[TV] Doctor Who

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I heard Tom Cruise was approached to play the Doctor, but he insisted he fly the TARDIS himself. The BBC insurance team refused saying it would cost too much.

[Gallahadd]

I heard Tom Cruise was approached to play the Doctor, but he insisted he fly the TARDIS himself. The BBC insurance team refused saying it would cost too much.

Not as bad as if they let Richard Hammond drive XD.

[Hammerfest]

This sums up my feelings on this casting choice...

[the game]

This sums up my feelings on this casting choice...

Jadzia Dax isn't a doctor. She's a science officer. It would have made more sense if you had posted that meme with Ezri Dax in the picture.

[Hammerfest]

Jadzia Dax isn't a doctor. She's a science officer. It would have made more sense if you had posted that meme with Ezri Dax in the picture.

Jadzia Dax had degrees in astrophysics, exoarchaeology, exobiology and zoology. Plenty of credentials to be a doctor. But that's all beside the point and you know this.

[Elim Garak]

Jadzia Dax had degrees in astrophysics, exoarchaeology, exobiology and zoology. Plenty of credentials to be a doctor. But that's all beside the point and you know this.

Curzon Dax was better!

[Immitis]

This sums up my feelings on this casting choice...

you cant just take a well written female character from scifi and say "well thats what a female doctor would be like"

the doctors going to continue to be the doctor just like all the past 13 doctors/war doctors

[Hammerfest]

you cant just take a well written female character from scifi and say "well thats what a female doctor would be like"

Who has said that? Not me. I'm simply saying that changing the Doctor into a female isn't original. We've seen this kind of thing before in science fiction. In fact, it would have been more original to keep the Doctor regenerating into British men.

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Curzon Dax was better!

If Star Trek ever did do a prequel, I'd love to see Kurzon or any other Dax.

[Endus]

Who has said that? Not me. I'm simply saying that changing the Doctor into a female isn't original.

A character who happens to be a doctor isn't in any respect the same thing as the specific character named The Doctor. You're deliberately missing the point for some reason.

[the game]

you cant just take a well written female character from scifi and say "well thats what a female doctor would be like"

the doctors going to continue to be the doctor just like all the past 13 doctors/war doctors

Is she really a female? What gender is the symbiont? When a Trill takes a symbiont do they combine the two genders?

[Hammerfest]

A character who happens to be a doctor isn't in any respect the same thing as the specific character named The Doctor. You're deliberately missing the point for some reason.

No, you're deliberately missing the point. Yet again.

[Endus]

No, you're deliberately missing the point. Yet again.

What "point"?

The point here is that this one character, The Doctor by name, is going to be a woman for the first time.

You responded with "but there have been other women doctors before, unoriginal." That misses the point, and is a deliberate attempt to derail.

[Hammerfest]

What "point"?

Here it is again...

This sums up my feelings on this casting choice...

[Endus]

Here it is again...

Yes. That's exactly what I paraphrased.

You are confusing The Doctor, a single character, with any doctor character ever, and that's just completely wrong at a fundamental level.

It's like criticizing Matt Smith for not being "real" because he's not literally a blacksmith.

[Deleted]

A character who happens to be a doctor isn't in any respect the same thing as the specific character named The Doctor. You're deliberately missing the point for some reason.

no you miss the point that the gender swap in sci fi is nothing new and THAT is the point.

But go on ignoring how UNORIGINAL it is to turn the doctor female now after masses of screams at the bbc to do so.

[Endus]

no you miss the point that the gender swap in sci fi is nothing new and THAT is the point.

And literally nobody made that argument. Which is the point you all are missing.

[Hammerfest]

You are confusing The Doctor, a single character, with any doctor character ever, and that's just completely wrong at a fundamental level.

Nooo... I'm simply saying that a sci-fi character that changes from male to female has already been done. It's not original. It wouldn't matter if Dax was a medical doctor or even a frequent time traveler. A sci-fi character who changes gender is old news. It would have been more original to keep the Doctor from Doctor Who a perpetually British male.

[Endus]

Nooo... I'm simply saying that a sci-fi character that changes from male to female has already been done. It's not original. It wouldn't matter if Dax was a medical doctor or even a frequent time traveler. A sci-fi character who changes gender is old news. It would have been more original to keep the Doctor from Doctor Who a perpetually British male.

Again, literally nobody was making the argument you're contradicting.

[Hammerfest]

no you miss the point that the gender swap in sci fi is nothing new and THAT is the point.

Exactly. The concept seems to have escaped some people here.

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Again, literally nobody was making the argument you're contradicting.

So you agree with the Dax graphic? Cool! That's the only point I was making.

[Elim Garak]

Again, literally nobody was making the argument you're contradicting.

Let me quote him for you:

This sums up my feelings on this casting choice...

Then there's an image that sums up the bold part. It has text in it:
At the top: "So.. the new doctor is a woman."
At the bottom: "Welcome to two decades ago, BBC"