The idea that the next Doctor could be female isn’t a new one. Tom Baker suggested it on his way out the door in 1981 and it’s cropped up every time the role becomes available since that time.
As the selection process for the 12th Doctor began earlier this year, a large group of fans, some of them high profile ones, felt that casting a woman as the new Doctor might be a great way to jump start the next fifty years of the program.
And while producer Steven Moffat says he considered the idea, he says that doesn’t think it’s the right time for Doctor Who to go in that direction.
“It’s absolutely narratively possible [that the Doctor could be a woman] and when it’s the right decision, maybe we’ll do it,” he tells Digital Spy. “It didn’t feel right to me, right now. I didn’t feel enough people wanted it.”
“Oddly enough most people who said they were dead against it – and I know I’ll get into trouble for saying this – were women,” he adds. “[They were] saying, ‘No, no, don’t make him a woman!'”
I agree. Other than something the Doctor mentioned we’ve never seen a Time Lord change sexes. I do think it will happen at some point but to me it’s almost like political correctness or something rather than something that fits. I’m sure I will get used to a change like that but it just wouldn’t be the same anymore. Why not just give Romana her own series and see how that goes? Romana was awesome.