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On 2024-11-11 16:17:54 +0000, Blueshirt said:
> Your Name wrote:
>> On 2024-11-10 20:46:32 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>> The True Doctor wrote:
>>>> On 10/11/2024 12:35, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> In retrospect, some people might consider the casting of
>>>>> Jodie Whittaker a blunder if they were unhappy with her
>>>>> era once that had seen it... but they didn't know that
>>>>> in July 2017.
>>>> 
>>>> They knew she was a woman and that the Doctor was
>>>> established as a masculine male character for over 50
>>>> years.
>>> 
>>> They also knew that it had already been established in the
>>> show that Time Lords can change gender... following the
>>> General and your favourite incarnation of the Master, Missy.
>>> So the Doctor following suit wasn't a completely
>>> revolutionary idea to fans of the show.
>>> 
>>> The way you go on about it you'd swear it had never been done
>>> before...
>> 
>> The gender-swapping / ethnicity-swapping nonsense was only
>> fully "established" relatively recently and explicity so that
>> the show's makers could increase the Politically Correct quota
>> tickboxing. Before that there was at best only vague hints or
>> joking lines of dialogue.
> 
> True, but we do live in a world where, rightly or wrongly, people can, 
> and do, change their gender. So the BBC might have decided they wanted 
> their TV shows to represent the world that people live in today.

The entertainment studios have been forced by Politically Corerct 
idiots to have quotas of women, non-white people, and disabled people 
in their shows. It's simply a lot cheaper and easier for them to simply 
swap an existing white male character than to actually be creative and 
make *NEW* shows and characters.  :-(



> For a fictional TV show about an alien time-traveller than can already 
> change their body, face, hair (etc.)

Then why hasn't there ever been a version of the Doctor as a blue blob 
creature, or flying squirrel character, or a stick insect, ... or even 
as a Dalek?? If you assume the Time Lords can choose, at least to some 
degree, their next incarnation and the Doctor chooses to always look 
human, then why "coincidentally" decide to change gender or colour now 
after all the previous versions? There is no sensible in-show 
explanation because it's based purely on the current Political 
Correctness idiocy going on everywhere.  :-(



> I didn't have a problem with Missy as a female Master. I actually thought
> Michelle Gomez did a good job, even though her character could quite 
> easily have been the Rani instead, as we did already have a female Time 
> Lord villain established in the show. But a gender-swapping alien from 
> a body-swapping one isn't a big-leap for me in a sci-fi type of show. I 
> am a Doctor Who fan, I just want the stories to be good and enjoyable.

"Good and enjoyable" in Doctor Who stopped a LONG time ago.  :-p