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Subject: Re: Genesis of the Humans
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 10:41:15 +1200
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On 2025-07-06 09:41:44 +0000, Blueshirt said:
> Your Name wrote:
>> On 2025-07-05 10:36:42 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>> The True Doctor wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> That doesn't change the fact that Time Lords can't change
>>>> gender during regeneration. Fiction has to be as constant
>>>> as reality in order to be believed.
>>> 
>>> That opinion is fine if that's what you believe, but it can't
>>> be a fact as we have already seen Time Lords change their
>>> gender whilst regenerating on-screen...
>> 
>> Only because the idiot RTD purposely did it to jump on the
>> Politically Correct bandwagon (as well as appeasing BBC
>> "equality" checklists), so he lazily hijacked an existing
>> character rather than actually do something creative like make
>> a brand new character.
> 
> We can blame RTD for a lot of things but he didn't bring the
> Time Lord's gender-swapping regenerations into the show. That
> was Steven Moffat... who introduced Missy and also gave us the
> on-screen regeneration of the General from male to female in
> "Hell Bent". Then Chris Chibnall followed it up with Jodie
> Whittaker's Doctor.
> 
> Although RTD will probably be disappointed that he missed out
> on that progressive tick-boxing, but to compensate he did gender
> swap Jodie Whittaker's Doctor in to David Tennant. Which funnily
> enough, nobody seemed to mind!

By then nobody with any sense was still bothering to watch the mess 
anyway.  :-p