The 13th Doctor Reveal Thread

[Cathbad]

NO!

We must remain the heartless, unfeeling ogres we've always been!

 

[thaddeus6th]

Vladd, wasn't that due to the Other (the Doctor's 'father') throwing himself into a genetic loom after Omega had died and Rassilon was taking over? Or are my fuzzy memories of Wikipedia-trailing drunken nonsense?

Brian, if we're being pedantic ( ) racial differences would only require different alleles. Changing genders requires different chromosomes. In genetic terms, a race difference (same gender) is much more minor than a gender difference.

Well, that's the case for humans. We didn't cover Gallifreyan genomes at school.

 

[Dave]

Well, that's the case for humans. We didn't cover Gallifreyan genomes at school.

Someone will have written an essay on it already showing how it is possible.

There are some genuinely funny things coming out of this. Someone has written a Blog taking all the irate letter headings from the newspapers and turning them into mock-ups of Doctor Who episodes, with titles such as "I don't want the TARDIS full of bras." There are also newspaper letters being reprinted from 1966 when Patrick Troughton took over, with remarkably similar content (except the bit about bras that is.)

 

[farntfar]

Well, that's the case for humans. We didn't cover Gallifreyan genomes at school.

Anythings possible if No. 10's genes can be jiggled to produce his own daughter and his wife at the same time.

 

[Ursa major]

But... but they're our lives!!

It's as if living entirely vicariously was somehow not quite right...!



And yet, for example, we approve of learning by others' mistakes.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Farntfar, hmm. I saw the Doctor's 'daughter' (who appears to have vanished), but how did gene-jiggling lead to his wife?

Also, the romance stuff is tosh.

 

[farntfar]

Sorry Thaddeus.
I was just playing on the idea that the Doctor's daughter became Tennant's wife.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Ah, right. And here was I trying to have a serious discussion about alien chromosomes

 

[farntfar]

And here was I trying to have a serious discussion

On the chrons?

 

[Ursa major]

I trying to have a serious discussion

On the chrons?

Well, some of the doors** here are open to having Sirius conversations.



** - The ones supplied by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

 

[farntfar]

Hmmmm!
and to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Now I'm thinking of the Joker.

Why so serious?

 

[Brian G Turner]

There are also newspaper letters being reprinted from 1966 when Patrick Troughton took over, with remarkably similar content

It's ironic that in the one series where the main character is always guaranteed to change, people still complain that they ... change.

 

[Vladd67]

Well when Troughton took over it must have been a shock, remember the good old days when the first you knew about events on a tv series was when you saw it on screen?

 

[MemoryTale]

Well I was trying to avoid this, but the news seems to be everywhere - I never had a chance!

As for the choice... I honestly don't think I've seen Jodie Whittaker in anything, so I dunno. I never saw Matt Smith or David Tennant in anything pre-Who and I liked them (although I was ready for Tennant to go about a series before he did).

 

[Bagpuss]

I honestly don't think I've seen Jodie Whittaker in anything, so I dunno.

Well, you get a chance to see her in something before Dr Who because she's playing the main role in an upcoming thriller called "Trust Me". I believe it's due to be shown on BBC One in August some time.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

The thing is, a lot of people just don't like the idea of the Doctor becoming a woman, and that seems valid enough to me. We like what we like and we don't like what we don't like and that is our prerogative. It's a pity that a lot of people feel they have to come up with a lot of reasons why it shouldn't have happened, when it turns out that those reasons are generally based on misconceptions about the canon, and then when that is pointed out they have to come up with more reasons (which get shot down) rather than admit that it's simply not in line with their personal conceptions of the character and they find it disconcerting. I'm not crazy about the idea myself. But that doesn't mean the producers shouldn't have done it if enough other viewers like the idea of a woman Doctor. (And it's not like it came about suddenly. People have been speculating about such a thing for years.)

The fact is that whatever some of us may be feeling now, the actress may yet end up winning over most of us with her portrayal. (Or not. How can we know until we see her step into the role?)

I remember how appalled so many people were at the idea of Matt Smith before he took over the part. Certainly there was nothing in his previous roles or in his personality during interviews that indicated he would be up to the challenge. And yet he won so many of us over so completely.

And Catherine Tate as a companion: who liked the idea of that? Not me, certainly. But her character developed, and well before the end of her run I thought she was one of the very best of the companions.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Vladd, weirdly, that reminds me of the 2010 coalition negotiations. It was fantastic, because nobody was leaking anything, and political journalists had no spoon-fed lines so they didn't know what the hell was going on.

I'd prefer it if we only found out about new Doctors when the regeneration occurred on-screen.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I'd prefer it if we only found out about new Doctors when the regeneration occurred on-screen.

I would prefer that, too. Along with all the other major plot occurrences, like "the Master returns".

 

[Danny McG]

Bring back the Zarbi!