Doctor Who

Are there any fellow Whovian's here?

The next Doctor was revealed today and for the first time in the show's 50+ year history the Doctor is going to be female. Jodie Whittaker takes the role at Christmas.

Fan reaction, as expected, has been mixed to the news.

I'm tentively excited by this casting, as I thought The Master changing to female worked well during Peter Capaldi's tenure, and Doctor Who has always been a show revolving around change.

I like Doctor Who back in the late 00's but I tuned in recently and thought it was extremely dull.

Delete this man's account. Right now.

TheHeavyMetalCat wrote: The next Doctor was revealed today and for the first time in the show's 50+ year history the Doctor is going to be female. Jodie Whittaker takes the role at Christmas. Fan reaction, as expected, has been mixed to the news.

I am a mild fan of the program.  Being on this side of the pond, I wasn't familiar with the show accept through references from others sources.  I have managed to watch a couple of the series during the David Tennant / Billie Piper years, but haven't really watched it lately.  Really a TV show producers dream to be able to replace a show's star with another actor and not have to skip a beat because it is part of the story line.  :) 

I'm not sure that I am overly thrilled with the idea of making Doctor Who a woman, but at least in the case of Doctor Who it is a continuous plot line and not unreasonable from story lines to have this occur.  Personally, I do tend to have a real problem with changes made to real historical people though such as Hamilton or fictional characters with a history such as Spider-man or Thor or Doctor Watson.  If the historical person was a white male or the character was written as a white male then that is who should be portraying the character.  Not a black male.  Not a woman.    There is outrage when white men are cast as blacks or Asians or American Indians and there should be a similar outrage when the reverse is true. 

I refused to watch Elementary with Doctor Watson portrayed by a woman.  I've heard the show is/was quite good but the premise just bothered me. 

On the other hand, I wasn't really happy when Battlestar Galactica returned with Starbuck as a woman...but probably because the original show was a just a distant memory at that point in time so it turned out fine with that change.

^Aren't there supposed to just be 13 regenerations of the Doctor? One of my friends told me that, but that was quite a while ago, so maybe I'm not remembering correctly.

My Dad had a bunch of sci-fi TV VHS when I was growing up, including old Doctor Who. I used to watch them with him often. Some of the really old ones are very dated and badly acted by today's standards of course, but I still have an appreciation for them. It's sad that so many episodes are still lost. I've also watched the revived series since it returned in 2005.

I'm skeptical of the new Doctor but I always am until their first episode debuts, so its nothing to do with her gender. I think it will be strange for a while though because this won't be like The Master/Missy who only popped up every now and then.

Speaking of Missy, anyone else sure that last episode of series 10 isn't really the end of her (or perhaps him again, in the future)?

Love the show but have got some major catching up to do...I think I last saw season 8 of the new series? Yeeeaahh.


Edited by Psydye - 18 Jul 2017 at 8:06pm

As far as I'm concerned the show really needs to do the following things under the new lead writer:

I think you mean Romana, she was the Time Lady who was with 4th, in two incarnations. It would be interesting to know if she's still alive in a new regeneration (same for Susan, his granddaughter) now that Gallifrey is back and the Time Lords are around again. Though that unknown woman in The End of Time could have been either one of them I guess, though it was reported at the time that she was supposed to be the Doctor's mother.