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First time watching BBC in ages, but I just had to tune in for the Twelfth Doctor announcement. And even if Steven Moffat managed to annoy me in a two-minute-long clip, it doesn't really matter, because the rest of the program was really cute and funny.
On to the important piece of news, the new Doctor is Peter Capaldi!
Ok, first, I really like him. He's a great actor and in The Hour he was fantastic and he made me sob like a baby.
But it's back to 'old white dude with female companion who's barely legal'. Not that I wasn't expecting it, but come on. Yes, I had zero expectations for a female Doctor, and quite frankly the idea of Moffat writing a female Doctor was the stuff of nightmares, but I had a little place in my heart for 'whatever as long as he's not white'. Of course Moffat had to go and make fun of the idea of a female Doctor as soon as he got on screen, true, but did they have to get someone so much older than Eleven? Who, during the last season, kept sexually harassing his female companions? And it was all played for laughs? I wouldn't have anything against Capaldi if it weren't for the thought that the same guy who made the Doctor smack Clara on the bottom with a towel is going to write his lines. And we don't get an older companion, like Donna, we still have Clara, who even when she's trying not to damsel she gets complimented only for her 'very tight skirt'.
Congratulations to Capaldi, of course, but this confirms it: Doctor Who is definitely over for me until we get a new showrunner. Those of you who'll keep watching, have a lot of fun! ♥
On to the important piece of news, the new Doctor is Peter Capaldi!
Ok, first, I really like him. He's a great actor and in The Hour he was fantastic and he made me sob like a baby.
But it's back to 'old white dude with female companion who's barely legal'. Not that I wasn't expecting it, but come on. Yes, I had zero expectations for a female Doctor, and quite frankly the idea of Moffat writing a female Doctor was the stuff of nightmares, but I had a little place in my heart for 'whatever as long as he's not white'. Of course Moffat had to go and make fun of the idea of a female Doctor as soon as he got on screen, true, but did they have to get someone so much older than Eleven? Who, during the last season, kept sexually harassing his female companions? And it was all played for laughs? I wouldn't have anything against Capaldi if it weren't for the thought that the same guy who made the Doctor smack Clara on the bottom with a towel is going to write his lines. And we don't get an older companion, like Donna, we still have Clara, who even when she's trying not to damsel she gets complimented only for her 'very tight skirt'.
Congratulations to Capaldi, of course, but this confirms it: Doctor Who is definitely over for me until we get a new showrunner. Those of you who'll keep watching, have a lot of fun! ♥