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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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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."