Poll: Is the Doctor (Doctor Who) Gay?

[ReservoirAngel]

Some part of me hopes so...

 

[Canid117]

Pretty sure his exact clone is banging Billie Piper in an alternate universe so... no. Or at least not only gay.


And for the people saying it doesn't apply to him because he is an alien. I would like to point out that Time Lords have two genders male and female just like us. Homosexuality is the desire to have sex with people your own gender. Heterosexuality is the desire to have sex with the opposite gender. Bisexuality is the desire to have sex with either gender. The Docter has a gender and has demonstrated a sex drive. Therefore gay, straight and bi do apply to him. If his species were mono-gendered then it would not apply but it isn't so it does.

 

[Theseus32]

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.

I'm not buying it. I have theories on the subject which I shall avoid conjecturing, but suffice to say there's no way in hell they'd end the series like that. It's a set up to the season finale. The problem that they have is that they keep trying to go bigger and bigger with the season finales. Eventually it's going to get totally unmanageable. They still need to do an arc about the time war too. Which will likely get undone. And then they'll probably end up finally revealing the mystery behind his past and then some massive final battle with the whole of time and space and THEN the series will end.

Mean time I'm hoping at some point they'll look back at some of the episodes from the first batch of doctors and realize they don't need to threaten the whole of bloody creation every season, and can make a pretty damned neat show just by sticking to cool set pieces and inventing new aliens.

To those who've never seen the first series, the doctor had NO IDEA where he was going, and that was usually the entire setup to the plot. Stuck on a harsh alien world, no way to get back to the tardis, only option for survival being to help whatever aliens needed help that week. And this worked, really really well, for thirty years. There's a lot of room to expand if they could get over sticking him in london every week.

 

[Bravo 21]

Capt. Jack said it best, "you humans and your silly labels", at least that how i think the quote goes, feel free to correct me

 

[JET1971]

I said rather gay... because for every regeneration and the hottie that got stuck with him.. and he didnt tap it?? plus the general way he acts. my gay friend said its great having a gay main character once and we were talking about doctor who and my gf agreed with him.

 

[FalloutJack]

The Doctor is notorious for being on top of things insofar as the plot and the aliens and stuff like that go, not to much the little things right in front of him. It's a matter of fact that he gets a VERY large picture in life and misses out on the details at times, little things, like being attracted to people or that anyone's attracted to him. Comes naturally, has been established on many occasions.

So yes, he's too busy fighting aliens to notice. Mostly.

 

[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.

I'm not buying it. I have theories on the subject which I shall avoid conjecturing, but suffice to say there's no way in hell they'd end the series like that. It's a set up to the season finale. The problem that they have is that they keep trying to go bigger and bigger with the season finales. Eventually it's going to get totally unmanageable. They still need to do an arc about the time war too. Which will likely get undone. And then they'll probably end up finally revealing the mystery behind his past and then some massive final battle with the whole of time and space and THEN the series will end.

Mean time I'm hoping at some point they'll look back at some of the episodes from the first batch of doctors and realize they don't need to threaten the whole of bloody creation every season, and can make a pretty damned neat show just by sticking to cool set pieces and inventing new aliens.

To those who've never seen the first series, the doctor had NO IDEA where he was going, and that was usually the entire setup to the plot. Stuck on a harsh alien world, no way to get back to the tardis, only option for survival being to help whatever aliens needed help that week. And this worked, really really well, for thirty years. There's a lot of room to expand if they could get over sticking him in london every week.

The producer said that this is honestly how he dies. He mentioned that it would be lame for them to just go and "fix" this and that what we're seeing really is his his one big final true death. And that means he dies in this regeneration.

However, that's really not a problem for them as far as continuing the show goes. Thanks to the time-travely nature of things, they still have several hundred years of this Doctor's life and they can always just go back to other Doctors (for the Time War, as you mentioned, for instance). So there's still plenty of room for more of the show despite us having already seen how he dies. Also, we know that Matt Smith already has a contract for several more seasons anyway. And, while I'm sure many disagree, I would not be at all unhappy with him being the last Doctor. He is far and away my favourite Doctor and I really can't imagine them finding anyone who fits the role better.

But really, I guess it comes down to whether you believe the producers are willing to blatantly lie to us. Given the way he phrased it, talking about how cheap it would be if they undid the death or if it weren't the final death of the Doctor, I really don't see them changing it.

Edit: There's also the possibility that the Time Tot might lead to continuing adventures - I could see them using it to effectively create a female-lead Doctor Who, possibly even doing something like transferring his memories to her so it's sort of a situation where he's really died but not entirely gone.

 

[TheDoctor455]

*raises eyebrow*

Why the hell are a lot of people on this thread treating homosexuality like a character flaw?

 

[Eicha]

TO quote the movie Fanboys, regarding Captain Picard:
"He's not gay, he's British!"

<-- Not a Doctor Who fan, just thought that was funny.

 

[Jacob Haggarty]

I would like to point out, the reason he seems uncomfortable when the lady kisses him is because he isnt expecting it. To HER, its perfectly normal, because she has done it many many times ti him, but because they are traveling in different directions (her future is his past or something), every time she and him meet, he forget her a little bit more.

Or at least thats what i picked up from it anyway.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

He's an alien. I don't think you can apply human sexuality to that.

As it happens though, I suspect whatever romantic inclinations Time Lords have, change with each regeneration. The Tennant Doctor was a very humanised one, and therefore ended up with romantic interests in Rose. The Doctor has, however, traditionally been portrayed as asexual, and regardless of the River question, I think the same is true of Matt Smith's Doctor.

Perfect post. This exactly.

 

[YesIPlayTheBagpipes]

I think if anything he's asexual.

 

[Roxor]

I don't think The Doctor is gay, for most of his incarnations he's been Asexual (Tom Baker (Four) even said he played the Doctor as Asexual). I think the only incarnations where he's had any romantic side are One (although some time before the series started), Eight, and Ten. I think the verdict is currently out on Eleven. He seems to have little interest in relationships (unless you count him calling the TARDIS "you sexy thing" in his first episode), although it does look like River Song may be kindling his interest.

 

[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...

 

[interspark]

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 highly dought that the doctor will never regenerate again! that would imply Matt Smith taking Dr Who to his grave and it's one of those series that just CAN'T END! i bet they'll find a way around it! anyway, on topic, firstly, i've never heard him brag about a girl liking him, not even in other regenerations, and let's face it, River is pretty hot! even for an all powerful and wise time-lord his reaction was odd, and the same goes for Amy, albeit he felt bad because she was getting married, but the point still stands

 

[Furious Styles]

If he's anything, its everything

 

[interspark]

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