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Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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numberoneposter posted:

I'll happily go through my entire life not having seen an episode of doctor who. This is coming from someone thats sorta compelled to watch star trek voyager just so i can say ive finally watched all those eps. Heck i probably won't do that either i got things to do. Like post.

Star Trek Voyager is actually good as opposed to Doctor Who.

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Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Mega64 posted:

This would be like Star Trek TNG if Picard had a vagina on his forehead and every episode was Riker loving Picard's head-vagina.

There will be no kink shaming the head-vagina enthusiasts in this thread!

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Hemingway To Go! posted:

it's sort of like this is progressive for letting a woman into this role and saying that that's okay, but it's not like the doctor portrays a character you can aspire to be or something.

he's an alien who has died and resurrected as a woman after being a man 13 times

my main worry is that the writers will think that they need to make the doctor cry constantly now or overplay her dominance and make her into captain janeway or something. this is really easy to gently caress up.

Captain Janeway owns.

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Besides, I don't think it's about people hating women but rather the general aversion fans tend to have against drastic changes to a character they like. I'm convinced some people prefer a specific Doctor and dislikes the others. Sometimes, not liking a fictional character is not because of political beliefs.

If the female Doctor turns out to be a well written character, people will change their minds. It's not misogyny, it's just people not liking new stuff in general.

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Docahedron posted:

They didn't have the balls to make the Dr. a black man, I see

The true travesty is not making the Doctor an amorphous slime.

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Squallege posted:

I saw a few episodes of Dr. Who and it didn't do anything for me.

What, you don't like the constant "Oh no, we're in trouble!" which is always followed by some crappy solution that comes out of nowhere ?

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Lumpy the Cook posted:

Interesting, but actually Dr Who mostly sucks because the BBC's higher ups worked very hard to keep Jimmy Savile's rampant sex abuse of children hidden from the authorities and the public for decades, and many people in the BBC have been tied to various hidden sex abuse rings for many years, and they are almost certainly still secretly abusing children to this day, and anyone who supports the company or any of their properties should be very deeply ashamed.


Is this real ?

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Wow okay, this is awful.

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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whoflungpoop posted:

they def had the cooler doctor

gently caress yeah they did!

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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13Pandora13 posted:

I held back from asking "so if you suddenly had hundreds of millions of dollars, you'd gently caress kids?" because at that point the relationship was already over, I just had to ride out the three days without getting murdered.

He also in roundabout way confessed to being a Nazi and misogynist on the trip so I guess he'd decided since we were traveling together he could finally reveal his true self. :stonk:

Did he outright confess being a woman hating member of the National Socialist Party of Germany from the 1930s ?

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Subvisual Haze posted:

The first time the ratings slightly drop prepare for hundreds of competing articles denouncing the show's fans for being misogynist shitlords on one side and denouncing the writers for being gimmick spinning SJWs on the other.

Marvel fans didn't like the new heroes they created just for the sake of diversity. Marvel retaliated by revealing that one of their most beloved and successful super hero (Captain America) was a Nazi "ALL ALONG, OH MY GOD GUYS!" which made the fans even angrier.

One of the head honchos at Marvel then publicly stated that diversity isn't popular in super heroes. Statement he later had to retract because of the massive backlash from media outlets saying that it wasn't the fault of diversity but rather because comic fans are all terrible racist misogynistic assholes or something.

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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13Pandora13 posted:

No.

We were watching TV and it was some history of the Holocaust Museum program. He says, "I went there once, I wasn't really that sad or anything."

Pause. I expect this to go one of two ways: either he's like "I was disgusted" or option two...

"Yeah I was more impressed than anything else. I don't know. I guess Hitler's kind of like a hero of mine."

Pause. "That's uh, very interesting."

The misogyny thing was when we were walking a few blocks out from Times Square to get a less crowded subway line (it was NYE) and a woman walked by wearing a very short dress and high heels and he scoffed and shook his head and said, "makes me sick. Women who dress like sluts should expect to get treated like sluts."

I...have no idea how I wasn't clued in to *any* of this behavior before that point (we'd been dating like 3-4 months) but whelp.

drat, I was going to make a lovely joke about how he might be a time travelling Nazi, but I guess he's just your average backwards idiot.

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Doctor Hog would be a better show.

Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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Bimmi posted:

I'm glad insecure manbaby nerdlingers have something else to get upset about now, there really wasn't enough of that already.

This post is great because you can't tell if it's condemning people angry at the female Doctor or if it's directed to people angry with the people angry at the female Doctor.

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Mokbek
Dec 19, 2014

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solar energy panel posted:

I am as interested in a female Dr Who as much as I was interested in watching female Ghostbusters.

Don't let the folks from D&D see this post.

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