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Entity13 posted...

I'm fairly certain Moffat hates her or any prospective woman for the role. *shrugs*

Moffat's been laying the groundwork for 20 years to get a woman into the role. He did it himself in what was literally the first "official" Doctor Who script he wrote, he threw references to the idea into scripts the moment he became showrunner, and that was the entire point of having "Missy" as a character.

The way I see it, pulling the trigger on it now either implies that it was Moffat's idea or was given to him as a sort of reward for services rendered, and it was kind of forced on Chibnall (in which case he'll probably be a bit hamstrung in what he can do in his future role), or it was Chibnall's idea to be entirely on the same page as Moffat (which implies he's going to be guilty of a lot of the same problems Moffat is guilty of). Either way, it - combined with Chibnall's previous work on Torchwood - doesn't really leave me all that sanguine about the show changing for the better.


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