That's terribly blinkered, give the girl a chance!
mike
Now that it's been announced that Jodie Whittaker will be the next Doctor Who, is this the end?
I've been watching Doctor Who since the 1970's and it looks like the terribly Politically Correct BBC have finally signed it's death warrant?
I won't be watching it anymore :(
That's terribly blinkered, give the girl a chance!
mike
I think it’s an excellent move. Over the last few years there have been several Time Lords, including the Master, who have had female regenerations. There is no reason why The Doctor shouldn’t be female.
R.I.P
Big mistake imho and I won't be watching.
Next a female bond?
She's well tasty. Any opportunity to watch the lovely Jodie is AOK in my book.
A pal at work is a very serious die hard Dr Who fan.
The kind of fan who bought every episode on VHS, DVD and then Blu Ray over the years.
He has been praying that it wouldn't be a female Dr!
Personally, as someone who watches it very infrequently, I don't see what difference the sex of the character makes, and think that a female Dr is great.
Politically correct posturing.
It's certainly a bit of a gamble, and possibly stunt-casting. They're obvously trying to keep it fresh.
I'm not really a fan of the show but my wife and daughter are, big time.
They are not at all happy.
So clever my foot fell off.
It's a childish (but enjoyable) family TV show about an time-traveling alien who cannot die and can change shape. It's hardly seems getting worried because one out of thirteen regenerates into a woman.
Given that The Dr has regenerated into a completely different persona many times over the years I can't see the problem. Is it any more of a gamble than any radically new or different character?... and there have been many.
Saying that, Swmbo's reaction was "Really? That's just equality gone mad....."
There have been 3:
In The Doctor’s Wife by Neil Gaiman, The Corsair was described as having both male and female regenerations.
The General regenerated from a white male to a black female in Hell Bent. After the regeneration she said she was back to normal, implying she’d been a female for 9 of her 10 regenerations.
The Master regenerated into Missy.
Looking forward to Jane Bond
Capaldi's going to make a cracking Miss Marple.
ATLF.
Just how desperate do you need to be to get cheap thrills from a moribund drama?
I can believe that in the 70s Leela might have provided transient succour for those dessicated souls incapable of purchasing Readers' Wives from their local supermarket but surely today, surrounded as we are by a tsunami of internet porn, will it really make a difference to the viewing figures if the Doctor is easy on the eye?
Hang on, I've thought about it. And you're probably right.
Surely both inevitable and overdue.
There wasn't all this fuss about a gay Doctor.
I'd say give her a chance but I was hoping it might be Amara Karan.
It's simply insane. Another British tradition slaughtered at the altar of political correctness.
I've whinged about each Doctor. I've mostly be wrong. If she can act then she'll be fine.
The point is that it is supposed to be the same character, the same Doctor, despite the various regenerations. Of course there can be a female Time Lord, and indeed there already has.
But a sudden change of gender massively messes with the the core identity of the Doctor. Despite the changes of appearance, clothing and behaviour there should be a certain continuity of character and personality and a sudden sex change dramatically undermines that.
It also raises difficult questions. For example, isn't it a little weird that an individual with 900 years of memories of being male now has to adapt to life with breasts and a vagina? The first thing the new Doctor will do is have a sneaky look down her pants.
And why is it that a character that we now know can regenerate as a woman regenerated as a man eleven times in a row? If any thing it actually introduces a sexist element that didn't previously exist.
It's nothing to do with simple gender prejudice, any more than complaining about Owen Wilson being cast as Shaft would be racist.
How dare you presume to know what my opinions are? You must be feeling very upset, so I'll forgive you. This once.
I have no especial opinion on there being a female doctor who, but I remember very clearly my feelings in the early eighties when the ineffably wet Tristan from the James Herriot programmes was made Doctor Who. If that diffident piece of fluff was acceptable, why shouldn't some fruity blonde? At least she seems to have some steel in her eyes, which is more than could be said for Peter Davidson.
See this >>>>>>>>>
thats how much I care.
its not the actress that's important - it's the quality of the script - which has been sadly lacking for about 10 years.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The so called BBC have missed their chance to pander to the Politically Correct Perpetually Offended Progressive Zealots.
It should have been a black disabled lesbian transgender dwarf with a nut allergy.