Damn budget cuts!

This has been fun, kid, but I really shouldn't have gotten into it with you. I really am old enough to know better. I genuinely hope you're able to move past this phase you're going through, and maybe even enjoy the next series of Doctor Who if Chibnall doesn't bugger it up. Cheers.

And yet you have either missed or deliberately ignored the narrative groundwork within the show that he has, as I said, been laying for the last couple of years - Time Lords regenerating across genders and ethnicities on screen, the Doctor joking about the possibility that he's been a woman before, the Doctor…

Replace the word 'guy' with 'baby,' then close your eyes and try to get some sleep. I'll sing to you if you like.

Try reading over this sentence again and seeing if you can get it to make sense, because it's very bad.

Nice Dutchman's wheelbarrow fallacy, nerd.

This is a dumb rhetorical device and you use it far too much.

I think non-UK people don't realise what a cultural juggernaut DW is in the UK. Tennant's era was when the show caught on in online fandom circles, and Smith got the US on board, but the Eccleston season was massive on the show's home turf. People from three generations of my family sat down and watched The Christmas…

Can someone please give this guy his bottle? I think naptime is well past due.

Congratulations on being right about something for very possibly the first time.

If you haven't spotted it you're as detached from reality as you are upset at having to share your toys.

Imagine doing "I know you are but what am I" this much, with this level of insufferable pomposity, all while being the biggest crybaby pissboy imaginable.

I'm legitimately surprised it's that white, although thinking about the Cornish village where my mother grew up, non white people were still a bit of a novelty last time I was there in '06.

Yeah, sadly not a hypothetical example. I've seen it time and time again in nerd circles online, going way back to when Michael Clark Duncan was cast as the Kingpin.

"I don't need characters in pop culture to look like me, it's just great that they always have and now that's changing I'm definitely not dealing with my fear and anger by concern trolling."

It renders gender identity precisely as meaningless to Time Lords as the show has explicitly made it.

That must be why he spent the last two years setting it up.

Or power dynamics, or history, or just the sheer number of lead characters in this kind of fiction who are male vs female.

Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I thought you meant, like, why would anyone have any kind of reaction.

Any time a woman or a PoC gets a job that's traditionally been held by a white man, there's someone to complain (sorry "worry") that it's a token hire. And that's a big part of why things are slower to change than many of us would like.