Jo looked like she was never going to bring up race or sex once but she would genocide threatening aliens without a second thought like in the good old days before RTD or that Welsh homosexual, make 1 look like a pacifist
The problem was she wasn't written as a heroic women, she was written as a weird sad wine aunt.
If they'd done something like Xena and Gabriella, it would have worked.
You're forgetting all of the stuff that failed that had the exact same thought process. Stuff like Xena is the exception, not the rule. And I doubt Doctor Who would be an exception considering how people would find it weird that the "babe" of the show used to be an old Scottish man.
The problem they ran into is that a female doctor would fit into the "manic pixie dream girl" trope which they have decided is sexist without considering the fact that every single doctor prior fits into it despite being a man.
>or is the role just not suited for a woman?
Classic Doctor Who it'd be fine.
Nu Doctor Who is made for thirsty women so of course they don't want a female lead.
Half the audience is guys that want to be the Doctor, and the other half is girls that want to frick the Doctor. You can't genderflip it without alienating both.
Jodie was miscast. Jo Martin was great. Joanna Lumley was great in the red nose day one. Frankly the woman who plays Kate Lethbridge Stewart has the gravitas to pull it off. Jennifer Saunders would have that Tom Baker wackiness.
She was imposing and the Victorian costume sold it. Make her a homicidal Janeway type who looks like she's going to frick everything up in her path to the point she had to be erased, and fans would gotten 0 DID NOTHING WRONG shirts.
>Obese
Like Churchill, imposing. As long as Martin can run from danger once a season (stand-in, stunt performer, idgaf how) it works but the beautiful thing is you can excuse this as a reason why she never regenerated into anyone fatter than Colin.
Jodie wasn't miscast, but it was weird, legit schizo writing. She was consistently doing morally reprehensible things and show acted like she was morally right goody two shoes. I thought maybe Chinballs wanted to do sort of try to pull off what JNT wanted to pull off with sixth Doctor (socially awkward girl who choked pretty much entire race of spiders to death, advocates for capitalism, doesn't know how to show concern for her crewmates or what to say), but show behaved like she was a Disney princess.
It legit could've worked if she was more villainous and her hate for guns was because guns don't get the job done. But at the same time, there was no backdrop for such a villainous change.
You can have a female time lord but you can't have a female doctor. The character is male and should be played by a male from the uk. That is not a Black who lives in the UK.
They should have done a series with Jenny or Romana if they wanted a woman.
We’ll never really know. The writing’s been on a downward spiral since Matt Smith took over as the Doctor and there’s only so much an actor can do with what they’ve been given.
Does anyone have that OP pic 3d model? I want to take her shoes off and make an animation where a big snake hypnotizes her and gobbles her up and have the camera zoom in on her feet and wiggly toes as the last thing that disappears into the snake's mouth.
Bummer. Ill save the pic and maybe fiddle with this fortnight looking base I got off a porn site. Ill post it on tv if it lookks good ( it won't)
Thanks anon.
Her first season they had a rule that they weren't bringing back any of the classic enemies and then in the last episode they had some random aliens who could create anything with a thought. So they could of had the Doctor and her crew finding things she's never heard of before and learning to deal with it together.
The themes of creation, discovery, learning, motherhood and family was just sitting there and they had a female Doctor so they could of had her focusing on taking a guiding role so that when she's inevitably captured she knows she can trust her team to save the day because she's spent the entire season teaching them while learning herself.
Instead we got the tenth Doctor with mediocre breasts. The potential was there for greatness but the writing was shockingly bad.
Of course it could work but they take the opportunity to instead make it all about 'muh patriarchy' and 'muh feminism' instead of committing to simple universal storytelling
> Could Doctor Who work with a female lead?
Sure, I don't see why not. It's pretty sexless most of the time anyway.
>Was Jodie Whittaker just miscast or is the role just not suited for a woman?
I think the writing did her a disservice most of all. She might have been fine otherwise. Would have been better to cast a older women first though. When I think of a female doctor, I think of somebody older and more well traveled. Almost a weird aunt or grandmother figure.
Joanna Lumley was more convincing in the part for two minutes than Jodie was in 3 seasons
Turns out the secret to writing female characters is to just let them be… women. Who would have thought?
I had no problems with the black female doctor
Jo looked like she was never going to bring up race or sex once but she would genocide threatening aliens without a second thought like in the good old days before RTD or that Welsh homosexual, make 1 look like a pacifist
Jodi is a good actress, watch Broadchurch.
Just bad writing.
You can be a good actor but still be wrong for a role. Jodie just couldn't muster a convincing manic energy the Doctor needs
True. I think they were going for a Manic Pixie Dream TimeLord/ Inspirational girl.
There was nothing ‘manic’ or ‘dream’ about her.
Maybe she should have acted on Doctor Who because all she did was a bad impression of Tennant.
she would have been great, but her writers just SUCKED so hard
It can work if the female is attractive like say Jodie Comer or something. Otherwise, don't bother.
Miscast. The writing can't excuse her own choices in how she delivered the lines
The problem was she wasn't written as a heroic women, she was written as a weird sad wine aunt.
If they'd done something like Xena and Gabriella, it would have worked.
>put a hot woman in the role
>easiest money ever made
Men don't mind females in lead roles provided she is attractive and welcoming of the male audience.
You're forgetting all of the stuff that failed that had the exact same thought process. Stuff like Xena is the exception, not the rule. And I doubt Doctor Who would be an exception considering how people would find it weird that the "babe" of the show used to be an old Scottish man.
