The best worst reactions to the news that the next Doctor Who will be a woman

HBomberguy had a lengthy video on YouTube explaining exactly that. I actually gave it three seasons worth of attention hoping for more Blind Bankers and less Reichenbach Fall, but it never really settled into a comfortable mode where the case was what took centre stage.

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The Blind Banker had its issues, but it was one of the few episodes that had a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the solution wasn’t “it didn’t really happen” or “a mastermind was orchestrating everything.”

@Citizen Rat:

I am really looking forward to watching Dr Who again!

Welcome back! We’re settling in to wait out the long hiatus. The hope and plan is we get a series in 2018, but everything’s switching over to Chris Chibnall so there might be a few delays.

Most recent DW episode I watched was the new series ones involving the Corpse Monks.

The ending felt wrong. I mean, sure, it should have worked based on the story, but… there was just something weird about it. “Your mom just went viral” made me laugh, and then cringe at it being the Doctor saying it.

I watched the hbomberguy dissection of “Sherlock” and he makes a lot of very good points.

However, I still like the first two seasons. For me it didn’t really fall apart until season 3, when they couldn’t come up with a good solution to the cliffhanger at the end of season 2 (where Sherlock fakes his death, kind of, apparently). Its just all downhill from there.

hbomberguy also really likes the character of Mary, and I could not stand that character. Like the actor a lot, just really disliked her character for some reason. And seasons 2 & 3 seem nearly all about her.

@JS — yes, the first two eps in that arc were great, but then the lottery or whatever landed on Toby Whithouse, who proceeded to be Toby Whithouse and let us all down.

@Scildfreja

Sign me the fuck up.

@ sunnysombrera

If you just buy programmes/series to download and watch at your leisure, no.

If you watch any sort of real-time broadcast (ie, you don’t choose the time, it starts at the same time for everyone) then, yes.

ETA:

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/Live-TV-and-how-you-watch-it

I watch stuff on Amazon on my computer all the time. I don’t see why you’d have one. I do think it’s worthwhile to get one and hook up a Fire stick of Apple TV or other similar devices. The sound and picture or so much better on a TV and you can’t really host any kind of movie night without one.

reggie, the neighbour’s cat:

Hi again, frequent lurker and infrequent poster coming out of the woodwork because I have a few questions about the genital reassignment tweet. Does the tweeter not understand the concept of regeneration at all? Do they think the Doctor gets surgery to change from one to the next? Or do they – and forgive me for being a bit explicit here, but I’m not sure what other option there is – do they think that when the Doctor’s body changes each time his penis stays the same? The magical one penis fits all for the Doctor? So much to think about.

That’s… actually an interesting premise for a show. An eternal peen, travelling through time and space, righting wrongs, while its owner changes, and everyone misses the point about the source of the hero’s power. No, on second thoughts, that sounds more porny than Moffaty. Let’s not.

Suggested title: A Winkle in Time.

Unrelated: Okay, how the hell are so many people surprised that R Kelly, who’s been more famous for being a monstrous child rapist who keeps getting away with it than for being a rapper for well over a decade, is in fact a monstrous child rapist who keeps getting away with it? What bloody colour do they think the sky is? O_o

hbomberguy’s hilariously good at dissecting why Sherlock isn’t very good and why Moffat should not be given free rein when writing.

If you want more SJW-y related stuff from him, I recommend his reply to The Golden One and “Why it’s actually EMPOWERING to be a titninja”.

I haven’t had a TV service since 2006 in the UK and as long as you don’t use iPlayer and don’t subscribe to a broadcast TV package that includes Freeview channels, you’re good. I actually “renewed” my lack of TV licence at the weekend. Quick phonecall to TV Licencing and they’ll sign you off for another couple of years and it means they won’t spam your address with demands either.

The Master (the Doctor’s archrival/friend/fellow Time Lord/it’s complicated) regenerated as a woman two or 3 years ago, and my understanding is that in the classic show (I really only know the resurrected show from the 9th Doctor on) the possibility of regenderation was raised.

I’d been very frustrated with Moffat, basically ever since Jenna Coleman came on as the companion, just because the show seemed to have more and more continuity mistakes, even for a time travel show. And Even though I think Matt Smith was a good doctor, I thought his natural comedic ability let them play the doctor off as goofy a little too often. I enjoyed that Capaldi brought some of the darkness back to the character, and I think this most recent season was very good, with a lot of good liberal themes and anti-fascist rants by the doctor.

Anyway, I hope the next Doctor is non-white.