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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I'm happy for the people that are excited for her and I hope she is given the writing quality Calpaldi was screwed out of to make them happy.


For me, I'm burnt out on the show after the last 4 seasons ended up leaving a more "meh" taste in my mouth than I initially thought they did. As such, I had already decided that I would be taking off from watching the next season as it aired and just watched it at a later time regardless of who was chosen.


Now for the doctor being a female, I feel like this was the safest choice. Or rather, this actrress was the safest choice. Why not go with a woman Capaldi's age? Do a woman that is not the age where males are only going to watch it because, "She's pretty." I also feel like completely changes the character and the show's history. The Doctor is meant to be a fatherly figure (sometimes even a grandfatherly one), so there is more to the character that makes the gender matter. It is one of his traits that defines his character. Would you want to see Scrooge changed to a woman? What about Alex in A Clockwork Orange? Then there are female characters that are the same that wouldn't work if they were changed into a male character. Wonder Woman, for example. What if they turned June Cleaver into some buff 19 year old? If they needed to do a female Doctor type show, why not give River her own show? Why not do a show about a different Time Lord? Why change a character who has been a male for over 50 years?


Well whatever. I'm done. Good luck and good night.

Dude, none of that matters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequ...ermaphroditism

Not to mention the fact that all past regenerations have varied significantly between each other. So given the physiological make up of the species, this barely matters and if the writers are smart, they won't make it matter. Because making it matter is a one-way ticket to a ham-fisted soapbox.