SHE'LL DO! :D

[elisi]

Watch on YouTube

(Seriously, just WRITING 'she'... Eeee. *flails*)

ETA: I love the aesthetic of these mini videos. The nature intertwined with the magical/otherwordly. It sits right, and also has a very different textural feel to Moffat. (Which is good. Nothing will ever be Moffat Who, so I want a complete change.)

Also Thirteen's personal aesthetic is very much to my liking. <3

ETA2: I THINK THEY CHOSE WELL:

"It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope. I can’t wait.”

— Doctor Who Magazine (@DWMtweets) July 16, 2017

Comments

[kerkevik_2014]

Woman +
Never heard of her +
White -

Brave decision on her part because she is on a total lose-lose situation however stellar the writing is. She's where Jackie Robinson was in Baseball; where Obama was in 2007; where Hilary Clinton was last year.

More than any other actor she will be defined for the rest of her life by this moment. I hope she's ready for the hate that's going to be thrown her way.

Whether we like her or not, we who have wanted this for so long have to; HAVE TO, stand by her. She will need allies like no-one else on British Television.

kerk

[unfeathered]

I've never seen her in anything but the general consensus seems to be that she'll be good, so I look forward to learning more about her!

I'm certainly looking forward to how this will change the dynamic in the TARDIS - whoever we get as her companion(s) it will certainly be something new to explore. :-)

[enevarim]

SHE MOST CERTAINLY WILL!

[elisi]

Woman +
Never heard of her +
White -
I think she is fairly well known? (Not by me, but she's been in a lot of things.) And yeah, no way would they change gender AND race at the same time. Next time, male POC?

Whether we like her or not, we who have wanted this for so long have to; HAVE TO, stand by her. She will need allies like no-one else on British Television.
I LIKE HER ON PRINCIPLE. I liked Eleven on principle, before I'd ever seen anything he'd done. And hey, look on it the other way - she's a pioneer! She will forge the path for all who come after.

[spikewriter]

She will need allies like no-one else on British Television.

Oh, lord, will she. I hate to think what boards like Gallifrey Base are saying right now.

[elisi]

Yeah, I've never seen her in anything either. But I'm presuming she'll be brilliant, they wouldn't have asked her otherwise.

And yeah, a nice young male companion? ALL CHANGE! :D

[elisi]

ALL IS WELL IN THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS!

[enevarim]

EVERYTHING THIS TIME ACTUALLY IS CANON, AND NOTHING HURTS.

[spikewriter]

She was charming in Return to Cranford</>, though I wouldn't necessarily take that performance as a measure of how she's going to do as the Doctor. For one thing, she was playing a rather Put Upon Victoria Maiden. Another, that was filmed 8 years ago, so there's a bit of water under the bridge since then.

[unfeathered]

Heh, absolutely. To be fair, I'd never heard of most of the other Doctors before either (excepting only Peter Davison and Christopher Eccleston, and Capaldi I'd only seen in DW/TW) and they all turned out great!

And oh gosh yes, a male companion who's actually as cool as all the young ladies have been, instead of annoyingly limp like Mickey and Rory (though they were great by the end)? That'd be fantastic!

[unfeathered]

Heh, this'll be a bit different then!

[kerkevik_2014]

I've never heard of her anyway; not before seeing her name mentioned -what? two days ago- in connection with this.

Why not?

re: Pioneer. I think that's what I was saying. Wish I'd though of looking up Shirley Chisholm's name as a pioneer.

[kerkevik_2014]

A lot of people will be unfriended by revealing their misogyny of the coming months.

[makamu]

I am more than happy with this. Besides, I liked her in the other stuff I have seen her in, so it's all good! I am so happy right now I could burst!

[kerkevik_2014]

I'd like to see a gender-non specific character, played by a woman myself (wishing Bill Potts was staying as I think it).

[kerkevik_2014]

Rory was not limp! He was the only thing that kept me watching until halfway through season six of that era. Only male companion in my top ten of all-time (when I include those of the old show and the modern incarnation.

[lynnenne]

I don't even watch Doctor Who, but this makes me happy.

[elisi]

That's... sort of a good thing? By shining a light, you reveal what's hiding in the darkness.

[elisi]

Why not what? Change both? (One step at a time...)

re: Pioneer. I think that's what I was saying. Wish I'd though of looking up Shirley Chisholm's name as a pioneer.
Oh Shirley Chisholm. <3

[unfeathered]

Oh no, not for long, I agree and I absolutely loved him by the end, but he always seemed to be presented as weak and sheeplike in comparison to Amy, just as Mickey was to Rose, and I hated that.

[elisi]

I'd seen Tennant in Casanova, and knew Peter Capaldi not just from the Thick of It, but also from Torchwood: Children of Earth, in which he was just phenomenal.

And I too shall say that Rory was far from limp! He's pretty much the only person who wasn't awed by the TARDIS. And that was on his first adventure! (Mickey was badly served by the narrative.)

[elisi]

For the Companion? I think we'll do well if we get a nice simple straight boy...

(Mind you, as one of the posts I linked to previously, a male companion is going to be a FANTASTIC role model to young boys. Has to be secure enough in himself to let a woman be smarter, better and wiser, and in charge.)

[elisi]

*dances*

I should probably watch Broadchurch...

[unfeathered]

Yeah, Capaldi was great in CoE. He is an amazing actor and I shall certainly be following him in whatever he does next!

Fair enough re. Rory. I do believe he was pretty cool underneath it all, it was just the way the scripts always seemed to be trying to make him seem all weedy, like just because he couldn't fight a vampire on his first outing or whatever.

[elisi]

:D