Regeneration
should never change your gender
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sometimes my car dies , and i get a new car , one time it went from manual to auto
shareTime Lords were male and time Ladies were female but that was before Horrible Moffhack got his shitty fingers into the show!!!
JB
yeah but Lord or Lady is a title applied *after* you are born / regenerated depending on sex.
True! But once born as either sex they stayed that way until death!
JB
Should be called Nurse Who now, because Doctors are men and Nurses are ladies.
shareThe show is a disaster now made by people who hate white men and they write stories that people detest!! The actress as she calls her should get another type of job because she stinks!
JB
Shut the door, Mary
I really shouldn't be replying to this but the show clearly doesn't hate white men.
Lenny Henry was a baddie last series and the master was played by an Indian actor and Graham was often seen as the voice of reason and white.
I personally think the problem is Chibnall's writing. Classic who didn't shy away from political stuff but it never in my opinion did it at the suffering of a story. If you have a message then put it in but the story should be good, interesting etc. Orphan 55 wasn't a great story but it would have been better if the political message had been better weaven and the final scene removed or done in a way that seemed more natural and less like talking to the audience
They were already considering the idea in the days of the older series. We just never saw it until the new version of the show.
Remember that a lot of the stuff we take for granted as solid Doctor Who lore was just made up as they went along. In the beginning, we had no reason to think the Doctor was anything other than an Earth human from some unspecified time period. And there was no such thing as regeneration until they needed a new actor but wanted to keep the same character.
The gender-change regeneration had already been done seven years ago with The Master/Mistress a.k.a. "Missy."
The fact that the O.P.'s user name is Master is ironic, considering the comment.
Yep, that's what I mean by "new version of the show," the current version from 2005 onward, as opposed to the older series from 1963 - 1989 (and arguably the 1996 TV movie with Paul McGann).
shareI was unaware of that. I've seen very few of the early episodes due to lack of availability. Broadcast history in the U.S. had always been intermittent, at least in my area; in the past, the local PBS station might have run some of the shows on occasion, but that was it.
shareOh yeah I definitely remember the days of being at the mercy of the local PBS station to be able to watch any Doctor Who at all. Some of the episodes were on VHS, but that was still expensive back then.
shareNice try mate, but the haters don’t care too much for logical thinking here. I’ve made your exact point several times on this forum and it hasn’t stopped the usual suspects from crying about it one bit.
It always amazes me that people can accept that an alien time traveler can regenerate into another form with a completely different personality, but can’t accept that form would be female. To me it really says more about their personal hang-ups than any perceived agenda of the show.
Hear, hear! It's not called "Regenderation", after all.
shareRight, so Sydney Newman, the original creator of the show, obviously had no idea what he was talking about in 1986 when he told the BBC they should cast a woman as the Doctor to revitalize the series. The same with both Tom Baker and Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner having the same idea in 1981.
Patrick Troughton too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMZuVfQgRCo
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The real Doctors never did and were always middle aged to elderly Victorian/Edwardian gentlemen!
JB