Dr. Who as a woman?

[Im_not_Akira]

My friend would claim every series that the doctor was going to regenerate as a woman, and then the master when he died.

I don't think turning the doctor in to a woman would be a good idea, the writers have tried coming up with a female equivalent to the doctor in River So and god knows that was a bad idea.

 

[Vault101]

There are rumors that the 12th Doctor will be a woman.

I think it'd be very interesting. But the general idea is that the majority of companions are female. Would that change? I don't know.

since "doctor egtting it on with his companions" was a more "modern" idea (that got old...fast) I dont see why it should

women can be freind with other women you know

and for some reason dawn french would be a cool person to play the part

I would stop watching.
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why? I mean yeah they could totally mishandle it but still theycould also nail it

i would watch it, hell the last series has been total shit i still watch. it wont happen though because doctor who is a show aimed at young boys.

I'm getting a serious impression latley that there is actually a sizable female fanbase

 

[uzo]

Jumping to a female Doctor would really not impact the Doctor significantly ... the Doctor, as most people have said, is quite asexual in general. The writers are good, but I don't think they're good enough to fend off all the producers and muppets who would be instantly battling for Bridget Jones 3: Lost My Knickers In Space And Time.

I could definitely imagine Lenny Henry as the Doctor, though. That said, seeing as every Doctor is rather quirky and exaggerrated (wearing cricket whites, munching on jelly babies, carrying an umbrella shaped like a question mark, or wearing a fez because they're cool now) I'd be afraid of an unintentional yet racist connotation creeping in there - a jive talking Doctor, anyone? Snoop Doccy-Doc?

 

[Phasmal]

I would be opposed to such a move on almost every level, but I would continue watching the show.

It'd just be hard for me to get over the fact that the show-runner decided to abandon all logic and pre-established Time Lord biology in order to cast a woman in the role.

Time Lords changing gender is canon.
Also, it would be a bit absurd to be perfectly okay with a person changing into another person but not a different gender person. Everything can change.

 

[Bertylicious]

I don't know if it's just the recent writers behind the recent Dr. Who series and Torchwood making me think this but it seems to me that the casting of the Time Lord as female is now inevitable.

And I'm all for it! I love that shit. I want an elderly female Doctor in a Cpt. Jack Harkness mold who fucks everyone from the assistants to the Daleks to the stupid sexy mudcrabs!

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I would be opposed to such a move on almost every level, but I would continue watching the show.

It'd just be hard for me to get over the fact that the show-runner decided to abandon all logic and pre-established Time Lord biology in order to cast a woman in the role.

Time Lords changing gender is canon.
Also, it would be a bit absurd to be perfectly okay with a person changing into another person but not a different gender person. Everything can change.

The furthest it's gotten in terms of being canon is a couple of throw-away references to it. If that's the case for it being canon then so is Time Lords regenerating with two heads, or no head. It can theoretically happen, I just doubt it ever will.

And no, it's not absurd to be okay with the idea of regeneration yet opposed to a male character regenerating into a female. It's not like I'm against female actors playing roles like that, it's just that it would take a shit-load of justifying to make it seem in any way logical.

Suspension of disbelief only goes so far. Person renewing their body upon death resulting in a change of physical appearance? I can go along with that. Person entirely changing genders in the process? Call me whatever you want but that just doesn't seem like something I could easily get over since it would be, basically, weird.

I know having this conversation shouldn't make me sound like a misogynist but for some stupid reason it does so I'm just going to give up here, by stating that whatever it makes me sound like, I find the idea of the Doctor regenerating with boobs and a va-jay-jay to be fundamentally absurd.

 

[curlycrouton]

That'd be a fantastic idea, and a welcome inversion of what I'm sure has become an accepted convention of the character among some.

Unfortunately, Steven Moffat is an inherently misogynistic writer, and even if the Doctor were to be a woman (which is unlikely), I doubt she would be a particularly well-written or well-developed character.