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"Doctor Who" star Ncuti Gatwa says โthereโs so much white mediocrity that gets celebrated, and Black people have to be absolutely flawless to get half of [that] anyway."
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Making Cassandra the first explicit transgender Doctor Who character might just be one of the most horribly aged things in the history of the show. After rewatching End of The World alone, it has aged disastrously in that one aspect. Fine character, shouldn't have been trans.
it goes from "oh this almost feels like a parody of these types of scenes" to "OH it actually IS a parody of those scenes and its two Bridgerton fans badly roleplaying"
So fucking funny that this is literally just two of the bad guys role playing in private purely for their own benefit, and then getting embarrassed when Ruby interrupts them.
God, the way he says "They're off in Time and Space, like me." with that twinkle in his voice and that grin, he's just always the Doctor, I'm sorry but he'll always be the Doctor
I'm actually surprised it's taken this long for Doctor Who to use Pure Imagination in any capacity. The song is almost as old as Doctor Who is and it's honestly one of the most "Doctor Who"ish songs ever, but at least they finally used it in a perfect way
with how they've presented the TARDIS in such a menacing and disturbing light and Sutekh "seducing and delighting" her, I kinda wonder if there's gonna be a little story about the Doctor struggling to forgive her. Like they'll have a rocky relationship next season.
I've said its RTD's worst series but a very very important distinction to make is that this is the most I've enjoyed a series in such a long time. I'm now back in love with the show thanks to this and the 60th. Could it have been better? Yeah. But I'm so SO HAPPY to love DW again
Ncuti is an actor, a very professional actor. He is also 31 years old. Stop getting offended on his behalf and most importantly, stop infantilising him. He's not some precious child that needs to be protected and written that doesn't hurt him, he is a grown ass adult. Cut it out.
he was racially abused in dot & bubble by a character we were tricked into thinking was the protagonist of the episode. and the following episode his queer romance turns heads (in the show and irl). this is no way to treat the first queer poc actor to play the doctor
The way they describe how Sutekh has taken the TARDIS just feels really... dirty. He's "seduced and delighted" her, like he's perverted it. It makes the TARDIS feel more human in a sense with how she fell for it and whatever he "said" to her
Little things like this are why the Doctor is just the best character. They never judge anyone for being who they are, they just have the same warm smile on their face for everyone they come across. They're just fascinated by any human they meet, its lovely
You deserved better. You deserve to be here and you deserve to not have our own government try to desecrate your memory. You deserved so much better, Brianna ๐ฉต๐ฉท๐ค๐ฉท๐ฉต
Fuck everyone who drove Georgia Tennant off of here. Your performative activism has cost us not only a lovely presence on this hellsite but also one of our most prominent LGBTQ+ allies. All because she wasn't as vocal on a topic she was still learning about.
Well fucking done.
It'll forever amaze me that this really solid two parter has a theme of found family, sticking together despite what people might say and to not judge people for who they are.
And yet... it's written by a TERF. Don't judge pig people but fuck trans people, amirite?
I know NPH as the Toymaker and Jinkx Monsoon as Maestro are objectively way bigger casting stunts but getting Timothy Dalton, a previous Bond actor and fittingly the only Welsh Bond, as Rassilon is still such an awesomely British casting and really made EOT feel like a big deal
this is why I can't ever in good faith say that RTD has "lost it" or that he's a hack or that how he writes now is so completely different to how he did 16 years ago. Plot-wise, he didn't nail it. But character-wise and with that emotional core, this IS the RTD we wanted back
People who think that character flaws = poorly written character really need to sit tf down. And the people who act like 10 is a bad character because of his very intentional and upfront character flaws are also very cringe and having such a naive view of characters is very silly
Yes the Tenth Doctor can be a cocky bastard and vain but I donโt think that makes him a bad character, I think it makes him interesting! Our hero doesnโt have to be perfect. That ego blows up in his face at the end anyway, itโs the whole point!
its so refreshing to have Doctor Who, the show that over explains everything and everything has an in-depth TARDIS wiki entry, be like "fuck you, you ain't getting the answers"
The episode constantly uses her as a source of mockery and something to laugh at. Her obsession with surgeries is seen as a joke and something to take the piss out of. And you know, trans people kinda REALLY fucking need surgeries to feel more comfortable in our bodies.
Douglas Is Cancelled is surprisingly really good, barring the cringe writing of the younger character. Its not Moffat going "young people and Cancel Culture bad grrr" it actually has something to say about people who need to take accountability and the industry. Not bad, Moff
What a lovely fandom Doctor Who has. We get one divisive finale in an otherwise solid season and the next day its "RTD is a hack, he's lost the sauce and should honestly be sacked."
What a brilliant fandom.
FOURTH WALL BREAKS DON'T NEED EXPLAINING
Deadpool doesn't explain why he does it, She-Hulk doesn't explain it, afaik they don't explain it in Fleabag. It's just something that happens. And an explanation would only cheapen it and try to "sci-fi" it. It's 73 Yards all over again.
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have you heard that conservatives are now using Christopher Ecclestonโs recent clip at convention to prove their point? Also this from Bowlestrek.
