Life, Doctor Who & Combom reports that the episode title for Doctor Who 613 is The Wedding of River Song.
It also features the lines:
I don't want to marry you.
I don't want to murder you.
Question: if the Doctor marries River Song will he have to call Amy and Rory Mum and Dad?
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The poll we had on a female Doctor Who was most undecided: 3 happy, 3 unhappy, 3 wouldn't care. I was one of those who voted 'unhappy'. It's not that I can't accept an alien life form that can be male at one point and female at another. I liked the character of the Trill, Jadzia Dax, from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and the fact that Sisko had first known Dax as the old man Curzon Dax, and called Jadzia 'Old Man' as a result--- perhaps to remind himself that the young comely female known as Jadzia Dax was in large part the same person as Curzon Dax. I liked Dax enough I named 2 dogs after her--- one Jadzia, one Ezri.
The problem I have with a female regeneration of the Doctor is that the Doctor has been around through 11 regenerations, all male. Fellow Time Lord the Master has always been male. When Time Lady Romana regenerated, it was female-to-female. In a very recent episode the Doctor has mentioned a Time Lord who had been both sexes. I don't know if this possibility had ever been mentioned in an episode before.
If the next Doctor is a chick, it won't be about anything established in the series about Time Lord nature, but a result of lobbying by cranky feministas. It will have a faintly medicinal taste to it--- we won't be expected to like the taste of it, but it's GOOD for us.... at least according to those same feministas who brought us abortion on demand and have taken away the marriage/motherhood option from the average woman.
More importantly, it's likely that a female Doctor will be handled poorly enough that even the feministas among the fan base won't like it--- though they'll blame the actress involved of course.
I read something on the Tea With Morbius blog that made me feel it was possible for them to write a female Doctor Who I would like. He suggested, before the reveal of River Song's identity, that River Song might prove to be a future Doctor, and that this explained a remark the Doctor made about self-marriage.
I would accept River Song as the Doctor. I would also accept if she had pulled out one of those Time Lord pocket watches, opened it, and remembered she's really Romana. It would be great if the Doctor could have discovered another living Time Lord that WASN'T his mortal enemy. But I'd also accept it if River Song turned out to be just some gal who was conceived on the Tardis. In a bunk bed.
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4 comments:
Okay, now I don't need to watch the rest of the first season (series?) with the Eleventh Doctor. I like your version well enough and don't want to wreck it the way it sits in my head now.
Which is doubly good. It gives me more time for other things. :-)
Oh, but in the first new episode Rory punches Adolf Hitler in the face! Can't miss that!
Well, I was just confused. But now I know why.
When my husband and I get the DVDs, we deliberately always leave one of the storylines unwatched. The one we left unwatched for the last year of the Tenth Doctor was "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead." (Incidentally, we do this so that there is always something "new" to watch at our house. Comes from years of surviving the Which do we need worse: lightbulbs or Kleenex? type of budget issues. Being bored when you are dealing with those kinds of issues only leads to obcessive self-pity, so we always leave reserve entertaiment. I know--it's odd. But at least we are odd together.)
I just read the Wikipedia pages for Rory and River Song, so I'm sort of up to speed now. But I have a time-travel induced headache. :-)
As for fiction that includes punching Hitler, I can totally get behind that.
Actually, alas, in the actual episode Rory doesn't punch Hitler in the face, the promo only made it look that way.
He did, however, lock Hitler in a closet. Now there is a facebook group called 'Hitler in a Closet'.
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