Yeah, the Doctor has pretty much identified as male all his life so far, and I think getting a female body would be jarring for him at least for a bit. Although we haven't seen it so far (except for the mention of the Corsair), I reckon Time Lords could be gender-fluid. So either the Doctor regenerates into a woman but still feels like a man on the inside, or after the initial shock would feel comfortable in his new woman's body and would begin identifying as female, but brush off as unimportant things like whether she prefers the term Time Lady or Time Lord for herself. I dislike the way it was done in The Curse of Fatal Death, where he turns into a woman and immediately feels attracted to the Master WHAT.
My point is though, that suddenly "waking up" to being a different gender, one opposite to how you've always identified and been (for over a thousand years at this point), isn't something I think you just get over and feel comfortable with. What if you woke up as the opposite gender tomorrow, do you think you'd ever feel comfortable with a completely different body and parts?
Again, whether the Doctor likes men or women is completely beside the point here, and shouldn't be brought up. In my opinion anyway.
No, I wouldn't. But it is known that a Time Lord's brain also changes when they regenerate, gets re-wired differently, hence a different personality, so I could believe it from a Time Lord if the writers decided to go that way. I brought it up to support your point about that, because five minutes before he was in love with a woman, and I disliked the way the writer equated the gender change with not just a sudden change of sexuality but of heart.
There's nothing particularly sexual or romantic about any of those kisses: they're all the sort of celebratory exclamation you'd expect of many european men or soccer/football players -- and there's an immediate and overplayed takeback on Rory's when his idea doesn't pan out.
The only male/male kiss with any suggestion of non heterosexual affection we're shown the Doctor being a part of is the one with Jack as the Daleks invade Station 5. And just like the 'first interracial kiss on TV' shared by Kirk & Uhura -- the result of being forced by mental domination no less -- in the classic Trek episode Plato's Stepchildren was shot with them turning their faces from the view of the audience before their lips meet so as not to offend the racist Southern states, the kiss from Parting of the Ways -- in which the Doctor acts with complete physical passivity -- is shot from an angle where neither the kiss itself or even the Doctor's reaction to it can be seen at all.
Yes. And guess what: the guy who wrote Curse is the person who would be running things with a female Doctor. Is that a disaster you really want to see?
LOL no, I don't want Moffat writing a female Doctor, and I'm pretty convinced he's not going to cast one. But I don't want to discount the idea of a female Doctor ever.
In CoFD, the Doctor still wants to go along with marrying the companion before she rejects the idea. And of course there's a large group of fans to whom the Doctor isn't 'suddenly' attracted to the Master at all (but now able to act on it as he's decided to be good.)
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Again, whether the Doctor likes men or women is completely beside the point here, and shouldn't be brought up. In my opinion anyway.
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I brought it up to support your point about that, because five minutes before he was in love with a woman, and I disliked the way the writer equated the gender change with not just a sudden change of sexuality but of heart.
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The only male/male kiss with any suggestion of non heterosexual affection we're shown the Doctor being a part of is the one with Jack as the Daleks invade Station 5. And just like the 'first interracial kiss on TV' shared by Kirk & Uhura -- the result of being forced by mental domination no less -- in the classic Trek episode Plato's Stepchildren was shot with them turning their faces from the view of the audience before their lips meet so as not to offend the racist Southern states, the kiss from Parting of the Ways -- in which the Doctor acts with complete physical passivity -- is shot from an angle where neither the kiss itself or even the Doctor's reaction to it can be seen at all.
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