My life in chat logs

[cosmolinguist]

me: I've already been "doctor-who-fan-splained" at this morning, which was entertaining. Apparently I'm wrong cos I'm not "a life-long fan since episode 1" like this guy is. Of course he's called Andrew, too. [I included this because it amused me, having listened to Andrew -- the usual one -- and James talk about different things that one or both of them liked (TV, bands, films) all of which seemed to have exhaustive books published on them by someone who was disproportionately-often called Andrew.]

magister So what were you wrong about?

me: My jokey thing about how Time Peers is a better name for them than Time Lords cos it's gender-neutral. Apparently Time Lords is already neutral because the inquisitor in Trial of a Time Lord, etc.etc. yawn. But then I reminded him that Missy corrected someone the other week who called her a Time Lord and Romana calls herself a Time Lady too.

me: He especially irked me cos the original post was my friend Chella saying "I would love to play The Doctor one day, but as long as Moffatt is in charge, I'll automatically be cast as one of his interchangeable pointy-faced older brunette nemesis crone vixens." Whether that's fair or not, it's clear women need progress among human writers of Who at least as much as we need in-story progress among Gallifreyans. But I don't think the Andrew could understand that.

magister Don't think the Inquisitor is ever referred to as either time lord or time lady - not sure it's ever specified one way or the other. Anyway, it's 6 years into the programme before the term time lord appears and then another 9 years before you see one who isn't male, so not sure what difference watching since 1963 makes.

me: Andrew said too that he didn't think she was ever called a time lord or lady. I think it's telling that this other Andrew just assumed/remembers it that way.

magister Yeah. There's nothing to disprove his theory, therefore he assumes it supports him.

Comments

[magister]

Must admit, I'd love a body swap episode - Capaldi as Missy and Gomez as the Doctor, although I can see potential for some horrible pitfalls in the dialogue though.

[cosmolinguist]

That would be brilliant...if somebody good were writing it. Capaldi and Gomez would certainly be perfect to act it.

[sir_guinglain]

Until Rodan turned up in 1978 some fans assumed all the Time Lords were male, with one (female) reviewer in 1976 assuming the Sisterhood of Karn were their female counterparts, a gender-divided species/caste who had settled on different worlds.

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

Since episode 1? I hope he's at least in his 60s!