I LOVED that they didn't have any of the "oh, now I am female, let's go on about it" stuff. She's just a woman now and that's that. On with the show!
It wasn't a huge deal I agree, but I would argue that some of the writing did subtly shift when the Master became Missy, i.e changing from his chosen name and using the Mistress form instead (which has pretty different connotations to Master), as well as referring to the Doctor as "my boyfriend" and kissing him, something that arguably previous versions wouldn't have done. Although I'm probably on shaky ground there when it comes to John Simm's Master :P
Missy still has a similar personality to past versions of the Master undoubtedly, but I would argue that as a character Missy is meant to come across as female, rather than the male Master just using a female form. And so does that mean that the writing of a female Doctor would also change to reflect that he now considers himself to be female, even though a person's gender automatically switching to match their biological sex surely isn't the greatest message to be putting out there, but that seems to be what people are asking for with a female Doctor?
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It wasn't a huge deal I agree, but I would argue that some of the writing did subtly shift when the Master became Missy, i.e changing from his chosen name and using the Mistress form instead (which has pretty different connotations to Master), as well as referring to the Doctor as "my boyfriend" and kissing him, something that arguably previous versions wouldn't have done. Although I'm probably on shaky ground there when it comes to John Simm's Master :P
Missy still has a similar personality to past versions of the Master undoubtedly, but I would argue that as a character Missy is meant to come across as female, rather than the male Master just using a female form. And so does that mean that the writing of a female Doctor would also change to reflect that he now considers himself to be female, even though a person's gender automatically switching to match their biological sex surely isn't the greatest message to be putting out there, but that seems to be what people are asking for with a female Doctor?