Posted on 01/03/2019 5:53:58 PM PST by Ennis85
VIEWERS have accused Doctor Who bosses of swiftly killing off gay and lesbian characters.
They voiced anger online after a security guard was murdered in the New Year’s Day special.
It happened just seconds after the guard revealed he had a boyfriend — and followed the slayings of two lesbian characters in October.
The guard, played by Connor Calland, was seen challenging a Dalek-controlled character called Lin.
Asked who can unlock a fingerprint-operated door, he said: “Today, just me. Most secure digits in Yorkshire. That’s what I tell my boyfriend, anyway.”
Seconds later he was exterminated.
Doctor Who chiefs Chris Chibnall and Matt Strevens vowed to feature LGBT characters “from across the spectrum” in the latest series, which stars Jodie Whittaker as the Time Lord.
But one fan wrote: “I see Chris Chibnall continues to expand LGBT rep in Doctor Who in the form of corpses rather than characters. Yep, I see what you did there, and what you seem to keep doing.”
Another said the season has been peppered “with one-off, often unnamed gay characters” who are instantly killed. Alex Tyler said: “Oh wow the gay guard that dies after two lines, is this the diversity and inclusion BBC were promising?”
A Doctor Who source said: “There were several key LGBT characters throughout this series, as has been the case since the show returned in 2005.”
Chibnall’s forte seems to be making the horrible show runner Steve Moffat actually look almost competent.
I do miss Russell Davies.
That’s true. The suck of the new season was glaringly obvious.
Wow! Good for you! I am also DONE with the Doctor. They perverted the whole adventure!
What a queer thing to say (pun intended), but compared to the many episodes of adventures in his reboot that kept us watching until now, you are right.
I dropped it from my DVR queue. Knew it would be SJW loaded.
Showrunner I'll agree with you. But he also wrote some of the best episodes ever. Including the best, "Blink".
Under proper adult supervision, Moffat was a brilliant writer who could take an idea and make it come to life.
But he destroyed canon when he had free reign. And heck, he even destroyed the Weeping Angels, because he didn’t know how to do a story ARC. So we ended up with the bizarre story of the Statue of Liberty being a weeping angel, and somehow being able to walk through New York City, because apparently 8 million people all had better things to do than look up at this horrendous sound of a huge statue walking around.
And of course images of angels being able to become corporeal.
This year has sucked for story-telling, but it was kind of cool that the weeping angels made a return, in their more believable form.
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