[ SECRET POST #3792 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3792 ⌋

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Comments

[thewakokid]

Yes, a white male time lord.

[(Anonymous)]

In all seriousness: up until October 29, 1966 we didn't know that the Doctor could regenerate at all. It's literally a random plot device that they made up to deal with the fact that their lead was too sick to continue acting. The idea of the Doctor being able to regenerate into a woman or a person of color is no more a contrivance than any other element of Doctor Who. There's nothing and never has been anything in Doctor Who that makes the Doctor distinctly and exclusively white or male. It's a ridiculous and absurd idea.

[(Anonymous)]

My biggest issue is that if he turned into a female he wouldn't be the same character anymore. Even though the Doctor changes with each regeneration, his always basically the same person. Changing him into a woman would simply require too many changes of him as a character, he'd have to be completely rewritten and I don't see the appeal of that at all. Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should happen. Like, just because there's nothing stopping you from eating bacon dipped in Nutella, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

IF they should cast a woman, it should be because she is the best choice of all the given ones at the time. Not just because she is a woman. And it would only work if they didn't make a huge fuss about it and refrained from making moronic, cringey jokes and puns in relation to the Doctor now being female throughout the series.

That said, I believe the next Doctor won't be a woman. It's being said Chibnall wants a younger, male Doctor for the new series.

[(Anonymous)]

My biggest issue is that if he turned into a female he wouldn't be the same character anymore. Even though the Doctor changes with each regeneration, his always basically the same person. Changing him into a woman would simply require too many changes of him as a character, he'd have to be completely rewritten and I don't see the appeal of that at all. Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should happen. Like, just because there's nothing stopping you from eating bacon dipped in Nutella, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

I just don't agree that the Doctor would have to change as a character any more fundamentally than in any other regeneration.

IF they should cast a woman, it should be because she is the best choice of all the given ones at the time. Not just because she is a woman.

I do agree w this.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, he wouldn't *have* to, but I absolutely believe the writers would think he should. Honestly, I just don't trust a bunch of men to write a female Doctor properly. You just know the Doctor wouldn't shut up about how he's a woman now, it would get old really fast.

I think Tilda Swinton or Sue Perkins are just about the only ones I can picture as playing the woman Doctor, casting someone young/girly and/or conventionally pretty wouldn't work at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I know, I'm just being flippant.

But purely playing devils advocate:

There's nothing and never has been anything in Doctor Who that makes the Doctor distinctly and exclusively white or male

Except the history of the character. I mean if every time you saw me in person I was wearing an all white outfit, you would be excused for concluding that I only own white clothes. It's not an explicit or conclusive link, but it is a link.

~Wako @ Work