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The New Doctor
Great choice or 'political correctness gone mad'
Personally I wanted Tilda Swindon, but that was unlikely to ever happen.
Personally I wanted Tilda Swindon, but that was unlikely to ever happen.
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Dammit I thought I was posting in this thread but it was the other one. Doh. A few years ago I’d have thought it was a daft idea but the plotlines have allowed for it, so as long as there’s some “
15:33 Mon 17th Jul 2017
Dammit I thought I was posting in this thread but it was the other one. Doh.
A few years ago I’d have thought it was a daft idea but the plotlines have allowed for it, so as long as there’s some “internal” logic for it I’m not bothered. Plus I’ve been feeling for a while that it’s grown stale and complacent, and is in need of a firm kick up the rear end. This will help, but it also needs strong storylines and scripts, and maybe a jarringly different kind of companion as most of the previous ones have felt a bit indentikit to me. Throw in a good strong performance by JW and maybe the show will revive. As well as Broadchurch I’ve seen JW in other TV dramas, a few stage productions and she already showed her alien-combating skills in the excellent Attack The Block.
There are always a few people dismissing it as “just” a kids’ show but I think that’s an oversimplification. I think “family show” is a better fit, a lot of the time it is more PG/12 than U, as it were. I remember as a kid my whole family watching it on a Saturday early evening.
It does make me chuckle to see the usual old “PC gone mad” mantra being intoned here and elsewhere. One out of 13 times (14 if you count John Hurt) across more than 50 years the role of a shapeshifting member of an alien species who have been shown as able to change sex is played by a woman. As said above, all kinds of aspects of the show have changed over the decades and especially the last 12 years, this is just another one.
A few years ago I’d have thought it was a daft idea but the plotlines have allowed for it, so as long as there’s some “internal” logic for it I’m not bothered. Plus I’ve been feeling for a while that it’s grown stale and complacent, and is in need of a firm kick up the rear end. This will help, but it also needs strong storylines and scripts, and maybe a jarringly different kind of companion as most of the previous ones have felt a bit indentikit to me. Throw in a good strong performance by JW and maybe the show will revive. As well as Broadchurch I’ve seen JW in other TV dramas, a few stage productions and she already showed her alien-combating skills in the excellent Attack The Block.
There are always a few people dismissing it as “just” a kids’ show but I think that’s an oversimplification. I think “family show” is a better fit, a lot of the time it is more PG/12 than U, as it were. I remember as a kid my whole family watching it on a Saturday early evening.
It does make me chuckle to see the usual old “PC gone mad” mantra being intoned here and elsewhere. One out of 13 times (14 if you count John Hurt) across more than 50 years the role of a shapeshifting member of an alien species who have been shown as able to change sex is played by a woman. As said above, all kinds of aspects of the show have changed over the decades and especially the last 12 years, this is just another one.
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