Doctor Who fans have been clamoring for ages for the show to experiment with other genres and really try something new. And when it does branch out and emulates other genres, now you're like "oh actually I don't like that" its just funny lmao
not only is the thumbnail giving anti-woke low effort thumbnails and the title is also grossly overexaggerated in a very similar fashion but ALSO... EVERY SINGLE TIME Doctor Who fans and especially long time fans try to speak for what casual fans are feeling, its never accurate.
Really disappointed in how unprofessional Benjamin Cook has been acting over something as innocuous as a simple mistake. Christina was just celebrating a legit achievement and got something wrong. Going "well actually" and talking down to her is so not needed
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I don't want America shoved down my throat tbh. You can be American as long as you don't make it your whole personality and don't harm others with it
@DumbTransphobes
If we're being honest, if they really wanted to portray the transformers as proper robots they'd all be Asexual, aromantic, non-binary emotionless beings. But since the 80s they've fallen in love, have LGBTQ+ romances and even full on body dysphoria. I think one being NB is fine
8 years since the best Doctor Who episode ever made was released. Heaven Sent is a masterclass in writing, direction and acting. It's Steven Moffat at his best, Rachel Talalay's directing is fantastic as always and Peter Capaldi was pitch fucking perfect. Pure masterpiece.
that BASTARD, how dare he wish the show have as big a budget as possible and have the ability to survive for many more years. Doctor Who should have a budget of ยฃ7, look like shit and risk being cancelled at every turn, thats the REAL Doctor Who
Not all trans people ofc, not gonna speak for all of us, but even I'm considering getting FFS. And a lot of trans women I know wanna get bottom surgery. Surgery is a gender affirming care for us and we kinda need it to live how we want to live.
But thankfully in 2023 we saw the some good trans progress for the show and a good sign going forward. We had a trans central story and we had just casual rep showing that we're normal people.
That's what we needed after all this time and especially in this climate. ๐ฉต๐ค๐ฉท
So yeah, thanks there. Also there's how Rose, the audience surrogate, straight up says she would rather die than be like Cassandra. So you know, that's fantastic to say to the first trans character.
What RTD is saying is that some writers push for representation without putting the work or the passion into it, they just want brownie points for having representation in their scripts. It's like when he criticised Loki for it's poor attempt at Bi representation.
Still not over how The Shepherd's Boy has appeared in the last two anniversary specials. And it being one of the few Moffat era tracks to make a come back for the 60th too. That's why it's one helluva song.
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Just fucking stop with the AI and quit it with spamming under people's tweets saying the same thing. No-one wants to see that shit
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And even then they switch up the roster by the end. We never got an actual status quo for the team, with them as an ongoing team throughout the series. Each film had a major shift by the end. It isn't a huge issue but it does make me want more
And there's how Rose also straight up says Cassandra isn't human and that Rose, the cis character, is more human than she is. Which again, BRILLIANT for the first trans character.
Oh, and there's how she's the show's second villain. Not to say that trans people can't play villains, that'd be silly, but making the first trans character into a villain that murders quite a lot of people all to pay for her surgeries
Let me also add on to this, a lot of DW TwT is also at fault here. A lot of you went along with it, so many of you used it to say RTD was failing as a showrunner and that it was like Eccleston and S1 all over again. The British Press sucks... but you aren't blameless either
Look not to harp on the previous era more but after 5 years of an era that felt like it was walking on egg shells with its representation it is just so euphoric to see our new leading man talking about the queer experience, his experience as a person of colour and how proud he is
She's a fine character and as a villain, I can't say she's awful. But that one detail, that one throwaway line turns her from "ehh, this is a lot of shade being thrown towards surgeries but sure" to "HOLY FUCK RUSSELL WHAT WERE YOU FUCKING THINKING??!?!?!"
And also makes her a eugenicist who hates aliens and humans that "dance" with them and sees herself as "pure." Which again, not great for the shows first trans character.
And this isn't even to say she's a bad character.
so, you know Genesis of The Daleks? That Dalek story everyone says is one of the best in the entire show and is THE Classic Who story and acted as the backbone for a lot of Dalek stories going forward?
its good, REALLY really good. I now get why its seen as the best of the best.
Mary Malone's character being Ruby's friend who just hangs out with her and goes on the town to chat about normal shit and shows how normal we are, it made me so happy. It made me feel so normalised and warm after what the TERFs have been saying about Brianna all week โคโค โ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
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oh NO, the shapechanger with no definable features and an androgynous body doesn't identify as male and is more of a genderless being, AAAAAH RUN, X-MEN ARE RUINED
I'm seeing some fans complain at the lack of a title sequence but that's what got me immediately hooked. Right out the gate I knew this was gonna be different and not your usual Doctor Who, it felt appropriate
@thatotherharry
That's what I love about Moffat, he writes the Doctor just as THE DOCTOR, so you get elements of other Doctor's seeping through and you can really tell, okay yeah this is the same man as that other lot
I get wanting to do some casual trans rep, especially in S1 which was pushing the boundaries for queer storytelling in the mainstream. But of all characters, why did you pick this one? All these issues wouldn't be issues if that line wasn't there, but since it is-