A female Doctor, your candidates please!
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I dunno. I think there's something a bit too glamorous about Atwell.
I also favor Carmichael over Dockery because Carmichael has more range than Dockery. Nothing to do with the whole Mary vs. Edith thing -- though I'm Team Edith all the way, too -- I just can't see Dockery as the Doctor at all. Carmichael I can.
I didn't like Nuttall as the episodes were shown originally, but when I marathoned the first four seasons before the fifth I enjoyed her performance a lot more. I can't quite see her as the Doctor, but I see she's more talented than I gave her credit for initially.
I completely forgot about Atwell. She would work.
For the first female Doctor I hope it's a big hitter. A strong british actress who has been around for a good ole while. I think the 1st female Doctor deserves that.
Nicola Walker was a companion for the 8th Doctor in the fairly recent Audio adventure Dark Eyes. Although I didn't feel she could be more than a companion though. She doesn't give me the impression of the Doctor.
Sorry Starkers, wasn't able to quote your post for some reason. You broke the BBS!Nicola Walker (Spooks, Last Tango in Halifax, River) has been my number one choice as a female Doctor for a long time. This of course means that she’ll never get the job (Ask Patterson Joseph for further details) but I think she’d be perfect. As an actress she can do comedy and drama, she can play scatty, she can be playful and she can play dangerous. Plus she has a smile that could light up a small city. She also has a curious alien quality reminiscent of Tom or Matt, and she’s had some experience with Who with Big Finnish where (I believe?) she was a companion to the Eighth Doctor.
Nicola Walker was a companion for the 8th Doctor in the fairly recent Audio adventure Dark Eyes. Although I didn't feel she could be more than a companion though. She doesn't give me the impression of the Doctor.
Oh! There's no way she would ever do television, but I do believe Cate Blanchett would be amazing as the Doctor on the big screen.
Saul breaking the BBS was just the first step in my Steven Moffat level of convolutedness plan for world domination! 
I first thought of Walker for the role having seen her playing Ruth in Spooks, a character who was incredibly intelligent yet utterly scatty, brave and moralistic. Depends what you've seen her in really but she was exceptional in River on the BBC a few weeks back.
Tilda Swinton is a funny one. I like her as an actress and she has an unbelievable alien quality to her but... it might just be down to the roles I've seen her in but she always seems cold and distant and I worry how engaging she might be. Like I say it might be down to the parts. I find Cate Blanchett similar. If we were going with someone on a more filmatic level I'd lean more towards a Toni Collette (yes she's Australian but she does a fab English accent) who could play the role glam, or dowdy, crotetchy or joyous whereas I think Swinton or Blanchett could only be ethereal!
Atwell is another tricky one. She's fab in all sorts of ways, but I agree that she might be too glamorous for the role. Of course it comes down to how the character is dressed and played and she is a very good actress.
I don't really watch Downton, though I have seen the odd episode. Obviously its again down to the character but I just want to punch Mary and hug Edith so if they were going with anyone from Downton it'd have to be Carmichael. She just seems quirkier, and whilst I'm not saying the Doctor has to be kooky, there has to be a certain something off kilter in the look and/or performance. Very few of the male Doctors have been your traditional handsome leading man types (really I think the only ones that come close are Davison, McGann and maybe Tennant) One of my fears of a female Doctor is that they cast a complete babe rather than a character actress (which doesn’t mean she can’t be attractive, just not traditionally attractive, in the way Matt etc. are)
I do wonder though, in an alternate universe where there never was a River Song, would there be another name on our list right now?
I first thought of Walker for the role having seen her playing Ruth in Spooks, a character who was incredibly intelligent yet utterly scatty, brave and moralistic. Depends what you've seen her in really but she was exceptional in River on the BBC a few weeks back.
Tilda Swinton is a funny one. I like her as an actress and she has an unbelievable alien quality to her but... it might just be down to the roles I've seen her in but she always seems cold and distant and I worry how engaging she might be. Like I say it might be down to the parts. I find Cate Blanchett similar. If we were going with someone on a more filmatic level I'd lean more towards a Toni Collette (yes she's Australian but she does a fab English accent) who could play the role glam, or dowdy, crotetchy or joyous whereas I think Swinton or Blanchett could only be ethereal!
Atwell is another tricky one. She's fab in all sorts of ways, but I agree that she might be too glamorous for the role. Of course it comes down to how the character is dressed and played and she is a very good actress.
I don't really watch Downton, though I have seen the odd episode. Obviously its again down to the character but I just want to punch Mary and hug Edith so if they were going with anyone from Downton it'd have to be Carmichael. She just seems quirkier, and whilst I'm not saying the Doctor has to be kooky, there has to be a certain something off kilter in the look and/or performance. Very few of the male Doctors have been your traditional handsome leading man types (really I think the only ones that come close are Davison, McGann and maybe Tennant) One of my fears of a female Doctor is that they cast a complete babe rather than a character actress (which doesn’t mean she can’t be attractive, just not traditionally attractive, in the way Matt etc. are)
I do wonder though, in an alternate universe where there never was a River Song, would there be another name on our list right now?
