Why a female Doctor can never work/make sense!
Ray_Smith
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Even if the Doctor has some weird multi-sex gender, the fact that the Doctor has been male for over 900 years of his life would make a female regeneration nonsensical. If he's been male for 900 years why would he then switch to female? Surely it would have happened already?
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Maybe he's like the Dalai Lama and believes if the next regeneration needs to be a woman, then a woman the next regeneration shall be.
It could work if the Doctor was trying to stay under the radar, everyone would be looking for a male when 'Doctor' related incidents start happening again so being a woman would avoid detection for a while.
I don't think they really will make it a woman but given the right actress and the right reasons/storylines it could work and could result in a delayed 'big bad' because they aren't looking for a female. If that makes sense...
*Gets coat*
The closest WHO has come in the past to this, was the late Caroline John in 1970, who became pregnant during her stint & didn't return the following year(Barry Letts did actually axe her, but she wouldn't have come back anyway!).
If I'm wrong, can someone give me an example of a series with a similar production schedule & workload as Who, where the lead actress became pregnant?
You might say The X Files & Gillian Anderson, but there was David Duchovy to pick up the slack.
You could say Moonlighting & Cybill Shepherd, but that show had it's own problems anyway, without adding a pregnant actress into the mix.
The actress of Jordan in Scrubs became pregnant so they used that as a storyline. Doctor who could to the same thing
In practice, a female Doctor's stories would probably nearly all end up being clumsy, badly-written attempts to preach about gender issues. (And especially clumsy since the writing team are mostly men.)
Or they would write the Doctor in exactly the same way the part has always been written. Nothing that could not have been portrayed by a woman.
Hell, Ive even heard in some parts they even play cricket and a few are partial to the odd jelly baby...woman eh!!
The role would not be written as A woman but as The Doctor. A female Doctor wouldn't be running around in a nice flowery summer dress but in a sharp suit or something similar.
Does Madam Vestra (?) bang on about doing the dishes and periods all the time.
The Doctor in the past (since being shown to have any interest at all) has always played completely straight. He's not Captain Jack and never responded particularly well when Jack's flirts were aimed at him.
So if the Doctor becomes a woman does she lose all interest in Rose, in River beyond the purely platonic or does she remain only interested in women (again remembering the male Doctor has never show any interest in men). If the latter there would inevitably be strong criticism of bias especially given the presence of Vastra and Jenny.
I just think that's a huge, unnecessary, confusing can of worms to open. And kind of interesting that Classic Who could've have therefore got away with a gender change more easily than the New!
Let's ask this to the feminists amongst us: If for the past 50 years the Doctor had been female and society had established the role as a female role, would it be right to change that totally successful format to cast a man just to make it balanced?
Personally if it made sense to the story I wouldn't mind. Like I said he could be in hiding better if he (she) was a different gender to the previous regenerations. That said I would prefer a strong female timelord as the Doctor is typically male and is a good role model for young boys.
I just wouldn't have such an issue as everyone else seems to have if the Doctor regenerated into a female; as long as it was done well.
They could, but I don't believe they would. Call me a cynical pessimist if you like, but I just plain don't share your faith in the writing team.
And, they would have to write a plotline regarding WHY he's changed into a woman without making it feel too weird. Because let's face it, it really would be weird wouldn't it. This isn't about a woman's inabilities to play the role. Of course there are fabulous female actors perfectly capable. But the thought that a female Doctor would just carry on the way a male Doctor has for the past fifty years is totally unrealistic.
No it doesn't. There is no reason whatsoever for it to happen. I don't know why you insist on keep telling everyone that it "needs to happen".
Well, that was an in-depth analysis. :rolleyes:
Granted there is inequality in fiction, but pulling down men in order to create illusory equality for women is counter-productive and immature.
Brilliantly put. But sadly the sort of counter productive stunt the current Doctor Who showrunner would do in order to add shock value to the show and create headlines. Not sure if EVERY person who watches now would watch again though.