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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-the-companion? dept.

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: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday July 16 2017, @10:04PM (1 child)

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Sunday July 16 2017, @10:04PM (#540051) Journal

    Yeah. It's got my interest at least. If previous episodes that made me lose interest are any indication of where the series is headed, I have a feeling that it'll dive-bomb straight into 3rd wave TERFeminist bullshit about how womyn-born-womyn (which the Doctor will now count as, because reasons) are superior, complete and perfect beings.

    You've got a gender-changing character on your hands! I mean, oh my fucking gawd, how goddamned thickheaded cisgendered people can be! One would think that the time lord/lady's ever-changing gender between regenerations (which the Doctor has somehow exempted herself from up until this point, maybe by special dispensation from the Lord President or somecrap) would render appeals to a gender dichotomy where womyn-born-womyn are superior, complete beings and assigned males are inferior, incomplete beings senseless! Even attempting to speak about womyn-born-womyn and assigned males—and cisgendered people know how to do little else—will force the showrunners to construct a caste system based solely on the happenstance of a time lord/lady's birth. We'll find out that the Doctor was actually assigned to the superior gender caste back on Gallifrey by merely happening to have been born with a female form, despite spending centuries with a male form, and I am expecting to be totally gobsmacked by whatever that will be said to imply.

    Expect a full season of reifying womyn-born-womyn cosmic hegemony. Make a drinking game out of the amount of transphobic and homophobic (but never lesbophobic, perish the thought!) bullshit that comes out of the Doctor's mouth.

    I guess that's fine since the show hasn't been able to keep a coherent plot about a logically-consistent setting in years, and that was what really made me lose interest in the first place. Yeah, I gather all the classic Doctor Who was episodic, but I don't like episodic shows where no knowledge gained about the story's setting and characters during one episode can be applied in any meaningful way to later episodes. Oh well.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @12:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @12:59AM (#540102)

    Expect a full season of reifying womyn-born-womyn cosmic hegemony. Make a drinking game out of the amount of transphobic and homophobic (but never lesbophobic, perish the thought!) bullshit that comes out of the Doctor's mouth.

    No, I don't think so. I expect pro-transexual and pro-homosexual storylines that are so awful that homosexuals and transexuals will rally against them. SJW preaching is just awful, people are not being oppressed and the majority of people are heterosexual and got it many years ago. The more the far left beat the drum of identify politics, the more embarrassing and off-putting it becomes for the majority. We're going to have to bring back the lunatic asylums aren't we?