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happyhippy posted:What happens if a pregnant Time Lord regens into a male? Considering Time Lords only regenerate when mortally wounded, the baby is dead either way, so it wouldn't matter.
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Yvonmukluk posted:I really want the regeneration to happen while Twelve is in the middle of saving Gallifrey in Day of the Doctor so Thirteen will have participated in the 50th Anniversary story. Also to enrage the nerds even more. Solution: surprise 9 cameo!
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Cojawfee posted:It's like when internet libertarians say they love Star trek, but get angry when there's socialism or women or black people. 
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Yvonmukluk posted:I really want the regeneration to happen while Twelve is in the middle of saving Gallifrey in Day of the Doctor so Thirteen will have participated in the 50th Anniversary story. Also to enrage the nerds even more. "No sir, *all thirteen*! Wait, no, fourteen...wait..." "Just...you can stop now."
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I've been away for the weekend, and only just heard the news - it's great! I'm more concerned about Chibnall as showrunner than a time-travelling demi-immortal space wizard happening to incidently own some ovaries, and Etheric Beam Locators in this incarnation. Some of the reactions are pretty funny too; my idiot cousin was doing the whole "#RIPDOCTORWHORUINEDFOREVER" because of "yet another thing wrecked by feminist politics." loving imbecile.
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docbeard posted:"No sir, *all thirteen*! Wait, no, fourteen...wait..."
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Vinylshadow posted:What we don't see is the thousands of other police boxes flying behind the planet - all we saw were the thirteen that the council saw Thirteen hundred. They just shortened it. It's like that planetary ring graveyard full of Ace Rimmers in Red Dwarf.
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Jul 16, 2017 22:19
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DancingShade posted:Thirteen hundred. They just shortened it. Made out of the best lovely late-90s CG that the Beeb could afford?
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Incredibly, incredibly exciting news. I can't wait to see what she'll do with the role. I'll probably have to check out Attack the Block while waiting. I'm so glad Chibnall and the BBC finally decided to just do it, this time it really felt like it was now or never. The casting pool for future Doctors has just doubled! I mean, I know that won't be her costume or anything, but she already fits in so well. I really am very very happy about this. Sad King Billy posted:Isn't that the one where the Daleks set fire to a cardboard cutout Queen Elizabeth? Almost as happy as I am to post this:  (in case anyone needs a frame of reference for what constitutes non-vomit-inducing Doctor Who in Ian Levine's eyes)
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Jul 16, 2017 22:24
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Wyld Karde posted:Gonna break out my crystal ball for a minute here. Nah, it's because of Twelve wasting all that regeneration energy. there isn't enough for a penis you see :iamafag:
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It is cool that the first person to know 13 is a woman is probably going to be 1.
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Hearing reports that Kris Marshall will be playing the Rani.
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Buml0r posted:I thought Rey was the result of a (welcome, but) new-fangled decision to give Star Wars a female hero for the longest time, but then I remembered Leia is already shooting Stormtroopers with a laser gun long before Luke or Han ever appear onscreen, and our Bloke Brains just write over it somehow. As an aside I remember someone on these forums saying that Leia is actually the best shot in the entire trilogy
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Scenes from an alternate Whoniverse, no. 3 1969: Publicity still of newly-cast Third Doctor and companion 
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I wonder how much of wanting "traditional Who" is a British thing. In the United States, no one "grew up" watching the show, like it wasn't something that young boys would have acted out as a space opera. It wasn't Star Wars for us, where it was a common part of boys childhood vocabulary. In the United States, most of the fans started with the revival, and most of them were the type of people who would have been interested in a niche, hard to watch TV series...meaning they are probably pretty open minded in general. Like, in the US, Doctor Who fans are at least 80% "tumblr demographic", but I don't think that is true in Great Britain.
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Do we suppose now that the reports of the BBC wanting a David Tennant type were deliberate misdirection? It is interesting to speculate that they're true but Chibnall said, "No, I would like to cast a female Doctor," and got his way. That would suggest he has considerable pull and that the Corporation has confidence in him. Of course, it's more probably that the former is true and we all just bought into it because it was so convincing.
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I'm always quite surprised to see 51% of the population described as a minority tbh. It's also weird to see all those men claiming doctor who as their own - Families watch doctor who in the U.K. and the female to male viewership always gets distorted online, because 8 year old girls don't generally get violently angry on the internet and spew up hate or OCD statistics all over it.
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Forktoss posted:Incredibly, incredibly exciting news. I can't wait to see what she'll do with the role. I'll probably have to check out Attack the Block while waiting. One of the best things about this casting is all the people going to watch Attack the Block. It's very good
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I don't care about doctor who and I opened this thread by accident but making nerds mad and feel marginalized is very good so maybe I'll watch the new one
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Wyld Karde posted:Gonna break out my crystal ball for a minute here. That would go right against what 12 said a couple episodes back about not even being able to remember if he or the Master were men or women growing up--it's NOT a big change from a Gallifreyan POV. Plavski posted:He's also a grandfather  Grandmother
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Jul 16, 2017 22:59
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Astroman posted:That would go right against what 12 said a couple episodes back about not even being able to remember if he or the Master were men or women growing up--it's NOT a big change from a Gallifreyan POV. They are huge loving disingenuous idiots if they don't acknowledge that this is a departure from the established norm.
