undeadsuitor said:
Sonic Doctor said:
Doctor Who has never stated the Doctor
can't be a woman. The lack of evidence is not evidence.
Remember the whole "the doctor can only regenerate 13 times"? Well, THAT's already been retconed out. The Doctor is now immortal and can regenerate as much as he wants. Is the show dead yet to you?
In the original show, the Doctor built his Tardis. But then they changed it to where he stole it. Dead yet?
The Doctor originally had one heart. Then they changed it. Dead yet?
The Doctors seventh incarnation stated he was 953 years old. The ninth doctor said he was 903. Dead yet?
Doctor Who is a pretty fluid show when it comes to its own canon and lore. It comes with the benefit of having hundreds of writers and actors over decades of episodes. Lots of stuff has changed over the years big and small.
Yet the doctor being a woman is the change that kills it for you. And JUST that. Hmmmm yeah I think I'll go with sexist.
1.) The regenerations. The only reason the whole only 13 regeneration cycle thing was mentioned in new Who like it was a dead end after that, is because yes, if the Doctor was alone and did on his final life, then yes he would be dead, because he was the only Time Lord left and didn't have the power to give himself more regenerations. Getting more than 13 regenerations is part of canon before new Who. In the 25th anniversary episode "The Five Doctors", as much as they don't want to, the leaders of Gallifrey call upon the Master to help out the Doctor, the Master refuses, though ends up semi-going along with it, because the leaders tell him that they will reward him with a new cycle of regenerations.
What happened when Matt Smith regenerated wasn't getting unlimited regenerations, he got a new cycle of them, 13 more. The only way a Time Lord can get past that 13, is to be granted more by the Council. Back then in old Who, several episodes before that 25th anniversary, the Master was out of regenerations, but when he was mortally wounded, the only way he survived was by doing the evil act of finding a way to take over another person's body and making it their own. So, Time Lords by canon can live past the 13 regenerations.
2.) Nope. I've watched the original show from the first Doctor onward. The story wasn't that he built it, when he said things like that he as saying it to people to make them more impressed by him(also not to reveal such a thing as that he stole it) During the first Doctor's tenure, he mentioned several times that he can't go back home, that he ran away, it's because he stole the TARDIS. The BBC overseen comics from the 80's even did a comic that was of a young Time Lord that steals a TARDIS ends up on Earth during the time of the Dinosaurs, and at the end of the comic is basically revealed that he is the Doctor.
3.) It was never said in old Who that he only had one heart, but two hearts was said several times.
4.) On the age thing, it is an error yes, but a minor one. Besides, that can easily be explained away as that the Doctor has lost track of his age. I don't remember which episodes of the top of my head but during Tom Bakers tenure, I know he mentioned once or twice that he couldn't quite remember how many years old.
Your knowledge of the show and franchise is horribly flawed and spotty. I would go back and re-watch it if I were you.
The fact that every time a male Time Lord regenerates, he is still male, and the same for Time Ladies being female always, as proof by all the mentions of other Time Lords regeneration in the old series, that is point enough to say that a Time Lord can only regenerate into the gender that they were born to. Heck, when ever the second Doctor was forced by the Time Lords to regenerate, they showed him a long list of possible appearances, all were male and of the same race. That is canon, and people need to stop mucking it up.
Again it is not a sexist thing, it is about canon and keeping proper continuity. In my post from before, I mentioned other shows and movie franchises that I consider dead. All of them are the same point I am making about Doctor Who, I am pissed because with DW and those shows, they were ruined by people that don't know how to work within an establish franchise. If people get a hold of an established franchise and want to make new installments, the better damn well stick to the franchise and not thrown bull crap unnecessary changes into it. People that change franchises like that need to be banned from ever working on the franchise again, and have the non-canon works retconned and the existence of it erased.
