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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
So, it was a good first episode. No spoilers below, I hope.
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To address the female Doctor thing; I don't think it matters. This is a character that we're used to seeing change regularly, so there's no real jarring effect to the character being a woman now. So long as the series continues with the mix of humour, science fiction, emotion and strong characters that we're used to and saw tonight, I think it'll be just fine.
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I dunno...my thing is, of all the ironies, after a lifetime of TV in which, of course, all the protags were male, except in Soaps, then the pendulum swung the other way, and now...I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but, every, and I mean, EVERY police procedural or mystery from the UK (and many from CAN and the States) now has a woman boss. EVERY captain, Lieutenant, DCI, etc., is now a woman. Every new detective show, a woman. It's as though male cops, detectives and mystery series protags have all died off, or been demoted, or are all buffoons, sexists, etc. I'm a woman, and even I'm over it. It's unrealistic and the WORST part is that 80% of the time, somehow, this female boss is a bit of a shrew, or a yeller, or, or or. Not anything remotely like actual bosses, male or female, of course.
OR, like that show that the Aussie guy was in the Mentalist thing--of course, the smart male subordinate routinely disobeys the female boss, who of course, isn't as smart and wily as he. (I managed to make it through about 4-5 of those, and promptly shut it off. I'd have fired his ass the 2nd time he "cheerfully" disobeyed and assumed he could charmingly wiseass his way out of it.)
It's like...you can't win for losing. Now it's absurdly as though the entire world is run by emo women shriekers, which is unrealistic in every possible way, or they've busy being ridden roughshod over by handsome charming smarmy male subordinates.
Whatever. Thank God for books, is all I'm going to say.
Hitch