Something I would like to discuss with you guys

[miss_s_b]

An excerpt from my review of last night's episode:

Doctor Who is fantasy, and nothing else in it is realistic, so why the *naughtywords* does the sexism have to be? We can suspend disbelief long enough to believe that a guy can travel through time and space in a blue wooden box (which should be concrete anyway), and that every three years or so he completely changes size, shape, and personality but is still the same person, and that's fine, but a female pirate would be pushing it too far?

Now, the writer of this week's show is particularly bad for this sort of stuff, I admit, but it is a problem with the show in general, and indeed, television in general.

And I am genuinely interested in why some subjects are easy to suspend disbelief on and others aren't, at least in the minds of TV production crews and writers, and Who ones in particular.

Opinions?

Comments

[miss_s_b]

Yeah, it didn't surprise me either, and that's what worries me. If I have become so inured to it that even I find it unsurprising...

Whereas Rory nearly dying AGAIN just made me yawn, and by that point I was too busy doing Robert Picardo impressions and giggling to pay too much attention.

[gehayi]

Oh, I wasn't IMPRESSED by Rory almost dying. At this point, Rory has become Kenny from South Park. I was just annoyed as hell at the massive illogic.

Well, that and the fact that the only female guest character was not only presented for three-quarters of the story as a villain picking on the poor menz--why? because she's EVIL!--but literally couldn't speak for herself. Hell, Amy couldn't even figure out what she was supposed to do when the Siren held out her hands; a male character had to figure out what she meant and then tell Amy, just as a male character had to tell Amy how to save him.

[miss_s_b]

Oh cthulhu yes to all that.