I can see that attacks on the male bastion of sci-fi nerdery aren’t going to get very far on here.
Would a female Dr be acceptable if she wore a really tight and low-cut costume ??
Don’t be daft, that was fine for a couple of the Companions, but nobody would accept The Doctor being dressed in an overtly sexy fashion. I don’t actually care, myself, if the right person’s chosen, man, woman, or meerkat, so long as their as good in the rôle as the last two, then fine.
Captain Jack wasn’t The Doctor, but he was a Time Lord, and no issues about shagging anything with a pulse, and it’s obvious that there are female Time Lords, there was even one in the very first episode, An Unearthly Child; Susan Foreman.
All I’m saying is, if the Doctor regenerates as a woman, then it’s something which goes beyond the apparent gender that the Doctor appears to have. I just can’t recall any instance where a Time Lord has regenerated in a body that has a different apparent gender to the previous one, so that would be breaking a precedent that has run through the series from the beginning, which is more or less what I meant by ‘internal logic’
The Time Lords obviously have children and grand-children, (Susan), no-where has it been implied that the ability to change gender is part of their ability.
But hey, that’s the fun of the programme, the conjecture about who is going to be the new lead, and the arguing about who has been chosen afterwards.
Capaldi would be good, I like Doctors who have a hint of madness behind the eyes, flashes of anger that hint that he’s not to be messed with, and Hartnell was my favourite for that reason; he looked like a harmless old man, but there was always the suggestion that if you turned your back on him, you’d find a knife sticking out of it, or turn back to find yourself looking down the barrel of a pistol.
Just found this on Wiki, about Hartnell, which I didn’t know:
“Hartnell’s deteriorating health (he suffered from arteriosclerosis, which began to affect his ability to say his lines), as well as poor relations with the new production team on the series after the departure of Verity Lambert, ultimately led him to leave Doctor Who in 1966.[11][14]
When he left Doctor Who, the producer of the show came up with a unique idea: since the Doctor is an alien, he can transform himself physically, thereby renewing himself. William Hartnell himself suggested that Patrick Troughton should be cast as the new Doctor, stating that “There’s only one man in England who can take over, and that’s Patrick Troughton”.[15] In the fourth episode of the serial The Tenth Planet, the First Doctor regenerated into Troughton’s Second Doctor.[16]”
From that, it sort of implies that there’s a degree of control over the transformation, but as to changing gender?
Well, why not.
Hmmm, Helen Mirren would make a good Doctor…
Any other suggestions for a good female Doctor?