now.
You state it must change as axiomatic, but I wonder if you're vere actualy reasoned it through.
Is it necessary that it has to be a female doctor because women exist too? Or is it just as true that men exist?
Why does the doctor have to become female to decide if women are as good as men?
Can we do a poll on this, Slashdot? It would be interesting to see how the community as a whole stands on this.
Get a really hot actress (I nominate Eve Green) to play Dr. Who. The time machine could destroy her clothing every times she uses it, so she would have to spend a few minutes naked on each show. I think it would be really popular.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Keep your politically correct, diversity obsessed grubby hands off my Doctor Who. The character is a dude. Go start your own Sci-Fi franchise and I'll let you know if I like it.
the decades of lore suggest that he changes his appearance and personality when he dies... nothing in there suggests that hes able to change sexes... and honestly, one would think if he WERE capable of changing sexes, wouldnt it be a 50% chance?
The whole 12 generations thing was revealed in the 4th doctor - season finale "The Deadly Assassin" - barely a comment in the last part of the episode (literally just a comment - it wasn't even the doctor who said it).
Honestly if people didn't keep mentioning it most people would have forgotten the scene by now.
We're not American so we couldn't give the slightest fuck that your president is half-black, nor that your next president might be either a woman (wow! Sorry, been there, done that, thirty years ago) or a Latino (wow! We've not been there and done that, but I'd suggest quite a lot of Europe has). Fact is the Doctor is a man, typically quite old, with a frankly rather creepy, paternal by intent, relationship with his companions. They already fucked it up enough making him younger and younger and getting involved with the companions. Maybe they wanted to go back to the roots.
Or hey, we can start suggesting that all future productions of Huckleberry Finn should make Jim a white guy, and future Superman films should ensure that Superman is played by an elderly Chinese lady who is still consistently referred to as "Superman".
Clair Balding....
nudge, nudge, say no more!!!
Ah, why is this being posted on /. now? They announced on Sunday that the next doctor will be an actor named Peter Capaldi. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134922/?ref_=sr_1
This is about as stupid as can be. Its as if /. posted a story announcing Obama was elected president for a 2nd term, or that Bin Laden was dead.
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...and be what we know as 'bastard 'ard!'
Needs to have an English accent and be known as 'bastard 'ard'
Actually, someone in an old Slahdot thread a few weeks back (I cannot find it now) suggested
Jason Statham
That would be brilliant! although if you wanted a black English Actor I's certainly watch
Idris Elbar
SLJ? pah! SJP more like.
But why change the sex of a character? Personally, I always wanted more of the *first* Ramana.... Another thought would be to find some way to regenerate Donna into a Timelord body....
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These sidekicks are hot by the standards of women on British TV where the extremes in cosmetic dentistry, dermatology, and plastic surgery are not followed as rigorously as in Hollywood.
So would the female Dr. Who have a beefcake dude sidekick? Would the female Dr. Who be a babe or perhaps a mature woman in the tradition of Helen Mirren, Judy Dench, or Amanda Richardson? Or maybe a West Indian babe with a delicious regional accent as the police captain who thinks Holmes is a dangerous vigilante and medler into police business as in that Sherlock Holmes reboot (and gosh no, not the Robert Downey Jr. one).
The arts already have a working business model. Where is there more money, Hollywood or BBC studios?
Govt. art funding is just rent-seeking.
My take is that the DNA of The Doctor is male. Regeneration will recreate his body when damaged, but should obey the programming within his DNA. It shouldn't go changing chromosomes around.
There may be a lot of bending the rules of various fields of science, but the core basic stuff should remain in order for the sci-fi element to even begin to feel plausible. When writers mess around with the basics, I certainly turn off. I hate watching sci-fi and thinking "hey, you can't do that -- that just wouldn't work!!". For me, changing the gender of The Doctor is that thing which just wouldn't work.
That assumes he at least know what letters are in the word... Which, it appears, he doesn't!
...quite a few of which weren't British...
Honestly, The Empire Strikes Back? Piss off.
Not that TV or movies have ever been more beneficial to society than damaging, but the direction has been DOWNWARD for decades and one can only guess at what point it will degrade into "Ow My Balls!" (not that it hasn't already come close with a few shows already.)
The BBC needs to fix some the Americanization influence harming their programming and be less commercially influenced as well. If Dr. Who was in the USA, they'd have ruined the show within a few seasons; not capable of going even 1/3 as long. Ratings down? put in more sex. Watch next week when the Doctor installs Windows XP and saves the world! (sponsored by Microsoft.) Doctor gets a new sonic screw driver .. the iSonic... made out of an iPhone (sponsored by Apple.)
