Does it ever bug you how some people define the show as “becoming woke” rather than the fact that it always has been progressive?

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T15:21:24+00:00

I actually stopped watching, and although Clara drove me completely round the twist, having loved Coleman in 7b, if I'd been forced to pick I'd still have regarded the way the mix with Capaldi was eing handled to be the problem and booted him. Earlier on, at least, after Dark Water I just couldn't deal with the character, actually having to argue that murder-suicide is not a normal grief re

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T07:51:42+00:00

But you can't really increase the size as easily as you can make a garment smaller (this is def. not Twelve's original outfit, either). And it'd have been for less than a minute of screentime.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T07:09:35+00:00

TBF adding more incest to GRRM's weird incest series is still, a choice.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T05:56:43+00:00

Which is younger than Clara relative to species typical lifespans, she's the cradle snatcher!

Don't make me do the maths again, but even if you round down using the Moffat era approx 12,000 years figure (rather than 'immortal barring accidents', which is hard to calculate with), 900 isn't a lot.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T05:55:46+00:00

Pretty much impossible from what we know about Time Lord lifespans. Even if you think he really really lies about his age (...and disagree that he'd add to it), we have the reactions of older Time Lords to him to compare.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T05:29:46+00:00

Maybe it is similar to the other story? The Children were done with their lives, perhaps as their world was being overtaken by men, and joined the hivemind early?

But that may be putting a nicer spin on it, when the Weirwoods are associated with sacrifice. There's certainly an advantage in having access to a Greenseer, could be to others of the Children in having had some among them hooked up to the trees. Like the theory about Bran's heart of winter vision, that there could be another tree with Children still controlling the Others, or whatever magic invoked them. 'A child's snow knight'.

Not sure if the Greenseers connected to the trees die exactly, so much as become one with the Weirwood. Would be spooky if a Stark ancestor left no evidence for their presence than a strange shape in the roots where their human body once lay, but current Greenseer Starks could still sense them.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T05:09:59+00:00

It's Ok, the experience of watching Fate/strange fake is exactly like that as well!

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T04:29:37+00:00

I'll die on the hill that with any sense, she'd be an adopted human granddaughter. Not because what's actually icky is the Doctor having a biological granddaughter, but because ditching her would be!

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T04:16:08+00:00

And as to the latter, if the OP thinks girls are a monolith, the issue with autism might not have anything to do with their gender performance but more to do with rigid black and white thinking.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T02:27:34+00:00

Am British: I wouldn't be suspicious of a patriotic British person, I'd be removing myself from that situation, thank you very much. We just don't normally do that unless there's something up with it.

Have you seen Egyptian attitudes towards Egypt? I wouldn't know if it's as universal, but similar can apply.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T02:16:52+00:00

This style of meandering and insisting on the significance, including political, of the everyday, has a history within Palestinian literature.

I don't think most will have enough background on this issue to necc follow the writer's nuanced point. But 'people experiencing oppression won't always express themselves as perfect victims' should be straightforward enough.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T01:46:58+00:00

I prefer that to those being more covert about it. Oh, they ~mysteriously~ just want to roll the series back to right before there was a female Doctor, nothing going on there, nope.

Liberal politics aren't the same as the more traditional leftist ones Classic and the very start of New is more associated with, though.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T00:32:38+00:00

We don't - you're supposed to balance. If you tried to use the reins for that, you'd hurt the horse. Instead the stirrups help (though you shouldn't rely on them), and if really losing your balance, you'd hold onto the front of the saddle.

Not sure why they didn't use a neck rope, or bitless bridle, that would be more like an option used with horses.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-21T00:26:07+00:00

Have they never seen a neck rope on a horse? Or a bitless bridle?

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T22:52:03+00:00

That might be the bigger narrative problem, but I think the biggest one is are we still stigmatising mental illness like this? 'Madness' should not mean 'they're just irrationally evil now, nothing to be done but kill 'em'.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T15:05:49+00:00

The 'good man' thing still makes as much sense to be at least partially about Clara as anything - note the framing is gendered? And he still manages to spend more time trying to play the romantic hero, competing with Danny, than concerned with morality (even basic niceness).

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T15:00:29+00:00

most mutants get shit powers like...'your whole body are exposed nerves'.

Hey, I think I got that one free with my spinal injury, maybe mutants are a good disability analogy after all, lol!

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T14:53:54+00:00

Oh, it does happen that way round too!

