"And now the 13th Timelord in Dr Who is a woman. In the original and best series the TL could not regenerate beyond 10 times. Then they fiddled it because they were still making money. Now a woman? It is a travesty and a parody of the original concept. Bah!!!".
At least she is not an Australian.
A travesty and a parody of one? Or or... or not... ?
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I honestly don't know why people are having such a problem with it. I think it'll be cool to see how it's done if nothing else. I'd even like to think it could be a success. She was good in Broadchurch I've been told, the actress I mean. but I found that too difficult to watch so didn't and am only going on hearsay.
I will definitely be giving her a chance :)
unless...? Women are allowed to be doctors aren't they...? and rescue people, like firemen and policemen are - as well as do sciency stuff - aren't they...? Are they? ;)
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The original series was intended mainly as a kids programme, and they never expected that it would be as successful as it was. Kids used to hide behind the sofa when Daleks and Cybermen appeared :-)Then as the series progressed it was the parents that got hooked into it more than the kids!!
Originally the only female influence on the script was the Doctor's assistant, but with adults getting into it and being 21C and all, they have decided to trans morph the Doctor into a female to add a bit of extra interest, and tip their hat to Womens Lib in the process. Also I don't doubt that they are also seeing the success of Avatar and Game of Thrones, and want to cash in on the popular trend.
I wish her and the series well, quite genuinely, it is just that the current concept is quite different from the original intentions, but hey it's popular, the viewing figures are good, and it's making money, what is not to like about that?
I used to watch it and enjoy it many years ago but haven't seen it for a very long time, and the first film wasn't half bad either. But it seems to have gone the way of the Bond movies. The originals with Sean Connery got the balance right between wry humour, innuendo, and death. Roger Moore camped it up, Pearce Brosnan brought it back into line a bit, But Daniel Craig is far too dark and brooding. I haven't enjoyed his films at all. They'll never re-create the clip of Ursula undress Andress coming out of the sea in Dr, No.
The lesson here is not to mess about with the original concept that made things a hit in the first place, just to appease modern times, but as always money talks and propriety walks.
And I am a very very strong believer in equality for women in every sphere of life and always have been, and if anyone wants to accuse me differently, you ain't on my Christmas card list this year.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
And I am a very very strong believer in equality for women in every sphere of life and always have been, and if anyone wants to accuse me differently, you ain't on my Christmas card list this year.
I never did work out how they managed stairs ! :-)
I am a mild feminist. I don't mean the glib 'some of my best friends are feminists' but I have made a study of those women who were passed over ( for reward/promotion/recognition/accolades ) in the history of science.
One of my favorites is Emily ( 'Emmy' ) Noether who was a good friend and colleague of Albert Einstein, but almost never mentioned outside of certain areas of maths & physics. She explained with outstanding detail and rigour the mathematical reasoning that links fundamental conservation laws ( energy, momentum ... ) to some symmetric properties of the spacetime structure of our Universe. So if you have a law then there must be a symmetry and vice versa. This is an amazing piece of thinking and not much in the modern physics viewpoint makes sense without her great theorems. But I did an entire Bachelor of Science degree at Melbourne University - physics and maths major - without knowing of her in any regard.
She died young from the complications of major abdominal surgery, at a time in history when survival from such procedures was pretty much a coin toss. So one thinks : imagine what else she would have produced given another, say, thirty years of life. Gone too soon. Too soon. A lost gem. :-((
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
About feminism, you can of course go too far. Here in the Netherlands we have a woman with the fire-brigade suing for discrimination.
The physical tests can be more easily passed by young men then by old woman thus are not fair, or so is her reasoning.
So why can't we have a 90yo in a wheelchair as firefighter? It's all a conspiracy by the white man who feels his privileged position threatened by whiny, entitled, out-of-shape old women who can't walk up a flight of stairs in reasonable time.
And I am a very very strong believer in equality for women in every sphere of life and always have been, and if anyone wants to accuse me differently, you ain't on my Christmas card list this year.
I never did work out how they managed stairs ! :-)
Cheers, Mike.
View some of the later shows where they CAN climb stairs (especially shows in the Rebooted series). They have evolved some kind of force field/anti-gravity motors that lets them actually FLY now.
Or just a European, that
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Or just a European, that would have even been worse!