>"babe" of the show used to be an old Scottish man
That’s just some excellent comedy potential, don’t be silly.
>weird sad wine aunt
She was one of the most accurate portrayals of a sociopath I’ve ever seen.
The problem they ran into is that a female doctor would fit into the "manic pixie dream girl" trope which they have decided is sexist without considering the fact that every single doctor prior fits into it despite being a man.
>or is the role just not suited for a woman?
Classic Doctor Who it'd be fine.
Nu Doctor Who is made for thirsty women so of course they don't want a female lead.
Can’t they thirst for a male companion?
No, because companions are low status subservient betas that give women the ick.
Gallifrejian.
I mean virtually all the female companions already fill the niche you are looking for.
Not British
Neither is the nog but here we are
Don’t fricking remind me.
>This is the two-thousand year old alien I told you about
Despite being only 13% of the UK's population, 50% of the Doctors are Scots
Neither is the nog.
Half the audience is guys that want to be the Doctor, and the other half is girls that want to frick the Doctor. You can't genderflip it without alienating both.
Make Doctor Who a 12yo girl and I watch it.
Jodie was miscast. Jo Martin was great. Joanna Lumley was great in the red nose day one. Frankly the woman who plays Kate Lethbridge Stewart has the gravitas to pull it off. Jennifer Saunders would have that Tom Baker wackiness.
>Jo Martin was great
She was imposing and the Victorian costume sold it. Make her a homicidal Janeway type who looks like she's going to frick everything up in her path to the point she had to be erased, and fans would gotten 0 DID NOTHING WRONG shirts.
>imposing
Obese. I’ll grant you that a Kate Mulgrew type would work as The Doctor.
>Obese
Like Churchill, imposing. As long as Martin can run from danger once a season (stand-in, stunt performer, idgaf how) it works but the beautiful thing is you can excuse this as a reason why she never regenerated into anyone fatter than Colin.
Jodie wasn't miscast, but it was weird, legit schizo writing. She was consistently doing morally reprehensible things and show acted like she was morally right goody two shoes. I thought maybe Chinballs wanted to do sort of try to pull off what JNT wanted to pull off with sixth Doctor (socially awkward girl who choked pretty much entire race of spiders to death, advocates for capitalism, doesn't know how to show concern for her crewmates or what to say), but show behaved like she was a Disney princess.
It legit could've worked if she was more villainous and her hate for guns was because guns don't get the job done. But at the same time, there was no backdrop for such a villainous change.
Legit what Colin Baker would've done.
You can have a female time lord but you can't have a female doctor. The character is male and should be played by a male from the uk. That is not a Black who lives in the UK.
They should have done a series with Jenny or Romana if they wanted a woman.
They already tried a spinoff series with Sarah Jane that nobody cared about.
To be fair, nobody cared for 5 seasons.
Sarah Jane was a show for children not families and maybe the people just don't want a doctor who style show with a female time lord.
We’ll never really know. The writing’s been on a downward spiral since Matt Smith took over as the Doctor and there’s only so much an actor can do with what they’ve been given.
Matt Smith had the best season in the show’s history.
Screenwriters were miscast.
I imagine there's a good anime with female protagonist that could easily be adapted as female Doctor.
The Doctor should be white.
Jodie's Doctor is my waifu but I hate her show, does that make sense to anyone?
She was miscast. It should have been an older woman with more gravitas. I always thought Olivia Colman would have been an ideal female doctor.
>older woman
If you wanna kill the show, sure. The Doctor needs to be eyecandy, especially a female one.
>gravitas
frick off RLMbitch
it's a straight white male franchise, just like james bond. anything else does not work.
Does anyone have that OP pic 3d model? I want to take her shoes off and make an animation where a big snake hypnotizes her and gobbles her up and have the camera zoom in on her feet and wiggly toes as the last thing that disappears into the snake's mouth.
OP here. I regret to inform that this is AI.
Bummer. Ill save the pic and maybe fiddle with this fortnight looking base I got off a porn site. Ill post it on tv if it lookks good ( it won't)
Thanks anon.
>Ill post it on tv
Please do. And drop by the /who/ general!
Her first season they had a rule that they weren't bringing back any of the classic enemies and then in the last episode they had some random aliens who could create anything with a thought. So they could of had the Doctor and her crew finding things she's never heard of before and learning to deal with it together.
The themes of creation, discovery, learning, motherhood and family was just sitting there and they had a female Doctor so they could of had her focusing on taking a guiding role so that when she's inevitably captured she knows she can trust her team to save the day because she's spent the entire season teaching them while learning herself.
Instead we got the tenth Doctor with mediocre breasts. The potential was there for greatness but the writing was shockingly bad.
there's only one acceptable candidate
female doctor who is fine. as long as the wiener remains a consistent factor
As a complete Doctor Who-let, does he ever have romantic companions on the show?
Pretty much all modern companions are in love with The Doctor.
Of course it could work but they take the opportunity to instead make it all about 'muh patriarchy' and 'muh feminism' instead of committing to simple universal storytelling
> Could Doctor Who work with a female lead?
Sure, I don't see why not. It's pretty sexless most of the time anyway.
>Was Jodie Whittaker just miscast or is the role just not suited for a woman?
I think the writing did her a disservice most of all. She might have been fine otherwise. Would have been better to cast a older women first though. When I think of a female doctor, I think of somebody older and more well traveled. Almost a weird aunt or grandmother figure.