Doctor Who: 10 Crazy Internet Reactions To The 13th Doctor

1. What's All The Fuss About?

It’s not just the fans who’ve got in on the action. The Merriam-Webster dictionary trolled disgruntled fans with the briefest of tweets: “Doctor has no gender in English.” Even cartoon characters had their say, including He-Man who was less than impressed: “Prince Adam is OUTRAGED that a woman has been cast as Doctor Who, but then again he is a virgin manbaby that still lives with his parents.”

But the pick of the bunch is this instructive tweet from Surrey Constabulary – a reminder that they employed the first WPC way back in 1918. If it’s good enough for them then why not an alien with two hearts and a bigger on the inside spaceship that can also travel in time?

The media attention on the casting will eventually die down, but fans will continue to use their creativity to herald this next chapter in the history of Doctor Who. At the moment that imagination is largely being put to good use by designing some clever comebacks to that small section of fandom that is spreading negativity, but already there is a wonderful array of fan art to feast our eyes upon and distract us from the noise – and we don’t even know what the Thirteenth Doctor’s costume will be yet.

What are your thoughts on the 13th Doctor? Let us know down in the comments.

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Paul Driscoll is a freelance writer and author across a range of subjects from Cult TV to religion and social policy. He is a passionate Doctor Who fan and January 2017 will see the publication of his first extended study of the series (based on Toby Whithouse's series six episode, The God Complex) in the critically acclaimed Black Archive range by Obverse Books. He is a regular writer for the fan site Doctor Who Worldwide and has contributed several essays to Watching Books' You and Who range. Recently he has branched out into fiction writing, with two short stories in the charity Doctor Who anthology Seasons of War (Chinbeard Books). Paul's work will also feature in the forthcoming Iris Wildthyme collection (A Clockwork Iris, Obverse Books) and Chinbeard Books' collection of drabbles, A Time Lord for Change.