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The comments on this story are absolutely revolting. This is supposed to be a community of intellectuals, and what we get is a heap of knee-jerk, xenophobic reactions under the guise of reasonableness vs. some political correctness boogyman. If you believe that the article is saying that having a white-male Doctor is unfair, then I really think it is worth it to take another look.
That the article is whining and complaining is a strawman . Look at what the author says:
-"Mr. Capaldi is a capable actor, and come his debut, I’ll be right there with my teenage boys, drinking Mountain Dew and cheering him on."
-"As the producers think about whom they want to take on the role next, they should keep in mind the way people’s hopes are lifted when they see someone breaking the glass ceiling, even when it’s for something as seemingly trivial as a hero on a science-fiction program."
This isn't a zealot's rant against an exaggerated oppression. This is someone saying they think a female doctor would be cool - and pointing out that it would mean a lot to a lot of people. The Doctor isn't male, so really, what's the big deal?
He used the word "is" twice in the post.
Only failed to spell it correctly once.
50%
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
One of the strengths of the 21st century reboot has been the consistently good fit of actors to the role. If the franchise did decide it was time for the Doctor to be performed by an actress...who would be the best candidates for the part?
When you know that a character is going to spawn a duplicate who is an evil white guy, you do not make that character anyone other than a white guy. To do so is to invite the sort of brouhaha that serves no purpose and leaves everyone angry.
Once the Valeyard is out of the way, sure. Could have been done before now, too, with basically any incarnation other than the 12th. But this was very uniquely not the time to do that sort of thing.
The only other thing is that such a step should not be mere tokenism: they should do something interesting with the change, rather than having The Doctor not be a white guy just for the sake of having The Doctor not be a white guy. There are plenty of opportunities to do something interesting with this kind of change, going in any of hundreds of different directions. Most of the arguments I've seen for a female or minority Doctor smack of exactly this sort of tokenism -they just want The Doctor to look like them- and that's not a good reason to make creative decisions. Do something creative.
... is part of the fun. Who wants a Doctor who stops and asks people for directions?
If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving.
Forced gender change is debasement, mutilation, and torture of the highest degree.
Imagine living as a male for 1200 years, and suddenly you are a woman. That would cause... issues...
Nothing wrong with women of course, but the doctor is male. End of story. Why do we have to extend this PC crap to everything in life?
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Either or both could be anomolous, I think the data set is undersampled.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
No, leave The Doctor as he is, the reason to stay away from gender bending is you start bending genders and time traveling, you get characters who are their own mother and father. And All You Zombies really wasn't that good a short story.
If you want a female Doctor, give Ramona, the one person other than River Song, who could put The Doctor in his place.
But gender-bending The Doctor himself sounds like appeasement and a gimmick. Those things never end well.
And lastly, The Doctor's gender should not be changed just because small percentage of fans are asking for it, to do so would be a violation of the creative integrity of the show and violation of expectations because there's nothing indicating that any timelord or lady had regenerated as a different gender.
The next Dr. Who should be the best actor/actress they can find for playing the character regardless of sex, and then stories should be written around that.
As for women playing strong leadership roles in sci-fi, she doesn't get much credit for it but I thought Kate Mulgrew did an excellent job playing Captain Janeway. Unfortunately the show needed better writing all around, but as far as being the character of a strong motivated ship-comes-first captain, Ms. Mulgrew was very believable.
Dr. Who is of course a different role. It has less emphasis on leadership and more emphasis on individual action and problem-solving. Janeway is not Dr. Who.
Had my fingers crossed for Helen Mirren this time around.
After Matt Smith's regenerative comment about having "two legs," I wonder if the Doctor shouldn't come back as a dog, or some mythical CGI centaur type thing. Why limit ourselves to humanity? Where is your imagination?
Oh, right. For the same reason Peter Capaldi is chosen as the next Doctor. The novelty of any such change wears off too quickly, and then you're stuck with a world of fan expectations and a never-ending cycle of ridiculous fan service. Better to keep the formula locked away in a vault, even if it isn't such a secret any longer, eh?
I heartily support Moffat's decision to keep it simple.
Joanna Lumley played the 13th Doctor in "Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death" back in 1999. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Curse_of_Fatal_Death
Any one remember BBC Radio Nose Day where they had a spoof of Dr. Who?
