Re: USA Election

On 2024-11-11 16:17:54 +0000, Blueshirt said:

Your Name wrote:

On 2024-11-10 20:46:32 +0000, Blueshirt said:

The True Doctor wrote:

On 10/11/2024 12:35, Blueshirt wrote:

 In retrospect, some people might consider the casting of
Jodie Whittaker a blunder if they were unhappy with her
era once that had seen it... but they didn't know that
in July 2017.

 They knew she was a woman and that the Doctor was
established as a masculine male character for over 50
years.

 They also knew that it had already been established in the
show that Time Lords can change gender... following the
General and your favourite incarnation of the Master, Missy.
So the Doctor following suit wasn't a completely
revolutionary idea to fans of the show.
 The way you go on about it you'd swear it had never been done
before...

 The gender-swapping / ethnicity-swapping nonsense was only
fully "established" relatively recently and explicity so that
the show's makers could increase the Politically Correct quota
tickboxing. Before that there was at best only vague hints or
joking lines of dialogue.

 True, but we do live in a world where, rightly or wrongly, people can, and do, change their gender. So the BBC might have decided they wanted their TV shows to represent the world that people live in today.

The entertainment studios have been forced by Politically Corerct idiots to have quotas of women, non-white people, and disabled people in their shows. It's simply a lot cheaper and easier for them to simply swap an existing white male character than to actually be creative and make *NEW* shows and characters.  :-(

For a fictional TV show about an alien time-traveller than can already change their body, face, hair (etc.)

Then why hasn't there ever been a version of the Doctor as a blue blob creature, or flying squirrel character, or a stick insect, ... or even as a Dalek?? If you assume the Time Lords can choose, at least to some degree, their next incarnation and the Doctor chooses to always look human, then why "coincidentally" decide to change gender or colour now after all the previous versions? There is no sensible in-show explanation because it's based purely on the current Political Correctness idiocy going on everywhere.  :-(

I didn't have a problem with Missy as a female Master. I actually thought
Michelle Gomez did a good job, even though her character could quite easily have been the Rani instead, as we did already have a female Time Lord villain established in the show. But a gender-swapping alien from a body-swapping one isn't a big-leap for me in a sci-fi type of show. I am a Doctor Who fan, I just want the stories to be good and enjoyable.

"Good and enjoyable" in Doctor Who stopped a LONG time ago.  :-p