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Last week, an incomplete scene featuring Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor surreptitiously hit the web, giving fans eager for leaks and spoilers a taste of what to expect from the next season of Doctor Who. But while in the entertainment business leaks and spoilers are part and parcel of the industry, in this case, the BBC is none too pleased about it.
In fact, the corporation has filed an application in a California court this week in an effort to expose the person who put the leaked footage online—hoping California’s Federal Court would put pressure on Tapatalk, whose messaging service was used to upload and disseminate a non-final, 53-second clip of Whittaker’s Doctor in action. The BBC isn’t accusing Tapatalk of any wrongdoing; rather, it just wants details on the user that uploaded the clip, so it can attempt to isolate just where in Doctor Who’s long line of production the clip got leaked.
Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-bbc-is-heading-to-court-to-hunt-down-a-doctor-who-l-1827319614
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday July 06 2018, @06:18PM
But there is. Regeneration process involves lots of mutations, that's why they are so different from each other. Height, build, coloration, even personality traits could change. Given that how would it be at all surprising to find that X and Y chromosomes sometimes get flipped as well?
"There's a subtext here that physical gender somehow doesn't matter or is irrelevant to one's identity, this was shown by the writer Steven Moffat's words spoken by Peter Capaldi's Doctor in his final episodes "We're billions of years ahead of your petty obsession with gender and its associated stereotypes" and "I think she was a man back then, I'm fairly sure I was too"."
And those are words from a relatively recent episode I don't think I ever saw, but the words would not have struck me as out of place in Tom Bakers mouth. And it makes sense from a Gallifreyan. The physical advantages and disadvantages that determined completely different roles for each in the distant past are already much less important today. With their level of technology, being able to lift a bit more or run a bit faster would seem truly insignificant. Why would they need to use their musculature to lift anything physically? Why would they ever need to run, other than for their health perhaps?
"As if you'd forget what gender you were born into (especially given the Doctor's been male for 2000 years by this stage), and as if your species would learn to totally ignore gender when it's still an expressed part of the genome.""
I'd suspect the line is ironic, and doesn't mean he's actually forgotten, just that he truly doesn't consider it important enough to make note of. And I don't think they totally ignore gender. They form couples, hetero couples, for the purpose of reproduction, so in that sense they don't ignore it at all. It's just not seen as important outside of that context.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?