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Apparently we’ve got a troll wandering around sending this message to people on Tumblr who have been critical of Moffat’s writing. Normally I’d hesitate to highlight the profiles of trolls and inflate their already over-inflated egos, but if this type of thinking is gaining traction again then I feel we need to sit the Doctor Who fandom down and have another chat.
First, girls are not just here for the pretty men and saying that we are is sexist bullshit.There’s a false panic about young heterosexual women fleeing Doctor Who based on the sexist assumption that women are only interested in speculative fiction when there is romance and hot men. Conversely, whenever women do express an appreciation for the men in a show, they are written off as inconsequential fangirls incapable of intellectually appreciating a show. Men, meanwhile, can express sexual interest in the female actors while also being considered intellectually serious fans. This “Squee Fan/Smart Fan” dichotomy a sexist double standard that we really need to shut down.
(Side note: There’s a lot of psuedo-scientific “proof” supposedly backing up the idea that young women flocked to Doctor Who for hot men, particularly because the show became increasingly popular while David Tennant and Matt Smith portrayed the Doctor. Everybody say it with me now: “Correlation does not imply causation!” The show also became increasingly popular during that time because of aggressive promotion in the UK and internationally. And, thanks to the increasing availability of high speed internet and services like Netflix, the show became increasingly accessible to new fans. So yeah, assuming the recent flood of young women watching the show is due to hot guys is also sexist bullshit.)
Second, assuming women are skeptical about the upcoming series of Doctor Who because they aren’t sexually attracted to Peter Capaldi is also sexist bullshit. Like, seriously? Do I even need to explain this? How misogynistic can you be if you looked through the latest critiques and reviews of Series 7, the 50th Anniversary Special, and the Christmas special, and decided, “Nah, these women are just upset because the Doctor isn’t a hot young guy anymore.”
That is a rather superficial attempt to dismiss legitimate criticism by women. It’s another version of the “Squee Fan/Smart Fan” dichotomy female fans face. This version of the dichotomy just assumes that the “smart” female fans only say positive things about the show. Female fans who are critical of the show can be dismissed, without engaging with their criticisms, by simply saying that their interest in the show is superficial and invalid because women only like the show because they’re attracted to the actors. Rather than engaging with their critiques, misogynistic trolls like this one can simply put women on the defensive and force them to justify their status as serious fans of the show.
So, to summarize: 1) Assuming young women are only interested in Doctor Who because of hot men is sexist bullshit. 2) Shaming young women for appreciating the hot men and assuming they are less serious or less important fans is sexist bullshit. 3) Assuming women are increasingly critical of Doctor Who because the Doctor is no longer portrayed by a young man is sexist bullshit.
“The truth is, Steven Moffat has become the Great Intelligence. The threat posed by the Intelligence in ‘Name of the Doctor’ is that he/it will take over the Doctor’s entire life and rewrite it to suit himself. This in the same episode in which Moffat literally inserts his own character, Clara, into every moment of the Doctor’s life, having her meet every single one of his incarnations, putting her at the very moment when the Doctor first leaves Gallifrey, telling him which TARDIS to steal. This in the same episode in which he introduces an entirely new, never-before-seen incarnation of the Doctor. Whatever else you can say about him, Moffat isn’t a writer who allows himself to be troubled by an excess of self-awareness. Of course, all Who is a palimpsest. But Steven Moffat seems to be the only writer to work on the show who is absolutely determined to overwrite his own personality on top of the whole damned thing.”
Speaking of characters never returning, why haven’t we ever seen a return of the Doctor’s Daughter? I fucking want to find out what happened to her. She came back to life and she had a space craft, right? What is she doing? Just traveling around space? I’d have thought she’d try to find the Doctor again. That would make a great episode. Although, Moffat would probably fuck it up, so…meh. Rather sad, that.
We all change. When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.
Proposal: Snoopy is actually a Time Lord. Probably the Doctor.
Evidence:
Snoopy was first sighted on Earth in October of 1950, and was around for far longer than any known beagle. Also, his appearance changes over time. (But he’s always been a white male!)
His dog house is canonically bigger on the inside.
And it flies. (Though it doesn’t always take him where he intended to go.)
He is known to have traveled in space.
He has a companion, one he understands and communicates with despite their different languages. (TARDIS translation circuit?)
He owned a Van Gogh. (The link between Van Gogh and the Doctor has been well-established.)
He’s been known to wear bow ties.
Conclusion: Time Lord!
Snoopy as Doctor Who, by Kieron O’Gorman. Click here for the original artwork.
Okay so, the Doctor is from out of space but does he only breathe oxygen like everyone else? Does Gallifrey have an atmosphere like Earth’s? Because I’d never thought about it before now but he seems to be struggling just as much as everyone else and he does seem to have the same basic anatomy as a human, other than the two hearts.
Anyone care to answer?
Gallifrey’s atmosphere is 77% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and 2% other, which means that it’s similar to Earth’s atmosphere, but it’s a bit thinner. The Doctor needs oxygen as well, but Time Lords have a raspiratory bypass system that allows them to go without breathing for a longer time span than humans.
Most fandoms have some pretty deep canon. The Doctor Who fandom can tell you the concentrations of gas in the atmosphere of the home planet of the main character. DW Fandom > Your fandom
This also means that Earth’s atmosphere gets the Doctor high, because it has double (or triple, I can’t do math, forgive me) the oxygen of Gallifrey. Obviously the TARDIS has an Earth-like oxygen level inside of it, which can explain why he’s so bloody hyper all the time.
so are you telling me that the Doctor protects Earth because it’s where he gets his fix is that it
