a black doctor was next
and the way to have a female doctor was to have a version of the doctor that was always female not adding that the doctors species could just regenerate into the opposite gender
They should of cast Richard Ayoade from IT Crowd to play the Doctor, he's quirky and can do comedy well, he could also direct an episode too!
The regeneration gender swapping is absurd, it never once happened in the show until a few years ago.
The regeneration gender swapping is absurd
so whats more absurd : regeneration or gender swapping?
In Doctor Who, gender swapping, regeneration isnt absurd at all, it has been part of the show since the 1960's.
Gender swapping whilst regeneration is new to the lore and has only been in the show the last few years.
Should "of"? SMH.
shareI'd love to see this but not sure how good he is actor wise as most of the stuff he has done is comedy. 13 hasn't sold me yet because of this, when she is angry and serious I don't feel it if that makes sense
shareGreat call! That guy was surely born to play the part. Could have be great...
shareThere's no good reason why a virtually immortal alien who doesn't even need to adopt a recognisably humanoid/gallifreyan form cannot appear and behave "female" in gender.
It's commonplace for human beings to modify their gender from that recognized at birth but virtually impossible for them to change to a different race of the species.
well said!
shareIt's commonplace for human beings to modify their gender from that recognized at birth
Either you're speaking from personal experience or you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
How many times are you compelled to adopt similarly ignorant attitudes about "confused" people who have had surgical procedures to change to a different race? I'll bet it's not much more than zero.
And that's because, compared with race change, gender change IS commonplace.
50+ years of lore is good enough reason, if it had been done since the 60's or 70s that would of been fine but after 50 years worth of Doctor Who stories its odd that gender swapping whilst regen is suddenly a thing, when it was never once mentioned before.
shareMaybe it's been a long time coming because they were afraid of frightened people freaking out about it and condemning it out of fear and ignorance.
shareWhen Romana (Mary Tamm) was choosing her next body (regeneration) one of the options was Tom Baker before settling on the form of Princess Astra (Lalla Ward). So gender swap has been around since at least the 70's.
shareSsshh wearsalan, people don't want to hear facts! What would that leave them to bitch about online?
shareI was originally like this, always felt originally the doctor was a male character and so should stay a male and surely if he could change he would have done so but as people have said times change.
Something happened and i started to wonder. The show was becoming stale and needed a fresh change and theres a lot the show can do with having someone different as the doctor.
I've yet to be sold by 13 as I felt she was just playing 10 and 11 without her own spin but not sure if that is down to the writing. Series 11 was a bit too basic overall, a little dull
There's no good reason why a virtually immortal alien who doesn't even need to adopt a recognisably humanoid/gallifreyan form cannot appear and behave "female" in gender.
Wrong. Sex had absolutely no influence on the character until Russell T. Davies made the Doctor all smoochy and lovelorn, until then his masculinity was not a driving force in the character at all. He traveled the universe with countless beauties and never once showed any attraction to any of them. Sometimes he'd be a senior citizen, sometimes a clownish bohemian, but he was never what people like to think of as "typically male". If anything he was more like an immortal Godlike figure, which separated him from the Captain Kirks of the genre who would basically shag anything from any planet and piled on the traditional machismo like it was in short supply. The Doctor has always been a pacifist who refused to touch guns, which would have been described as "woke" if the brainless pejorative term had been invented by boring conservatives at the time.
Maybe you can write to the BBC and float the idea of installing a kitchen sink in the TARDIS, that way we can tie the Doctor to it just to eliminate any doubt that the character is acting female enough for you.
why couldn't we have both keep the doctor male for the fans who would hate that change and create a female doctor and a whole line of Female doctors by having multiverses I don't like all the Retcon that might happen
shareuntil then his masculinity was not a driving force in the character at all. [...] but he was never what people like to think of as "typically male". If anything he was more like an immortal Godlike figure, which separated him from the Captain Kirks of the genre who would basically shag anything
The Doctor has always been a pacifist who refused to touch guns, which would have been described as "woke" if the brainless pejorative term had been invented by boring conservatives at the time
Don't burden us with your hang-ups. You don't have a fucking clue about fantastical alien species biology. Nobody gave a shit about the Doctor's "biology" or his sex and how it mattered until a woman played him. The doctor has always transcended everything that makes a human or any other alien species what it is in the show.
shareYou don't have a fucking clue about fantastical alien species biology. Nobody gave a shit about the Doctor's "biology" or his sex and how it mattered until a woman played him.
Yup, Quatermass and the Time Traveller from The Time Machine were two major influences for the character of Dr Who.
shareWhich scientist was Troughton modeled on when he was encouraged to make it his own and attempted to play it blackface and as maniacal hobo?
And Pertwee's martial artist/gearhead. Which scientific icon does his character design cohere with.
A cross between all three Marx Brothers and a hippie
A hipster cricketer
A hipster harlequin
A hipster Scots midget
etc etc