Will this be the cursiest Doctor ever?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Don't know. In related news

Moffatt apparently getting annoyed by people who want a female doctor whereas Gaiman points out a woman would not have done because replacing Smith requires "someone harder and older and more dangerous" than Smith.

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[mcbadger.livejournal.com]

I was surprised as well as disappointed by Moffat's snipe at Mirren because it implied he feels the Doctor can only be played by a man, which isn't consistent with things he's said and done in the past. That includes dialogue confirming that at least one Time Lord has switched genders on regeneration, and sounding out con audiences on how they'd feel about a female Doctor.

[seawasp]

The dialogue confirming that a Time Lord switched genders was deliberately put there by Gaiman, to allow for the possibility of a female regeneration. He explicitly says so in his article, and that for the NEXT regeneration he'd certainly be interested in seeing a female Doctor, so I think vilifying him for saying that he felt that for this regeneration "someone harder and older and more dangerous and, yes, male feels right to me, as a storyteller" is rather disingenuous at best and actively ignoring what he said at worst.

[mcbadger.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm giving Moffat credit for a Gaiman line, aren't I?

I agree with you; what Arturo quotes even includes the 'absolutely... on my list' bit, and interpreting that as saying the Doctor can't be female is just perverse. 'Why not *this* time?' is another question.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Of course Gaiman wrote that dialogue. He's a comic book writer -- retconning a new ability that's never been mentioned in fifty years of continuity is what comic book writers do. It's a reflex.

Just bring back Romana already.

[seawasp]

My theory, until they totally screwed it up, was that River Song *WAS* Romana, with The Rani as my second choice. Her interaction with him RE the "parking brake" was almost letter-perfect Mary Tamm/Tom Baker era snarking.