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October 26

Doctor Who Question

Hi, I Just finished reading The Wikipedia Article on the series Doctor Who, and I`am relatively new to the series. I was wondering Is it possible there could over be a female incarnation of the doctor. Bye Wikipedians everywhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.56.144.15 (talk) 23:13, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note - Question originally posted on Humanities desk Tevildo (talk) 23:30, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall that it was ever directly addressed, but in the past male timelords have always come back as males, and females have always come back as females. I don't think there's ever been even the slightest hint that any timelord was once a different gender. APL (talk) 23:57, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it has ever been mentioned in the show, but there were rumours that the next Doctor would be female. They turned out to be wrong, of course. --Tango (talk) 00:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well Joanna Lumley made a good job of it in The Curse of Fatal Death. Britmax (talk) 00:08, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In case it's not obvious, The Curse of the Fatal Death was a parody. (A hilarious one.) APL (talk) 19:03, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There have always been rumours that the next Doctor might be a woman: some of those rumours were deliberately started by people involved in production... We have seen very few Timelords regenerate on the actual programme, and a few more have been mentioned to have regenerated. None of these switched gender. However, that does not mean it doesn't happen or isn't possible: the sample sizes are very small. I'd say it's very unlikely that the Doctor will have a female incarnation in the next couple, but it is entirely possible that it could happen some time. Doctor Who canon is sort of vast, and yet also sort of non-existant: the saying used to be that there was no canon. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey gives you a slight get-out clause for almost anything, and the show has almost always been driven by the Rule of Cool. I mean, the main actor leaves so you decide he is an alien who can regenerate into an entirely different person? With a different personality?

If they want to cast a woman, they will. Yes, I included a link to TV Tropes. Nobody's going to bed any time soon... 86.144.144.110 (talk) 00:47, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]