When there's a female Doctor, and she is NOT romantically involved with her companion(s), I'll get excited.
When there's a female Doctor, and she is NOT romantically involved with her companion(s), I'll get excited. There is something about the current showrunners, not to mention the world, that makes me super irritable about this whole thing.
Why are you afraid of a woman in charge? Smart? Powerful? Dominant? Leadership, with its successes and failures? Can care about people but doesn't have to be their mom? Funny? Bitter? Strong? Weak? Alien? Human?
I would particularly appreciate it if they'd cut it out with the stupid everyone wants to have sex with the doctor nonsense. We've had the fan service with Billie Piper and David Tennant (and wow, let's really stretch a plot point with that one). Amy and her mauling of the Doctor. Although, I will give minor props to that moment where he pops out of a cake and tells Rory they need to talk about his soon to be wife's kisses. We've had The Doctor's Wife, which was one of my favorite episodes. And we've had River Song, who was mostly a great character so ok, fine. Then we had this weird Clara and the Doctor thing which, just, ew. Not to mention Torchwood and Captain Jack, et al, which I think has pretty much covered anything they could manage without an X rating. Can we stop, now? You'd be surprised how many people can live their lives and do their jobs without having to stop and snog/think about snogging every 5 minutes.
Plus, I will be heartily offended and thoroughly disgusted if they cannot manage to write at least two entire seasons without using a female lead as a romantic plot device. Even Madame Vastra and Jenny, both strong female characters, had to be part of a romantic sub-plot. One which I will say was a rare instance of it actually adding to the overall story while still making a contemporary social statement. Nevertheless.
So this is good, but at this point, I am highly suspicious of tokenism to which they are not really committed.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39444025
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39444025
Why are you afraid of a woman in charge? Smart? Powerful? Dominant? Leadership, with its successes and failures? Can care about people but doesn't have to be their mom? Funny? Bitter? Strong? Weak? Alien? Human?
I would particularly appreciate it if they'd cut it out with the stupid everyone wants to have sex with the doctor nonsense. We've had the fan service with Billie Piper and David Tennant (and wow, let's really stretch a plot point with that one). Amy and her mauling of the Doctor. Although, I will give minor props to that moment where he pops out of a cake and tells Rory they need to talk about his soon to be wife's kisses. We've had The Doctor's Wife, which was one of my favorite episodes. And we've had River Song, who was mostly a great character so ok, fine. Then we had this weird Clara and the Doctor thing which, just, ew. Not to mention Torchwood and Captain Jack, et al, which I think has pretty much covered anything they could manage without an X rating. Can we stop, now? You'd be surprised how many people can live their lives and do their jobs without having to stop and snog/think about snogging every 5 minutes.
Plus, I will be heartily offended and thoroughly disgusted if they cannot manage to write at least two entire seasons without using a female lead as a romantic plot device. Even Madame Vastra and Jenny, both strong female characters, had to be part of a romantic sub-plot. One which I will say was a rare instance of it actually adding to the overall story while still making a contemporary social statement. Nevertheless.
So this is good, but at this point, I am highly suspicious of tokenism to which they are not really committed.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39444025
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39444025
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