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A travesty and a parody of one? Or or... or not... ?
;)
I honestly don't know why people are having such a problem with it. I think it'll be cool to see how it's done if nothing else. I'd even like to think it could be a success. She was good in Broadchurch I've been told, the actress I mean. but I found that too difficult to watch so didn't and am only going on hearsay.
I will definitely be giving her a chance :)
unless...? Women are allowed to be doctors aren't they...? and rescue people, like firemen and policemen are - as well as do sciency stuff - aren't they...? Are they? ;)
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anniet wrote:unless...? Women
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I think there are some who post in BOINC related fora who could never accept it.
The original series was
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The original series was intended mainly as a kids programme, and they never expected that it would be as successful as it was. Kids used to hide behind the sofa when Daleks and Cybermen appeared :-)Then as the series progressed it was the parents that got hooked into it more than the kids!!
Originally the only female influence on the script was the Doctor's assistant, but with adults getting into it and being 21C and all, they have decided to trans morph the Doctor into a female to add a bit of extra interest, and tip their hat to Womens Lib in the process. Also I don't doubt that they are also seeing the success of Avatar and Game of Thrones, and want to cash in on the popular trend.
I wish her and the series well, quite genuinely, it is just that the current concept is quite different from the original intentions, but hey it's popular, the viewing figures are good, and it's making money, what is not to like about that?
I used to watch it and enjoy it many years ago but haven't seen it for a very long time, and the first film wasn't half bad either. But it seems to have gone the way of the Bond movies. The originals with Sean Connery got the balance right between wry humour, innuendo, and death. Roger Moore camped it up, Pearce Brosnan brought it back into line a bit, But Daniel Craig is far too dark and brooding. I haven't enjoyed his films at all. They'll never re-create the clip of Ursula undress Andress coming out of the sea in Dr, No.
The lesson here is not to mess about with the original concept that made things a hit in the first place, just to appease modern times, but as always money talks and propriety walks.
And I am a very very strong believer in equality for women in every sphere of life and always have been, and if anyone wants to accuse me differently, you ain't on my Christmas card list this year.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Woman can run a computer with
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Woman can run a computer with a boinc client too, not their problem if some can't accept such facts. Perhaps time to wake up and get back to reality.
I think there are some who
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I will 100% agree with you, probably those that choose to post in Seti Politics :-) A more MCP bunch you couldn't wish to meet!!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Chris S_2 wrote: And I
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I never did work out how they managed stairs ! :-)
I am a mild feminist. I don't mean the glib 'some of my best friends are feminists' but I have made a study of those women who were passed over ( for reward/promotion/recognition/accolades ) in the history of science.
One of my favorites is Emily ( 'Emmy' ) Noether who was a good friend and colleague of Albert Einstein, but almost never mentioned outside of certain areas of maths & physics. She explained with outstanding detail and rigour the mathematical reasoning that links fundamental conservation laws ( energy, momentum ... ) to some symmetric properties of the spacetime structure of our Universe. So if you have a law then there must be a symmetry and vice versa. This is an amazing piece of thinking and not much in the modern physics viewpoint makes sense without her great theorems. But I did an entire Bachelor of Science degree at Melbourne University - physics and maths major - without knowing of her in any regard.
She died young from the complications of major abdominal surgery, at a time in history when survival from such procedures was pretty much a coin toss. So one thinks : imagine what else she would have produced given another, say, thirty years of life. Gone too soon. Too soon. A lost gem. :-((
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
About feminism, you can of
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About feminism, you can of course go too far. Here in the Netherlands we have a woman with the fire-brigade suing for discrimination.
The physical tests can be more easily passed by young men then by old woman thus are not fair, or so is her reasoning.
So why can't we have a 90yo in a wheelchair as firefighter? It's all a conspiracy by the white man who feels his privileged position threatened by whiny, entitled, out-of-shape old women who can't walk up a flight of stairs in reasonable time.
Mike Hewson wrote:Chris S_2
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View some of the later shows where they CAN climb stairs (especially shows in the Rebooted series). They have evolved some kind of force field/anti-gravity motors that lets them actually FLY now.
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I never did work out how they
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Later in the series the scriptwriters gave the Daleks powers of levitation
I am a strong feminist, but only up to a point.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now