Okay, well, as it turns out, the single thing that got me through the past couple of weeks - and ESPECIALLY the last two days or so - ( was a big freaking fat lie. )
Ya had to go and open up THAT can of worms... ;^PmagratpudifootNovember 15 2008, 23:04:07 UTC
I'm currently in negotiations with the Vortex about "Music of the Spheres," so hopefully I'll have some good news about that soon. Did you maybe get a notification about Dr. Horrible last night? Maybe perhaps I'm hoping against hope?
> Do you know how excited I am at the possibility at there being Ten audio adventures in our future??
I'm still just excited about the fact that Tennant was in so many of the earlier ones (AND the Alt-Nine animated one with Richard E. Grant) as other characters. If I stop to think about audio adventures actually WITH TEN, my head will probably explode. Also, IRIS WILDTHYME IS COMING BACK! And I find this exciting despite never having listened to or read a single bit of Who spin-off material (the two TW books notwithstanding). But, I mean, renegade Time Lady played by "Jo"? How is that NOT awesome beyond measure?
> Why 2013?
50th anniversary, baby! It's an absolute shame that they didn't do anything big for the 40th, and that the 30th was a bit...unfortunate...so I'm expecting something really wonderful in '13. Course, that's still a ways off...
> If I'm thinking of the right actor, the current thought about Paterson Joseph is, "Hey, the first black Doctor!"
As wonderful and ground-breaking as this would be, it is somewhat obscuring the fact that it wouldn't even remotely be a gimmicky casting decision, and he would, I have no doubt, be more of a return to the Doctors of Olde than a progressive revolution. And I am SO down with that, you don't even know.
Also, think of the possibilities inherent in having Jack come bounding onto the TARDIS expecting to find The Doctor, and instead seeing...Roderick?! It would also be a really good way to make sure Rose doesn't have any interest in worming her way back on board in future... (Now I'm just being bitchy. There's no call for that.)
Re: Ya had to go and open up THAT can of worms... ;^PmagratpudifootNovember 15 2008, 23:04:33 UTC
> So I wanna know (have I asked you this before?) ... how would you feel about the first _woman_ Doctor?
You may well have asked, but I certainly didn't answer. I try to avoid this topic, because I actually am NOT in favour of a female Doctor...which is not a popular opinion and sounds extremely OOC for me, but I have a reason. I like to understand how things work (or, as Eight so eloquently put it, I'm "always trying to find patterns in things that aren't there," or Jack's "denying the randomness of existance.") So, going on all of the regenerations we've seen and my rudimentary knowledge of human genetics and biology, I have come to the following conclusions:
- Each Time Lord has a genotype - the set of genes he or she was born (or, if you prefer, loomed) with, and that doesn't change. But Gallifreyan genotypes have the potential for far greater diversity of phenotype than anything here on Earth. So, they are born with a set of genes that, together with environmental conditions at the time of regeneration, control what each regeneration looks like. (Jenny looks rather like Five - cloning The Doctor's genes pulls up aspects of a past phenotype that is not currently being expressed; The Doctor seems to have a predisposition for big, expressive eyes...Five being the obvious odd-man out; if you look at pictures of Hartnell when he was younger, it actually looks like he and Davison might be related...which is of course just a coincidence and may very well be me looking for things that aren't there, but I'm gonna use it as evidence, anyway)
- Time Lords are, as far as we have seen, _always_ humanoid. For all of Ten's talking about "human" being an "option" for him, or having two heads, or whatever, _Gallifreyans look human_ (and no Baker T jokes ;^P).
- There are various racial possibilities for Time Lords (we see black Gallifreyans in "The Sound of Drums" and "Arc of Infinity," I think it was; Cho-Je/K'ampo Rimpoche is meant to be Asian; Romana is evidently able to regenerate into a silvery blue-ish skin tone.)
- Skin colour is largely a question of how much melanin one produces, so as long as a given Time Lord CAN produce melanin, he or she can have any skin colour (conversely, an albino Time Lord would presumably always be albino). The rest of race is down to feature size and shape, which is clearly not anything regeneration can't fix. So, if a Time Lord who has eyes, nose, lips, etc can potentially have almond-shaped eyes or a Romanesque nose or large lips, depending on the regeneration.
- Sex, unlike race, is not an issue of the size or shape or amount of a feature, but a _different sort_ of feature. Maybe it's possible for a nose to become a trunk following a regeneration, but it won't transform into a third eye. (I am here of course going on the assumption that Time Lord sex works on similar lines as human sex...which is probably not a fair assumption, but it's what I've got to work with until they officially tell me otherwise.)
So, really what I object to is not so much a woman Doctor, but a _female_ Doctor, and it's beacause _it doesn't fit my rules_. I would be completely fine with a transgendered or transexual Doctor - if he regenerates and rifles through the female Companions' closet for his next outfit, more power to her. But it just wouldn't make _sense_ to me for him to regenerate into a female.
