Verity Ritchie
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"Doctor Who vs Women" premiere!
🕑 Added 2023-10-20 18:26:08 +0000 UTCCome drop by for the premiere if you can! I know something like Doctor Who can seem super niche, but we've done our best to make this video enjoyable for those who don't watch the show. All you need to know is that there is a time machine which looks like a small wooden box on the outside and is very big on the inside. There, you're an expert now! Enjoy! ๐
We are working on an appendix video just for the Patreon; we had two ideas for this video which kept pushing and pulling the script in different directions until we finally decided its best to just make it into two videos!
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AD
Revisiting this video as it's one of my faves and having the thought that Classic Who was really getting somewhere on this front at the time of its cancellation, and RTD had the insight to pick up and expand where they left off. Maybe the show's decline gave it a bit more freedom to slip new ideas in -- some more successful than others, but sometimes with cool results. Not only did they get a ton of a deeply unsubtle queercoding and more brazen political commentary (hello hammer and sickle) through the censors, but Ace honestly feels like a complete departure from the old trend in all the ways she's so wonderfully gender-nonconforming. And she's arguably the prototype for Rose (a companion who gets a full backstory and arc that matter for the drama of the season, a working class teen who experiences growth and even teaches the doctor something during her time in the tardis) and maybe for Jack, too (chaos bicon of a companion who makes a new "friend" every episode). Hell, 10 is kind of like "what if 7, but twink?" I have the kind of love for that era of the show that I have for Torchwood -- so much that's great and uniquely subversive alongside the bizarre and problematic. I can't help but feel they were so close to a big breakthrough, and I'm glad that breakthrough came eventually (if only to be bowled over by the Moffat era).
Verity
Well...he would've been in his 30s... Is 30s young? ๐ฅบ Let's say 30s is young still!
Simon Patience
I wonder if Moffat was forever ensorcelled by Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct - he wouldโve been quite young when that came out.
