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plus was there not a body swapping episode where the doctor was a women for awhile ?

[Strela167]

plus was there not a body swapping episode where the doctor was a women for awhile ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1convDWA_tE

[Strela167]

Never heard of her so had a google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMCma5Bzn4Q

sounds down to 'Earth', pun

looks the part in the clip too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXBfO9mNm0

should be good .... roll on Chrissy special

[mlcor]

As a big Sherlock Holmes fan, I thought the US series that cast Lucy Liu as Joan Watson works pretty well. Although, of course, it is Lucy Liu, which helps...

[Strela167]

As a big Sherlock Holmes fan, I thought the US series that cast Lucy Liu as Joan Watson works pretty well. Although, of course, it is Lucy Liu, which helps...

Pity she gets cast so often as just eye candy or the baddie.
Thought she made the part her own in Rise

[tribe125]

Of course it is!

No - political correctness involves some over-compensation. This is just moving with the times, like female train drivers.

[tribe125]

Never heard of her so had a google

Same here. She looks promising to me.

And yes, roll on Christmas!

[whatmeworry]

Same here. She looks promising to me.

And yes, roll on Christmas!

Yep, we're all really looking forward to it in my house. (Whittaker as Dr Who that is, not Christmas. Although we are looking forward to that too)



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[whatmeworry]

No - political correctness involves some over-compensation. This is just moving with the times, like female train drivers.

Exactly.
My son has just got really into Who, so we're watching the modern ones (Ecclestone onwards) on Netflix. Given that they introduced gay themes over 10 years ago, a female Dr seems positively overdue. I'd have liked to see the move when Capaldi got the role, although to be fair he was great.


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[Raza]

Just making everything darker and the violence more realistic isn't really a reboot to me. Still same tired stereotypes, just less kitsch.

They also literally started at the beginning of the character and gave him a fully fleshed out origin story. Same stereotypes yes, but less kitsch is a huge step in the right direction.

Basically, they tried to fit the new Bond movies in the the mold of the best Bond movie (even though at the time it was lambasted for being too dark), The Living Daylights.

I will say, though, as a property, Mission Impossible is beating Bond. It's fresher, it's more versatile, and thanks to the fact that it's not necessarily based on a named character, it can have a more varied cast that can add more to the table. Bond doesn't really work with a team beyond M and Q--and their roles are basically to assign a mission and then outfit for the mission, respectively. Involving Q more in Spectre was a step in the right direction. It makes Bond more tangible, less superhuman. The moviegoer has more access to knowledge of how spies actually work--and while we don't want the next James Bond to be a guy sipping coffee out of a paper cup while looking at satellite photos, the use of team members with different functions feels more realistic than M saying to Bond "Jim, go here, sleep with all the women, and then shoot everyone else in the face" and then Bond doing it.