As I've said before, though, in the event that it actually happens, I will almost assuredly be fine with it and love her just as much as any Doctor. It will have to be done _extremely_ carefully, of course, but I have faith. Until such time as I SEE her, though, I am still against it, theoretically.
And I had planned to whip out replies to all of these latest comments and then get to my homework, but I just spent two hours on this. So, I'd better do my pre-lab, and then I'll continue with the replies.
> Do you know how excited I am at the possibility at there being Ten audio adventures in our future??
I'm still just excited about the fact that Tennant was in so many of the earlier ones (AND the Alt-Nine animated one with Richard E. Grant) as other characters. If I stop to think about audio adventures actually WITH TEN, my head will probably explode.
Also, IRIS WILDTHYME IS COMING BACK! And I find this exciting despite never having listened to or read a single bit of Who spin-off material (the two TW books notwithstanding). But, I mean, renegade Time Lady played by "Jo"? How is that NOT awesome beyond measure?
> Why 2013?
50th anniversary, baby! It's an absolute shame that they didn't do anything big for the 40th, and that the 30th was a bit...unfortunate...so I'm expecting something really wonderful in '13. Course, that's still a ways off...
> If I'm thinking of the right actor, the current thought about Paterson Joseph is, "Hey, the first black Doctor!"
As wonderful and ground-breaking as this would be, it is somewhat obscuring the fact that it wouldn't even remotely be a gimmicky casting decision, and he would, I have no doubt, be more of a return to the Doctors of Olde than a progressive revolution. And I am SO down with that, you don't even know.
Also, think of the possibilities inherent in having Jack come bounding onto the TARDIS expecting to find The Doctor, and instead seeing...Roderick?! It would also be a really good way to make sure Rose doesn't have any interest in worming her way back on board in future... (Now I'm just being bitchy. There's no call for that.)
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You may well have asked, but I certainly didn't answer. I try to avoid this topic, because I actually am NOT in favour of a female Doctor...which is not a popular opinion and sounds extremely OOC for me, but I have a reason. I like to understand how things work (or, as Eight so eloquently put it, I'm "always trying to find patterns in things that aren't there," or Jack's "denying the randomness of existance.") So, going on all of the regenerations we've seen and my rudimentary knowledge of human genetics and biology, I have come to the following conclusions:
- Each Time Lord has a genotype - the set of genes he or she was born (or, if you prefer, loomed) with, and that doesn't change. But Gallifreyan genotypes have the potential for far greater diversity of phenotype than anything here on Earth. So, they are born with a set of genes that, together with environmental conditions at the time of regeneration, control what each regeneration looks like.
(Jenny looks rather like Five - cloning The Doctor's genes pulls up aspects of a past phenotype that is not currently being expressed; The Doctor seems to have a predisposition for big, expressive eyes...Five being the obvious odd-man out; if you look at pictures of Hartnell when he was younger, it actually looks like he and Davison might be related...which is of course just a coincidence and may very well be me looking for things that aren't there, but I'm gonna use it as evidence, anyway)
- Time Lords are, as far as we have seen, _always_ humanoid. For all of Ten's talking about "human" being an "option" for him, or having two heads, or whatever, _Gallifreyans look human_ (and no Baker T jokes ;^P).
- There are various racial possibilities for Time Lords (we see black Gallifreyans in "The Sound of Drums" and "Arc of Infinity," I think it was; Cho-Je/K'ampo Rimpoche is meant to be Asian; Romana is evidently able to regenerate into a silvery blue-ish skin tone.)
- Skin colour is largely a question of how much melanin one produces, so as long as a given Time Lord CAN produce melanin, he or she can have any skin colour (conversely, an albino Time Lord would presumably always be albino). The rest of race is down to feature size and shape, which is clearly not anything regeneration can't fix. So, if a Time Lord who has eyes, nose, lips, etc can potentially have almond-shaped eyes or a Romanesque nose or large lips, depending on the regeneration.
- Sex, unlike race, is not an issue of the size or shape or amount of a feature, but a _different sort_ of feature. Maybe it's possible for a nose to become a trunk following a regeneration, but it won't transform into a third eye. (I am here of course going on the assumption that Time Lord sex works on similar lines as human sex...which is probably not a fair assumption, but it's what I've got to work with until they officially tell me otherwise.)
So, really what I object to is not so much a woman Doctor, but a _female_ Doctor, and it's beacause _it doesn't fit my rules_. I would be completely fine with a transgendered or transexual Doctor - if he regenerates and rifles through the female Companions' closet for his next outfit, more power to her. But it just wouldn't make _sense_ to me for him to regenerate into a female.
As I've said before, though, in the event that it actually happens, I will almost assuredly be fine with it and love her just as much as any Doctor. It will have to be done _extremely_ carefully, of course, but I have faith. Until such time as I SEE her, though, I am still against it, theoretically.
And I had planned to whip out replies to all of these latest comments and then get to my homework, but I just spent two hours on this. So, I'd better do my pre-lab, and then I'll continue with the replies.
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