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Who knows... the next Time Lord may be a Lady (Doctor Who)
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 27, 2012 | Paul Revoir

Posted on 08/27/2012 5:44:23 AM PDT by C19fan

He's been trying to rid the universe of Daleks since the beginning of time. But as he still hasn’t had any luck, Doctor Who’s creators have decided it may be time to let a Doctor Her have a crack. The boss of the BBC series has conceded that it is more and more likely that fans will get to see the first ever Time Lady.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: heylady

Honestly, I think Eccelston was the best Doctor since the reboot... He had the overall quirkiness that I think the Doctor needed, I really wish he would have stuck around longer. Didn’t mind Tennant, but just wasnt the same, and while the writing has been fine, really not a fan of the current guy either. Really having a hard time accepting a 20something playing a time lord...


21 posted on 08/27/2012 6:14:40 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: randita

He’ll have as many left as they choose to use, you think a few references to the maximum numbers of regenerations will STOP it? Come on, that’s what Creative Writing and selective memory are all about.


22 posted on 08/27/2012 6:15:57 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 1rudeboy

River Song is practically a time lord now.


23 posted on 08/27/2012 6:16:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: mnehring
I think it would be a cool twist. They have already hinted that it has happened before in several seasons. They also have an open storyline out there with the Dr.’s clone/daughter who is a Time Lord.

The episode was entitled The Doctor's Daughter.

Tidbit: the woman who played the Doctor's daughter in that episode wound up marrying David Tennant (Doctor Who) in real life, and they have a daughter.

24 posted on 08/27/2012 6:16:33 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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To: randita

Yep, Matt’s Eleven. There’s been wild speculation as to how many regenerations there will be.

Jenny appeared in the third season episode, “The Doctor’s Daughter”. Physically she was Gallifreyan (two hearts), but she regenerated into herself, and did not transform. There has also been speculation about Jenny’s return.

(Cute aside: Georgia Moffett, the actress who played Jenny, is the daughter of Peter Davidson, the Fifth Doctor, and married David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor.)


25 posted on 08/27/2012 6:20:26 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yep, and the other cool twist, the ‘daughter’ Jenny is actually the daughter of Peter Davison, the 5th doctor.

So the doctor married his own daughter. :->


26 posted on 08/27/2012 6:22:21 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: heylady

Too bloody right, as they say across the Pond.

TW Season One was good, Season Two was starting to slide, “Children of Earth” had its ups and downs but was only marginally watchable. I stopped watching “Miracle Day” after two episodes. Only Seasons 1 and 2 are in my collection for those reasons.


27 posted on 08/27/2012 6:24:42 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: randita
How many lives does the Doctor have left?

They can go with as many regenerations as River Song put into him without violating continuity.

28 posted on 08/27/2012 6:25:28 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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To: cripplecreek
River Song is practically a time lord now.

She had the regeneration ability (which he drained in order to save The Doctor in the "Let's Kill Hitler" episode) and she can drive the TARDIS.

An interesting implication of the River Song business: A human baby conceived in a TARDIS during travel becomes endowed with Time Lord characteristics. This creates a strong implication that the Time Lords themselves are descended from human time travelers. In the series, humans from the 54th Century have developed time travel technology (used by Captain Jack Harkness and River Song). Who's to say that a group of future time travelers refine their technology to create TARDIS machines, and then settle on a planet called Gallifrey in the distant past and call themselves Time Lords?

29 posted on 08/27/2012 6:27:23 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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To: heylady

Torchwood was just a propoganda piece for homosexual activists. I know Russel T Davies is gay, and his repeatedly having gay characters in every Dr Who episode for no reason was annoying enough, torchwood was just full on nonsense.


30 posted on 08/27/2012 6:27:23 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: C19fan

I’d be okay with a lady timelord if she had huge t...tracts of land.


31 posted on 08/27/2012 6:32:50 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some days...it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....)
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To: C19fan
They've been toying with this for a while, and it would be a disaster.

And she wouldn't be the first -- they've had female Time Lords before. They've even had them in this incarnation of the series, in David Tennant's finale. One of whom, if you read background material outside the show, is supposed to be the Doctor's mother.

If they can regenerate into opposite genders, it totally changes the concept of having children (or even falling in love, like with Rose). And, speaking as a math teacher, if switching genders is a possibility, how come it hasn't happened yet in 10 regenerations? It should have been more likely than that, maybe even more likely than being ginger.

32 posted on 08/27/2012 6:33:53 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: PapaBear3625

River drives the Tardis better than the doctor. When he asked why it doesn’t make the noise when it lands with her driving she said it was because he leaves the parking brake on.


33 posted on 08/27/2012 6:37:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: mnehring

hmmm.. let me check with nick fury... or heimdall... (naming just 2 well known, well established characters from recent movies)

of course it’s PC bs. obviously, you’ve never talked to these people or listened to their commentary regarding their drive / direction / motivations


34 posted on 08/27/2012 6:38:20 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: randita
How many lives does the Doctor have left? Isn’t Matt Smith the eleventh?

I remember back in the Tom Baker days, the rule was that Time Lords were limited to twelve regenerations (there was an entire storyline about the Master using up his 12 and trying to earn more from the Time Lords), but I believe this was a limitation imposed by the Time Lords themselves rather than a biological limitation. Since it hasn't been mentioned in the new series, I think we are to assume with the destruction of Galifrey (or it being stuck in the time loop or whatever) that the Doctor's regenerations are unlimited since there are no other Time Lords to enforce the twelve rule. (Show's what a geek I am that I actually know this...)

35 posted on 08/27/2012 6:43:40 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Tanniker Smith
They've been toying with this for a while, and it would be a disaster.

What makes the series work is the interaction between The Doctor and his (female) companions, with the underlying sexual tension between them. The Doctor is an archetypical Alpha Male. It just would not work with a female Doctor.

36 posted on 08/27/2012 6:47:19 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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To: apillar
Thanks for that info. I watched it regularly on SciFi (or SyFy or ΨΦ or whatever the channel is now named) but didn't have BBC America on my cable and never got the DVDs because BBC discs never seem to go on sale.
37 posted on 08/27/2012 6:54:53 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: cripplecreek

I thought that was neat, too.....she upped him one....very funny....the look on his face was funny...

I dunno.....I like science fiction, but a Doctor without a female companion would be, well, very dry.....

I’m not opposed to a DW spinoff, actually. Maybe his cloned daughter seen once, or with River....

In the case of a female doctor, since I’m older, I’d prefer a smoulderingly sexy older female versus some photospread teenybopper hottie. River, an updated older Emma Peele, or more mature woman....

In any case, I’d definitely NOT be interested in any beefcake companion a female WHO or Clone would have.....


38 posted on 08/27/2012 7:01:04 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: KarlInOhio
ΨΦ ---- neat!
39 posted on 08/27/2012 7:05:35 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: KarlInOhio

DirectV just went all HD on 264 now (BBC America HD)...it is much more pleasurable watching DW now...


40 posted on 08/27/2012 7:06:53 AM PDT by Gaffer
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