I Figured Out What is Missing from Series 11 ...
Fun.
shareThere's fun but it's just really watered down. Not your Karen Gillan/Tom Baker/Peter Capaldi lively speech or actions.
Pretty valiant attempts at humour in Episode 4: having the Doctor over for tea, blasting stereo issuing heavy rhythms music, embarrassing dad.
Did notice however the attempt to insert once again the Doctor's "female generations past" when she was talking about families in Yasmin's family flat. Not an entertaining message.
I noted that also.. Amazing how the writers can throw in any old bollocks now and get away with it.
Yes, we know the doctor is a woman. No, we don't need to be told about it at every opportunity, it's not a vague reference within the casual conversation style of the overall who persona, it's an obviously overt throw in to say "Hey, look everyone, the doctor is a woman now!"
Just as now, she's a woman so her estrogen must be leading her down the SJW path in all things, yet the latest episode shows that it's the writing, not the acting, also.
What is missing from the latest season is, much to my chagrin, a penis.
Yep.
And if you compare classic Who with this season, you can see how more effective it was to invest the characters with integrity and courage to state their position without necessarily "winning" an argument or what have you. Strong willed female characters could criticise narrowmindedness regarding female input and even act on their convictions regardless of the priorities of the male dominated organisations often encountered in the stories. Examples are Zoe and the fashion model/photographer Isobel from the story "The Invasion" and really anything Sarah Jane Smith was in.
Zoe knew she was capable and was not hemmed in by unappreciative biased ideas about women. Isobel was clearly a glamorous young woman who was learning and developing skills and discovered her limitations when faced with a technical challenge she wasn't fully prepared for. She was happy within her own skin and resistant against gender discrimination, and was ready to try her hand at applying her existing knowledge on something which would befuddle most men and women - infrared photography. Sarah Jane was courageous but sometimes too impulsive but she wasn't going to fade into the background because of occasional mistakes.
The classic stories were interested in portraying realistic social conflicts without becoming a political platform to engineer the social values of the audience.
"The classic stories were interested in portraying realistic social conflicts without becoming a political platform to engineer the social values of the audience."
That, sums it up entirely. Absolutely.
I so wish others would understand this... Thank you !!
""The classic stories were interested in portraying realistic social conflicts"
which ones did that then?