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Side note: Capaldi is older than Hartnell was when he left the programme (which is a massive 17 years younger than David Bradley is now) Other side note: I agree with Burkion, it's not very well characterised Dabir posted:So it's a bit like Jubilee. City of Death
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Bicyclops posted:North still works; Yorkshire is Northern. More northern than bloody Lancashire
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Eiba posted:If they're dialing up the sexism of the character to comment on the era and how times have changed: good. No, not good. In fact very bad for three reasons. The first is that it does a disservice to the people making the programme in the sixties (as mentioned, it's the only time the programme has had a female producer for a start). The second is that it's terrible for the programme, as this is a story that a large number of non-regular viewers will watch. The third, and most important, reason is that it's straight out of the sexism-apologist playbook. The "the only sexism is the overt "Women should only be in the kitchen" sexism" playbook. The "sexism no longer exists" playbook. By equating historical sexism with only the big stuff it enables lower key, more subtle, sexists to get away with their poo poo. Then again, a lot of viewers praised the episode where the young woman of colour had medical experiments done on her to make the old white man feel bad. This audience may not be the best at judging tone. King Plum the Nth posted:reading a Target novelization of the earliest Docs? Isn't he an avowed fan of the show? He's also someone that said "When I look back at Doctor Who now, I laugh at it fondly. As a television professional, I think ‘How did these guys get a paycheque every week?’. Nothing from the black and white days, with the exception of the pilot episode, should have got out of the building. They should have been clubbing those guys to death. You’ve got an old guy in the lead who can’t remember his lines. You’ve got Patrick Troughton, who was a good actor, but his companions – how did they get their Equity card? They’re unimaginably bad. Once you get to the colour stuff, some of it’s watchable, but it’s laughable. Mostly now, looking back, I’m startled by it. Given that it’s a teatime show, a children’s show, I think most of the Peter Davison stuff is well-constructed, the directors are consistent." Then again he's always come across as someone who has very fragile masculinity. There's that story that Lawrence Miles told where Larry was discussion Bagpuss (an absolutely marvellous children's programme, like all of Oliver Postgate's stuff) and Moffat came over just to sneer at it and then left, a story which I doubt less and less as the years go by.
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It should be examined, but there's also a benefit to having some things be pure escapism. Sexism and racism affects a lot of people every day, and in ways that's difficult to ignore; not everything has to remind them that it exists.
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Well, it's certainly a reason to make the sexism of the central character an issue that perhaps should not be covered.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Moffat's clearly "referencing" ideas from older Who again Sharples, like Moffat, was also a sitcom writer
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Mooseontheloose posted:Also, as an American it's going to be uh...interesting to see a British take on the civil rights movement. Moffat gave Nixon a much more kindlier treatment that he deserved. He gave Churchill a much kinder treatment than he deserved too
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Astroman posted:Dread? Really? You're doing a lot of straw manning recently over people being concerned about whether a Very White BBC programme can handle issues of historical racism with class and poise. The reasons people are concerned are pretty obvious - a poor history of (British) television (and, recently, Doctor Who in particular) with racial issues either historical or contemporary; the rise of far right views being acceptable to present in a public forum; Chibnall's personal lack of nuance when writing for the Doctor Who universe. Furthermore, being unoptimistic is a very very different statement to "I will boycott it forever if Doctor Who does anything racist" - especially because (as intimated above) anyone who boycotted the show forever if it was racist wouldn't still be watching it after The Zygon Inversion. Please try to approach this issue with a bit of nuance, rather than flying off the handle like an entitled child. In addition, I'll note that your sniping about this has also appeared in the main thread - would it hurt you to keep your toys in the spoiler thread pram, rather than talking obliquely about spoilers in the non-spoiler thread?
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Astroman posted:Oh what a surprise, Bicyclops tells me my opinion is Objectively Wrong. Get over yourself, dude 
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and worked up with Dread over a hypothetical racist episode that hasn't occurred yet. The reason I say people will BOYCOTT WHO FOREVER is I assume they are worried that if the show is deemed horribly racist they'll have to stop watching. And your smug backseat modding note has been noted and you can be sure I'll take it under advisement with all the due weight it deserves.
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BSam posted:http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2018/11/doctor-who-episodes-nine-and-ten.html The Actor Kevin Eldon?
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:I know this isn't really spoiler territory, but there's something that's been nagging me ever since the last Christmas Special came out... why the gently caress did Rusty decide that he should actually kill the Doctor at that point??! I got confused here and thought we were talking about Journey's End
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https://www.facebook.com/autonstyle These guys used to be down the road from me (until I moved)
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:I mean, it's slightly campy, but it doesn't seem worth the reaction. Yeah, especially given that the quality of the title is entirely independent of the quality of the story (compare City of Death to Nightmare of Eden)
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I like TBB (much more so than The Eleventh Hour), although am always slightly offput by the wipes
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JohnnyQPublic posted:that did that with Baker in the 25th special (the 5 Doctors)....they just used a random clip from an episode and said he was stuck in time It was from the unfinished Shada, so wasn't just taking a clip from a previous transmitted story
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thrawn527 posted:Being completely unfamiliar with the character, and only knowing the term "Celestial" from its Marvel Comics context, what makes the character problematic, and how was the term used as a synonym for that? I don't understand the question, really. "How was the term used as a synonym for Chinese"? By using it as a synonym for "Chinese" ("The Celestial Empire" being an archaic term for China). What makes the character problematic? He's a white guy in yellowface.
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The_Doctor posted:Since ios17, autocorrect has been a nightmare. Not just ios, the Android autocorrect keeps on changing real words into misspelled ones for me
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