Joanna Lumley was quite funny playing Dr. Who.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM
If you're going to regenerate Doctor Who to the female variety, how about keeping some nice female companions around? Now that WOULD be interesting, and politically correct to the vilest degree.
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If you want to see more female time lords that aren't River, I say make them have babies with River before she's killed off and maybe time lords have enough genetic diversity in one person to repopulate their race. Of course, the Doctor could always make babies with his daughter/self clone thingy since she's out there but that would be a bit weird. Also, remember that how Torchwood had a bit of coral/baby TARDIS thing that could make new baby TARDISes. The good thing about being at the bottom is that the only place to go is up, right?
Or how about making a new Doctor Who in the universe where Rose and the Doctor's human clone is and there's the time lord doctor flying around in his TARDIS and they join him for adventures.
A woman can't be a doctor. That would be a NURSE. Duh!
The name of the main character in the series "Doctor Who" is neither "Who" nor "Doctor Who". That character is referred to as "the Doctor". Calling him "Doctor Who" is like saying that Darth Vader is a Jedi or that Picard was captain of NCC-1701-C. The name of the Doctor is not known but to a few within that universe, and calling him "Doctor Who" simply reveals lack of research on the topic at hand. Please see http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor
No, it shouldn't. It's a male character, what's wrong with that?
There's a line where a quest for equality becomes a quest for dominance. Many feminists have already crossed it, and this is another example of genderism taken too far.
There are some Hollywood movies where all the cast is male except for the hot girl that the main character gets to fuck halfway through the movie. That's a justified complaint for gender-based discrimination.
On Doctor Who, there are plenty of women and in core roles, too. The Doctor's companions, River Song, about half the adversaries, plenty of minor characters. On many episodes, the female main characters get more screen time then the Doctor himself. Complaining about "equal opportunity" in Doctor Who is batshit crazy.
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Already been decided...days ago. I thought the US would have heard by now.
I watched a few episodes in the late '70s. They were supremely boring and had dreadful special effects. (Even when compared to other British sci-fi of the era, such as Space: 1999.) Has the show improved since then?
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
Doctor who is about escapist sci fi fun with interesting characters, out-of-this world situtations, and somewhat decent scripts. For people who take Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton seriously, there's CNN, MSNBC, and other forms of reality television.
All power to women, but I can think of a reason for the next Doctor to *not* be a woman: the male Doctor is a much needed role model for *boys* - someone who is a man, and never uses violence as a first resort, never kills if he does not have to, never to the power of never carries a gun. If we as a species are ever going to become worthy of existence, those are values that every one of our males needs to adopt.
Starring Barbara Benedetti as the Doctor. Quite good she was, too!
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Is the question
If the BBC truly wanted to do something different, they'd make the next Doctor Who a Dalek.
In that list, name just one, please. As for Empire, haven't you ever wondered why Elstree Studios is in the credits? IT WAS SHOT THERE.
46. The Hobo smiles, his eyes glaze over, and he burps. "Beware the man who has lived longer than the Wasteland."
What? Are you saying that the Britain she inherited from James Callaghan was somehow a paradise? It was a MESS, as was the US when Reagan took the reins from Carter! Her economic reforms are the reason why today Britain's economy doesn't look like Italy's!
46. The Hobo smiles, his eyes glaze over, and he burps. "Beware the man who has lived longer than the Wasteland."
...until you change the batteries in your sarcasm detector.
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ABSOLUTELY NOT!
There are 2 groups of people you can make fun of on the Internet without fear of attack. The illiterate, and the Amish.
Regeneration NEVER changes sex. Sometimes (usually) the Femi-nazi's need to STFU!
While the option is one that could happen, it is not something that should. Of course there are female Time Lords (that's the name of the race, it has nothing to do with gender). But at this point, it can't. I have several reasons for this opinion (I realize it's just that - my opinion):
First, in the Library River Song told the Doctor about the last time she saw him - their date on Asgard. She described it with a bit of detail. It's a big enough thing in their relationship that I'm sure it will be an episode, which it obviously has not been yet. He'll need to be a male for that (although that could be a few regenerations away, but I don't think so)
Second is his marriage in general. If he became a woman, that would just mess up his relationship with River. Would he still be straight (marriage = messed up), or become a lesbian (River isn't, so still, marriage = messed up)?.
Thirdly, and this is a smaller point, but I'm not sure what the whole name thing has to play into it. If his name is a male name in Gallifreyan (like "WIll", in english), that would be kind of weird if he became a woman.