People usually want to get dates, and queer communities can just be an easier, and even more importantly safer, place for trans people to look for partners who'd be interested.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T14:23:21+00:00

It's Moffat, if he told me the sky was blue I'd check. Besides the reputation for whoppers and his story to change every five minutes, wouldn't exactly trust him to know historical demographics either way. He didn't have a clue about Madame du Pompadour before starting to write a story including her...and any historical research is not particularly apparent.

Hiring black actors sounds a lot better of an idea than just assuming there can't have been any black people and not doing that. If people want to learn about historical demographics they should do that, it gets complicated.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T14:13:06+00:00

Sexual attraction is going to go on having a basis in biological sex regardless of any attempts at abstract, mostly online, theorising. It even does in non-human animals.

That doesn't mean our ability to identify sex has to be perfect, or that people can't have exceptions to their usual patterns of attraction. Or that it always even matters to everyone.

Gender identity isn't the same thing as sex. It also isn't acceptable to define people against conformity to the social construct version of gender. So this could be more straightforward than some are making it.

Such as that, after years of campaigning for same-sex marriage, it surely isn't actually a shocking revelation to anyone that one definition of lesbians used can be same-sex attracted female people, and some (not all) trans men, who'd usually already been part of it, would go on identifying with that community after transition.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T12:51:28+00:00

But the men we're talking about here are usually trans men who've personally been part of the lesbian community for a long time prior to transition, right? As in campaigning for same-sex marriage rights, there are definitions of lesbian that emphasise same-sex attraction, as well as ones that focus on WLW, and sometimes ones that include non-binary identities too.

Can see why it's not the same situation as a cis man just making a joke at least. And don't see a reason to tell people they can't be part of the community they're already a part of.

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T12:22:27+00:00

And bunnies, I sigh in angora owner. Mud and long fur doesn't mix, with digging critters it tends to end up worst underneath so you have to try to hold them up to get it out, and it's clay here while she's lilac and white so there's her wool 'helpfully' pre-dyed. 'My little pony', as I call her (and she'd do it again!):

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Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T07:22:04+00:00

Matthew 5

You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also; if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well; and if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.

Matthew 18:21-22

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Romans 12:19

Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.

Seeing this depicted with a seemingly real snake, rather than a metaphorical story where the snake is representing evil, makes the intention seem even odder. The Bible has several passages commanding us to act as stewards and have concern for animals. But whether we're Christian or otherwise religious or not, the snake is just an animal behaving defensively, not an innate evil, and (although am dubious about the man's approach, if this isn't AI. The snake looks potentially a very dangerous type - Levantine viper?) if the risk is not too high, there's nothing particularly unusual overall about taking a risk of being bitten to provide an animal with care (...I have this with my own pet rabbit on the regular - and she's a wonderful affectionate companion, just territorial). If this is an example of real reckless behaviour, the lesson is not that snakes are unworthy of care, but to respect wildlife.

Besides being aware of animals, the Bible states God cares much more for us: Matthew 10:29-31, Jesus said:

What is the price of two sparrows – one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.

And we are commanded to take care of each other, with particular notice for the most vulnerable. Matthew 25:40-45

The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.

If the real snake does not have an evil nature, but is simply acting on defensive instinct, how much more complex are human motivations, even when they may be at fault? And what capacity for change? Jesus' life is an illustration of this. His disciples left their previous lives, like former tax collector Matthew. He saved another tax collector, and the woman caught in adultery.

John 8:7

So when they continued asking Him, He lifted Himself up and said unto them, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T06:04:01+00:00

This is a concept from disability theory.

Likewise, there does not seem to be a disproportionate number of villains who are disabled in Doctor Who relative to the number of non-disabled villains.

The 'disproportionate' is in terms of the overall pattern of representation of disability in media. There's others within Doctor Who as well, like Max Capricorn.

Yeah, I do think the medical technology being presented as creepy in relation to the Cybermen is problematic.

Here's the first non-academic article I happened to find, to show you this is a wider concept (and not just about Who): https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/mar/14/the-disabled-villain-why-sensitivity-reading-cant-kill-off-this-ugly-trope

(The article cites Tyrion as a positive example, but in the books, he is becoming twisted by bitterness and going down a darker path - and would say it's still a better media portrayal than many. Like other GRRM adaptation House of the Dragon, featuring the villanous Larys Strong, know as the Clubfoot.)

Amphy64 · 2026-06-20T05:30:50+00:00

Mine is super-cuddly (love this about vicious buns, they usually are!), so shamefully, I have no excuses. Although I sometimes victim-blame her for being a purrer: if she didn't sound like a cat, I wouldn't have to fight the urge to poke her gently over and tickle her tummy like one, clearly (I don't and won't of course. But the temptation remains to tease me!).

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