{"id":1661,"date":"2017-07-16T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2017-07-19T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:44:08","slug":"who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/who\/","title":{"rendered":"Who!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, when they first announced that Peter Capaldi was leaving Doctor Who<\/em>, and speculation began on his successor (i.e. the 13th Doctor), there was the usual talk of an actress taking over the role.<\/p>\n

Talk like that has gone on for as far back as I could remember, even before I watched the series.<\/p>\n

When Tom Baker was leaving the series, and the possibility of a woman taking over the role, Starlog Magazine got blasted for writing an article tiled ‘Nurse Who?’ implying that a woman can only be a nurse.<\/p>\n

Sadly I’d recently seen the same comments, and worse, from people on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Anyways, one of the first women who I thought of for the role was Jodie Whittaker, since she had worked with incoming showrunner Chris Chibnall on Broadchurch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I put that thought aside, until this weekend, when the frontrunners for the role were Kris Marshall,\u00a0Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Tilda Swinton… and Jodie Whittaker.<\/p>\n

So I jokingly said on Facebook that I’d be okay with Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor, since she’d fought aliens before, in Attack the Block<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I got up this morning to watch the announcement after the Wimbledon Men’s Final, and was surprised to see this:<\/p>\n