Category: Doctor Who

The Latest Incarnation of the Doctor.

Now that everyone has had time to think about the announcement of Jodie Whitaker being the next actor to play Dr.  Who, I’m going to put my thoughts out there…
I think it is absolutely brilliant casting on the part of the BBC. They’ve been working up to this for years and it’s finally coming true!!!

Anyone who has followed my blog for a while, or who knows me via Facebook, knows that I am a massive Dr Who fan. I started with the Seventh Doctor (actually I started before that, but Sylvester McCoy was the first one I really remember and liked.) When they rebooted the series, I was ecstatic. I watched every single episode of the Ninth Doctor, the Tenth Doctor and the Eleventh Doctor.  I’m not keen on the way that Peter Capaldi portrays the Twelfth Doctor, but I love the stories, so I am willing to stick with the show.

Why am I so happy that the next Doctor will be female?

Quite simply, it means that the girls who watch the show with their parents now, will have someone as a role model that they are watching week after week, rather than once in  the cinema until their parents get the dvd / blu ray…

What? Does that shock you? I want to show you something… First you need to go and look at this article:


http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/07/16/doctor-jodie-whittaker-13th-doctor-favourite-20-responses-online/ 

Then you need to scroll down to the fourth reaction and watch the video of the little girl watching the announcement. I want you to take a long hard look at the joy on that little girl’s face, and then I want you to think about it.

How many female role models does that girl have? If they’re not big name mainstream (Like Star Wars, Wonderwoman / Latest Ghostbusters) or if the show is older than 5 years (Xena, Buffy, Summer) or if they’re fixed squarely in the 16+ only bracket (Starbuck, Ripley, Sarah Connor) then today’s girls won’t have heard of them unless their parents are fans of the movies and shows.

The role models that girls now have are people like Beyonce and the Kardashians (Pop and Reality TV), Disney Princesses (I am beyond grateful for Brave, Frozen and Moana breaking the “need a man to be complete” image) and the young women who are playing the main roles in the Disney / Nickelodeon kids sitcoms or the ones on the CBBC shows. 
 
Dr Who taking on a woman as the next Doctor, that’s a game changer – it means that the young women and girls will see a blonde woman (or whatever colour hair she ends up with – I’m hoping for red, myself)  doing things that they are constantly told aren’t what they are supposed to be.
They will see her using her intellect, talking about science, asserting herself and saving all sorts of people – and hopefully they will see her doing it without the need to look to a companion for support. I’d love to see the first few episodes being about the Doctor and not the Doctor’s need for a companion in the same way that all the male doctors have “needed” a companion.
I will catch up with the stories from the Twelfth Doctor’s series, but can honestly say that I cannot wait for the Thirteenth Doctor to show us what she and the new showrunner and writing team have in store for us.
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Just in case you were wondering, I’m still working on the Re-write of The Tower and The Eye: A Beginning. The word count is notching higher and I’m hoping that what I’m adding is making it better than it was before…

Book 2 of The Secret of Arking Down, The Dragon’s Pendant is with my loyal group of  Beta Readers. It also has a wonderful cover that I will be showing off at the right time!

Book 3, The Second Door,  and Snow & Kitsune are also with the Beta Readers, so there are new books in the Pipeline!
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Well, I have to toddle off now, my youngest daughter is climbing the walls (not quite literally, but close) and I have more work to do… both writing and housework!

Toodles!
K.

Musings on The Doctor…

… and don’t tell me that you don’t know Who or what  I’m talking about – I mention that I’m a Whovian often enough… 

Ahem..

Anyhoo, I actually managed to book a dr’s appt for tomorrow afternoon via the automated phone service (miracles will never cease) and because I was doing it on Speakerphone, my Fiance could hear it.
He started laughing because the automated voice says things like “You have an appointment with THE DOCTOR at…” and his imagination ran away with him, imagining me going to the surgery and fangirling over The Doctor who had just turned up in his TARDIS.

He started laughing, so when I got off the phone, I asked why and he explained. That started me off in a chain of thought (similar to the one that created “Night of The Nanobot) about future archaeologists thinking that Whovians were a religion…

…and you have to admit that some Whovians almost seem to take the show as seriously as a religion…

And that morphed into this:

Our Doctor, who art in T.A.R.D.I.S,
Hallowed be thy Sonic Screwdriver.
The crisis comes,
Thy Will be done,
On Earth as it is in Space.
Bring us this day our Fish Fingers and Custard,
And forgive us our Stupidity,
So that we might forgive the Stupid in Us.
Lead us running down the corridor,
And deliver us from Daleks,
For thine is the Memory,
The Genius and Admiration,
Until the End of the Universe,
“Thank You.”

Do you think I ought to carve it on a block of stone for those archaeologists to find?

The Doctor and The TARDIS

D’ya know that feeling when you have a loose tooth and you can’t help wiggling it?

I’ve had that feeling for a while now – every time I talk about Dr Who or watch the show, my mind drifts back to the story I wrote in 2008 and I wonder where on Gallifrey I have put the bedammed thing.

Anyway, I was talking to a friend and yet again he suggested that I write a Dr Who Book.

As much as I would love to do that, I’d get into a great deal of trouble if I tried to do it myself and as yet, I haven’t had an email from The Moffat to invite me aboard to write an episode (a girl can dream can’t she?) so the likelihood of being allowed to write a Dr Who book is one of those “when-I-win-the-lottery” type dreams…

Ahem.

The conversation started that tooth wiggle off in my mind and I decided to trawl through the files on my archive/flash drive.

I found it.

After several years of discussing it, I found it. And it’s not as bad as I thought it was… memory does strange things, you know.

So I’ve posted it under the Dr Who Fanfiction section of my “Free Stuff to Read” section. It’s called “The Doctor and The Tardis” and I wrote it in 2008, long before any discussion of Gallifrey or the chameleon circuit had come up in the modern TV series.

I left it on a cliffhanger, clearly intending to write another section, but now that I look at it, I don’t want to. I don’t want to mess with the relationship between the TARDIS and her Doctor. So it’s going to stay like that.

Sorry.

Despite that, I hope you like it… and I’ll try and get round to writing a new section to the current Dr Who story I have up…