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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Favourite and Least Favourite Doctors, Companions, Anything!
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:28:04 +1000
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On 17/07/2025 7:49 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
> Theory11 wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 2:26:37 +0000, The Doctor wrote:
>>> In article <1059h7d$10lu7$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Your Name  <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Part of the reason is the usual "Politically Correct"
>>>> silliness ... you can't have a dumb female companion any
>>>> more nor a white male being intelligent, so the roles got
>>>> somewhat reversed. Notice that when Doctress Who turned
>>>> up, she instead had a dim male companion (played by
>>>> Bradley Walsh).
>>>
>>> Spot on about the political correctness!
>>
>> It has taken over most tv programmes made today.
> 
> There's political correctness and then there's stupidity...
> which is what I call all this trying not to offend anybody, at
> all, whatsoever, stuff... RTD's comments on Davros not being in
> a wheelchair anymore as it might offend disabled people, or not
> using the Cybermen anymore as it might offend people with
> prosthetic limbs or a pacemaker (etc.) It's nonsense. And it is
> a malaise that seems to have affected everyone at the BBC and
> modern television production.
> 
> Davros is a fucking cripple because he was caught up in a war,
> like what happens to real people in war. They get injured. I
> cannot recall anyone being offended by him as a character. But
> oh no, Davros has to walk around on Skaro now as we can't depict
> bad people in wheelchairs, it sends the wrong message. <rolls
> eyes>
> 
...... Or, maybe, in some futuristic society, we can take a cripple and 
make him/her/them/they fully functionally again!! ;-P

Or was the crippled Davros just a dream all along??
-- 
Daniel70