{"id":41232,"date":"2017-07-16T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T17:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=41232"},"modified":"2017-07-16T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:37:04","slug":"presenting-13th-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/07\/presenting-13th-doctor.html","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the 13th Doctor!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>The news broke early \u2013 because the tennis finished early \u2013 that the next Doctor will pe played by\u2026<\/p>\nJodie Whittaker<\/strong>.<\/p>\nI can totally see it, can\u2019t you? I am really liking this new way the BBC has been approaching the announcements of new Doctors starting with Capaldi.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41234\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/07\/IMG_0705.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0705\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\"><\/p>\nThere is a little bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-40624288\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">more information on the BBC website<\/a>, but a lot<\/em> more on the Doctor Who official site, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/doctorwho\/entries\/633b5583-f0b1-4917-baf5-eb02ca44552a\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">an interview with thirteen questions<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/doctorwho\/entries\/399b321f-63cb-4b83-8bd3-e6874d09579f\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a bio about Whittaker<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe pronouns in this depiction of the \u201cregeneration cycle\u201d that fans go through will need adjustment\u2026<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-41233\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/07\/IMG_0704-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0704\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"><\/p>\nHow are you feeling about the news? Excited? Apprehensive? Or just still not ready for Capaldi to go?<\/p>\nI hope that her first words as the Doctor aren\u2019t \u201cOh, I\u2019m a woman now\u201d but \u201cStill not ginger\u2026\u201d And I hope that, with no companion continuing with the Doctor, it is a long while before the Doctor meets anyone she knows who might remark on the gender change in any way. It will be fantastic if Doctor Who seizes its unique opportunity to do what no other show could: change the gender of the central character and have no need to comment on it within the show\u2019s dialogue.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news broke early \u2013 because the tennis finished early \u2013 that the next Doctor will pe played by\u2026 Jodie Whittaker. I can totally see it, can\u2019t you? I am really liking this new way the BBC has been approaching the announcements of new Doctors starting with Capaldi. 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