Here for Jodie hope she delivers :clap1:

Erm.... this isn't Moffat's decision.

Why does it need to be justified?

The only argument I see for the Doctor staying male is that James Bond doesn't change sex. But James Bond isn't an alien who physically transforms into an entirely different person so the comparison is null and void.

Someone on my fb wall said 'what next - cyber men with boobs and daleks getting vajazzled'

I said, in regards to the cybermen comment, you should've watched torchwood as there's was a cyberman with boobs.

True although I'd actually say that's been significantly less in the Smith and Capaldi eras... And probably had more to do with the cost of doing anything else :joker:. Sets, prosthetics and CGI can be done convincingly and relatively cheaply these days so there's a lot more future / space stuff.

All of his companions tend to be young and from contemporary England though. That is a bit odd. I mean, even Scottish Amy was only Scottish by accent - living in an English town.

Omg I remember :joker::joker:

It's probably the age old - "The viewers need someone they recognise to relate to" but I actually wouldn't mind an alien companion.

Which is why I remember being so intrigued by Jenna Coleman's shock appearance in Asylum of the Daleks. I thought we were finally getting an otherworldly companion.

No no he's right, Smith Doctor talks about one of his old Time Lord friends (the one that the distress call is supposedly from) and he mentions that this Time Lord has been both male and female in the past.

:clap1: Good old Matt pointing it out!

Cybermen convert everyone so surely 50% of Cybermen are Cyberwomen? :think:

I mean, they don't have reproductive systems anyway so they're technically neither.

Well, in Hell Bent, we did see the general, a white male regenerate into a black woman (although she did then mention that the Male General was actually the only male regeneration she had)

Also, when 10 regenerates into 11, he momentarily thinks he is now a woman because of the hair. Hell if you want to go even further back, the charity parody, The Curse of Eternal Death has the Doctor regenerating into Joanna Lumley

Well exactly. LT just makes no sense. :nono:

Poor forgotten Cyberwoman Lisa

Since Class probably wont be coming back, I'd love Quill to appear in the main show.

:unsure:

BITTER BITCH

Mess at a self proclaimed feminist hating it

Her saying that real fans didn't want it to be a woman :umm2:

Literally just watch Broadchurch. She's an incredible actress :love:

FFS. ****ing cosplayers :joker:

And the BBC sci-fi's new showrunner Chris Chibnall has revealed that he always wanted to cast a woman as The Doctor.

"After months of lists, conversations, auditions, recalls and a lot of secret-keeping, we're excited to welcome Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor," he said.

"I always knew I wanted the Thirteenth Doctor to be a woman, and we're thrilled to have secured our number one choice.

Me

Nina Bo'nina Brown has gone too far this time

One thing I do think is important though, is that she doesn't play the doctor as feminine. I don't think it matters whether The Doctor is male or female, for the character, but a major reason for that is that The Doctor is not masculine. He's not some big gruff blokey bloke... if anything, he's almost "effeminate" (I know this is no longer a PC term :joker: ) in a lot of his mannerisms, especially Smith and Capaldi, but even Tennant and Eccleston. In fact it made the "Doctor Donna" scenes quite fascinating as she mirrored Tennant's Doctor-mannerisms really convincingly, without her seeming masculine or him feminine.

So long as they stick with that I don't think the biological gender will matter much at all. Despite those videos ranting about how The Doctor "is male!", he's not actually a very "male" character at all.