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Yay, the Doctor is an alien and not bound by human gender norms! :D
I didn't realise The Last Leg was [back] on!! I thought it had finished for the summer.
But huzzah, it's here to offer its own inimitable perspective on a female Doctor:
I have a ton of links & stuff re. the new Doctor, but tbh I'm not sure anything is gained by sharing it? Like, first of all I'll be preaching to the choir (I presume and hope), and secondly, I'm happy just being excited.
However I did want to share the icon I made. Owls (I think, or maybe it was Proton) pointed out how Thirteen's happy face upon seeing the TARDIS was just like Eleven's. So I made this. Feel free to snag. :)
Also, this Guardian article offers a lot of good insights. The thing is, you can't play the Doctor without BEING the Doctor, and Jodie certainly seems perfect:
1. The gift of the gab: “She’s fearless, that’s the thing. And when she decides she wants a job – and she’s quite selective about what she wants to do – she goes into a room and convinces them that they have to have her.”
2. The personality: At school, she has confessed, she didn’t have much interest in academic subjects, but was an unfailing show-off. “I was the attention-seeking child in class who needed everyone to look at meeee!”
:D :D :D
ETA: It's a funny thing though, the people who are 'not sexist, they just don't want a female Doctor' (a lot of them, sadly, being women). Or who just 'don't think it's the right time'. (Which, seriously? It's good the Suffragettes and those fighting for say, Civil Rights & Gay Marriage didn't take that stance.) The best way to change things is to just go ahead and change things. Nothing happens in a vacuum. People have been talking about a female Doctor since... the 80s? Moffat introduced one in 1999. And she was brilliant.
Also, I still remember how cross everyone was about Matt Smith, because he was too young and had no eyebrows.
(Re. meta on The Doctor Falls... um, I have started. Honest. Life is just being very busy.)
But huzzah, it's here to offer its own inimitable perspective on a female Doctor:
I have a ton of links & stuff re. the new Doctor, but tbh I'm not sure anything is gained by sharing it? Like, first of all I'll be preaching to the choir (I presume and hope), and secondly, I'm happy just being excited.
However I did want to share the icon I made. Owls (I think, or maybe it was Proton) pointed out how Thirteen's happy face upon seeing the TARDIS was just like Eleven's. So I made this. Feel free to snag. :)
Also, this Guardian article offers a lot of good insights. The thing is, you can't play the Doctor without BEING the Doctor, and Jodie certainly seems perfect:
1. The gift of the gab: “She’s fearless, that’s the thing. And when she decides she wants a job – and she’s quite selective about what she wants to do – she goes into a room and convinces them that they have to have her.”
2. The personality: At school, she has confessed, she didn’t have much interest in academic subjects, but was an unfailing show-off. “I was the attention-seeking child in class who needed everyone to look at meeee!”
:D :D :D
ETA: It's a funny thing though, the people who are 'not sexist, they just don't want a female Doctor' (a lot of them, sadly, being women). Or who just 'don't think it's the right time'. (Which, seriously? It's good the Suffragettes and those fighting for say, Civil Rights & Gay Marriage didn't take that stance.) The best way to change things is to just go ahead and change things. Nothing happens in a vacuum. People have been talking about a female Doctor since... the 80s? Moffat introduced one in 1999. And she was brilliant.
Also, I still remember how cross everyone was about Matt Smith, because he was too young and had no eyebrows.
(Re. meta on The Doctor Falls... um, I have started. Honest. Life is just being very busy.)
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(And your icon is wonderful!!)
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John Hurt was the War Doctor.
Richard E Grant was in Curse of Fatal Death... Although I guess the Doctor died & regenerated lots of times without ever having time to change. :)
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Really enjoyed The Tombs of the Cybermen; rather like seeing a stage play, or old-fashioned play of the week, than the slickly produced modern version.
Somehow it still feels more magical :-)
Think I have Curse of Fatal Death downloaded from You Tube, but I've still not watched it.
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But Scream of the Shalka was intended to be a canon revival from the BBC's perspective (and the people in charge of Doctor Who), until the TV reboot came along. Rather like Trek and Star Wars the idea of canon seems increasingly futile and ridiculous (Buffy too now i think of it).
We've had so many different versions of who has been running Humanity's history you can imagine committee meetings with everyone trying to discern what the hell The Silence are meaning with their enigmatic stares this time :-)
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He did? These are the quotes I'm familiar with:
That canon "is a word which has never been used in the production office, not once, not ever" (DWM #356).
That he was "usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands." (DWM #356)
That thinking of the audios as being 'non-canonical' is boring and idiotic. (The Writer's Tale)
That "I'm just the writer [...] I've got no more authority over the text than you!" (DWM #388)
(from this excellent post)
as per example the US version of Queer as Folk, which is arguably the best thing RTD ever created.
