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Jodie Whittaker's Doctor Costume revealed! - Image Analysis!

Yesterday the BBC revealed Jodie Whittaker's (Broadchurch, St. Trinian's) costume for her version of The Doctor in Doctor Who (2005- ). 

She appears to be sporting a dark-blue shirt with a rainbow stripe across it with light-blue trousers, held up by yellow suspenders, and brown boots. And to top it all off she's wearing a long, light-grey jacket. 

Also to note that the TARDIS itself has changed. It appears to be sporting a darker shade of blue and with yellow mirrors, much like how it looked when Christoper Eccleston (Let Him Have it, Shallow Grave) and David Tennant (Broadchurch, Jessica Jones). But now it appears the colours on the sign have been reversed to a black background and white writing.

Personal Opinion

Personally, I am not a big fan of this costume. She looks like an Extra on The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997). It looks way too flashy, way too eclectic and, frankly, this is something someone going to a music festival would be wearing. Not someone like The Doctor. I much preferred the clothes she was wearing when she was announced as The Doctor. Looking more like something The Doctor would actually wear. But this costume reminds me more of Colin Baker's (A Dozen Summers, The Airzone Solution) Infamous look as The Doctor more than anything else, with that daft multi-coloured jacket. Practically looking like someone who really wants attention from everyone else. 

Past Doctors

Now, It's not like The Doctor wearing something stupid is anything new. Other Doctors have had somewhat questionable fashion choices. Matt Smith's (The Crown, Pride And Prejudice And Zombies) first costume in season 5 certainly didn't work for many fans. Looking like an Unaware geography teacher. In fact, even the characters in the show referenced how daft he dressed. Constantly mocking his bow-tie and fez, to the pleasure, or annoyance, of fans. But he did get a better costume in the second half of his final season. And then there was Peter Capaldi who, in his first costume reveal, seemed to be sporting some watered-down version of Jon Pertwee's (Worzel Gummidge, Carry On Screaming) costume from the 1970's. But he also had different variations of his costume which were much more appealing. So maybe Whittaker could also get variations to her costume that'll look better. Or get a different costume later on in her run as The Doctor.

The TARDIS

Yeah, as I said before, the TARDIS looks different. Looking more like it used in the first 4 seasons of the show. Only now the sign's colour scheme has been switched. This isn't really anything to get that excited about. It's the TARDIS, it more-or-less keeps the same shape. But, the last time the TARDIS changed its outer appearance was when David Tennant's Doctor regenerated into Matt Smith and more or less wrecked the whole thing. Causing it to change it's outer shell whilst it healed. So this might give audiences an idea of what might happen to The TARDIS in the upcoming Christmas episode. Either the Capaldi/Whittaker regeneration will also wreck the TARDIS, or it may take some heavy damage. So that's somewhat interesting.

Conclusion

Yeah, this costume isn't working for me. Personally, it kinda represents all the things I don't like about the show at the moment, the flashy, attention-seeking, pretentious narcissism that The Doctor has lately been showing. I was hoping that with Steven Moffat leaving the show the new creative team might work to get rid of that. But with this new costume that doesn't seem to be the case. I hope that Whittaker gets a different costume, or this one is tweaked to look better. But right now, this isn't working.

So that's my Image Analysis of Jodie Whittaker's costume as The Doctor. What are your opinions? Please comment down below. And, if you liked this post, then please follow and Subscribe to the blog for more content. Thank you for reading :)
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