Fictional people aren’t people.

Then what exactly would you define as a ‘sexist manner’? Because saying the Doctor should be a man/woman can’t possibly be more sexist than saying ‘I should be a man/woman’.

But, by that reasoning, simply identifying as either heterosexual or homosexual (or cisgender or transgender for that matter) would be sexist. Technically at the most ridiculously honed down definition it’s correct, but calling someone a sexist JUST for those preferences would be beyond stupid.

Yes... but allow for the fact that you might not love it. Some non-80s kids do still adore it, but you seem to be coming at it from a similar place as I was (no affection, nostalgic or earned, for the vast majority of the inspirations cited) and I didn’t much care for it. It’s an incredibly impressive piece of work…

What is your definition of sexist here? The acknowledgement of differences in gender that might result in changes to the way a piece of art or social interactions work, or the oppression of a gender for malicious or selfish reasons? Because if you think the latter is the case for everyone who opposes a female Doctor,…

(Through the stupid Kinja I can’t tell which comment you’re responding to, so apologies if I’m referencing the wrong one):
Ah, but gender-swapping is deliberately changing something, which leaves it open to being a change for either the better or for the worse. That’s not the same as saying the gender doesn’t (or…

I haven’t actually noticed too much sexism in Chibnall’s writing compared to Moffat’s (I haven’t seen Camelot); Chibnall’s flaws to me are equally spread between the characters, along with the plotting, pacing, dialogue and imagination.

See my other reply in this section, beginning ‘Only as sexist as saying that a male actor should play James Bond, or a female actor should play Miss Marple.’ 

No, the opinion that the Doctor is a male character is not sexist, it’s just incorrect.

Only as sexist as saying that a male actor should play James Bond, or a female actor should play Miss Marple. Only as sexist as drawing ANY kind of distinction between male and female. And if you don’t think there is a distinction, ask any transgender person how they feel about the distinction being unimportant. Hell,…

What an original comment and thorough rebuttal. You’ve clearly earned your place in this conversation.

No, they’re not necessarily sexist. At least, no more than anyone who said the next Doctor SHOULD be a woman is sexist. Some might be, on both sides, but not all. Quit tarring an entire group with a different opinion than yours with the same brush, you’re not going to help anyone.

You know, if you ear-equivalent-of-squint, it kind of sounds like it could be a horror movie soundtrack, I’m thinking along the lines of Halloween or The Exorcist. If it weren’t so darn bubbly it might work.

At least the dialogue was heaps better than last week. I kept waiting for it to become unbearable, but it never did. The pacing was a bigger issue, though, and the character work is questionable at best. It was also... kinda dull? For a few stretches, at least. It just took too long to get to its first real action…

Oh, the first two have NOTHING on the third in that regard. But I love them, and really want them adapted for television properly one day (the Billie Piper TV films don’t count, for numerous reasons, two of which are in that very description).

They keep fucking with reality and it’s getting alarming. I swear in season five they’ll have an episode about how Nathan convinced the entire world that it existed, and we’ll know it’s true.

I’m serious - I love the Sally Lockhart books. His Dark Materials was fine, but didn’t grip me the way the trilogy+1 (it’s not really a quadrilogy, since The Tin Princess is more of a spin-off than a fourth Sally Lockhart story) did.

The hell with this, I want more stories in the Sally Lockhart line!

Talk to the Han: A Star Wars Story
Han’s Off: A Star Wars Story
Han Job: A Family Guy Joke
Catch Me If You Han: A Star Wars Story
So Near Yet Solo: A Star Wars Story
Solo And Thanks For All The Fish: A Star Wars Story
Solo, Solo, Who’s Your Lady Friend: A Star Wars Story
The Star Wars Hanthology

Oof, the dialogue here was BAD. I mean, it’s been bad so far, but kind of unobtrusively bad? The case could have been made for the first few episodes that it was just a kind of hackneyed seriousness that didn’t work for the show. They proved that wrong here; turns out Inhumans trying to be fun and witty is much more…