Posted on 02/02/2017 8:31:26 PM PST by MNDude
Predictable as ever, Doctor’, says the Master in the Doctor Who episode ‘The Deadly Assassin’. In a similar vein, the Guardian has followed the announcement that Peter Capaldi is leaving the series with not one but two articles about how the new Doctor must be a woman, black or preferably both. Because white males are boring! After all, it’s 2017. As the Hitler Youth said to the 19th-century humanists: ‘We don’t think like that anymore.’
Of course, there is nothing wrong with having more women and black people cast in mainstream roles. The more the merrier. But when cultural representation of diversity becomes an end in itself, then it becomes meaningless, a box-ticking exercise that distracts from exploring what stories we want to tell and why.
Moreover, when on-screen diversity is seen as the pathway to a more just society we’re in trouble. Not only does this entail a re-essentialising of people along biological lines – something that emancipatory movements, from female to black to gay liberation, fought long and hard to get away from – but it is also, at root, unradical. Diversity of representation is embraced by cultural elites as a gesture that suggests change, but which in fact does nothing but reinvent the ideological status quo to be more palatable. In the end, it is simply the cultural version of capitalist logic: equality will trickle down to the disadvantaged by their representation in culture.
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” I don’t know nuthin ‘bout birthin babies”.
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Agreed. The Master was one of my favorite DW villains. That so much ruined his identity in every way.
Black and female is not enough to quench the unquenchable thirst of the radical left anymore.
Dr. Who, and anyone else, must now be black and female, gay and transgender, muslim and atheist, at the bare minimum, to pass the current ideological mandates.
Maybe the BBC can “improve” the series like they did with Top Gear.
But she ain’t no ways tard.
Couldn’t fund any custard at the supermarket today. Wanted some fish sticks (what we call them here in the US) to go with it.
Dr. Who becomes Dr. Ho?
Or Chinese Dr. Hu.
Okay, bunch of Dr. Who fans here, so the right people to ask.
How the hell are the Sontaran people these high-speed infantry types when they have no necks and have to turn their whole upper body to look left or right?
Obese black lesbians are the absolute highest form of life known to liberals; these exalted scions should obviously play all the acting roles on every show.
Freegards
The Doctor is a white man. Get your own show.
On the same site, the Eighth Doctor Who, Paul McGann, thinks Tilda Swinton should replace Peter Capaldi, and Mark Gatiss, writer and actor (Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock), says the next Doctor Who should be a woman. I don't watch the program myself, so I could care less who gets the part.
I wasn’t aware Obama was going to pursue a career in acting.
I’m perfectly fine with this. The BBC already killed their other money-making program off with excessive Marxism and PCism, Dr. Who is all they have left and I’d love to see them murder their last cash cow through excessive PC.
Might as well go for the trifecta and make her a lesbo.
I like Hayley Atwell, and enjoyed her in the "Agent Carter" tv series. But I hated her character in her "Conviction" series. For some reason, I couldn't stand her American accent. Some British actors were meant to just speak British, like Jonathan Rhys Myers. I loved him in "The Tudors," but couldn't stand his American character in the tv series "Dracula." I'm pleased though that he will be in the next season of "Vikings."
I wasn’t thrilled with “Conviction,” but it did appear that her character was softening a bit. I don’t think the network is going to pick it up, but they haven’t actually cancelled it yet.
A lot of Brit actors try to develop a passable American accent; American movies/tv is where the real money is. I first knew Brendan Gleeson from “Lake Placid” and didn’t realize he was Irish until I saw him interviewed.
After all of that nonsense, gaining a vagina seems pretty simple.
Damien Lewis and Jason Issacs did it. Jason’s accent was kind of weird, it was from all over America. If he’s laid that on me in the Ardennes in 1944, I’d have arrested him.
Next Dr. Who replacement to be a BLM. Black Lesbian Midget.
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