When #Doctor13 started trending on Twitter, I started following the hashtag until I finally found a working livestream around 17:00. My god did the BBC take their time with the post-Wimbledon-finale stuff! 17:20 my mom called. Had I bet against her about the gender of the new Doctor, she would have won (I didn't take it, because I thought either gender was equally possible and what if they cast a trans actor?). Then 17:29 we finally got the announcement. I was still on the phone with my mom and described the clip to her.

That cloak was quite figure-hiding and then there was the equally unhelpful hood. Something about the legs, I thought, seemed to hint at a woman though, while the hand was unrevealing again.
Then we saw her clearly feminine eyes. And then her face, which was unfamiliar to me. Helpfully they provided a name. So then I had a look at Jodie Whittaker's IMDb page.

• Born 1982? My god, she's my age! I thought she looked older, you know, more grown up. But maybe that's just because I fail to fully identify as an adult.
• She was on Broadchurch! You know, that show with David Tennant, heh! So apparently (that was before I'd found the livestream) DT appeared in the Wimbledon stands some minutes before the clip was played. Maybe that had been more of a hint than we thought.
• She's been on a show called "Doctors", heh.
• A blonde? Still not ginger! Unless we haven't seen her properly in character yet.
• So, a women. They got that item ticked off and relieved the fan pressure for maybe the span of 2 of the following incarnations, I'd estimate.
• Shit, I hope people will like her! Otherwise we're in danger of people declaring that a female Doctor doesn't work.
• Hehehehe... heh. "You know how I'm usually all about women and kind of people my own age?" There's a possibility that Bill could come back and while I don't like the idea of her having a thing for both Heather and the Doctor, I like the idea that the Doctor is suddenly Bill's type.