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Remember, the 13th Doctor is not only a woman, but a transgender woman at that.
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jivjov posted:I wish the haters would just admit "yes, I'm a huge sexist and I hate it when women are in things I like" instead of blustering around acting like the character of the Doctor has ever hinged on "having a space dick" in the past. I will admit I am immensely sceptical about their decision, even though I will probably be told I am a sexist rear end in a top hat for it. But for me, and probably a lot of other people who are not immediately huge fans of the idea, the main point is something else. I let myself get immensely immersed into shows or movies or books I like and soak up the world and "facts" as they are. And as such I have been "trained" to expect the Dr. to be a man, simply because that is what is always the case. Or was, I should say. I.e. an existing constant that is deeply rooted in the shows fundamental characteristics suddenly gets changed. And humans don't like change in what they are used to in many cases. Plus they have changed a lot in the last few seasons, first they pander to the American audience, then they make the master a woman, and if you ask me, the last season had too many scary and earnest episodes. When was the last time there was a lighthearted episode with cheesy aliens kinda like those fat blobs? So maybe it is just a little too much change for some people lately, which, however, doesn't justify the meltdowns exhibited by some nutcases. That said I'll keep an open mind, but I really hope they don't make it a big deal in the show.
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I feel like the 'waaahhhhh leftie snowflakes' crowd is starting to get drowned out at this point by everyone else telling them to cry them a loving river, and it's just so nice.Astroman posted:That would go right against what 12 said a couple episodes back about not even being able to remember if he or the Master were men or women growing up--it's NOT a big change from a Gallifreyan POV. They started dropping completely unsubtle hints about this at least five years ago, starting with the young Melody regenerating into a black woman. People weren't speculating hard about a female or minority Doctor just for funsies, it was because they had been dropping massive anvil-sized hints that they were going in this direction. Anyone who didn't see this coming sooner or later either isn't actually watching the show, or they are so stupid it's unreal.
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glowing-fish posted:Like, in the US, Doctor Who fans are at least 80% "tumblr demographic", but I don't think that is true in Great Britain. There's a significant crossover with comic book readers, which are much the same way. It's easy for people who like superhero fiction to get into Who, and superheroes declined in the 70s/80s but had a big revival in the 90s at the same time media was trying it's hardest to follow more socially liberal morals. X-Men owned the decade from the Jim Lee comics of the early 90s through a cartoon and the first film, and that's a property that long had political strawmen that exist to point out that many people who cling to tradition are simply closed minded xenophobes. Batman's films sucked, but animated series had had a lasting impact on fans and came on right after Power Rangers, which itself was in it's preachiest years because Haim Saban is a big Clintonite (and also because the show needed to show Joe Lieberman et al that it was teaching kids something other than violence). Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Jul 16, 2017 |
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learnincurve posted:I'm always quite surprised to see 51% of the population described as a minority tbh Power relationships are the reason, not simply numbers. glowing-fish posted:I wonder how much of wanting "traditional Who" is a British thing. It's a tosser thing. "Traditional Who" has no traditions, it's an extremely anarchic programme.
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Murderion posted:Nah, it's because of Twelve wasting all that regeneration energy.  And given how 12's sonic is as large as Eleven's in its extended form...
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Vinylshadow posted:
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Hopper posted:and if you ask me, the last season had too many scary and earnest episodes. When was the last time there was a lighthearted episode with cheesy aliens kinda like those fat blobs? This post has fallen through a time hole from 1981
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Gaz-L posted:I just really, really hope they don't make Jodie's pink. Would red do?
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Hopper posted:And as such I have been "trained" to expect the Dr. to be a man, simply because that is what is always the case. Or was, I should say. The show's fundamental characteristic is that the Doctor changes, not that he has a dick. He's been thirteen vastly different people over its fifty years already. Change is in the DNA of the show Gaz-L posted:I just really, really hope they don't make Jodie's pink. Purple would be nice
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make it look like the space USB from Lucy edit: which is apparently impossible to find a picture of
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I'm really, genuinely happy over this. Still have deep reservations about Chibnall given his previous work on the show, but at the same time I'm sick enough of the Moffat style to long for something different. Conspiracy theory - Moffat laid the groundwork for a female Doctor in order to pressure his successor into doing it, because he wanted it to happen, but he didn't want to be the one to have to weather the storm.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Do we suppose now that the reports of the BBC wanting a David Tennant type were deliberate misdirection? It is interesting to speculate that they're true but Chibnall said, "No, I would like to cast a female Doctor," and got his way. That would suggest he has considerable pull and that the Corporation has confidence in him. Well, Chibnall himself said that he's presented a five-year plan for Who and it's pretty ambitious, which already suggests that they have faith in him. As for the casting, I don't know how much of that was legitimate reports and how much was just Internet spitballing because everyone's A) hungry for spoilers and B) always ready to poo poo on something two seconds after it's announced. Chibnall only just started working on Who maybe a month and a half ago after taking a break following Broadchurch.
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Stolen from the Idiots on Social Media Thread: So what's the average age of Who fans in the UK? Here in the US they're probably almost all 20-30 year olds, is it a much more even spread over there or do the old or new fans outnumber the other side?
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