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Jodie Whittaker is the 13th Doctor

HA HA. Yes, but Doctor Who is supposed to be a children's show, at least that is what the marketing people keep pushing.

It's a family friendly show aimed at all the family, not just children.

Jodie Whittaker did a lovely radio interview this morning and talked about her reaction to learning she got the role and her expectations are for the show. She sounds very excited which makes me all the more excited!

Two interesting tidbits: She's talked to several of the previous Doctors (but doesn't mention names) and that she hasn't been on set yet.

She sounds properly from Yorkshire in the interview and we (The Wife and I) both hope she keeps the accent (given Ecceles-cake and Capaldi kept there's) and it doesn't get dulled down or she even made to have a more RP accent.
 
Yeah, I also noticed how strong her Yorkshire accent came off there especially when she was excited. I also hope she keeps it.
 
IIRC, haven't most Doctors kept their natural accents anyway? In fact, I think Tennant is the only one who went with a fake accent.
 
I don't think they were sexual but there was definite romantic interest.
Based on what Twelve said in "Deep Breath," ("I'm not your boyfriend... I never said it was your mistake,"), I think Eleven was enjoying playing at being a couple in a sort of Rose/Ten-like way without actually forming a real relationship, and Clara just likes flirting. Neither of them would make a move, because Clara wasn't really interested in him as more than a friend, and the Doctor wouldn't to ruin their light, buzzy pseudo-coupleness with actual intimacy (which is something he typically has issues with). All you need is a time machine to make summer last forever, and the honeymoon period never has to end if you never try to grow past it.
 
So many ways stories can be intoduced. I can imagine a detective right out of some noir film discovering the new Doctor, also in trenchcoat and fedora.

She has been transporting a religious nut who wants to burn textbooks on evolution--so this nut can see it happen from inside the TARDIS.

The episode ends when the detective has a line like this.

Human origins? It doesn't matter. Whether from the muck that formed Adam's bones...or the primordial ooze of 4 billion years ago....or that other ooze that sired children conceived in the back seat of a Nash...one way or another--we all descend from slime.

Cue the sax....fade to black.
 
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Great line, Publiusr, but I don't think the BBC would be so bold as to allow the gumshoe to utter that third example, not in a "pre-watershed" family program, anyway. But it still works with the first two.
 
Fans would burn down the BBC and murder everybody if this happened.

There's NOTHING wrong with the idea of an American Doctor, as shown here.

People throwing around labels when they can't win an argument. You know like calling people SJW's and blaming things on PC culture I suppose!


Why not try to admit that BOTH sides do it, but the extremist emoprogressive Purity Poutrage magical unicorn pony left wing are the biggest winners at it?:vulcan:
 
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Was reading an online article in the radio times about maybe being two regenerations in the Christmas special, and what if we saw the second doctor again in some form, and then the thought occurred. What if Capaldi doesn't regenerate in to Jodie Whittaker? What if David Bradley does?

It would be quite a Moffatty thing to do. I wouldn't like that. Even with some kind of memory transfer to Bradley before Capaldi burned out from resisting his regeneration, it'd still be a monumental reset that even the Voyager staff couldn't countenance.

I tend to be wrong about such things, luckily.
 
Was reading an online article in the radio times about maybe being two regenerations in the Christmas special, and what if we saw the second doctor again in some form, and then the thought occurred. What if Capaldi doesn't regenerate in to Jodie Whittaker? What if David Bradley does?

It would be quite a Moffatty thing to do. I wouldn't like that. Even with some kind of memory transfer to Bradley before Capaldi burned out from resisting his regeneration, it'd still be a monumental reset that even the Voyager staff couldn't countenance.

I tend to be wrong about such things, luckily.

I don't think even Moffat would do it but can you imagine the reaction if he did? Where would that leave The Three Doctors ("'my successors...a clown and a dandy") and The Five Doctors? The internet would burn down!

I kinda want him to do it now, actually...
 
Was reading an online article in the radio times about maybe being two regenerations in the Christmas special, and what if we saw the second doctor again in some form, and then the thought occurred. What if Capaldi doesn't regenerate in to Jodie Whittaker? What if David Bradley does?

It would be quite a Moffatty thing to do. I wouldn't like that. Even with some kind of memory transfer to Bradley before Capaldi burned out from resisting his regeneration, it'd still be a monumental reset that even the Voyager staff couldn't countenance.

I tend to be wrong about such things, luckily.
Won't happen. For one, it would be incredibly dickish of Moffat to completely change the nature of the show in his finale and leave this mess for Chibnall to deal with.
 
Won't happen. For one, it would be incredibly dickish of Moffat to completely change the nature of the show in his finale and leave this mess for Chibnall to deal with.

Yeah, I think the last thing he would do would be to give Chibnail something really difficult to work with. We might see the 1st regenerate, but I expect Capaldi's regeneration to be fairly straightforward.
 
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