They changed a lot of stuff, keeping The Doctor male is good for familiarity. That and if they change his gender it'd most likely be bring on by a very shaky plot.
Question of the Day, October 12, 2010
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The Doctor cannot be a woman, because in today's society, women are still seen as inferior. They may have shown that they can hold their own, and that they can be just as good a Doctor as the Doctor (I'm looking at you, Rose Tyler), but there's always a man at the head of it all. In the end, everyone supposedly wins, because the women see their people saving the galaxy and running around with attractive men, and guys feel safe knowing that they're still wearing the pants and holding the sonic screwdriver.
Speaking of women and sonic screwdrivers...
Speaking of women and sonic screwdrivers...
Someone's not familiar with Torchwood, where such a scenario was probably played out several times a season. (Actually, perhaps it's better you're not familiar with Torchwood, considering the quality of the writing.)Davey Woo said:
I'd be happy to see a female Doctor. It'd be a refreshing move in a series that's always up for something new, and he's had such a variety of forms that a female one is hardly going to implode the universe.
They kind of did that with Jenny, she is clone from The Doctor's DNA. (Episode: The Doctor's Daughter. From Tennant's last full season, 4.) We should be seeing episodes where she come back, probably this next season coming up.tommyopera said:
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They didn't just talk about this in the 80's, they also talked about it when deciding who would replace Tennant.
Though if they did decide to have The Doctor regenerate into a woman, I would stop watching the show. It is just wrong. The Doctor has always been a man, and shall always be a man. Also if they did, if I had the money to burn, I would hop on a flight to the UK and punch the people that did it.
I hate it when they make obviously stupid changes to the show. I actually want to do the punching thing to the person that decided it was good to add a medical insignia to the right hand door of the TARDIS for Matt Smith's first season. It is actually historically inaccurate, police boxes don't have medical symbols. Also it is wrong for the fact that the TARDIS looks like a police box because its Camelion Circuit was broken a long time ago, so it can't change its outward appearance to match the surroundings. That stupid medical symbol could only be their if the Circuit was fixed, which would make the TARDIS change when it went to places like Venice.
Matt Smith was an okay choice to play The Doctor, and the plot for his first season was really great. Though I wish I was there when they wrote the big explanations for why things were happening and how The Doctor survived the season finale episodes. I would have slapped some faces and told them no many times. Because everything leading up to the last two episodes was wonderful and epic, but the two finale episodes were an unforgivable train wreck. I hope they get their act together for the next season.
Yes the universe would implode if they made The Doctor a female, it would implode worse than it did in Matt Smith's season. It might not seem possible, but trust me, it is.Synonymous said:
On Torchwood, I liked it, but it did play too much on Captain Jack's bisexuality, to the point that it seemed to infect other characters and made them the same way. Of course that comes from Russell T. being the creator and head writer. There was never such a situation in Doctor Who, until Russell got a hold of it for the revamp, though I do applaud him for reviving it to television(Doctor Who never actually died, it just kept going on radio programs, books, and audio books.), though I really can't give Russell any credit for writing. He probably would make the most money writing bisexual romance novels.
The guy thinks fans are stupid people and should shut up about things like canon. Like his comment when he revealed that he wanted to make non-canonical Doctor Who movie with Johnny Depp as The Doctor. Fans backlashed against him, and he basically said screw you, I want reach people that aren't Doctor Who fans, which means, "I'm a greedy bastard and want loads of money while destroying Doctor Who in a fiery blazing crash into Hell." Search the Escapist, his actual comment about fans was reported here several months back.
I hope you aren't being sarcastic, because I would be wasting a post then.BenzSmoke said:
The only thing I could see that is stopping you is one of two things.
1.) You don't have good internet.
2.) You don't have time in your daily schedule.
If those aren't the reasons, then I say, go do it now. Go to places like surfthechannel.com and sidereel.com , and find links to where you can watch it. Oh and don't just watch the new series of Doctor Who, try and watch as much of the old series as you can find. That is a lot to watch though, since the old television series ran from November, 23, 1963 to I think sometime in 1989.
For 11 incarnations since 1963, The Doctor has always been male. Yes there are female time lords. There were many that appeared in the old series, The Doctor even had an evil female time lord rival called The Rani.Payne121 said:
You even get to see some female time lords in David Tennant's last episodes as The Doctor of the new series.
I am a huge Doctor Who nerd and I would quit watching if they did change him into a woman, it would break canon and instantly make the show unwatchable.The Jakeinator said:
I think it would be interesting to see. I don't see what about the doctor is so inviolably male that the character wouldn't be able to survive it. Purely from a cynical standpoint I can easily see how this would be an opportunity to rely on being unexpected instead of actually making a quality show, but if done well, I don't see how it would work any better or worse than a male doctor.
Sorry, I have to point this out. The correct terminology for a female Time Lord is a Time Lady.The Escapist Staff said:
OT: No I think he should stay male, if only for sake of tradition. I do think they should find a way to bring back Romana, however. She was cool.