Lastly, it would change the Doctor's character too much. You just don't change the gender of arguably the most popular TV character ever. Imagine some of your favorite movie/TV characters (Batman, Harry Potter, the Black Widow, Sherlock Holmes, etc.). Now imagine if all of a sudden an actor of the other gender started playing that character. It might (might) be mildly interesting, but it would most likely ruin that character, and thus the show.
I have nothing against women in lead roles or anything like that (In fact, most of the other lead roles in DW other than the Doctor are women, and they're awesome). You just don't CHANGE their gender.
Seing as there is a distinction throughout the whole Dr who canon between "Timelords" and "Timeladies" this would be ridiculous. Why not have a woman cast as the next Batman?
Witness River Song.. Being "The Doctor" certainly doesn't pull more weight than being his equal., and I think River demonstrated being his equal, amply already. or is equality *not* enough? In the real world it takes nothing less than an operation to change sexes.. No less here. Certainly a time lord can be a woman, just not *this* time lord. He was born a man, so he be stook wit it, mon... Or, is it "equality" for the "actresses", instead of characters, we're referring to? It's setting a bad precedent to ater the basic foundation of a well established fictional universe to satisfy the demands of the actor's wishes. There's plenty of fine leading roles for women in Sci-fi.. in fact they have at least parity, andf possibly precedence over male leading characters. The only "switch" i could ever see occuring, would be a regeneration screwup, for perhaps "the master", as a glitch in artificial regeneration.. which he continually uses as he ran out of natural regens some time ago...
There's a social obligation to represent everybody.
There was a The Kids In The Hall episode where the art teacher caught hell for using a beautiful white woman as a nude model. Exasperated, he said :
"But it's hard to find a fat, black cripple dyke on short notice"...
Alex Kingston would make an awesome Doctor.
Why does everything that has traditionally been done a certain way (and successfully) have to automatically be subject to the whims of those who want to do it another way, "just to see what would happen"? The Doctor has traditionally been Male. And people have been just fine with that. What are the motivations to make The Doctor female? There are none, save for one: because we live in an age where certain types of people cannot just let something be what it is or let those who enjoy something just enjoy it as they like it.
I, for one, am against making The Doctor a woman if just for the reason that it won't stop there. Already I heard on BBC radio someone suggesting that The Doctor could be a Transgendered Lesbian if they wanted. And that's the problem: I don't want The Doctor's sexuality to become part of the show. If you make The Doctor a woman, then Doctor Who will have reached it's "Moonlighting" moment. And then every group will want their own version of The Doctor and the show will be less about the adventures of the Last Galifreyan and all about, "Oooo, will we have an Asian Female this time around? What about an African Homosexual?"
Leave The Doctor's gender alone and concentrate on writing great stories.
Besides, "Madman with a box" sounds a lot better than "Crazy lady with a box".
While there aren't enough respectable female characters in lead roles, unfortunately a female Doctor would just be made into a joke. It would be viewed as a pointless gimmick which would only hurt the modern feminist cause, which is more or less to be respected as something other than sexual objects. Get a companion other than a petite hot chick.
'Genderism' is going too far when women are mocked for wanting to be and see more females in positions that are not normally available to them. No one cares what color The Doctor's hair is, so why should we care what skin color, age, or gender "he" is? Gender based discrimination is the fact that the roles women receive are hardly ever lead heroes and are pretty much always sexualized.
The subject line says it all. Imagine all the fun that could be had with this!
A change in appearance and personality leaves open the possibility of a female Doctor. Nothing suggests that he's unable to change sexes, and gender streaks happen.
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_23828455/all-boys-club-couple-welcomes-12th-son
A female doctor? Everyone knows women aren't doctors. Oh!, wait....never mind!
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Women need respect; respect that they are not getting. They want to be something other than a supporting character or sex object. Women make up less than 30% of speaking roles, and of those, over 1/3rd are sexualized. The remaining 20% are typically hired based on physical attractiveness and are contractually required to maintain excessively low weights. Even Doctor Who has started running the Hollywood course of prodominately casting petite, young, and attractive females, while The Doctors more closely resemble the average man. http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/why-women-arent-essential-characters-in-movies-20120924-26ged.html
Modern feminists are not the bra-burning man-haters that they are portrayed as. They want an end to the objectification of women. They want natural beauty to be the norm. They want sci-fi that they can relate to. They want to be the protectors.
I'd like to see a spin off tv show of the Doctor's daughter. Remember her?
Time travel plays hell with periods. If she gets pregnant she might have to give birth to an adult.
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