to hope that the next Doctor Who is female and not understand why this would be so terrible?

[findingme]

My first AIBU - I have used advanced search and can't see an existing post on this so apologies if there is. I don't want to link to DM so please just google "Female Doctor Who" to look at the recent articles about this in the DM and newspapers.

It seems that it is a possibility and I can't understand why anyone would think this is a bad idea. AIBU?

Kim, well then the doctor can't be a woman, because the tardis is blue!

No, doesn't work- there was a time when his race didn't have time travel. Sorry! And he actually stole his TARDIS- so he even existed before he had the TARDIS.

The TARDIS is alive though.

This is the most mysterious thing about the thread- I have discovered that some people in the mists of time apparently hated Voyager. It's got Tuvok in it! How can you not like Voyager?

Paris always did it for me!

Well, I second whoever suggested upthread, Miranda Hart as the next Dr Who

Ideally the Dr needs to be fanciable. As I have a raging crush on River Song (no way was the Dr good enough for her to waste her life on), I can happily envisage a similarly compelling female Dr. But they will have to find the right actress.

Oh, I have a mega-crush on her, too, pip!

I'm sure i should have been gay.

The next Doctor should be female, or black or both. Helen Mirren would be ace.

Def NOT Miranda Hart. The doctor is supposed to be calm and intelligent not clumsy and ditsy. it would be like having Mr Bean playing the doctor. I find Matt thingy a bit flappy at times, Miranda would be unbearable.

What is also interesting is that the pool of female actors who could play (or are associated with playing) characters who are intelligent, reckless, charming, protective and powerful is actually fairly small. Female actors are either 'pretty' or victims, or comic relief.

Alan Rickman. Not that he'd do it.

Tuvok, Chakotay, Janeway, annoying Neelix, the EMH, B'lanna Torres (who was more consistently written as a person, not a generic Klingon, unlike Alexander Son of Worf who got ret-conned all over the place )

Neelix: "I don't have anything to teach a daughter"
Tuvok: "Why would it be any different from what you would teach a son?"

The next doctor definitely needs to be female
Will give the show a whole new lease of life and dimension of interest
Thought Matt Smith was a big mistake of casting

I've haven't read through the thread, so someone may have mentioned this.

However, I think the current sidekick will become the Doctor. The Doctor doesn't understand where she came from and she has been in many of the time zones they travel to. Bewilderingly. I think she is a Time Lord and will take over. I suspect the Daily Mail article was to canvass popular opinion before the change takes place.

So if The Doctor is a female next, which gender will the sidekick be?

The Doctor regenerates - all his cells become new again, but he is still the same person, and I don't believe he could transform into a woman - nor couple he become a different species. It would mean changing his DNA (or whatever Timelords have).

I think he can . He regenerates his thoughts, memories and experiences, skills etc... This could just as easily be contained in a female form as a male.

HerRoyalNotness you didn't see the latest episode did you? Clara is explained. If I was you'd'get off the thread, because...

Spoilers are going to be all over the place now.

They might be on BBC iPlayer still! Go, lady, go! Watch!

How about Jessica Raine from "Call the Midwife"? I always felt she was a bit aloof on the Midwife, but think she'd make a great Doctor Who.

I think Tilda Swinton would make an excellent doctor, or Samantha Morton. But I suspect neither would take the part.

i hope they will stick to a male doctor, but I would prefer an older man next time, the recent ones have been far too young. someone you can take seriously as a wise experienced person would be nice, rather than someone who looks as if he isn't old enough to shave.