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

Re: Didn't see the sexism ...

[ed_rex]

I'd like to, but I made the mistake of posting about it.

No promises, but if I don't like next week's episode, I'm going to try to just keep my mouth shut about it.