Teeqoz said:
FloatingWaffles said:
I feel like the lore sometimes contradicts itself. Aren't regenerations supposed to be completely random? The 9th doctor even says before he regenerates that they never know what they're gonna end up with. But then there are also scenes such as where Peter Capaldi remembers his face from a previous episode with the 10th doctor and remembers why he "chose it", which would imply that they do have at least some sort of control over who they become?
So while it has always been said that the doctor can regenerate into anything it makes me wonder if they're going to try to give a reason for it that made him become a female this time where as he didn't during all his other regenerations or just go with "well we always said the doctor could become anything" that has been said and shown in the show before like with that one episode from series 9 where that one guy regenerated and come back as a woman.
I think the latter would be better since it doesn't need its own explanation, people who have been watching the show would already know that it was always possible. It doesn't need to be made a big deal that the doctor is all of a sudden a woman now since it has been said in the show that it's possible, just like it wasn't made a big deal that the master became a woman and was Missy, it was just the master being back which was the big surprise.
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Yes, the lore isn't completely clear, but it's clear enough that we can know that it was possible for the Doctor to end up as a woman. I do agree that I hope they don't make a too big deal out of it (though I am sure it will be made notice of in the show sometimes - which you would also expect if this were to actually happen. Just like we are used to the doctor being male, so are the characters in the universe, but hopefully both they and us will get over it pretty quickly.)
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Yeah, I think it's expected that they will acknowledge it and mention it every now and then since it is the first time he will have regenerated into a female and the characters in the show and the doctor will have to get used to it since they're so used to seeing him as a male obvously, but just as long as they're not constantly beating people over the head with it as if it's some big deal like "oh yeah and did we mention the doctor is female now!" for the 100th time since that would get really old and annoying really fast, especially since it's not a big deal or huge surprise, it's been known to be possible ever since the show started.
