I've really enjoyed Ingrid Oliver's appearances in Doctor Who, and when driving to work this morning it occurred to me that she would make a rather good Doctor. It's already been established that the Doctor can regenerate into the appearance of someone they have previously met.
So, what do you think?

Haven't remotely seen enough of her... you need emotional range and a real energy to play The Doctor I think, and whilst she may really have that, I've not seen it.

Liked the character for who she was, but she's no Doctor as it stands.

no she was good but not for the dr role

I'd say that Ingrid Oliver has shown enough energy - as for emotional range, did Tom Baker really have that? And he was a great Doctor.

She could be good! But she was great as Osgood, and the cruelty of her death - and the sense that we were cheated out of a great recurring character - made it a phenomenal scene for both characters, and a rarely memorable exit. She's not going to get a better, sadder death than that, and I wonder if seeing Ingrid again would take the edge off.

God no she was awful, I breathed a sigh of relief when she was vaporised. She was a terrible character, shoehorned in as a caricature of a whovian. Just bad.

I don't think she would be a good Doctor, so nope / option #5

No Female Doctors. Ever. Period.

The Doctor is a male character. Get over it.

The Master's missing penis says hi.

Seriously, how many thousand threads will there be about the Doctor being a female? It has been many dozen in the last year alone. What is the obsession with making The Doctor female?

What a TERRIBLE idea!
Making the doctor female is a bad idea in the first place... but even within that bad idea, that casting suggestion is awful!

Moffatt is certainly guilty of a few missteps here and there, but can you imagine if some of the people on this forum were running the show?!

Speaking for myself, I'm not obsessed with the idea.

In fact, it's almost the reverse - I can't think of many female actors who could do a convincing portrayal of a centuries-old quirky Time Lord who had spent their life so far as male.

But I think Ingrid Oliver could do it, though perhaps I'm in a minority.

And she happens to be female.

I liked Osgood as Osgood. Hoping she'll somehow reappear somewhere in time & space

Nope.

Emily Blunt would be my first choice. Emma Thompson would be good, too, as would Tilda Swinton. And, I know this is a controversial pick, but I think Katee Sackhoff could be great. And, as I've already thrown a non-Brit into the ring, I may as well add Cate Blanchett, too.

I've got to say, Emily Blunt would be a very good choice. But then again she'd be a very good choice for most roles in her age range.

Female doctor - no, no, no! It just would not work. Its like female comedians are not as good nor as funny as their male counterparts.
I am all for equality but some things should stay as they are. What next - JANE BOND.

Absolutely, she's brilliant. I mean, she'd never do it, as she's got a successful Hollywood career and lives in LA with her husband who also has a successful Hollywood career, and her kids (who haven't, as far as I know), but she could be amazing. I'm picturing a cross between her character in The Adjustment Bureau and her character in The Edge Of Tomorrow, only posher.

Cate Blanchett as the Doctor may cause me to malfunction...

For me its gotta be Jaime Murray.

Just a quick daft one, is Osgood actually dead or was it her Zygon mimic? She passed her inhaler across in the spisode the last time we saw her so you never know she could be brought back.....

Emma Thompson would be brilliant, as would Emily Blunt. I remember in the build up to Capaldi's announcement someone mentioned Rachel Weisz and I liked the idea so much that was disappointed when inevitably it wasn't her, funnily enough it was someone who absolutely hated the idea of a female Doctor that suggested it.