Poll: Is the Doctor (Doctor Who) Gay?

[Jaime_Wolf]

alright, so he flirted with River but he was waving his hands around like Bernard Black on a Saturday when she was kissing him and backed away from her afterwards

He barely knew her and wasn't expecting that. How many times do people just walk up and kiss him?

also he prances around the place all the time, frequently boasts of men who were attracted to him

He ALSO frequently boasts of women who were attracted to him. And how would other men being gay for him indicate that he was gay?

also, River frequently kissing the doctor could mostly refer to future regenerations

Potential problem: he dies before his next regeneration. And unless the creators are blatantly lying to us, that really was him dying - like dead and not coming back dying. In the Confidential after that episode he made this pretty clear. He was several centuries older, so there's still plenty of story left, but if he died looking as he does now, he isn't going to regenerate into another body.

I heard through my Dr Who fanatic husband that BBC will be getting around that with a little bit o "Handwavium", claiming that the time lords limited themselves to 12 regenerations because they all draw from a collective pool of energy. With the Doctor being the last Timelord (supposedly, though there is his cloned daughter and possibly future birth daughter), that pool isn't being drained as quickly as when there were however many millions. This means he can effectively immortal until he decides he's done, assuming BBC does go with this idea and the Doctor decides to break a rule that only he is there to enforce.

It is late and I get my rumors third hand at best, so don't count on it being accurate.

There have been a tremendous numbers of rumours about how they'd handwave that.

But they're all pointless now. We don't just know that he will die, we've seen his death. And it was in this body. And according to the producer, it really was him dying for good. The time-travely nature of the show (and the fact that the Doctor explicitly mentions being several centuries older when we see him just before his death) means there's still plenty for them to talk about, but when he died he had this body, which means he's not going to regenerate again.

Yeah, which kills the entire franchise unless they create some kind of time fracture/new universe/paradox/etc that either erases that event or creates a duplicate doctor that also continues as a seperate entity/doc who. That fracture/whatever they create may be the reason used for now unlimited regenerations.

Except it doesn't. They still have years and years of time left unexplored, they can continue with a separate person, they can go back in time and retcon the stuff from the old series (which in some cases is hardly even retconning since so little of the old series survived), they can go back in time and discuss things that we just don't know about at all (the Time War) - there's still a ton for them to do.

Everyone who thinks it was ballsy to show his death or that it needs to be undone for them to continue is forgetting that this is a show about time travel with tons of gaps in the story already.

 

[AwesomeFerret]

So despite the fact his first appearance of the series was him naked hiding under the woman he had just finished having sex with's dress, you think he might be gay?

What is this I don't even...

i highly dought that, those old dresses took a VERY long time to put on again, i think if she had time to get dressed the doctor certainly did! all we know is she painted him naked and we suspect he only did that to get Amy and rory's attention

I'm sorry, but you seem to have a slight obsession with trying to find reasons for the doctor to be homosexual. The thing is, he isn't. A grandchild is pretty good proof of that fact. And just because that was a past regeneration, doesn't mean it doesn't matter. With River, she had become a good friend over the time they had spent together, and this was something that had never happened in his timeline before, although it had in his. His reaction was the same as if a close friend of your suddenly starting to kiss you one day, totally out of the blue, and doesn't mean that he suddenly doesn't like women because he didn't expect and wasn't comfortable with the kiss. And inf act said surprise at the kiss was a very important, rather tragic moment, because the way that their timelines work means that his first kiss with her is her last with him, and is a rather important plot point. The really important point is that he may look and act quite differently to his predecessors, but underneath that he is exactly the same person. His appearance and demeanor change, but that's it. Same memories, same personality, same Doctor. Regenerating doesn't change his sexuality.

 

[Theseus32]

Not to drag a topic out of the graveyard, but just wanted to point out that there appears to be a clone of the doctor running around who happens to look exactly like Matt Smith and has all of his memories.

But yeah, you're right. I'm sure they're planning on killing the cash cow instead.

 

[Custard_Angel]

It's the Doctor. A master of time and space.

What use does any man or woman have for him?

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I voted yes 100% for the fact Ive never seen it.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I really doubt the BBC would dare to air that, considering doctor who is a family/kids show.

So gays arent family friendly?

OT: I think he's eccentric, maybe a bit androgynous. But I dont think he's homosexual. that's be a rather large bombshell for who fans.

 

[AgentNein]

May he be gay? Sure. But nothing you said particularly points to that for me. My guess would be he's a pretty typical comfortable-with-his-sexuality guy.

I prance on the occasion, I can tell you when another guy's attractive, even when they may be gay, I've been found attractive by gay guys (and I'd boast, it's flattering), I might freak a little if I'm kissed by someone without invitation, for Halloween one year I was Doctor Frank from Rocky Horror...

Yet I'm not gay. At least last time I checked. Hold on.

Nope, not gay.

 

[nothingspringstomind]

he's from a time and place where gender and sexuality don't really matter.

eventually we'll have so many ways of altering sex and preference that we'll look back on stuff like sexuality and think "how quaint."

 

[Biodeamon]

probably bi...bi is the way of the future when gentic biological reproduction is not neccesary!