Lizo Mzimba, author.
Posted on 04/01/2017 2:38:57 PM PDT by Ennis85
The new series of Doctor Who will see the Time Lord joined by his first openly gay companion. Bill Potts's sexuality will be revealed pretty much straightaway in her second line of dialogue when the show returns to BBC One on 15 April. "It shouldn't be a big deal in the 21st Century. It's about time isn't it?" Pearl Mackie, who plays Bill, told the BBC. "That representation is important, especially on a mainstream show." She added: "It's important to say people are gay, people are black - there are also aliens in the world as well so watch out for them. "I remember watching TV as a young mixed race girl not seeing many people who looked like me, so I think being able to visually recognise yourself on screen is important." "[Being gay] is not the main thing that defines her character - it's something that's part of her and something that she's very happy and very comfortable with."
Gay and bisexual characters have featured in Doctor Who before, such as Captain Jack and River Song, but this is the first time the Doctor's permanent companion has been openly gay. Although Captain Jack - played by John Barrowman - travelled with the Doctor for a number of episodes, he was not a full-time companion in the traditional sense. Mackie said it had been "kind of insane" to be the centre of attention since she was announced in the role last April, despite not being seen on screen until this Easter. "My Twitter follower count went from 400-and-something to 16,500 in about two hours, so that was pretty mental," said the actress, who is taking over from Jenna Coleman as the Doctor's companion. "But it's been really nice, everyone seems to be really excited."
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They just can’t stop can they. They’re out of the closet and know no bounds of decency or restraint.
Guess I will continue to miss nothing from never watching this show, whatever it is.
WRONG!
Captain Jack Harkness.
I am so f*****j tied of faggots, the defective/perverted 2% of the population, being plastered front and center of every entertainment venue, as if it were somehow acceptable.
“It shouldn’t be a big deal in the 21st Century. It’s about time isn’t it?”
Ok, if it shouldn’t be a big deal, then why in the sam hill are they pushing homosexuality???
On the one hand, they say it’s no big deal. Yet the people who say it’s not a big deal, are the ones pushing homosexuality, which sounds like it is a big deal to them, since they are the ones who are pushing it.
Who cares if we don’t like it..?
What REALLY matters is if kids like it. And now that kids have their OWN forums they’re not NEARLY as easily dictated to by cosmopolitan broadcast executives as they once were:
This show is utterly DOOMED.
Aaaandd....that’s the end of the doctor for me.
Lizo Mzimba, author.
Cool.
Won’t ever watch.
What we need now is a transvestite James Bond. Oh, and he’s a Muslim.
"We Ruin Everything"
Great way to not get renewed next season. No Thirteenth Doctor. At least the original show made it to seven official doctors, plus the Valeyard (who according to canon ought to show up again sometime before Peter Capaldi leaves the show).
Okay, I’m confused. The actress is playing a character named Bill Pott. Is she playing a gay man, or a lesbian with a man’s name? Is the actress gay? Is The Doctor gay? Was it assumed that the Doctor was doing his female companions? If not, what the companion does for fun shouldn’t matter unless he’s going to be dragging gay aliens aboard the Tardis. Of course if “he” is a real screamer that would be annoying regardless of anything else.
PS. Matthew Waterhouse, who played the fourth and fifth Doctor companion Adric, is homosexual.
A boy named Sue and a girl named Bill...
Jenna got a promotion to Queen (Victoria)
Wish I had watched it, so that I could STOP watching it -— and hopefully mess up their view rating.
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