1. Jodie Foster just wasn't available. (She's who I cast as female!Nine. In case you were wondering. I have wonderful visual proof in a picspam to come.)
2. If he had changed gender, he couldn't have hawt gay sex with Fitz.
...Seriously, though, when did fandom concur on this? I always assumed that regeneration was either during the War or during the destruction of Gallifrey. The former doesn't necessitate a suicidal frame of mind, and the latter could have been honest-to-God cessation-of-existence all-survival-instincts-in-the-off-position suicide. No need for change, just an end.
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Date: 2010-03-11 08:33 pm (UTC)Two reasons occur to me.
1. Jodie Foster just wasn't available. (She's who I cast as female!Nine. In case you were wondering. I have wonderful visual proof in a picspam to come.)
2. If he had changed gender, he couldn't have hawt gay sex with Fitz.
...Seriously, though, when did fandom concur on this? I always assumed that regeneration was either during the War or during the destruction of Gallifrey. The former doesn't necessitate a suicidal frame of mind, and the latter could have been honest-to-God cessation-of-existence all-survival-instincts-in-the-off-position suicide. No need for change, just an end.