Huh. Interesting. Haven't seen either version, so can't comment.
We've had so many different versions of who has been running Humanity's history you can imagine committee meetings with everyone trying to discern what the hell The Silence are meaning with their enigmatic stares this time :-)
Indeed. Or as Moffat put it once:
"It is impossible for a show about a dimension-hopping time traveller to have a canon."
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Aaah. That's the one with the robot boyfriend, y/n? I haven't seen it, even though I ought to.
which was repudiated as canon once a TV Version was decided on.
Doctor Who doesn't have a canon.
Jodie Whittaker is the fourteenth Doctor to me; which is why I don't, and will never, refer to them by number.
Fair enough. The numbering is messy. :)
Really enjoyed The Tombs of the Cybermen; rather like seeing a stage play, or old-fashioned play of the week, than the slickly produced modern version.
It's a wonderful wonderful story. (I would recommend World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls - ONE DAY LEFT ON IPLAYER! - as also incredibly gorgeous episodes. <3)
Somehow it still feels more magical :-)
<3
Think I have Curse of Fatal Death downloaded from You Tube, but I've still not watched it.
Ever? How have you avoided it for almost 20 years? Well, it's worth waiting for. And very very funny.
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Now RTD & Moffat are gone maybe the show will produce something I can hook on to, but I can't imagine it will ever recapture the real magic that Doctor Who used to have; S5 with Rory and Amy and Wee!Amelia almost caught it, but it escaped.
The Library eps and Blink are great TV SF; Blink some of the best ever made for TV, and I really want to write more Sally 'Shipton' stories some day. If I ever write River Song though there will be little relationship with her story as it developed after S5; hated that so much I haven't watched any new NuWho since I stopped at the mid S6 break; even with all the intriguing Clara/Bill Potts etc stuff.
At the time I didn't think much of who would be the new Doctor, and I remember saying to you I didn't and still don't like Peter Capaldi much - his work on TV and Radio not him, as AS The Doctor he has been just about as magical with fans as anyone I can think of in any role anywhere, but I think some part of me really wanted it to be a woman, though I didn't realise it at the time (part of my delight this time is that that same part of me didn't really expect it to happen at all - ever).
Going on too long, so I'll shut up now. Thanks for the card by the way; only one I got, so star prize to you ;-)
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Yeah, I know what it's like.
Now RTD & Moffat are gone maybe the show will produce something I can hook on to, but I can't imagine it will ever recapture the real magic that Doctor Who used to have; S5 with Rory and Amy and Wee!Amelia almost caught it, but it escaped.
There was a lovely quote (which I have currently lost) saying how Doctor Who is more like a collective myth that successive people merely add their own take.
but I think some part of me really wanted it to be a woman, though I didn't realise it at the time (part of my delight this time is that that same part of me didn't really expect it to happen at all - ever).
I think if it HADN'T been a woman/POC there would, there would have been an outcry.
Going on too long, so I'll shut up now. Thanks for the card by the way; only one I got, so star prize to you ;-)
Hurrah it got there (although late I presume). <3
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http://c-carol.dreamwidth.org/52227.html
:)
(Will reply to other comments later. Been a busy day!)
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♥
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Take my 11 year old, who wasn't particularity keen on a female Doctor. And who is now all 'Yeah, we're awesome, aren't we?' (To be fair, she doesn't need an excuse to think she is awesome, but she is very pleased.)
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I was in a pie restaurant with a friend on Friday evening and we were talking about Jodie's casting. My friend's husband is a big DW fan and is a bit leery (though not wholly negative like some). My friend is not so much of a DW fan but very excited about Jodie. One of the servers was cleaning up around us after a big birthday party and asked what we were talking about. When we told her that the new Doctor was going to be female, her face lit up. "Are you serious?! Oh my God, that's amazing!" and then "A woman can do anything a man can do!"
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Yes, I totally agree!
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I am working on a post about the whole female Doctor thing, a post with more than my squee and elation and bewilderment of the negativity, but I don't plan on posting it until after the x-mas special along with a love letter to Moffat of sorts! If you're interested I touched upon some of my thought in the comments of this post
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They are the BEST!
And yes, I saw your post but life has been... /o\ Like, in a good way, but SO BUSY. Will get to your post, honest.
Thirteen - dweomeroflight
Re: Thirteen - dweomeroflight
IKR? It's like some of these people have the memory of a goldfish. Also, a lot of people will probably start watching BECAUSE of Jodie. :)
(Icon is the first icon I ever uploaded of Eleven, literally the day after he was announced.)
RE: Re: Thirteen - dweomeroflight
I have female friends keen to watch the show for the first time in years coz of Jodie so yep!
Re: Re: Thirteen - dweomeroflight
People don't like change, sadly... Although yes, it's good to bring new people on board. :)