DalekJaas said:
Couldn't have put it better, I hated R.T.D not just for his attitude but for the crappy season finales he wrote.
Timelords aren't salmon, they don't change gender, all regeneration does is repair his cells and cause them to change his appearance, it isn't a sex change device.
Now I actually liked the Davies finales. Not that I am giving him credit, it is because Eccleston and Tennant's acting is what made them great for me.
In all seriousness, I was expecting something great for Matt Smith's two part finale, since the series has been taken over by Moffat, but that finale was just wrong. The plot was flowing nicely until then. I can't remember if it was Moffat that wrote that finale, but if it was, someone must have slipped some drugs into his coffee when he wrote them. I'm not going to spoil it for people that haven't watched it, I will just say that how The Doctor escaped death this time, was just silly and not believable. I have to say the ways that Tennant's Doctor survived Davies' finales were actually much more believable. Yes it is fiction, but there is fiction with reason and unreasonable fiction.
BlindChance said:
For those with more Dr. Fu (see what I did there?) than me, a few questions:
Are Time Lords/Ladies gendered or sexed? My understanding was that they were an alien species, so why must any actual gender exist for them? What is the 'canon' on this? (From reading this thread, I get the sense that there's in canon evidence for both time lords switching between genders or being fixed with one.)
And secondly, what about a black doctor? Could Dr. Who come back as another race?
Genuinely curious on both. I don't know so much on the Dr.
Yes there are male and female time lords it has be specifically shown in the old series and Tennant's last episodes as The Doctor in the new series. The Doctor was actually married once to a female time lord. And before that, if you go back to the beginning in 1963, The Doctor's first main companion is a girl that is his granddaughter, at least that is the consensus, since the whole time she was around she always called him grandfather.
I don't know where you would get that there is evidence that time lords can change gender, because there is none. This is an idea brought up by people that think canon can be changed.
On the race thing, even that I would object to. On a matter of genetics, The Doctor has always been white, in canon there would be no reason for him to change that way. Really thinking about it, regeneration is basically part of a time lord's aging process, because not all time lords died because of getting hurt, some probably died of old age in one regeneration and then moved to the next regeneration. In the human aging process, races don't changed to the color of another race when they get older. The idea with time lords is that they look human but they aren't, they have two hearts, can regenerate 12 times, so they have 13 lifetimes, and as children they are pretty much raised to be geniuses.
The Jakeinator said:
Okay.
But I still think the idea of a female Doctor would be nifty. I only watch it every now and again, so I wouldn't know Doctor Who inside out, as long as the series keeps catching my attention, ill continue watching.
In a way we do have that, if you watch the episode, The Doctor's Daughter. Against his will, he gets genetically cloned, and out of the machine pops a young woman. The machine gives her military training, and the Doctor tries to explain that out of her, by telling her what a time lord really is.
Don't worry, I didn't explain the main plot of the story, interestingly enough that is just a side plot.
