This Should Come as a Surprise to No One: The Female Doctor

Remember when Lenny Henry became the Doctor? He was a black man, a comedienne who for one glorious, brief, hilarious sketch became the universe’s most famous Time Lord. Nobody whined about that. Well, I suppose it might have had a little to do with the fact that he wasn’t really the Doctor. It wasn’t CANON!!! The BBC gave Colin Baker the year off, and Lenny Henry stepped up. But, he could have been, and I would have been happy with it.

             I would love to have seen him do more as the Doctor. Alas, I knew this skit only as an extra included on the Comic Relief VHS, “The Curse of Fatal Death”, which to be honest was the best Doctor Who program we were given in 20 years. Sure it was; it was written by Steven Moffat, wasn’t it? That was his first foray into the world of Who, and what a debut.

            So, sorry, Thick-Of-Skull here, not getting why y’all getting so uppity because the new Doctor is (gasp) a--A WOMAN! AAAAUUUGHHH!

            Yeh. Calm down and let ‘em regenerate.

13th Doctor Jodie Whittaker

            Why are you so surprised at this? You didn’t care when the General (Ken Bones) , the old British white guy, regenerated into T'nia Miller—a BLACK, BRITISH woman. EEEKKK! And oh man, was she relieved to be a woman again! You got down with that, but you object to the Doctor we know changing gender?

            This is not a PC plot, so you can yank that stick out from up your proper white male ass. This is not a surprise. They’ve been hinting at it for 41 years, ever since the newborn Eldrad made that throw-away line in “The Hand of Fear”: “Oh come, Doctor, you sound like Professor Watson. As a Time Lord you should be well acquainted with the process of regeneration.”

            Yeh, that was waaaay back in Tom Baker’s era. And every single time since then when it was announced that a new actor would be taking the role, the fans started clamoring for a woman Doctor. I’m excited for this. I can’t wait for 13 to get snarky with Davros, or Missy, or the Cybermen. You know what, screw all you white dudes and you PC paranoia. I’m setting my gear up for Season 11.

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2017/07/bbc-responds-to-complaints-about-casting.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbiGb_JVLI

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