Who the hell chooses a screaming baby over being Goblin Queen??

There has to be a generational difference—no way growing up with CGI and computer games doesn't make a difference. But this study seems a little strange to me—Jasmine to Hewitt? Seems like you'd do a series of these progressions with different genders, ethnicities, etc, also some using images that are completely…

Yes—I saw the money as the happy bonus of their improvements not the reason they were happy. Maybe he should watch the movie again.

That's a really odd question—why would you need something in cannon specifically addressing race? Before the Doctor's height, hair color, apparent age, taste buds, etc changed had it been established that those things were changeable? Why require a special rule for race?

Well, let's unpack that a bit—for most people the default is white male. I don't just mean in reference to the Doctor, I mean in general, white straight cis male is the standard. The fact that the Doctor has only been those things for the last 50 years would compound that issue. So getting a female or a black…

The question would be why wouldn't you? What is it about a person of color or woman playing the Doctor that would make you think the show would be anything less than what it's always been for fans? Over the course of 50 years, so much about the show has changed. Unless you think whiteness and/or maleness and/or…

I'd love for Jumping Jack Flash Whoopi to have at it—modern day, not so much.

Yes, agree with everyone here. Maybe Gaiman will take over and Capaldi will regenerate into Sophie Okonedo (or Kemi-Bo Jacobs from Hide if we want to keep up with the new tradition of casting former supporting actors as Doctors/companions)...I don't know what comes next because I always wake up after that.

Wait, is he saying Moffat offered the part to a black actor this time? I took that to be a broader statement—that it was at some point previously (presumably since the reboot) offered to a black actor. Otherwise Moffat is lying about having never considered anyone else.

I'm more or less fine with the thought of Capaldi as the Doctor. What I'm thrilled about is the fact this means we will almost certainly be spared a Clara-Doctor romance (it better mean that).

Hope you're right. Definitely agree Oswin is the best of her incarnations, though she did seem fresh from the assembly line of Moffat's Sassy Lady Factory. At this point Clara has replaced Martha (companion Martha not UNIT Martha) as most useless companion for me.

I do like the fact that she insists that her life and obligations are as important as tagging along on the Doctor's whims—that should be a signal that this is a character that will be strong and compelling in her own right. She's just never actually been either of those things.

I realize there's no polite way to ask this question, but wish Moffat could offer some hope that, with Eleven's stories all tied up and The Impossible Girl mystery solved there will be room to actually develop Clara into a person. If not they are really going to have to make me adore the next Doctor in order to keep…

That action scene is pretty much the only one I've ever watched where I didn't start to think about what I was going to have for dinner halfway through. So glad they didn't hear him.

I think "why the hell does the UN have a ninja, anyway?" should have been the lede....

I'd just like to tease out two things that you're conflating that I think are independent of each other. One is that both men and women, when confronted with someone they find very attractive, will react, sometimes without a full awareness of their reaction and its inappropriateness. John Scalzi once wrote a great…

Agnostic on Laurie, though I'm sure I'd love him. But all in on Gaiman.

Actually if you wanted to cast an American black woman as the Doctor, I'd say Angela Basset. Oh and while we're fantasizing about impossible things—a young Grace Jones or Eartha Kitt as the Doctor would make me cry tears of joy.

I don't really care who as long as it's good. Eccleston was my first and when Tennant first came in, all I did was focus on all the ways in which he was not Eccleston, until he won me over. After doing the same with Smith, I just accepted that with each regeneration would be a mourning period followed by newfound…

Agreed. I'm strictly nu-who, but is there anything in the show's history to suggest that gender is more sacrosanct than any other physical characteristic? No one thinks there is any obstacle to the Doctor being any apparent age or race. There are indications that, for species/civilizations living well advanced of…