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Lightningboy
July 27th, 2017 - 4:25pmTotally agree re the quality/ratings…I personally think this series that’s just finished is by far the best since the days of Doctor’s 5 & 6…maybe even 4…yet everything is about bl**dy ratings these days.
Capaldi is almost as irreplaceable as Tom Baker was in the original run,so i’m happy they haven’t tried to replace him with a man..a female Doctor (whether better or worse) will give it a very different slant and re-generate the entire show not just the lead character.
I can’t wait.
Chris
July 27th, 2017 - 4:22pmWell said Doctor Stu!
Doctor Stu
July 27th, 2017 - 4:05pmPeople saying it’s a gimmick because they only auditioned women whereas for all the other Doctors they’ve only auditioned men and people are fine with that apparently. Moffat wanted his Doctor to be a man, so men were chosen to audition, Chibnall wanted HIS doctor to be a woman, so women were auditioned. And it was well established that the Doctor could only regenerate 13 times throughout Doctor Who’s history and so without in universe tinkering Matt Smith would have been the last Doctor as he’s the 13th regeneration so this ‘hes changing canon’ thing annoys me due to the fact that without a change in canon Capaldis era never would have happened. It’s only a woman it’s not like she’s got two heads or 8 arms, if you strip it all back it’s just a woman playing a role for 13 episodes who hasn’t been given a chance yet.
Pats86
July 27th, 2017 - 3:38pmJodie could well tip this over the edge, but we will see.
Adam
July 27th, 2017 - 3:22pmThe Doctor is like Sherlock Holmes,Robin Hood,Tarzan and James Bond….an established MALE iconic hero..Which is not to be tampered with for the sake of ‘gender diversity’…no,no,no,no…NO!!
Only yesterday on one of the news channels they were talking about the newly announced Bond movie and if Daniel Craig would be returning to the role..when the presenter quipped ..Maybe it’s time for a JANE Bond!…for pity sake..
Chris
July 27th, 2017 - 2:50pmAnd I would rather be a sheep heading in the right direction than a lemming walking towards a cliff!
Chris
July 27th, 2017 - 2:23pmSo because they didn’t have the balls to do it back then therefore they should NEVER do it?
Chris
July 27th, 2017 - 2:22pmShould always have been male? If we go by that logic then the doctor was and should always have been William Hartnell. Thank goodness the showrunners don’t listen to the stuck-in-the-past fans but actually have ideas to take the show forwards!
Pats86
July 27th, 2017 - 1:03pmAnd what about the showrunner and the BBC attaching their political opinions? That’s OK then is it?
Pats86
July 27th, 2017 - 1:01pmCynical? I don’t know what you mean?
The Living Shadow
July 27th, 2017 - 11:40amA show-runner wanting someone to like their show? Nah, that’s unheard of! If you like that, you must be a sheep. Totally not because the show-runner has good intentions in terms of entertaining an audience, and you want to actually try to enjoy your one of your favourite shows, without attaching your own cynical political opinions…
Pats86
July 27th, 2017 - 10:26amI wasn’t sure that’s why I asked.
Michael
July 26th, 2017 - 10:06pmhe didn’t say x factor and bgt are brilliant he said the are the only shows with high ratings
Pats86
July 26th, 2017 - 9:15pmAre you saying X factor and Britain’s got Talent are brilliant? Or am I reading that coment wrong?
Pats86
July 26th, 2017 - 9:09pmThat’s OK R1ch1e, your happy with it as are others, Myself and others on here do not conform to whatever we are told, this is called choice and we chose not to be sheep. And that is how the BBC and Moffat expect us to be like. Well NO MORE ; )
12th Doctor Fan
July 26th, 2017 - 7:28pmAgree entirely with you, won’t be buying any 13th stuff at all.
12th Doctor Fan
July 26th, 2017 - 7:26pmOh love it please please
R1ch1e
July 26th, 2017 - 6:34pmLong live The Doctor Chris! Man or woman they are always the Doctor to me!
