The new Doctor is being announced tonight! 

After the Wimbledon Mens Final they say. That's a bit vague, since tennis can go on for hours and I'm not a tennis fan at all so I won't watch it. I need a precise time!

Although my Doctor will forever be the Tenth!

I only know Kris from My Family and he was brill.
Last time the rumour was Peter and of course it turned out to be true...
My fave remains Matt, but I have liked them all.

I know her face, but have no idea from where.
I already read the first "they ruined Doctor Who" tweets from men.

I don't know what to think! I've always been pro female Doctor in theory - before actually watching the show. But now I find myself struggling with letting the Doctor change his face let alone his gender

Altho from the storytelling point of view this casting presents the writers with innumerable, all very interesting possibilities!

I think this is an interesting choice and I will be looking forward to her Doctor. But then I am not so involved with DW and watch it with a certain detachment. Which does not mean that anyone should talk about ruining the show with a woman. This is ridiculous.

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Last edited by Ivy (July 17, 2017 5:30 pm)

Thanks for those, Ivy!  I've been keeping away from the media over the issue, after seeing that the Daily Fail were printing nude screenshots of Jodie Whittaker. 

There's no reason why the Doctor should have to be a man.  It has been established that Time Lords do not have to regenerate to the same gender, and also that gender isn't a thing to them in the way that it is to us. 

Not everybody who would have preferred a man, is being misogynist, though I think.  You just get used to seeing somebody a certain way, I think, and it has been many many years of the Doctor only being male, and unless you were born in the 1940s or earlier, throughout our childhoods.    Not a reason to keep them male, of course, but I think there can be a little bit of loss there (it reminds me of the loss when you have a child of one sex, and "lose" the son or daughter who might have been).  I grew up with an older Doctor too, and always want to see an older person in the role, which is maybe one of the reasons I loved Peter so much.  

No excuse for some of the comments out there, of course.  I think we've actually been well prepared for it by Stephen.

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I haven't really watched Doctor Who since David Tennant left, I did watch some of Matt Smith's episodes and liked him as the Doctor but I couldn't get into it with Peter Capaldi as the Doctor but I will definitely tune in to see how Jodie's portrayal turns out. 

I will definitely tune in, too. David was my last, too. (well...and the only one)

The regeneration will be interesting and the Doctors reaction to it.

ewige wrote:

Thank you for the hilarious collection, Ivy!

But when did this happen???

Ivy wrote:

 

 

Well he has the Sherlock locks, maybe during the shooting of series 2 (2011) maybe 3 (2013)

EDIT: gettyimages says April 2013, was at a party "to celebrate Michael Attenborough's 11 years as Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre"

 

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