Doctor Omega
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Looking at it objectively, I suspect that, we are about to get our first female Doctor, owing to the BBC teasing it as maybe being Phoebe as the first female Doctor on their own site.
For them then to announce Kris Marshall, or whoever, as yet another male Doctor....
I just think that they are too cowardly to risk a backlash from advocates of such a change - and let us not forget the comment from Billy Piper who has said that it would be a snub to cast another man now. The BBC put this comment on their website, technically making a rod for their own back if they now cast a man.
In addition, Moffat seems to have spent time a great deal of time and energy, going out of his way to show that gender-changing Time Lords are a simple matter of fact.
Looking at it now, he seems to have been laying the groundwork for his pal, Chibnall, who is almost certainly going to want to make a bold statement of intent at the start of his era.
And Chibnall is apparently happy with the idea of a female Doctor too.
So, to me, it all seems to be lining up for a female Doctor.
I do not necessarily think that it is definitely Phoebe (although it probably is), but I do think it will be a female Doctor.
And, to think, it all started as a joke on Tom Baker's part as he left the role in 1980.
For them then to announce Kris Marshall, or whoever, as yet another male Doctor....
I just think that they are too cowardly to risk a backlash from advocates of such a change - and let us not forget the comment from Billy Piper who has said that it would be a snub to cast another man now. The BBC put this comment on their website, technically making a rod for their own back if they now cast a man.
In addition, Moffat seems to have spent time a great deal of time and energy, going out of his way to show that gender-changing Time Lords are a simple matter of fact.
Looking at it now, he seems to have been laying the groundwork for his pal, Chibnall, who is almost certainly going to want to make a bold statement of intent at the start of his era.
And Chibnall is apparently happy with the idea of a female Doctor too.
So, to me, it all seems to be lining up for a female Doctor.
I do not necessarily think that it is definitely Phoebe (although it probably is), but I do think it will be a female Doctor.
And, to think, it all started as a joke on Tom Baker's part as he left the role in 1980.
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