Peter Capaldi is leaving Doctor Who

[GoTfan]

The Sun has just published nude photos of Whittaker with an anti-female Doctor editorial. This is getting [inks]ing ridiculous.

As i thought. This is legitimate sexism and it's f***ing disgusting.

Personally, I don't care if the Doctor's male or female; it's already been established as canon that Time Lords can regenerate into either male or female forms. As long as Jodie does a good job with the role (and judging from her resume, she will), then I'm fine with it.

[DKrol]

But its not a gendered role though!  Never has been (well, since the whole regeneration concept was invented... in 1966!), and now quite clearly never will be.  Your ludicrous comparison with James Bond (which is a gendered role - although I'm actually interested about how a James Bond film with a women lead would go) falls down purely because of that point.

I mean this is a level of closed mindedness about an always evolving TV series that's both very silly - but also expected considering who I'm talking to.

How can you say the doctor has never been a gendered role while James Bond has??? What about when he asked Clara if he was a good man? What about "The Husbands of River Song?" What about being the "mad man in a silly blue box?" Before Missy and that one Time Lord general there was nothing to suggest that Time Lord's weren't a specific gender, and over all those years the doctor was always a man. And no, comparisons to James Bond is not "ludicrous"... how were those two character's gender ever portrayed differently over all these years?

It's pretty clear from the 10-into-11 regeneration that The Doctor doesn't mind if he becomes a girl. Smith, while feeling his hair (substantially longer than Tennant's), exclaims, "I'm a girl? I'm a girl!" This proves two points: a) Changing genders must be fairly common for Time Lords, far more common than the TV series would suggest and, b) The Doctor doesn't mind the possibility of becoming a woman. What he was more concerned with was whether or not he was a ginger. Sadly, not.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The Sun has just published nude photos of Whittaker with an anti-female Doctor editorial. This is getting [inks]ing ridiculous.

As i thought. This is legitimate sexism and it's f***ing disgusting.

(the releasing of nude pictures is NEVER o.k.  Editorializing against a female doctor isn't by itself sexism, obviously, but would likely inevitably be if it's the Sun doing it)

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

On an unrelated (well, somewhat related) note, Capaldi and Moffat's LAST RODEO has been titled "Twice Upon a Time", which is much better than its old title, "The Doctors". Not "The Two(ish) Doctors Reboot" as I had hoped, but whatever.

[Middle-aged Europe]

So, I saw Pearl Mackie at the Berlin Comic-Con today and even had the opportunity to exchange a few words with her.

She's a pretty nice and outgoing person. Actually, not that radically different from the character she played on Doctor Who, except maybe less confused and chaotic.

[MasterJedi]

So what did everyone think of the Christmas special?

[wxtransit]

So what did everyone think of the Christmas special?

Meh. Not bad, but not spectacular. Probably 3.5-4/5

[politicallefty]

So what did everyone think of the Christmas special?

I actually watched it Christmas night. I thought it was fantastic, probably the best Doctor Who Christmas special. David Bradley was probably one of the best people they could've cast to play the First Doctor in place of William Hartnell. I saw the An Adventure in Space and Time special a couple year ago and I think his performance was just as good in this.