Y’know I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a Doctor Who scene more obviously Written By A Man than the bit in The Lazarus Experiment where Tish Jones, having previously been grossed out by old Professor Lazarus inappropriately hitting on her, immediately goes off alone with him as soon as he turns physically young and attractive
April 4, 2017 @ 12:23 pm
Oh dear. I always just assumed she was being polite because he was her boss and held a sort of creepy patriarchal influence over her as a result, but the notion that the patriarchal influence might be on the level of writer instead is even more uncomfortable.