The Doctor Who thread

Rabs

holnrew said:

What does the doctor do when it's her time of the month?

She wears a timepon

Probably needs to be bigger on the inside

Philly_Q

Well gosh, that's provoked a reaction.  

My first thought was who is she?  Looking at what she's done up to now, I've only seen Attack the Block and Perrier's Bounty and I don't particularly remember her in either although I liked both films.  Then I thought fine, so long as the scripts are OK.  Then I thought I probably won't be watching it anyway so who cares...

octatonic

Alnico said:

octatonic said:

Alnico said:

octatonic said:

Pretty telling that the usual red pill suspects from other threads are the ones frothing at the mouth at this.

Go on then,
I'll bite at that.

I've never heard that phrase before.
What does the red pill thing mean?

I'm not going to summarise it because it will only cause an argument, but have a look at a few of these links and see what you think.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/red-pill-mens-rights-anti-feminist-group-who-know-what-women-want/
http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2017/02/reddit-the-red-pill-interview-how-misogyny-spreads-online
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/14/the-red-pill-reddit-modern-misogyny-manosphere-men
http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-red-pill-reddit-2013-8?r=US&IR=T

Ohhhhhhhhh

THAT'S what it means!

Right then.
Well, I'm off out of this now to go back to my happy place/rose tinted world of Steve Vai LP's and classic cars.
I want NO part of this at all.

The new Doctor is a pretty girl who's almost certainly a talented actress and an intelligent woman who will do well.

Have a nice evening everyone.

@octatonic ........Thanks for the links and the tip.

Very wise, methinks.

holnrew

octatonic said:

Alnico said:

octatonic said:

Alnico said:

octatonic said:

Pretty telling that the usual red pill suspects from other threads are the ones frothing at the mouth at this.

Go on then,
I'll bite at that.

I've never heard that phrase before.
What does the red pill thing mean?

I'm not going to summarise it because it will only cause an argument, but have a look at a few of these links and see what you think.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/red-pill-mens-rights-anti-feminist-group-who-know-what-women-want/
http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2017/02/reddit-the-red-pill-interview-how-misogyny-spreads-online
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/14/the-red-pill-reddit-modern-misogyny-manosphere-men
http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-red-pill-reddit-2013-8?r=US&IR=T

Ohhhhhhhhh

THAT'S what it means!

Right then.
Well, I'm off out of this now to go back to my happy place/rose tinted world of Steve Vai LP's and classic cars.
I want NO part of this at all.

The new Doctor is a pretty girl who's almost certainly a talented actress and an intelligent woman who will do well.

Have a nice evening everyone.

@octatonic ........Thanks for the links and the tip.

Very wise, methinks.

CUCK

thumpingrug

Ive eaten my nachos now,  they were very nice.  

Fretwired

bacchanalian said:

I have nothing to add, except, I checked with my daughter and she says she will be more interested in watching Dr Who now that the main protagonist identifies as female. Will they call her Mrs Who?

I feel ashamed and embarrassed that I have added anything to this thread. Ridiculous.    

Fine for your daughter .. she's sexist ..  ;-) :-)

vasselmeyer

Headline... "Fictional Time Travellers Don't Have Vaginas, Isist Morons" 

Fretwired

vasselmeyer said:

Headline... "Fictional Time Travellers Don't Have Vaginas, Isist Morons" 

Best quote from the twat on BBC  News .. "In choosing a woman Doctor Who moves into the 21st Century .."

He's obviously not seen the show.

In any case Joanne Lumley got their first ..

fretmeister

I'm disgusted that the BBC have cast a human as a Time Lord. Again!

fretmeister

Now, of you don't mind, I'm going to go and watch BSG and complain about Starbuck becoming a woman, and Boomer changing from being a black man to an Asian woman, and Colonel Tigh from a black man to a white man.

oh. I forgot. All those changes made it awesome. Looks like fuck all matters except the script.

bingefeller

Fretwired said:

bacchanalian said:

I have nothing to add, except, I checked with my daughter and she says she will be more interested in watching Dr Who now that the main protagonist identifies as female. Will they call her Mrs Who?

I feel ashamed and embarrassed that I have added anything to this thread. Ridiculous.    

Fine for your daughter .. she's sexist ..  ;-) :-)

Axe_meister

The Dr has two hearts so why not two set of genitalia?

Fretwired

Axe_meister said:

The Dr has two hearts so why not two set of genitalia?

That's actually why Tilda Swinton would have been good.

Fretwired

Women drivers ... :-)

Jalapeno

I don't care as long as there's a significant improvement in the scripts. Capaldi's talents were wasted IMHO.

boogieman

Philly_Q said:

Well gosh, that's provoked a reaction.  

My first thought was who is she?  Looking at what she's done up to now, I've only seen Attack the Block and Perrier's Bounty and I don't particularly remember her in either although I liked both films.  Then I thought fine, so long as the scripts are OK.  Then I thought I probably won't be watching it anyway so who cares...

Not a Broadchurch fan then? She was very good in that. 

57Deluxe

perhaps this is the BBC's way of expressing support for the LBGT  community...?

darthed1981

Jalapeno said:

I don't care as long as there's a significant improvement in the scripts. Capaldi's talents were wasted IMHO.

Too true sadly, whenever he did get a genuinely great bit of writing (his anti-war speech being the best example) he knocked it out of the park.

He also suffered from the way Clara's character developed into someone insufferably smug.

Philly_Q

boogieman said:

Philly_Q said:

Well gosh, that's provoked a reaction.  

My first thought was who is she?  Looking at what she's done up to now, I've only seen Attack the Block and Perrier's Bounty and I don't particularly remember her in either although I liked both films.  Then I thought fine, so long as the scripts are OK.  Then I thought I probably won't be watching it anyway so who cares...

Not a Broadchurch fan then? She was very good in that. 

No, I know it got good reviews, but I have trouble committing to any ongoing TV series, I always end up missing episodes.  I know there are loads of other ways of watching things these days, but I don't have any means of recording TV and I don't have the time or energy for box sets (and my chronically slow broadband makes catchup services a pain in the arse).

Philly_Q

As I've said before, I don't really watch Dr Who any more - although I'll probably be curious enough to watch the next couple of episodes - so ultimately I'm not really bothered who plays the character now.

But I wonder if the writers might've created a rod for their own backs here?  The easiest thing to do would be to completely ignore the fact that "she" used to be "he" and go for a gender-neutral costume, but they won't do that.  Which means every costume/hair/makeup decision, every single reference to gender or sexuality, will have to be subjected to minute scrutiny.  At best, the "ooh Doctor you've changed" comments will become crass and tiresome... at worst, almost everything they say or do has the potential to be seen as sexist, transphobic, homophobic, tediously PC or upsetting to the traditionalists.

They'll have to walk a fine line.