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News RUMOR: Whittaker potentially leaving

One of the Ways who was already ‘keeping up with Netflix’ was by ‘being on Netflix’.
Now half of it is on BritBox (despite having mcgann in its banner, the TV movie is missing) and the modern half is on iPlayer.

This sounds like the ‘we are competing with Star Trek the next generation’ argument from the eighties, it wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true now.
Yep- I watch classics on Prime/Britbox and the newer show on HBO Max…
 
River/Melody seemed to be pretty much on her own after she got out of the Silence's orphanage up until she met the Doctor as Mels, so all the tinkering and brainwashing would've been done before her first regeneration as a kid at the end of the Moon two-parter.



I think they were clear that there's more to it than just being pregnant while time-traveling.

VASTRA: Now, I have a question. A simple one. Is Melody human?
DOCTOR: Sorry, what? Of course she is. Completely human. What are you talking about?
DORIUM: They've been scanning her since she was born, and I think they found what they were looking for.
DOCTOR: Human DNA.
VASTRA: Look closer. Human plus. Specifically, human plus Time Lord.
DOCTOR: But she's human. She's Amy and Rory's daughter.
VASTRA: You've told me about your people. They became what they did through prolonged exposure to the time vortex. The Untempered Schism.
DOCTOR: Over billions of years. It didn't just happen.

VASTRA: So how close is she? Could she even regenerate?
DOCTOR: No, no. I don't think so.
VASTRA: You don't sound so sure.
DOCTOR: Because I don't understand how this happened.
VASTRA: Which leads me to ask, when did it happen?
DOCTOR: When?
VASTRA: I am trying to be delicate. I know how you can blush. When did this baby... begin?
DOCTOR: Oh, you mean...
VASTRA: Quite.
DOCTOR: Well, how would I know? That's all human-y, private stuff. It just sort of goes on. They don't put up a balloon, or anything.
VASTRA: But could the child have begun on the TARDIS in flight, in the vortex.
DOCTOR: No! No! Impossible! It's all running about, sexy fish vampires and blowing up stuff. And Rory wasn't even there at the beginning. Then he was dead, then he didn't exist, then he was plastic. Then I had to reboot the whole universe. Long story. So, technically the first time they were on the TARDIS together in this version of reality, was on their w...
VASTRA: On their what?
DOCTOR: On their wedding night. It doesn't make sense. You can't just cook yourself a Time Lord.
VASTRA: Of course not. But you gave them one hell of a start, and they've been working very hard ever since.

DORIUM: And yet they gave in so easily. Does this not that bother anyone else?
DOCTOR: Amy. She worried the baby would have a time head. She said that.
VASTRA: Only you would ignore the instincts of a mother.​

I think you can make a biological time Lord (regen) with the vortex. After that, it’s making them stare into it (as seen on screen) and the Rassilon Imprimatur for bonding with Tardis’. (Also as seen on screen)

Basically, Chibnall explained what had already been explained (as basically explicitly shown as key elements in well known and recent stories) so it does make me giggle that some fans are on the ‘he really wanted to explain the Brain of Morbius’ thing, when he may as well have been dealing with half human, the first doctors singular heart, the aspirin death sentence, or the missing Sontaran from the Invasion of Time for all the good he did.
 
There probably is some degree of systemic sexism involved here, which is hard to recognize because we are so used to it.
Then again, if I mention Matt, Peter and David, I simultaneously feel I don’t make it distinctive enough who I am talking about.
With Jodie the name feels more unique and a bit more like her personal brand.

has she ever said, what she prefers (and all the others for that matter)?
 
There probably is some degree of systemic sexism involved here, which is hard to recognize because we are so used to it.
Then again, if I mention Matt, Peter and David, I simultaneously feel I don’t make it distinctive enough who I am talking about.
With Jodie the name feels more unique and a bit more like her personal brand.

has she ever said, what she prefers (and all the others for that matter)?
I think there's a literary convention, at least in English language literature that refers to men by their surname sans prefix e.g. 'Smith' but women by their given name e.g. 'Mary'.
 
I'm just ingrained to think of people by their last names anyway. Even when I refer to myself in the third person, I use my last name.
 
Whittaker Who was a sixties thing. Plenty of Doctors get first name treatment, but ‘jodie’ is much shorter to type. I also like to say ‘Baker the First’ and ‘Baker the second’ sometimes, for Tom and Col.

There is no sinister stuff. We’ve even had two Peters in the role by this point.
 
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