Time Ladies

So, the 13th Doctor has lady-bits and a number of people seem really upset. Of that number, NONE can articulate as to WHY they are upset without sounding like a bunch of petty, insecure cry-babies.
This isn’t a James Bond situation, where the titular character HAS to be a white, Scottish guy, because THAT’S the mythology and if you change it, it’s no longer James Bond.
The Doctor can be anyone. It’s been part of the mythology for a while that his (Her? Its?) appearance is taken from people previously encountered, or is at the very least, a tribute to them. That’s why the 12th Doctor looked like Caecilius of Pompeii. My guess is that the 13th Doctor is a female because of Bill. Jodie Whittaker rather reminds me of The Pilot (Bill’s time-jumping, puddle-dwelling stalker/squeeze).
To say that The Doctor can’t be played by a woman is total BS, as is the claim that the BBC are simply doing it because of the “popular trend” in chasing diversity. The hint that the Time Lord might one day be a Time Lady goes back at least as far as 1999, in which Joanna Lumley played a regeneration of The Doctor in the Comic Relief episode, “The Curse of the Fatal Death”. At the time, people f**king LOVED the idea. There wasn’t a critic to be heard. Skip forward 20 years and we have a vile, vocal and paranoid group claiming everything is a feminist agenda and that it will result in men’s genitals shrivelling up and falling off.
I would like to have seen Colin Salmon or Tim Roth play The Doctor, but that’s only because I KNOW they would have been brilliant in the role. Never seen Whittaker perform, but neither had I seen Matt Smith, and his first season was ACE.
All that’s really important is that the stories are good, because last season, if I’m honest, was a bit lacking in that respect….


The 13th Doctor.


GOD I miss the 90s.