BlackBart wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Alan B wrote:Yep. I like her.
If this series turns out to be successful, I wonder if they will alternate the regenerations between male & female?

Why not a transgender next?

She is transgender. She changed from a male to a female.

Nope. She is a complete female.

Fenrir wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Why not a transgender next?

She is transgender. She changed from a male to a female.

Not really. The "doctoriness" of the doctor is independent of gender. That this has only just been directly observed by the earth audience is incidental.

Her gender is also independent of her "doctoriness". She used to be the Doctor who happened to be male, she's now the Doctor who happens to be female.

Scot Dutchy wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Alan B wrote:Yep. I like her.
If this series turns out to be successful, I wonder if they will alternate the regenerations between male & female?

Why not a transgender next?

She is transgender. She changed from a male to a female.

Nope. She is a complete female.

Well, that would be true if one unnecessarily limited oneself to the myopic definition of trangender as someone who has undergone gender reassignment surgery and then ignorantly classed them as 'not a complete female'. Fortunately, as we have examples of transgender processes in the natural world we don't have to do that.

Ironclad wrote:Omni, not trans, I'd offer

'Omni' would suggest 'all at the same time' rather than changing from one to another.

Gender-fluid?

Removes 99% of all known friction?

newolder wrote:Removes 99% of all known friction?

Great for transmissions.

Buffs out to a post-wax ring of confidence.

(It's a long wait too 18:55 BST tonight, thrum, thrum...)

I thought, as I was watching, that with episode 3 the new series was beginning to hit its stride, but probably needed a few more stories. Then the scene with the arrest happened.
Nailed it completely.

As I mentioned in the other thread I found the episode rather cringy and on-the-nose.
Especially the music cues and the conversation between Yaz and Ryan.

so any bets in which episode they‘ll notice the trouble caused by sending Krasko back in time?

Thomas Eshuis wrote:As I mentioned in the other thread I found the episode rather cringy and on-the-nose.
Especially the music cues and the conversation between Yaz and Ryan.

eh, IMO the only cringy bit was the history class at the end.
„she changed the universe“ points at piece of rock probbaply only ever vied by TARDIS passengers.

one thing I noticed „not there“ and which I really don’t miss is „comic relief“.
4 dead people v.s. one 1 „Tim Shaw“ in episode 1?
This Doctor isn’t funny.

Agi Hammerthief wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:As I mentioned in the other thread I found the episode rather cringy and on-the-nose.
Especially the music cues and the conversation between Yaz and Ryan.

eh, IMO the only cringy bit was the history class at the end.
„she changed the universe“ points at piece of rock probbaply only ever vied by TARDIS passengers.

I found that cringy as well, but also the trumpeting fanfare whenever Rosa entered a scene, the incredibly overused and the immersion breaking pop song at the end.

wasn‘t paying enough attention to notice the fanfare

Really struggling with this latest episode. I'm sure it's good but... spiders. Why does it have to be spiders?

The spider in the bath bit was quite funny, though.

should have named the bodyguard Kenny

Liked this episode well enough, less so than the first 2 though.

BlackBart wrote:

Ironclad wrote:Omni, not trans, I'd offer

'Omni' would suggest 'all at the same time' rather than changing from one to another.

Time 'is' relative.
Anyhoo, the Doctor could visit itself in another gender, and be all things at the same time. Maybe

Haven't seen this week's episode yet, but I'm struggling with this series due to the quality of the scriptwriting. Honestly, it's dire. The Rosa Parks episode may have been the worst script for any episode of any show I've seen in some time. (I don't watch much TV, so I'm sure there's worse out there.) My teenage kids were just about at the point of throwing things at the television as the characters droned on with stating-the-bleeding-obvious exposition on the bus at the top of their voices, while everyone else in the scene acted as if the Doctor&Co weren't even there. It was like watching a poor imitation of The Sixth Sense. There were lots of shouts of "They can all hear you!" and facepalming.

I'm also not at all convinced by the TARDIS makeover, and still wondering about the wisdom of introducing four possible companions in Episode 1, killing the best, and taking all of the other three that you didn't want to become the companion.

I'd love this season to work, but for now, for me, it's not. Badly.