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Jodie Whittaker is the 13th Doctor

Thanks. I've seen that a number of times; a fan does something for the love of a franchise/character/property but then gets the impression that they've ever afterwards got some kind of ownership or authority.
I recognize this. My wife was the "did something for the love of the property" person in the Tomorrow People fandom. And she's busted her ass NOT to be that person who thinks they're owed some authority over the property.
 
How like woman.

Lying about her age.

Indeed. This is Doctor Who fandom hiding in Star Trek Fandoms corner so...pedantry must be satisfied.

She is the 15th Doctor. 14th at an absolute push, because one incarnation goes off to play happy families with Rose after splitting off from ten (actually eleven) and so she is the 14th actual incarnation of one regenerated body. XD
 
The Doctor is old. So old that the Doctor has forgotten if he/she is lying about his/her age. The Doctor might be 2,000 years old or 10,000 years old. No one remembers anymore (except maybe the Master). The Doctor could be as old as the Universe, and the Universe wouldn't tell.
 
So old she's forgotten how many bodies she's had. That was faces ago, and thousands of years. Especially some flash in the pan faces she only had for a year or two. Decade tops. Why would she remember that with all the other clutter of things to remember. Like every time period of all those companions.....and how many times the Daleks were exterminated. Or where Gallifrey might be at any given moment in time.
 
You're saying that the Doctor is so old, that she can't count to 15?

In The Lodger, they made such a stink about Matt being "eleven", then went ahead and retrofitted Tennant 2.0 as a full regeneration and Captain Grumpy as a secret incarnation.

As far as "13th Hour", it's just a play on "11th Hour", yet another reference to Matt being #11 instead of #13.
 
In The Lodger, they made such a stink about Matt being "eleven", then went ahead and retrofitted Tennant 2.0 as a full regeneration and Captain Grumpy as a secret incarnation.
It's not just The Lodger, Smith's entire run is choked with references to him being the Eleventh, even in the hotel in The God Complex, despite the point being that it exposes hidden truths about people. Hell, even the Confession Dial allowed Capaldi to claim he's the Twelfth, despite the point if it being to confess hidden secrets, and that episode was actually made after the War Doctor was revealed.
 
It's not just The Lodger, Smith's entire run is choked with references to him being the Eleventh, even in the hotel in The God Complex, despite the point being that it exposes hidden truths about people. Hell, even the Confession Dial allowed Capaldi to claim he's the Twelfth, despite the point if it being to confess hidden secrets, and that episode was actually made after the War Doctor was revealed.

It's a sort of grey area if the War Doctor is even called that...for most of his existence he appears to be The Warrior. Though that doesn't explain the confession dial without even more jiggers pokers.
 
Smith is still the 11th regeneration into a different incarnation at least (that's about the only fact bending way of making it work)
 
Well Clara would be positive about it, but she's supposed to be dead, or heading to her death moment the long way.

Clara already stopped thinking of the Doctor in a romantic context when he regenerated into Capaldi.

River wouldn't care after she figured out this was the Doctor...actually she might not care even before that and flirt from the start, be her third wife or something like that. Jack wouldn't care either...he's still hit on the Doctor.

Rose would be put out for sure.
Amy or Clara might actually like it. Both flirted with copies of themselves. Amy would miss her raggedy-man but I think she's reasonable. Clara's gotten over all that finally with 12 and could be interesting with a new writer.
I don't know if Martha ever met any other Doctor aside from 10, so I can't say how she'd react to even 11 or 12, much less 13.
Osgood....would probably fangirl over the idea.
Haven't been keeping up so I don't know Bill yet.

It is too bad we will never see Sarah Jane's reaction.

River certainly wouldn't care.
Jack... I keep imagining him meeting some new version of the Doctor and the Doctor bracing himself to brush off the eventual come-ons, only to find that this current form doesn't really do it for Jack for some reason. And then the Doctor being slightly miffed about the whole thing. :p
Clara might be bi-curious. She did mention kissing Jane Austen once.
I don't think Amy is actually interested in women. Flirting with herself was vanity, not arousal. And if she were actually interested in full-on hooking up with herself, she wouldn't have slapped Rory just for thinking about it.
I kept imagining a UNIT story where Martha is brought in as a freelancer and she calls in the Doctor. When Capaldi shows up, she snaps a photo of him and texts it to Mickey. The Doctor grabs the phone and reads, "'Don't worry. He's old now'?!?"
Osgood was never romantically interested in the Doctor. And, at this point, I think she'd be more interested in seeing the TARDIS than in whatever face the Doctor happened to be wearing.
Agreed that it's a shame we can't see Sarah Jane's reaction but I would have been more interested in seeing the reaction of 1970s Sarah Jane than current Sarah Jane anyway. Modern day Sarah Jane probably wouldn't care too much either way, having already gone through 4 different faces. But 1970s women's lib. Sarah Jane would probably feel very vindicated and I just think that would have been cute to watch.

