Jodie Whittaker is the 13th Doctor
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The Master has been American on one occasion.
Scottish is British. So is Welsh, Northern Irish and English. (Kathy tells me to add Cornish).
Contemporary viewers also weren't keen on Patrick Troughton's performance, at least initially, and the ratings slid under him but I don't see anyone telling people not to watch his stories.
If you watch it and don't like it then fair enough but slagging it off on the basis of 50 year old comments from a general audience seems odd. Lots of Sixties Who got negative comments from the BBC's audience research.
In 30 years time we will look back and wonder what all the fuss was about, as the BBC confirm season 15 of Dr Who. 
That's far too reasonable and sensible. Go for more melodrama and hyperbole.
Lightweight. Make an effort.
Spot on. Agreed 100%.
Yes, and was absolutely atrocious. Really not a good argument.The Master has been American on one occasion.
Always amazes me how many people seem to think that British only means English. I remember a few years ago Michael Douglas complained about British actors taking American roles. I made a joke on the Hollywood Reporter's Facebook page that few American actors would envy the poor Brit who'd taken on the role of his wife. Within minutes, I had scores of 'clever' types telling me that she wasn't actually British, she was Welsh. Despite my pointing out that she had an OBE, to my linking to her interviews referring to herself as British, to my posting a link to the Wikipedia page for Britain, they simply would not be convinced! I suggested that they visit the barracks of the Welsh fusiliers and tell them that they weren't actually in the British army.
Just to add to the confusion, Great Britain comprises, England, Scotland, and Wales. Throw in Northern Ireland, and you then have The United Kingdom.
And people born in NI are also entitled to Irish citizenship, under the 1998 Belfast Agreement (aka The Good Friday Agreement).
That's why most people I know don't consider The Scum to be a newspaper.
Yeah, but he's evil, so it explains a lotThe Master has been American on one occasion.
Well, they are a Newspaper, whether they are a reputable one is another manner indeed.
All of the right-wing Rupert Murdoch-loving papers will take any chance they can to attack the BBC or anyone working for them.
I would assume Jodie's smart enough not to be reading them or looking at the Internet this week.
Also, if anyone's interested, here's a piece published by Trek novelist Una McCormack
https://theconversation.com/chinks-in-the-world-machine-on-the-casting-of-the-13th-doctor-who-81116
https://theconversation.com/chinks-in-the-world-machine-on-the-casting-of-the-13th-doctor-who-81116
I love Una's stories so thank you for sharing this piece!
That's a riff on Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under "I said I didn't like pistols, I never said I didn't know how to use them."
Actor in nude shocker, bet they didn't dig up photos of Eccleston who'd definitely disrobed for films before he was the Doctor. Ah well it's the Sun and the Mail, fuck em.
So far the only rational reason I've heard for being dismayed that the Doctor is now a woman is that it removes one of the few male role models who doesn't necessarily solve problems with his fists or a Walther PPK, and even the person who posted that said he didn't think the negatives outweighed the positives of Jodie's casting. If anything it suggests that film and TV need to come up with more male characters who are like the Doctor.
Editorial cartoon from today's Toronto Star.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2017/07/18/michael-de-adder-doctor-who.html
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2017/07/18/michael-de-adder-doctor-who.html
Changing gender might be a non-issue in the sense that he does not have any hang ups about it but that does not mean that he could not choose a gender for a specific reason like honoring a friend. After all, he said that he chose his face to remind him of an important lesson. So there is precedent that the Doctor could choose a certain physical appearance as a reminder or lesson to himself.
Not sure you're aware, but actors do this thing where they pretend to be different people depending on the role they're playing at the time. Or did I miss the part were the 10th Doctor kept doing bizarre snake impersonations or the 9th had a freakish obsession with hand-carved wooden furniture?
The Master has been American on one occasion.
Technically he was inside an American....yes, I know: eww.
I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, but I think it's worth remembering that "choice" seemed to me to be more of a subconscious thing. I think perhaps a more accurate way of putting it would be that the form the regeneration takes *can* to some degree be directly effected by the person doing the regenerating.
One wonder's what lesson The Doctor was trying to teach himself when he took this guy's face? Something like "you know you can be a bit of a nob sometimes" maybe?
Honestly though I think it would be a mistake for the show to read too much into it. Better to not address it and just carry on like it's no big deal, which is how I feel it should be. I mean did The General need a reason why she regenerated as a man for just one of her twelve incarnations? Did The Master regenerating into Missy mean anything in and of itself?
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