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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 22:05:24 +1000
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On 17/07/2025 9:57 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
> Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 17/07/2025 7:49 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
> 
> Yeah, and maybe they will be called Cyberpeople...

Ah!! Now you're thinking! ;-P
> 
>> Or was the crippled Davros just a dream all along??
> 
> I'd rather write-off the CiN special as a dream sequence in
> my head-canon... and in fairness, those 'specials' are easy
> enough to ignore. I wouldn't be getting worked up enough over
> it to be posting "Retcon the walking Davros" in response to
> every post here anyway!!!

Ah!! Now you're thinking! ;-P
> 
> :-)
-- 
Daniel70