Doctor Who

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In the Doctor's Wife, the Doctor mentions that the Corsair regenerated into a woman once or twice. Dunno how canon you all find the new Who stuff, but it's there.

The most recent writers make it a point to comment that the Doctor A. jokes and B. lies. When he makes off-hand comments like that, I don't think anything of it, mainly because there have been Time Lords of both genders in the series and they always regenerate to the same gender. Tiberius actually pointed out to me today another weird one. The Doctor says weird shit and contradicts himself all the time. To be honest, I just don't think they'll change genders. It would be more difficult to write off all the other stuff than one off-hand comment.

Oh, I know that they won't change the Doctor's gender, I just maintain hope that it's possible.

To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of this "the Doctor lies," thing. It just seems like a writing escape hatch; I want to be able to trust the main character of the damn show, after all. But as it stands, we've gotta second guess everything he says, just in case someday it becomes convenient for it not to be true.

Like the thirteen regeneration limit. I'll bet anything that if the show is still profitable when the thirteenth actor leaves, they'll write around that in a heartbeat.