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The new Dr Who has been announced....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40624288
I'll get the popcorn..
Jodie Whittaker has been announced as Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord - the first woman to get the role.
She was revealed in a trailer that was broadcast on BBC One at the end of the Wimbledon men's singles final.
The Broadchurch star succeeds Peter Capaldi, who took the role in 2013 and leaves in this year's Christmas special.
Whittaker, 35, said it was "more than an honour" to become the Doctor. She will make her debut on the sci-fi show when the Doctor regenerates in the Christmas Day show.
Here are Jodie Wittaker's entries on Wikipedia and IMDb.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:48PM (15 children)
Here's hoping they give her better episodes/scripts than they gave Capaldi: i kind of trailed off in watching after the whole monster of the day was....
...wait for it....
.....the sleep crud in the corner of the eye!
WHAAAAAT????
I've been watching the classic Doctors, and i kind of wish they'd do longer serials, instead of finishing it up in just one or two episodes. Have fun with it (but not 'Rock and Roll Doctor' fun), get back to exploring more.
Should be intelesting!
But i'd say about time for a change in genders: but how logical will the new Doctor be? ;)
Shall have to catch up on the newer Capaldi's and start watching the new Doctor.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:56PM (5 children)
She will not be able to read a space/time map; she'll get lost and have to ask for directions.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @07:11PM (4 children)
The Tardis is a woman, it's why her navigation system is always broken. So you'll have a woman driver in a female vehicle, she'd better keep the shields up since every landing will be a crash landing.
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 16 2017, @08:22PM (3 children)
In the name of gender equality, I demand a male TARDIS for the next season! ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @08:27PM (1 child)
The Master has the male TARDIS, maybe they could trade.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday July 16 2017, @10:54PM
FTFY
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:23PM
But then, it would be smaller on the inside than on the outside, something like a really macho truck. . . If you get my drift.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday July 16 2017, @07:02PM (6 children)
Along with the new Doctor there is also a new showrunner. The last one was in the job just a little too long, I think.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Sunday July 16 2017, @07:04PM
to their credit, the writing was sufficiently developed that I stopped expecting the Dr to sign off with "F*ckety bye!"
Damn, I miss the Malcolm Tucker character...
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Sunday July 16 2017, @07:29PM (3 children)
Yeah... the last story did leave a slight impression of being stuffed with ideas from...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Gaaark on Sunday July 16 2017, @08:54PM (2 children)
Not to mention, where is the Doctors daughter???????????
Flies off aaaaand NEVER seen again. Too many loose ends.
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(Score: 1) by jb on Monday July 17 2017, @07:58AM
Well, at some point in time presumably she begets Susan. How long is the gestation period for time lords? For all we know, that alone might keep her busy for millennia...
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Tuesday July 18 2017, @09:52PM
Apparently, about to crop up in some audio dramas [radiotimes.com]...
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday July 16 2017, @08:51PM
ABSOTUTELY!
Nathan wasisname destroyed Torchwood by bringing it to America, and was dragging Who down. Still mourning Torchwood: supposed to be on hiatus, but.......
Good time for new blood.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:17PM
And the reboot, while it had some good story arcs in the early years, became far too concerned with mysticism and the Doctor's 'god-complex', rather than running on the combination of educating of the companion and seemingly bumbling into a series of troubles before wrapping it all up in a mission successful box at the end, leaving a trail of bodies, mutually assured enemies, and worth saving civilians in its wake.
Having skimming most of this past season, I was disappointed with their handling of Bill, the Doctor, and She-Doctor. And personally I find it tacky that *NOW* they choose to replace *THE* doctor with a woman, rather than having worked around the reincarnation dilemma by moving on to a new character on new adventures through the time-o-sphere, possibly with a different attitude and moral compass to the tired direction the Doctor has been going for over 10 years now.
Hell, even Red Dwarf has done a better job on its recent seasons and that is despite getting quite long in the tooth. At least it doesn't take itself seriously to begin with!
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday July 17 2017, @04:41PM
Haven't watched most of Capaldi but was that better or worse than the Smith one where the Wi-Fi was killing people? :P
Smith was just Tennant turned up to 11 with hand-flapping and when I realized they weren't planning to fire the entire Smith writing team for Capaldi I just kind of gave up on the show. Also the Sontaran medic and the lesbian Victorian dinosaur & co. need to die a horrible death if they haven't already.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"