Keeping an open mind, but my expectations are really really low. They had an awesome actor in Capaldi but the sewerage he was given as scripts and stories made his time a real low point in the show. If they really wanted to change things up they could start by hiring decent writers and producers etc. i.e. they should have fired the twat Moffat way before he did all this damage. Wondering if this could be the final death blow to the franchise.

Fairly undignified statement their at the end. Could have been classy, but you had to be assy.

Seems perfectly fine by me. All that really matters is that the writing and acting is good. The gender of the main character is an arbitrary characteristic that doesn't effect the quality of the series in any way. If they wanted to make the doctor a woman, I see nothing wrong with that.

I looked at some of her other stuff. Not impressed. She's not terribly funny or clever, which is 90% of what I feel the Doctor should be. Maybe it's her writers' faults... Or maybe she has bad execution.

Regardless, like the slow ride to the top of the roller coaster, we're going to have to see it through. I hope she's good, because Capaldi already has me rethinking the series over all. It'd be a shame if, like the Ghostbusters, female Protags killed Doctor Who.

As much as I enjoy the early Dr Who episodes with William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker (wasn't as keen on Jon Pertwee) after that my interest in Dr Who completely diminished. I don't think I've enjoyed a Dr Who story in the last 10 years although saying that I've only watched bits of some episodes. It just doesn't have any sort of believable script. I like my scifi that makes me believe the fantastic events are actually happening but I never get that illusion with the modern Dr Who. I don't care what gender the doctor is I just want fantastic scripts that draw me in. I guess I need to find out what have been the really brilliant stories over that timeline and check a few out.

Female protagonists didn't kill Ghostbusters. It just wasn't a good movie.

i wont deny that he did write some great episodes, but i think his best work is the episodes he wrote for the 9th and 10th doctor. he was great for solo episodes but his convoluted multi-episode arks that he attempted felt silly, like he just it up as it went along. 

Actually, they have shown several female Time Lords ever since way back. All inhabitants of Gallifrey are Time Lords, and there are women in Gallifrey, which means they are female Time Lords. Also Jenny, the Doctor's daughter is part time lord, Missy, the last incarnation of The Master is also a lady Time Lord(she was revealed way before Hell Bent. They didn't show her regeneration but it was obvious enough as she is The Master who was previously male).

more here:

http://doctorwho.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Are_there_any_female_Time_Lords

Split hairs all you want. It was the Bridesmaids comedy that killed it.

Which is to blame on the bad writing.