Regenerating from Male to Female means The Doctor is transgender
Jodie Who-ttaker? The Doctor is in
The timelord of Doctor Who, a man since 1963, will be portrayed by a woman – actress Jodie Whittaker – for the first time. Peter Capaldi, Doctor number 12, will regenerate after four years in the BBC's Christmas 2017 special to take on his new, female form. We last saw Capaldi's Doctor fighting his regeneration in Series 10, …
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Monday 17th July 2017 22:38 GMT Simon Harris
"One armed"
Doctor number 10 was momentarily just that - he got it lopped off (well, part of it) in his fight with the Sycorax in The Christmas Invasion. However there was still some regeneration energy left from the recent regeneration and it regrew.
Unless there is something faulty about the regeneration it is logical therefore that he or she would come through without bits missing.
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Monday 17th July 2017 13:22 GMT Dan 55
The Heil Online
This produced one Mail Online headline that saw Whittaker pleading with Who snowflakers not to be "scared" of her agenda.
It's okay, the website has nothing to do with the newspaper, it's just chance that the Daily Mail and the Mail Online are the same building. The nutters in the comments there aren't real people and don't e.g. affect election outcomes.
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Monday 17th July 2017 13:23 GMT JimmyPage
Er ... Dr. Who canon ?????
I know it's been pissed over from a great height since the "reboot", but surely every 70s schoolkid knew the Dr. only had a maximum of 12 possible incarnations ?
Or did Russell T. Shitforbrains "just decide" it was too inconvenient one day ? Like he suddenly decided the TARDIS was like any other spaceship you can see flying past, rather than dematerialising and materialising ?
When my (then) 15 year old son gave up watching Dr. Who because "it's a load of pants, Dad", I got the hint.
Shame, as there were some genuinely great stories pre-Capaldi.
Of course the most complete Dr. Who story ever was "Logopolis" ....
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Monday 17th July 2017 13:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Er ... Dr. Who canon ?????
Can't tell if you're just going for a reaction, but I'll bite:
1) Traditionally, the Doctor had 12 regenerations, i.e. 13 incarnations. And that was stated fewer times than people think it was, and even contradicted on an occasion or two.
2) RTD didn't have anything to do with breaking the limit. Moffat did that, mainly because the Doctor was running out (too long to explain why) and he had to.
3) Fifteen years olds lose interest in things all the time - in a few years he'll be back with the nostalgia goggles on like everyone else.
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Wednesday 19th July 2017 10:23 GMT dajames
Re: Er ... Dr. Who canon ?????
Like he suddenly decided the TARDIS was like any other spaceship you can see flying past, rather than dematerialising and materialising ?
That was a very poor idea indeed, I agree. Robs the TARDIS of some of its magic and mystery, seeing flit past in exactly the same way that bricks don't.
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Monday 17th July 2017 13:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
Dr who has been shit for a long time now and is only going to get worse. This is just PC madness and if they wanted to do a female Dr then why not create a different timelord character, you wouldn't have Miss Marple played by Brian Blessed or Superman played by Bonnie Langford. Dr who has always been a man and Dr Frank-n-Furter should remain in the Rocky Horror Show doing the timewarp and not in Dr Who.
I want my licence fee money back.
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Monday 17th July 2017 16:03 GMT 's water music
It's all about suspension of disbelief...
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Well that's all very well but with the majority of the story lines revolving around the Doctor's cock and balls you can see why some of the fans are worried about how that is going to work now. Wait, wat?
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Monday 17th July 2017 16:41 GMT theOtherJT
"It's all about suspension of disbelief..."
Which is sadly where Dr Who lost me quite some time ago.
I always thought that for the whole suspension of disbelief thing only worked as long as you had a framework to work in.
These are the rules. These rules are not your rules, but they are the rules here. It's OK to travel in time. That's part of our rules. It's OK to have FTL. That's part of our rules. It's OK to have humanoid aliens. That's in the rules.
Once you accept that there are rules, and start to get a handle on what they are - then you can just get on with the thing. That's how it works for me.
The problem with Dr Who is it keeps messing with it's own rules, to the extent that I have no idea what they even are any more, and that's made me get bored with it. If there are no rules then there's no story. With no rules someone can just go "Oh, that thing you can't do? Well you can. Because you need to to fix this plot problem. Problem solved." and shit like that just makes me stop caring about the story at all. Nothing has any dramatic tension if there are no rules.
Dr Who has played too fast and lose with it's own rules basically... forever... if we're honest, and it reached a point somewhere during Matt Smith's tenure that I just lost patience with the entire thing and stopped watching it.
I don't care that the new Doctor is a woman, because I already stopped caring about Dr Who at all :(
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Monday 17th July 2017 13:34 GMT Trollslayer
What about the writing?
Peter Capaldi had next to nothing to work with.
Look at "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" - utterly barmy yet wonderfully thought out with a delightful piece of pathos at the end thanks to Mark Williams.
Or A Christmas Carol with Michael Gambon, Catherine Jenkins and the best line in the history of television "Doctor - there's a shark in my bedroom!". GLORIOUS!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
