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The Time Lord is about to become a Lady

I hold my hands up, I'm not overjoyed at the announcement of Doctor Who being played by a women, any women, not just Jodie Whittaker who has got the role, when Peter Capaldi leaves in the Christmas episode. I've liked Peter Capaldi in the role it was good to get back to the original idea of the Doctor being an older man with that aged character showing on his face. I think it worked much better than going for ever younger actors. I've always consider the role of the Doctor as male and my viewing of Doctor Who goes back to the original series. I don't consider it any different to some other fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes or Gandalf who I also consider male roles. Equally there are roles I see as female and struggle to imagine a male in those parts. Some characters are just too ingrained and fit the storyline as one gender and as a woman I can't say I've personally ever felt offended that the Doctor has been always played as a man.

Capaldi is leaving his term as the Doctor, I don't think he ever really got a chance to be the Doctor he could have been. Unfortunely for him his term coincide with Steven Moffat being in charge of the scripts and Capaldi was let down badly. Moffat had occasional flashes of brilliant scripts such as the Weeping Angels story line but he was mostly terrible, going in for long winded and highly convoluted stories, his leaving the show has been long overdue.

As for the doctor being a women next time, as I've said at the start I'm not enamoured of the idea. Though I think we've been leading up to this for a few series now. They changed the Master into Missy and I thought that was excellent as a new regeneration of the Master but that was a character not normally seen as a full time main character, until this latest series the Master/Missy use to only show up a couple of times in a series at most. With the companions they seem to have covered every type of person and relationship like Capt. Jack who was flexible and every other category covered from friendship, married, love interest, LGBT and the weird ones that seem to be some sort of supernatural entity in their own right such as Clara. I really liked the new character of Bill who I hope will be back in the new series. It seems like they've ticked every box, sometimes it worked brilliantly, sometimes like with Clara, not so good but they were never the main character of the show.

Jodie Whittaker is a very good actor and I'm sure she'll do the best she can with the role and just like for Capaldi much will depend on the writing but I reckon changing the main character in such a fundamental way is very dicey. I'll be watching with interest, it will either be a success, which I hope for, otherwise the BBC may end the show all together or I've got a sad feeling that it could be the final nail in the coffin of this new generation series that Moffat started to build in his tenure of being in charge of the show and storylines.

What worries me isn't that a women couldn't play a time travelling alien, Missy showed that they could very well as did River Song to some extent in all be it in a different form. Jodie Whittaker will give it her all I'm sure of that, I hope she's given a good script to work with. She's been brilliant in other series I've seen, she could well bring some great sass to the role. My very big worry is that since the new generation series of Doctor Who started some people have been clamouring for a women in the role, well seems like they've got what they wanted and another box has been ticked for the BBC and the PC brigade. I just don't get the feeling they've done this for the series or the storyline, not for any reason other than they thought it was time a woman had the role. I worry this is a change for change sake rather than for the show itself. I'm really hoping I'm wrong on that because at the moment far from this being a win for feminism as many others are claiming, I'm just finding it patronizing. I will be watching the new series with interest when it starts.

My Favourite Freaky TV Shows - True Blood

This show wasn't just about a family but whole town and their interacting lives. The town was only a small country town and all the towns folks lives seem to eventually merge in some way. The protagonist is Sookie a waitress working in a little country bar and eating place.

Her story revolves around her relationships starting with her falling for a much older man, Bill and gradually draws in the lives of others around her, work colleagues, friends, neighbours and future lovers. It involves all the normal everyday things a town drama is known for; personal lives of it's inhabitants, gossip, crime, good times and bad. A very traditional and simple tale of a small town and its inhabitants who just happen to be mainly vampires, fairies, werewolves or other inhabitants of a shape shifting world.

Written as part of the Beautiful Freaks Fest hosted by Magaly Guerrero and Emma Yardis

(Hmm reading back maybe still not so freaky, maybe my freaky dial is faulty.)