Jaime Murray on Doctor Who

Okay, so Jaime Murray wants to play the Twelfth Doctor, which... c'mon. That's just unfair to nerds. I'm not really a fan of the girl-Doctor idea, as I don't want to see every episode turn into a referendum on transgenderism (c'mon, you know it would), but Jaime Murray on Doctor Who? That'd work. Perhaps as a Companion... but who? It'd be unoriginal to just redo Gaia or H.G. Wells; the Jaime Murray mission statement is to provide new and exciting area-tingles. So, perhaps...

Jaime Murray plays Clare Brinker, a politician's daughter from the 1980s. She works as a banker by day, and a punk rock girl by night. So you get both buttoned-down Jaime Murray and Sex Pistol Jaime Murray. Plus, she'd be the rare character who is even more anarchic and radical than the Doctor in wanting to tear down the Establishment, leading to new and different conflicts with him and possible other Companions.


Lady Felice Carmichael of Yorkshire (Ruth Wilson) is scandalized and somewhat intrigued by this strange girl dancing to a song with lyrics so disloyal to the Crown!

Thor 2 being directed by a woman, OMGONOES!

At least, so I suspect will be the response from at least one guy in every forum, as if Kenneth Branagh was a badass action director.

It's hard to see a downside to Patty Jenkins, since the appeal of Thor was the family dynamics and not the action. Putting an auteur in the director's seat, while not always a pay-off (Hulk, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) at least can give a movie more ambitions than just being an oversized fan film (Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider... the Mark Steven Johnson oeuvre, I like to call it). Feminism-wise, it's always good to see a female storyteller get work and it's hard not to imagine that someone who made LESBIAN CHARLIZE THERON SERIAL KILLER into an Oscar-winner could at least bring some tact to a potentially problematic character like, say, Hela or the Enchantress. It would just be nice if such a villain's motivation ran to more than "Thor's semen." Oh, Jeph Loeb!