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.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

There was a piece going around Tumblr recently -- http://zarhooie.tumblr.com/post/57381738860/alicelostinneverland-william-hartnell-first -- with the birth years and age at casting of all the Doctors.

Smith was born in 1982. That's the year my baby sister was born.

[zeborah]

Oh Gaiman no.

(I mean Moffat too obviously but I expect that of Mr Marty Stu.)

[sasha_feather]

Oh Gaiman! /o\

[vass]

What a pity there are no women harder and older and more dangerous than Matt Smith. Anywhere.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Two sets of two words: Helen Mirren, Gina Torres.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I think you're selectively quoting Gaiman, while Garcia quotes Gaiman then maliciously ignores what he said. Gaiman says outright he'd be looking to cast a woman in the *next* incarnation, but Garcia sneers "but having a woman at the wheel is too sci-fi"

I have no idea why Gaiman thinks as a storyteller the immediately post-Smith Doctor has to be male, but he's clearly not opposed to the idea of a female Doctor.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased to have a Doctor who isn't young, but dear gods. I loved Moffat's episodes under Davies, and I didn't agree with many of the complaints about Amy being overly sexualized (and quite liked many of the episodes with Amy), but the resolution of the season with Clara and the fact that she was largely an object in her entire season had already convinced me that Moffat was just as sexist as many people have claimed, and this statement definitely fits with that interpretation. At least we won't have the Doctor as Peter Pan anymore (which seemed 11's major schtick).

Meanwhile Gaiman doesn't come off as much sexist as just dull and unimaginative - it's been a while since I've liked anything by him.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Noomi Rapace. That is all.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

And for those who haven't heard it yet (I've been mentioning it where I can), if you look up Peter Capaldi on the IMDb, you'll see he was in World War Z this year, playing a W.H.O. Doctor.

[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.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I heard they're doing a special science-fiction drama set in the future year of 1963, when Doctor Who is finally ready for a female showrunner.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

I don't think the current writers/directors are up to the task of a female lead yet. Look what they've done to the strong female characters so far. Taken them from powerful and positive role models and reduced them to simpering charactures. Every. Single. One.

And I'll lay money on it being done to Her Lizardship and Girl Friday too. In time.

- Krin

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

A more reasonable objection might be "Think of how Amy was handled, and Clara and Song; do you really want the first female doctor to be written by Moffatt?"

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Reading all this talk of female Doctors made me think MIchelle Yeoh for the role.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I can name at least one: Dame Helen Mirren.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

The more I think about this, the more I don't want Moffat picking a woman actor to play the Doctor.

He has a thing for picking Gina Bellman for roles and I just don't think she's that good. Sorry.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

My husband and I are calling the next stretch "Doctor Fucking Who" already.

[erikagillian.livejournal.com]

I was going to go with Emma Thompson. Well, Maggie Smith would be great, but yes, a bit on the not running down lots of corridors side, but after seeing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM

I want Joanna Lumley :)