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- From: timelord@cs.mcgill.ca (Jeffrey JACOBS)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
- Subject: Women Doctors (was Re: Who'd make THE BEST Who???)
- Summary: Yes, now it can be told!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.132819.17249@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:28:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.123723.6444@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Nov19.183320.10554@lsa.umich.edu> <pnz1m9#@rpi.edu>
- Sender: The Dark Horse, the only Equestrian Time Lord this side of Gallifrey
- Organization: The Query Master Syndicate.
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- In article <pnz1m9#@rpi.edu> danaf@rpi.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.183320.10554@lsa.umich.edu>, kausch@med.umich.edu (David Kausch) writes:
- >|>
- >|> possibilities, but if a Gallifrian could regenerate in the
- >|> opposite sex, why
- >|> would they have the terms "time-lord/time-lady?" This terminology
-
- They have nevre used the term Time Lady in the show. Lady, yes, but
- never "Time Lady." It is only the Time Lords. Trust me. They don't
- call me the Time Horse, do they? NO! I'm the Time *Lord.* You see,
- we Gallifreyans are beyond the petty sexual distinctions that you
- humans tend to invoke.
-
- >|> may all be
- >|> the fault of some 1960's writer for the BBC, but let's ignore that, let's
-
- Time Lord was first introduced in The War Games, 1969, Terrence Dicks
- and Malcolm Hulke. Since these were some of the founding fathers of
- Doctor Who cannon, I'd tend to not dispute them.
-
- >NO!
- >
- >I don't feel that the Doctor could be played by a woman. I just feel that a
- >Time Lord (or Time Lady, the two not overlapping...) cannot regenerate to a
- >member of the opposite sex. It doesn't seem that the series implied this in
- ...
- >concept of love between the opposite sex. Imagine if Leela woke up one day to
- >find that her husband is now a woman! Or if Susan's husband (I forget both of
- >the guys' names...) discovered that she's suddenly become a man! It would be
-
- Leela + Andred: Andred was a Capital Guard, and NOT a Time Lord.
- Hence, your supposition that he could regenerate is unfounded; we have
- no idea either way, and hence he is a bad example.
-
- Susan + David Campbell + Q = Guinan: Oops. Sorry, that's a different
- post. But again, we have no real proof that Susan is either a Time
- Lord OR a Gallifreyan. All we have is that the Doctor is her
- Grandfather, but since we have no proof that the Doctor had any
- children, we can't be sure if this was a term of affection.
-
- Further note: We have NEVER seen REAL Time Lords (tm) engaged in any
- form of real love-relationship. Not even Strella. (Ooops, what a
- give-away!) Not only that, but I'd like everybody that still believes
- that gender determines sexual preference to go watch Star Trek: The
- Next Generation - The Host reruns a few hundred times, if only just to
- play: "Yeah, I see Cheryl Gates McFadden's kid! Under the smock!"
-
- No potatoes here!
- (Just a few lemmings.)
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