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So, we have a new Doctor. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, well firstly congratulations on choosing such a fine place to try and wait this whole year out but secondly let me introduce you to Jodie Whittaker, the woman who be the Doctor. If you’ve been under that rock for more than a year and have no idea what Doctor Who is let me just congratulate you on bravely clicking this link regardless of your own ignorance, have some knowledge.
Doctor Who is a British sci-fi TV show from the ‘60s that persisted through into the late ‘80s before going on a 10-year hiatus and re-emerging in 2005. Since then, the show has slowly increased in popularity, peaking around 2012-2013 during the show’s 50th anniversary/height of the 2010s’ British Cultural Invasion.
The premise of the show is about a time-traveling alien named the Doctor who meanders through time and space with some human companions having various adventures. The show’s cleverest wrinkle has always been that the Doctor will, at times of extreme injury, regenerate into a new person, which is used as an excuse to swap lead actors. Jodie Whittaker is the 13th such actor to take up the role and first woman to play the character yet and she’s bringing some interesting changes to the show with her.
