@Missy @puroandson @ichabod @Mersey @pedant

Okay. I’ve stayed out of this because I don’t really understand why we keep coming back to it. I won’t go into my own reasons for being on the fence about the issue, but only wanted to throw this in for what it’s worth.

As a lover of music, my greatest respect goes to those artists and groups who…[Read more]

@puroandson   Thanks for kind words, and a salute to your mum while we’re at it.  There’s still plenty of resistance to feminist ideas, though, even among SF readers and writers, who you’d expect to be more flexible in their thinking since social change does seem to be an unavoidable effect of time and we’re supposed to be pushing conjecture i…[Read more]

@mersey  Moffat said categorical no to female Doctor 

My understanding is that he’s been *told*, No Female Doctor, by BBC higher ups, and that having us see the General regenerate as a woman was his way of surrendering on that score, but at the same time making a firm visual statement that TLs can in fact switch genders upon regeneration; so, i…[Read more]

@mersey

Fear not, I guessed your intention. *winks*

I simpy wanted to make a point about the inconsistences of the current *so called* English language.

Ttfn

Missy

@mersey

Ah, but then the word”Guy” is sexist when it is used to include any women in the room – but it’s done just the same.

Ttfn

Missy

@mersey  @bluesqueakpip @missy   The door has been opened wide for the possibilty of a female Doctor.  When or if?   I have no idea but I am OK with the idea. Of course it would be a challenge for any women to portray the first female Doctor but I am betting on there being quite a few who would like to try. It might be time.

Female or male, o…[Read more]

@Mersey

It doesn’t matter whether Steven Moffat is personally uncomfortable with the idea of a female Doctor or not. Even if he is, he’s still laid all the groundwork for another producer, one more comfortable with the idea.

He’s established that Time Lords can change sex when they regenerate. He’s established that it is possible for a major…[Read more]

@Mersey

Steven Moffat dealt with that with The General in Hell Bent. The General regenerates into a woman, heaves a huge sigh of relief and then says ‘only time I’ve been a man’ (with a strong undertone of ‘and I hope it never happens again’).

So if Chris Chibnall wants to experiment with a woman Doctor, he’s not obliged to stick with that…[Read more]

@puroandson

I agree, and I like the Doctor just the way he is.

@mersey

You forget Rose and DT’s Doctor. He loved her, but gave her his clone. also, I don’t think you wrote nonsense.

I shall read the above later, my head is swimming right now.

ttfn

Missy

@puroandson @mersey and @ichabod    I always see the past Doctors and all their memories when I look into 12s face and see his reactions to situations around him , so I feel that all those emotions are inside him battling to appear. But how does he show them ,who is he?

The Doctor doesn’t know who he is when he regenerates “Am I a good man…[Read more]

@mersey  Please, reveal me the secret, when exactly 12th was a) sympathetic, b) empathic

[First, I’m not always sure I’ve got what you mean to say exactly right, but I never think of it as nonsense.]

Second: off the top of my head: of the dinosaur; “Look what I did to her!”  The Doctor’s face after whassername, the woman who takes others’ a…[Read more]

@Mersey   @puroandson      Interesting discussion!

I think that if you view the Doctor through the lens of his past, you find a person who has more often than not tended to a positive, enthusiastic, somewhat wide-eyed view of the cosmos. But like all of us, there are times and situations in life during which one is sometimes sidetracked. The Do…[Read more]

@mersey   The Authority.  We do indeed see him differently!  I’ve generally found him to be too quirky to be that, and also a bit too alien (on and off).  To me, he swings between being on our wave-length and being — not; it’s like an extreme shift of focus, I think.  Close in and fully engaged with us, his understanding is triggered.  When his m…[Read more]

@mersey  That’s my chief argument against 12. You can expect that 2000 years old man will be more stoic in the face of death and loss

Yes; but then, I wouldn’t care about the character.  He’d be just another standard comic-book superhero — save ’em, lose ’em, all in a day’s work, and all forgotten by next week’s issue or episode — unless deat…[Read more]

@mersey   I want to see the Doctor who enjoys being himself. He speaks a lot that he saves people but he failed to save major characters like Clara, Danny, Osgood, Ashildr.

Well, to be fair, he *did* save Ashildr from death, pretty permanently it seems.  And he did end up working with revived Clara to save her and himself, in Hell Bent, and t…[Read more]

@Mersey

They don’t remember that they saved it. I did do a blog a couple of years back, which puts forward the alternative timeline theory; but it’s stated in the script of Day of the Doctor that memories can’t be retained if the time-lines are out of synch.

In other words, you can’t remember changing your own past if remembering changing it…[Read more]

@mersey

I believe that they handwaved it by saying that they don’t remember it until Eleven because of Timeline Crossing Physics or something else timey-wimey.

@Mersey

That’s why I now tend to refer to the post-McGann Doctor Doctors (sorry!) as the Hurt, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith and Capaldi Doctors.

I think Moffat really, really wanted Eccleston (though I do understand why Chris said ‘No’). John Hurt has said that he basically had about three weeks notice to play the War Doctor.

I think Paul McGann…[Read more]

@Missy and @Mersey

Tegan also got a bit of a fan check in The Crimson Horror, when the Doctor reminisces about spending bloody ages (years, in fact) trying to get the TARDIS to land at Heathrow Airport. He then uses the Davison Doctor’s catchphrase to Tegan (Brave heart) to Clara.

Given later developments, I suspect the TARDIS can be retconned…[Read more]

@mersey

Yes, I agree,but she/he also has to have an enquiring mind. The Doctor approves when they ask WHY?

I remember when Doc 10 and Martha were on the moon in hospital, he told her to leave the other Nurse/Doctor behind as she’d be in the way. That was because she said that they couldn’t be on the Moon, when it was obvious that they…[Read more]