They’ve GOT to do a team-up special and have Joanna Lumley back - even if it’s just for a Children in Need/Comic Relief spoof seeing the two of them together would be a hoot.

Not a fan of spoilers and I tried my absolute best to avoid the new doctor news but found out whilst reading a movie website article about D23. This happened when Capaldi was announced too - I like surprises Internet, stop spoiling my ignorance.

I like the casting choice though, as long as they don’t continually reference the doctor’s gender as the series progresses I think we’re in for a something fun and interesting.

oojason said:

Warbler said:

oojason said:

The Doctor is The Doctor - albeit a Gallifreyan - whether young, old, white, black, male, female - or even ginger.

We have seen / been told that Gallifreyans regenerate into a different sex before too - The Corsair or The Master/Missy for example…

Think we will ever see a male Romana or Rani?

Fred? Yes, why not?

huh?

oojason said:

Tobar said:

oojason said:

We have seen / been told that Gallifreyans regenerate into a different sex before too - The Corsair or The Master/Missy for example…

There’s that tired excuse again. This “precedent” was created after Moffat was accused of sexism and the new fangirls started demanding a female Doctor. Since then to combat that image he kowtowed and started to introduce those elements. Nowhere in the classic series is something like this hinted at. If NuWho can’t get the Doctor’s age right, I’m certainly not going to trust it with something like this.

I’ll be watching the Christmas Special and first episode of series 11 but will probably be stopping after that. I would not be surprised to see the show’s ratings start to drop after this.

Not so much a ‘tired excuse’ if it is new, no?

 

To me it’s all the same series - Doctor Who.

We also recently saw a Gallifreyan regenerate from an old white man into a young black woman - just seemed to be part of the Gallifreyan life.

Did it ever happen before Missy came along? Did it ever happen in the old series? We went 50 years without a regeneration causing a gender change. Moffat added that capability for PC reasons, as oojason said.

yhwx said:

The idea of stopping to watch a TV show because a woman is a main character is ridiculous to me.

You missing the point. This isn’t because the main character is female. This is because a character who was male

FOR OVER 50 YEARS!!!

is now suddenly female. Its stupid and done not for quality of the show or for the fans, but to please the feminists.

Before Moffet pasted this changing gender thing in with Missy, there were at least 20 regenerations of multiple characters in the old and new series. In none of those twenty did gender change. None of them. Now all of the sudden, they can gender.

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

The idea of stopping to watch a TV show because a woman is a main character is ridiculous to me.

You missing the point. This isn’t because the main character is female. This is because a character who was male

FOR OVER 50 YEARS!!!

is now suddenly female.

I’m not sure if you noticed, but a lot of things have changed from 50 years ago.

ok, I’m not going to talk to you about this anymore cause you just don’t want to get it and you don’t want to listen. Please go on considering me the sexist pig you know me to be.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

Warbler said:

Its stupid and done not for quality of the show or for the fans, but to please the feminists.

So certain are you.

yep.

yhwx said:

For some reason, I don’t think this is about the historical precedent of the series.

*temptation to post middle finger pic rising . . .*

SilverWook said:

People always forget about this regeneration. 😉

remind me cause I don’t remember her ever being the Doctor.

SilverWook said:

I think that style of police box is a bit older, as I saw one in a 1930’s British film. Unless it really was the Tardis.

It’s a darn good thing Curzon Dax wasn’t a regular on TNG before DS9. 😉

the first time we saw Dax and got to learn about the character it was after Dax has switched genders. Also we didn’t get Dax switching hosts 12 times over 50 years and never once switching gender.

SilverWook said:

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

People always forget about this regeneration. 😉

remind me cause I don’t remember her ever being the Doctor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who:_The_Curse_of_Fatal_Death

ah non-cannon.

SilverWook said:

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

I think that style of police box is a bit older, as I saw one in a 1930’s British film. Unless it really was the Tardis.

It’s a darn good thing Curzon Dax wasn’t a regular on TNG before DS9. 😉

the first time we saw Dax and got to learn about the character it was after Dax has switched genders. Also we didn’t get Dax switching hosts 12 times over 50 years and never once switching gender.

Dr. Crusher’s male Trill lover, (our introduction to the species on TNG) did switch genders.

Was that a character someone we knew for over 50 years as one gender? Did the character switch hosts 12 times over that 50 years, not once changing gender?

btw, it went into hosts that had different gender, the Trill symbiont itself did not switch gender.

SilverWook said:

Refresh my memory, weren’t people kvetching that Capaldli was too old when he was cast? IIRC,

I am not a fan of Capaldi.

No one could ever say he was too old, not unless they forgot about Hartnell.

some thought Peter Davidson was a bit young back in 1982. No matter who is cast in the role, somebody is going to have a cow.
And lest we forget, regeneration wasn’t even conceived of until Hartnell was leaving the role back in 1966.

irrelevant.