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BossBoss just heard about Tennant leaving Doctor Who.

BossBoss: DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?
Sam: Uh. Yeah. Sorry?
BossBoss: I thought he had run out of lives!
Sam: He's got a few more. The show's not being cancelled, far as I know.
BossBoss: Who's replacing him?
Sam: They don't know yet. There are some front-runne --
BossBoss: Can you print out some articles for me?
Sam: Uh. About the casting possibilities?
BossBoss: When you have time.

My boss is the ultradork and I'm getting paid to research Doctor Who casting spoilers.

You know not that he's a chauvinist or anything but he's a little bit old school about Doctor Who and I suspect he would yell loudly if it were suggested to him that a woman might play the next Doctor. Professionalism is knowing when to edit the information appropriately. *edits*

Comments

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Are you hiring?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I don't think this particular office has a spot for your specific training, and I know you're kinda joking but in a general sense -- we are expanding. And I know you're discontented a bit with Boston. I can keep my eyes peeled if you want.

[afterthree.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's awesome. I wish my boss asked me about Doctor Who spoilers.

[vivichick.livejournal.com]

Can I marry your boss? He sounds awesome :)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

He is pre-married, alas, and just slightly high-maintenance sometimes (once had his wife courier him his umbrella) but in all not a bad guy to work for.

[slice254.livejournal.com]

It is awesome having a boss like that. My boss isn't a geek about anything (though it isn't for lack of trying by me), but he is a gay man who will sit down and chat about men with the women in our group, and send us links to bizarre and slightly dirty youtube videos.

[callmepatsy.livejournal.com]

Everyone wants to have your job right now...

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

...your icon. Seriously, after all the other [misc. geeks] for Obama iconses, I've been waiting to see a Who-related one.

[slice254.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the big boss, the owner of the company, is having samosas delivered for everyone today to celebrate Diwali.

I love my job.

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

Mmm... samosas.

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

Best job EVER.

[pocketmouse]

OMG, LOL.

We have frequent Who discussions at work, but then again, I work in theatre. We played frisbee during our break the other day. Inside the theatre.

[treesahquiche.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who casting spoilers are serious business, and being able to sift through all the news and "news" requires skill, diligence, and professionalism. You should be paid overtime.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Or at least get cookies.

[estrelladesax.livejournal.com]

My friend suggests Alan Rickman.

Female!Who would be amazingly interesting. Martha-esque?

[unicornvamp3z.livejournal.com]

RANDOMLY JUMPING IN HERE
but you icon! Nano! with dragons=my story! (... well, sort of.) :D

[shehasathree]

:D

[keladry_lupin]

*sigh* My boss is really cool about a fandom, but since the Jeeves canon is closed -- P G Wodehouse died in 1975 -- there'd be nothing for me to research. JD is really cool in that way, but he's a bit prudish, so I just can't quite bring myself to introduce him to Jeeves/Bertie slash.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

They might do another TV series someday, you never know!

You should totally leave some J/B slash on his desk anonymously. :D

[primal-shout.livejournal.com]

Awesome! If my office job had been that cool, maybe I wouldn't have left.

[stardust9121.livejournal.com]

You do realize that the more you post these things, the more people would kill to have your boss, right? You're contributing to an epidemic of jealousy. :)

[edited because I really need to be asleep right now and not attempting to write sentences that make grammatical sense.]

[aunty_marion]

So have you shown him Huw the Dalek yet? (Sorry - named him before knitting him on IRC, when we were discussing if we should have a Welsh Doctor, since the series is filmed in Wales/by BBC Cardiff, and obviously then you get Who the Doctor (as in Jones the Milk), which got changed to Huw the Doctor - and I ended up with Huw the Dalek...)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I took him home before BossBoss got to see him, but I'm going to bring in pictures :D Huw the Dalek -- great name I think. :D

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

You know not that he's a chauvinist or anything but he's a little bit old school about Doctor Who and I suspect he would yell loudly if it were suggested to him that a woman might play the next Doctor. Professionalism is knowing when to edit the information appropriately. *edits*

I take it that you don't think there's a real chance of a female Doctor. Or you're just too chicken to be the one to break it to him?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I don't think this time round, no. There's too much historical force behind a male Doctor, and I'm not certain we're at a point to overcome that yet. I mean, I'm a pretty enlightened guy and my first reaction to a female Doctor is "That's anticanonical".

But I'm stifling that. :D And if we did get one I'd be intrigued enough that I think I could give her a fair shake....

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

My boss is the ultradork and I'm getting paid to research Doctor Who casting spoilers.

I think I want your job.

[christophem.livejournal.com]

Meh. I'm female and I don't think a woman should play the next Doctor. But I'm very much NOT a feminist, I just think that the Doctor has always been, is, and will always be male.

[lokifan]

I'm very much a feminist, but I think there shouldn't be a female Doctor without proper explanation - 10 out of 12 male Doctors, and the Master was never female, and I don't think Romana ever genderswitched either...

[plottwist13.livejournal.com]

NO FAIR. :(

[lady-w.livejournal.com]

Tennant leaving Doctor Who
Wait, WHAT?! Why did I not know about this and how am I going to tell my sister?

Anyway, Fry for 11! :D

[skelody.livejournal.com]

I'm old school about Doctor Who, and I wasn't even around for most of it!

At least in the sense that I don't think it's very IC to have the Doctor falling in love with a human. I don't know what to think about him reincarnating with a female body though - there's not enough unequivocable canon out there to decide.

Question: what does he keep through a reincarnation? Not his DNA, for certain; his entire body changes, and so does some of his personality (which makes perfect sense if you take the biological view). He does keep his memories, mechanism unknown. He keeps the same clothes as he wore before, which makes perfect sense, except maybe in matters of fitting (if the new body is very different).

Question: what determines his next body? Obviously, it's not HIM, and obviously, Time Lord society hasn't come up with a predictive model. So if a randomness is assumed... there still has to be some sort of biological mechanism in place which ensures that any mutations are "grammatical"; that is, that they will not kill the reincarnate...r.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

There are some hints as to what affects his regenerations, scattered throughout classic and new canon. Six explains that he's so vastly different from Five because of the difficulty of his regeneration. Eight, I believe, lost his memory briefly during his. Nine-into-Ten is the only time we've seen him standing up for it.

RTD has said that they chose to give Ten a Londonish accent because of Rose's influence on Nine. Ten's partial-regeneration at the end of S4 seems to indicate that Time Lords do have some control over how they regenerate -- or whether they do -- which is borne out by the Master refusing to regenerate and also by Romana voluntarily regenerating into a carefully-chosen new appearance during classic Who.

Add to that Ten's apparent thorough control over his own body -- compressing radiation into one of his feet, then his shoe, and throwing the shoe out -- and one would assume that Time Lords do have a high degree of consciousness regarding their body's form and function. This seems to imply that they do control their regenerations to a greater or lesser degree, depending on how badly injured they are. I've theorised that regeneration on a cellular level is a bit like taping over an old videocasette -- you can only rewrite the cells so many times before they start to degrade, like an oft-recorded video does, hence the limit to the regenerations.