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Cast your vote for next Doctor.


Richard Ayoade - perfectly quirky.

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Boris Johnson.

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Too late, Ayoade was meant to be the 13th Doctor but then Doctor Who had a sex change and completely destroyed the legacy.

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Was it ever confirmed? Just the same as Kris Marshall was confirmed as the doctor?

But is it too late? Just because we have had a female doctor doesn't mean the show can't have another male. I'd expect the show to go back and forth. I wouldn't be surprised if the next doctor is female because I feel if they went back to male it would make those against a female doctor think they had got their way and Jodie was a one off but who knows

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I think they may just as well keep having female Doctors for the rest of time now. Those who stopped watching when the the Doctor changed his gender (like myself) and destroyed the shows legacy are unlikely to ever watch again. Even if another male is chosen.

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But my point is how do you know the show is ruined if you've never watched jodie and gave her a chance.

I was originally against a female doctor but then got excited at the idea of something different. I belive Moffat had stayed showrunner too long and the show was starting to go stale and needed something different.

Am I the biggest 13 fan - nope. She grew a lot more last series but still feel there's something possibly missing but it doesn't help when the writing is bad.

The show is about change. If you don't like this doctor then there's always the next one and so on.

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I do accept some of your points, but I also have to admit that 'Doctor Who' immediately started to go down hill at a rate of knots for me, the moment Steve Moffat took over direction and Matt Smith (who was my least favorite Doctor of all time) became the Doctor. I've also been irked by the increasing levels of political correctness that began to saturate the show and it was practically only Peter Capaldi's portrayal of the Doctor that made it still watchable.

So now we have the ultimate surrender to Political correctness in Dr Who becoming a woman. Sadly a response to Militant Feminism, the Me To movement, and a choir of abusive, woke people of the Far Left wing persuasion who couldn't wait to give middle finger to middle aged white men or anyone else who didn't want to see the Doctor have a sex change. The funny thing is, many like myself may have accepted the idea of a Dr Who becoming a woman if it had some how happened more naturally over time, rather than being forced upon us in response to the above.

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Well firstly its nice to have a civilised conversation on the subject for once. Most just go nurse who and woke and call any of us who don't agree with them a troll.

The funny thing is I was originally against a female doctor myself as to me I always felt the doctor was a male character. I suppose I was looking at the alien timelords and thinking of them as humans. I mean unlike yourself some people can't seem to be able to get their head around a timelord changing sex but they can accept someone changing their appreance fully.

I did at the time hope the BBC where doing it because they decided to and not by force but whenever it happened people would have complained.

Admittingly I did find series 11 a bit too much political wise but as someone pointed out my favourite doctor, number 3, had a lot of politics. I was born in 89 so I probably didn't notice a lot of it when watching.

I don't think politics is the issue in itself. People complain about the message in Orphan 55 for example in series 12 which is about pollution. The thing is the message is a good and important one the story is just crap and the message badly handled and delivered. It's the same with the bad episode arachnids in the UK in series 11. It mentioned Trump by name as the main guy in it is rumoured to be trying to run against him but he basically is trump. The thing is I'd would be so much better if trump was never mentioned. I feel politics work better when more subtle rather than thrown in your face

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Bring back peter Capaldi to film an alternative episode to the 2017 Christmas special, in which he, as the 12th and final incarnation of the Doctor finally dies in a dramatic movie length special. Then wait a year or so and create a completely rebooted 'Doctor Who' starting from the beginning with this Jodie Whittaker and her episodes (none of which I've ever watched) forming the very first Doctor. You can then have as many female or gay doctors as you like then, as far as I'm concerned.

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What is the point in that. Firstly the show will be 60 in a few years so what is the point in doing a full reboot and throwing all that history away. As I've mentioned before e.g. people asking for Tennant to return as the doctor, the show is about moving forwards not backwards - no point in doing what has been done e.g. getting Capaldi back and changing things.

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Bring back Capaldi and have the episode start with him being tortured by some aliens that are causing him to be a woman in a woke version of his life in insanely woke situations, all in an attempt to drive him mad. And at the end he breaks free to see that the evil alien is Jodie who he quickly kills.

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Sounds pretty good to me. LOL.

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Richard Ayoade
Noel Fielding
James Acaster
Aubrey Plaza
Sam Rockwell

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Aubrey Plaza??

Oh yes, please !!!!

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Last two are American, must be British!

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Is that an absolute requirement?
Plus, this list is just for fun. Another poster picked, Dylan Moran and Ruth Negga, neither of which are British.

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Almost every major character is British or lives in UK like Moran.

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No rules anymore... all rules were tossed out the window when they stuck the god awful Jodie in the role.

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In no particular order.

Rupert Grint (Harry Potter, Snatch, Servant).
Ruth Wilson (Alice in Luther).
Dylan Moran (Bernard from Black Books, Uncle, etc).
Eva Green (Penny Dreadful, Sin City 2, etc).
Colin Morgan (Merlin, Humans)
Ruth Negga (Agents of SHIELD, Preacher).

Michelle Gomez who was Missy would have been good, however can't happen and probably why I think of Eva Green (due to her Penny Dreadful Character) same with Lenny Henry if not for being in the Spyfall Who episodes. Louise Brealey came to mind as well, great in Sherlock, Ripper Street and has done Doctor Who audio, however probably too much of a similar look to Jodie for the one after her.

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Stephen Mangan. Played Dirk Gentley in BBC version, and Arthur Conan Doyle in Houdini and Doyle. He’s perfect Doctor material. Quirky, fun, and serious to boot.

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Good choice, a few from the US would know him as well as Sean Lincoln in Episodes (with Tamsin Greig and Matt LeBlanc), good acting chops and has that similar look that made me think of Dylan Moran and Colin Morgan, plus yeah all can be quirky, fun and serious.


As an aside, I dug Stephen in Green Wing....what a show 😄

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Haven’t seen either. Will check them out. Thanks.

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Tom Payne "Jesus" from "The Walking Dead" gets my vote to resurrect this dead show.

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I'd like to see the Doctor regenerate into an owl.

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Twit.

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Twoo?

It's important to note, the owls are not what they seem

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Well, yes.

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Not sure if you got that reference ha. Spent the last year going through all of twin peaks and owls play a weird part

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Doctor WHO...……...WHO!

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