Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
You've just said that calling the BBC pc "upsets people"
Right on the back of telling us how your son now wonders what's wrong with being a heterosexual male.
He appears to be rather more "upset" than anyone rolling their eyes at the howls of "pc gone mad!" if he's even vaguely considering that there may be something wrong with being a heterosexual male just because wonder woman is in the cinema and a woman is in a tv show.
Either that hes not upset at all and the sad tale was a tool to gather sympathy for your perspective.
Erm, no. He's not that upset, he just made an observation and we had a chat about the changing perceptions of men in the modern world. Or his perception which I thought was interesting, and he brought up Dr Who as an example. When I was 16 I had views too. And not all were correct, and I continue to learn as I get older. And I have conversations with my son, and sometimes we disagree but I listen to his (evolving) point of view, and I'm happy to have differing and evolving views and perspectives. We both agree Dr Who is a bit crap but that's about it. The internet is a bit too serious and judgemental considering how a minor comment which I intended to stir opinions on a very minor and utterly trite topic results in so much ire. I really don't give a monkeys who plays Dr Who!!
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We seem to be missing the big advantage of having a female Doctor, which is of course that the BBC will only have to pay her 77% as much as a male Doctor...
You sir, or perhaps madam, are a prize plum and you have made me jolly furious with your barbed comments. I surrender to your superior intellect and knowledge of out of date facts harvested from Google. I am ashamed. My real is Barbara and I missed out on being the new Dr Who, hence my participation in this thread. Sob. I'm so worked up
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Chris Evans surely...?
Imagine an irritating, shouty Doctor - What could be better? And his new assistant could be the short sighted Ms Winkelwitch... In fact, the other way 'round, then the story of him being blind carries forward and the startled clown look Bill had on occasions can follow to the idiotic, aging clown look that Evans likes so much!
Sorted - Looks like I'm a shoe in for the new DG!
M
PS and we can transport them back to 1967 to pay them 3 and fourpence an episode!
C'mon OP, have two hearts!
I was hoping deep down that the new Dr Who would be played by Benjamin Zephaniah. Not for political correctness, but because he's funky as hell!
I was also rooting for Mina Anwar, again for the same reasons....
Neither were in the running of course, just my fantasy.
There are many differences between male and female, so the character dynamic will be different, or it should be unless the writers don't take it into account, which would be stupid to not acknowledge the differences between males and females.I don't see what difference the sex of the character makes
Maybe should have had a break away from the Dr Who series and start a new one called something else with a female lead but also as a Timelord.
(There was The Bionic Man and then The Bionic Woman, different characters, dealt with things differently.)
Might have been successful and the 2 characters could end up in some of the same programmes working together. That might have spiced things up a bit.
At the risk of showing I've spent time thinking about this, I disagree.
Another Timelord would just be another Timelord without the the Doctor's experiences, so they'd effectively be starting from scratch.
Daleks (for example) have a 'genetic memory' of "The Doctor" which makes them fear him/her, this will continue (although they may not have got the memo advising that Timelord's can change gender now - The same way The Doctor had a bit of a shock when he found out Daleks had mastered the stairs!), which it wouldn't if they met another Timelord (who we know they don't have the same fear and regard for from years of Dalek episodes).
It's an idea (the same way a spin off is), but I think the regeneration into a female form is actually much better and, you know what, I think makes some sense given that the Doctor will actually be mortified at the 'death' as he saw it of one of his companions - Taking on female form in 'sympathy' or 'honour' in such a scenario really doesn't sound so incredible.
Of course, if we had the chance to spend a few months in the form of an attractive younger woman, we'd all give it go, wouldn't we?
M