The Moffatt Paradox
July 26th, 2017 - 5:37pmOnly because its been politically and socially constructed with added in universe tinkering to make it seem that this is either necessary or inevitable.
Ultimately Science Fiction while influenced by the actual world it’s creators and writers live in is not really that world and it’s a concern that subtly (or not so) this series in “modern” form outside of the spectacle has been allowed to become that little bit too ideological.
pats86
July 26th, 2017 - 5:28pmI would say it would have been better in the eighties after a handful of Doctors, not after a whole regeneration cycle when gender is supposed to be fluid.
pats86
July 26th, 2017 - 5:24pmChris, the reason only males auditioned for the part is because the Doctor was and should always have been male.
This change is new and for an agenda forced reason only.
Mrs Davros
July 26th, 2017 - 4:46pmIt was only a matter of time before we had a female Doctor. I think most of us should agree that it would likely be at some point. Someone was going to cast a female Doctor somewhere along the line. And whether we agree with it or not, the time has clearly come.
Pats86
July 26th, 2017 - 4:21pmThe Voice of Reason, the casting process is what upsets me the most. If any male actors auditioned for the part they were wasting their time because they never going to get the part even if they were better than Jodie.
I am likely to give it a go but it will be under duress and I will stop if I am unable to make peace with this absurd decision.
Chris
July 26th, 2017 - 2:57pmBut, on the flip side of this, for the last 12 doctors (13 including the war doctor) the BBC have only, as far as we know, auditioned men. As someone mentioned on another site this sounds a lot like people have had their cake for the past 54 years and now have to share 1/13th of it and are kicking up a fuss! There has been inequality in the casting process for a long time, now that for one time it rightly shifted in the other direction is a GOOD thing. Long live the Doctor!
Chris
July 26th, 2017 - 2:48pmOkay Pats86, but the show has thankfully not yet been “screwed up”. If Jodie is terrible, or if a female actor as The Doctor simply does not work, then fair enough you deserve that response. I actually think the BBC/SM/CC has done a great job in this. There has been talk of a woman doctor whenever there is a new casting. If this had happened for any doctor 6 -12 (before they had really made it canon) then maybe there would be a cause for a contention, but surely it is better that it is done now, now that they have explained this is possible for Timelords to regenerate into a different gender in the DW universe?
The Moffat Paradox
July 26th, 2017 - 12:03pmWell their effectively recreating or adding some scenes to the 10th Planet int the Christmas Special with other actors as the companions so I would imagine it being done as remakes completely of potentially all the incomplete stories in Colour/HD making some use where appropriate of modern effects but otherwise maintaining the look and feel of the original episodes as much as possible.
The Temporal Jelly Baby
July 26th, 2017 - 9:31amThat’s an interesting idea. Would you prefer remakes with different actors to the animated versions then? For me, it’d largely depend on just how convincing Reece Shearsmith’s portrayal of the 2nd Doctor would be (we’ve already seen that David Bradley is capable of doing a great job as the 1st). Also, how about the companions? They’d need to be recast too.
The Outcast
July 26th, 2017 - 9:13amI didn’t know Olivia Coleman was asked? Who said this?
The Outcast
July 26th, 2017 - 8:47amI do wonder how many of the people positive about the change, yet don’t watch Who, will begin to watch because of the Gender change.
The Outcast
July 26th, 2017 - 8:45am*37 thousand is a “Tiny Minority”? I’m not someone who any opinions on the 13th Doctor (partly because until Series 11 as there isn’t currently anything to indicate what her Doctor will be like), but I don’t think dismissing the atleast *20% of people who are against it will do any good?
*As of this time, there are 37 thousand dislikes on the 13th Doctor announcement video. That is around 1/3 of all the people who have liked/disliked the video. The 20% is actually Moffat’s own words. 20% is still a large percentage.