It's the quotes that break the editing. It has trouble with those curved quotation marks for some reason (The Bible says thou shalt not have a female Doctor Who).
Jenna Coleman.
I would support that as well as find it incredibly funny. The Doctor picks a face the size of a hole in his mind.
Miranda Hart, obviously.
"Maybe Tennant"?
Nearly every female Whovian I've met has had a major thing for Tennant & his hair. (Although, when I showed my step-mother a photo array of all 12 Doctors, she immediately pointed to Capaldi and said he was clearly the best looking out of all of them.)I agree that they would have to walk a fine line as far as how glamorous or attractive a female Doctor could be. Even if they cast an attractive actress, it would need to be one that can act oblivious to her own attractiveness.
And if I were running the show with a female Doctor, I would have 2 absolute rules when it came to costuming her: No skirts. No cleavage.
Hmm, O.K.
Oh God yes.
People always bring up Joanna Lumley but I could imagine a crazy Jennifer Saunders Doctor.
I was already thinking that !
Anyhow, Nicola Bryant.
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Atwell is too glamorous? Really? I've always gotten very girl-next-door vibe from her. Not that glamourous.
But I dont see her as the Doctor.
The Borgified Corpse, I know several women whose opinion of Tennant is pretty similar to Donna Noble’s view of Ten in that he’s, to paraphrase, “a thin streak of nothing” a lot of fangirls(and boys) clearly fancy him to bits, but strictly speaking he isn’t your classic leading man (Too tall and skinny, slightly gawky looking, really bad skin and he’s also not ginger). Point is he’s attractive but not generically so, but lots of people fancy Matt and Chris and I’d wager a lot of people even go weak at the knees for Capaldi but none of them are exactly Brad Pitt (I’d add here that I’m no Brad Pitt either, in fact I’m not even a David Tennant )
Re your two rules I’m probably 90% with you on no cleavage and 50% with you on no skirts. Clearly we don’t want a Doctor dressed like Tegan in Enlightenment all the time (it would be rather distracting!) but if the Doctor has to happen to go to some swanky party it wouldn’t be the end of the world if she happened to borrow some glamorous frock that River left behind and it happened to, shock, show a little bit of skin in places.
Skirts are a different matter. I know plenty of women who feel more comfortable in skirts, and plenty who only wear trousers but most tend to mix and match and I think the look of the Doctor would come down to what suited the actress and the character best, what was most flattering and what gave her the most distinctive Doctory look. Again I don’t want the Doctor dressing like Jo Grant but I do think there’s little point in making the Doctor female then having her look dress and act like a bloke. Whilst the newfound femininity shouldn’t be exploited nor should it be ignored.
I think Missy and Romana are two good templates for how a female Doctor could end up looking, though obviously they couldn’t do the whole Mary Poppins thing again and I do suspect you could have put Lalla Ward in anything and it would have looked right.
and he’s also not ginger). Point is he’s attractive but not generically so, but lots of people fancy Matt and Chris and I’d wager a lot of people even go weak at the knees for Capaldi but none of them are exactly Brad Pitt (I’d add here that I’m no Brad Pitt either, in fact I’m not even a David Tennant )Re your two rules I’m probably 90% with you on no cleavage and 50% with you on no skirts. Clearly we don’t want a Doctor dressed like Tegan in Enlightenment all the time (it would be rather distracting!) but if the Doctor has to happen to go to some swanky party it wouldn’t be the end of the world if she happened to borrow some glamorous frock that River left behind and it happened to, shock, show a little bit of skin in places.
Skirts are a different matter. I know plenty of women who feel more comfortable in skirts, and plenty who only wear trousers but most tend to mix and match and I think the look of the Doctor would come down to what suited the actress and the character best, what was most flattering and what gave her the most distinctive Doctory look. Again I don’t want the Doctor dressing like Jo Grant but I do think there’s little point in making the Doctor female then having her look dress and act like a bloke. Whilst the newfound femininity shouldn’t be exploited nor should it be ignored.
I think Missy and Romana are two good templates for how a female Doctor could end up looking, though obviously they couldn’t do the whole Mary Poppins thing again and I do suspect you could have put Lalla Ward in anything and it would have looked right.
Billie Piper.
One gag.
Billie Piper playing the Doctor meets Billie Piper playing Rose Tyler, and they still make out.
One gag.
Billie Piper playing the Doctor meets Billie Piper playing Rose Tyler, and they still make out.
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