Having worked with actors and acted myself, I care a great deal about the appropriate use of those terms. Due to that, I don't think the difference between character and characterization is merely a "technical" one. It is a distinction which is all too often overlooked by both actor and layperson but which is…

I think he perceives The Doctor and companion relationship in a certain way which it certainly wasn't consistent about throughout its run. I feel he thinks the format is one where there's a relatively weak and/or eccentric Doctor with capable companions (even if they do get put in danger sometimes). Within that, he…

But when you have a male-female co stars like that it is just what people are going to project.

Oh , but I'm not looking forward to the inevitable complaints that whoever plays the female Doctor isn't hot enough.

Is that the reason there hasn't been one? I don't know. I would think that it was simply easier to define the character in a certain realm and then recast remotely similarly. And since gender constructs are fairly prominent concepts in culture, it would seem it was defined long ago. Not through sexism but marketing…

You will not win with that argument because nobody wants to hear it due to reading into "what that must mean."

…They are the same character but not the same characterization.

I don't understand why countless aliens in films and the like look like people. Pisses me off and takes me out of the world.

Hey! If I stop making it profitable for people to keep running old ideas into the ground, I'll run out of "important" things to complain about! And that won't get me any attention!

Not half - that's sexist! What's the current percentage of the world's population that is women? 49-point-something? 51-point-something? Or the percentage of women to men over the course of the history of the series? That amount.

You can't stand in the way of progress! It's about time something was all about America for once!

Anything to go against Moffat. Ya whopster!

Those were the only good ones anyway.

There are always people "behind the times." Makes sense for a Time Lord, doesn't it?

Show me these images where he is "stripped-down." For…research purposes.

I just had an idea for an upbeat stage musical about the early days of Doctor Who (similar to but not the same as the docudrama they did) called…

I don't agree with him, obviously.

…I get the feeling that's probably been the case for a few years already.

Well, that woman, if her spouse is a husband, is either a fool for marrying someone below her - in which case she is not as awesome as he since he married up…or she married up - in which case, she is not as awesome as he is.

Wasn't he trying (even if it's maybe not a perfect sentiment) not to be sexist by suggesting that if you did a female doctor and male companion within the current show archetype, you'd almost certainly wind up with some "strong male" as the companion and some "unstable woman" (since they're supposed to be eccentric)…