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    as I said earlier…and I am grateful for the responses .. I do think it will work… I do think creatively its a choice that brings diversity to the role..  but there is still  a sense of loss there too.  I did share doctor who.. almost insistently with women and friends I love.. who now love it too.. there have been some good points made here all around. .. and its not unlike the fears of loosing David Tennant, or Tom Baker (folks thought it could never be Doctor who  without him once  .. and I had a feeling of loss there too)  Its bound to bring on a hefty case of regeneration jitters. I thought I’d never  get over David leaving.. and by the time Matt popped out of the tardis and greeted  Amelia  Pond.. I was loving him too  now Peter.. I have adored them all.. from William on.. shaky sets and all.. perhaps it’s the waiting to meet her, and know her that leaves us in a state. Seeing her doing the role will make a huge difference.

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    I’m sure the actress and the show will be good..they would not have made these choices otherwise  but I do have anger and sadness about a long standing male that I used as a role model and shared generationally with family has been just taken and made some how generic.. my very close bond I felt to the show is no more. I’m not a woman.. can feel the same connection. It would in my opinion never have been done if a generational  female hero that was loved and shared by mothers and daughters was changed to male…I think the outrage would be massive.. but it’s ok to take a kind non violent and somewhat unconventional male role model…of which there are so few, and change him to a woman. I feel I have lost something far more that we have gained.. and fear now the issue will become more and more what gender race ect will the actor be…  and always some one feeling slighted. Its as if my hero has been made generic, and  that too is a loss. I have loved females in television  strong vulnerable, and inspiring. Played by outstanding women as this will no doubt be.. but I still have lost something very important.. the grinning man that made me feel less alone even on my darkest days. that stability is lost. what ever will come I will see.. and likely like.. but always now.. it will never be the same for me. I had no idea I would feel this way till it happened but for now ..I greave the loss character I loved most of my life in books tv and movies alike. I feel the he was taken away, and handed off to someone else and that I don’t like. perhaps a main character should not be handled this way even if you can do it. I feel alienated from the show I loved for decades now  and the pain will take a lot of time to heal

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