The 'new' Dr Who

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JenL
JenL
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4:09pm, 17 Jul 2017
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If it's what you believe, then what is there to be sorry for?
GordonG
GordonG
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4:31pm, 17 Jul 2017
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yes, I'm sure the TARDIS has regularly been referred to as a 'she'.

in the last series, Bill asks the Doc why female Time Lords aren't called Time lady, and the Doc doesn't have an answer so I'm assuming she'll still be a Time Lord.
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4:36pm, 17 Jul 2017
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Vixx, Oscartg - the explanation of the Doctor's appearance would seem to have been put into canon at least once ~ 'Why this face?' and accompanying flashback to the 'Fires of Pompeii' episode (or was it a two parter???) when Tennant's Doctor is persuaded to go back and save a Roman family (With Capaldi playing the father of the rescued family) [And curiously it also featured Karen Gillan who came back to play 'Amy Pond' :-) ]

Oscartg - no time travelling required ~ I get miffed when I have to work with someone who (in my opinion) wasn't the best choice for their role but got it because they either fit the 'traditional' stereotype for the role or some daft beggar is trying to make it look like 'equality' is being acted on by stacking the cards (But I acknowledge that, sometimes, the cards do need to be ... shuffled ... a bit to try to prevent stagnation ;-) )

And generally ~ there is absolutely nothing wrong with believing that the Doctor should be a male role. Just as there is nothing wrong in believing that the Doctor could be female, or not white, or a bit ginger ... or even a gender neutral brain in a jar :-)
George Smiley
George Smiley
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They could just stick with Gallifrean and ignore the issue. But a ladybird is a ladybird male or female so can't think it's a major issue if it is the species common name.
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4:48pm, 17 Jul 2017
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The term/title Time Lady is already in canon at least as far back as Romana and Tom Baker's Doctor.

It'll be interesting to see what they come up with to explain it :-) And if they don't, will folk accept that Whittacker's Doctor is truly 'female' ~ I don't mean just in form of shape but definitively ... female
Markymarkmark
Markymarkmark
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4:58pm, 17 Jul 2017
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Someone has to ask.... where do baby timelords come from? The DNA must be interestingly complicated, I'd imagine, and presumably the initial gender is fixed at birth. But given our own (human) genders are determined largely by the numbers of X&Y chromosomes within cells, I wonder what the timelord equivalent actually is?
Are their mothers and fathers not actually mothers and fathers?

What about the impact on their society when the relationship can be changed so radically (I'm guessing we might find that out in a few years for ourselves), and can timelord children rejuvenate into adults and vice versa?

Are they truly hermaphrodite?

I'm sure there a Whovian Book of Biology out there somewhere?

i need to stop thinking about this. :-)
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4:59pm, 17 Jul 2017
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GS - the go to online stuff lists 'Time Lady' as species for successful students of the Gallifeyan academy (Poor explanation and I'm trying to find words without using 'Time Lord Academy' ;-) ). And Time Lady has already been used in series episodes ~ at least as far back as when they felt a greater need for dainty window dressing and pathetic and high pitched squeals who needed constant rescuing (though, sometimes, male companions weren't much better! ;-) ).

The Doctor, in a time of Earthly crisis or crises, becomes President of the Earth, right? So new name, Lady Boss? :-)
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Mmm - Look up 'Time Tots' ;-)
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And yes, there is accepted blurb about Gallifreyan and Time Lord/Time Lady conception/gestation/birth stuff ;-) (all very clinical, you'll not need to scrub your viewing history or view it on ... the Dark Web :-o :-) )
Badger
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Accepted? It's quite controversial among that part of fandom who want complete consistency between everything broadcast, recorded or written. One of the novels written when the series was off-air has a system where new Time Lords are not born but knitted as adults. Well, ok, not knitted exactly, they're created by a device called a loom.
Those ideas could have ended up on air (long story, google Lungbarrow).

This is completely contradicted by both the Doctor and the Master being shown as children, and the Doctor being a father and a grandfather can only be wrestled into consistency by some very perverse backstory.

The whole thing is so hatstand it could have come out of a late Tom Clancy novel.

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