Ace's reaction...... She'd throw a stick of explosive or something :)

Be honest, is there any conceivable situation where that wouldn't be Ace's reaction? :D If she ever got married, that's probably why her honeymoon was so short-lived. :p

The way I picture an older wild Ace is as along haired version of Lister (without fear from Polymorph) trying to Usurp Martha after teaming up with Mickey on an Alien mercenary mission. That I'd pay money to see.

I've been a little bit tickled ever since I first realized that Brigadier Bambera from "Battlefield" is the same actress that played the female version of Lister from "Parallel Universe." ("Parallel Universe" is probably a good episode to revisit in this situation. I'm imagining the parallel Doctor Who universe where K-9 is a robotic cat using her laser nose to mark her territory. :lol: )

I truly think that the TARDIS grooms it's passengers with nanites, while they are distracted or sleeping.

Men don't give a damn, and wouldn't notice that they haven't had a hair cut in 8 months, but the human women on board must have been very confused how someone must be cutting their toe nails for them while they slept, and wigged that that someone might be the Doctor.

My point is that the TARDIS will make the Doctor look like a tidy well groomed 21st century woman, without the Doctor herself applying any of the massive unending effort that a 21st century woman has to go through, to look like a 21st century woman.

Which is cheating.

Makes sense considering the old Hartnell & Troughton episodes where each adventure would pretty seamlessly run into the next one and yet everyone always seemed pretty well cleaned & groomed. You wonder when these people have time to shower, eat, or go to the bathroom! Although, it seemed like there were a bunch of Troughton stories that would always begin with the Doctor & Jamie in the TARDIS eating sandwiches while the Doctor was fussing over the controls. I even recall some random sandwiches being left behind for them in Isobel Watkin's house in "The Invasion, Part 2."

Essentially he is a slightly famous and rather rich fan who believes that makes him a part of the creative team. He was already in the public eye as a songwriter and DJ but is of mild note with regard to Doctor Who because he aided in the preservation of some missing episodes and funded a few fan projects.

He has made genuinely worthwhile contributions to the fandom but seems to believe that makes him a far more central figure than he actually is.

He also did have a semi-official role with the production team in the 1980s as a sometimes continuity advisor. He also claims that he deserves a story credit for "Attack of the Cybermen," although script editor Eric Saward--who is generally thought of as the real uncredited writer of that story--vehemently denies this.

Well Eleven forgot about the Curator....who, via the tone of the conversation, the winks, and nose tappings....was clearly also the Doctor...and not the Fourth, but a later Doctor who put on an old favorite face again (which I take as potential justification for the Doctor being able to go back to being any of the previous actors again should both the BBC and the actors want to do it).

Not that I think the BBC should ever do that. But if they ever do do it and do it with a Doctor other than Paul McGann, that's when I riot! :D

Narratively, at this point, there's no reason for the Doctor to not be a woman (thanks to the work of the alleged Great Misogynist Moffat no less.).

While I know you're being sarcastic, I did want to speak on the subject of Moffat's alleged sexism. I suppose some of it depends on how you define "sexism." I would define it as viewing one sex or another as inferior. I don't think that's at all the case with Moffat. While he has written lines that could be construed as sexist, they're clearly done for comedic effect and don't seem to depict women as inferior. Rather, they seem to convey a friendly adversarial relationship between the sexes.

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The 13th hour would be 1300 hours, which would be military time. Does this mean that Whittaker will be more regimented, aggressive, & militaristic than some of her predecessors? :p
 
I remember him saying post regeneration once "legs!!! Legs?? Yes! I still have legs!"

This time it's going to be "PENIS!!! Penis?? NO? Where's my penis?"
 
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