”YOU KNOW, NINE HUNDRED YEARS OF TIME AND SPACE AND I’VE NEVER MET ANYBODY WHO WASN’T IMPORTANT.”
bill potts
I drew more Bill! :D
Costume based off one she’s seen wearing in the recent trailer, minus the mud. Plus Pearl is cute. More Bill soon, perhaps, as well as other Doctor Who supporting characters,
Link to the artwork on my deviantArt here, and my Facebook page here.
Regarding that Pearl Mackie rumour.
There’s a couple of posts going around, rapidly gaining traction, stating that Pearl Mackie has been ‘fired’ from Doctor Who after just one series. Source: The Sun. Small problem with this:
The Sun are LIARS. Also racists, transphobes, homophobes, every bad thing under the sun. (Pun actually not intended.) I cannot stress this enough. Even in the UK, they have no credibility whatsoever. They are our equivalent of Fox News. Don’t just take my word for it, read their Wikipedia page.
They’ve worked out by now that a fake Doctor Who story = lots of clicks. Observe:
(They also once ran a story about Harriet Jones being the Supreme Dalek (???), though all evidence of it beyond that one forum link is long gone)
Anyway, and this is the really important part, so important I’m gonna put it in bold and italic and header font:
The Sun did this exact. same. thing to the last Black actress to join Doctor Who in a lead role.
A few episodes into Freema Agyeman’s run as Martha Jones, the Sun claimed she was “axed” (Original article long gone: text of it can be found here) Everyone believed it; the result was distressing to Agyeman, as you can imagine –
And of course it wasn’t true. Freema Agyeman and Martha stuck around til series four.
I am SO PISSED OFF that The Sun did the same thing again, to another young black actress just starting out. So pissed off.
In fact, the bold header text is not enough to contain my pissed-off-ness.
The Sun is not a good newspaper. It is barely a newspaper. It is certainly not a credible source. It actively endangered people’s lives in the 80s with its lies about AIDS. It ruined many people’s lives in 1989 with its lies about the Hillsborough disaster. It published an article by human toilet (/frequent Sun contributor) Katie Hopkins calling for “cockroach” refugees to be gunned down. (Yes. That is a thing that really honestly happened.) It is nothing but lies, lies, racism, every other -ism, and lies. What wouldn’t I give to it, The Daily Mail and the Express gone from the shelves.
Do not believe what they’re saying about Pearl Mackie. Do not believe what they’re saying about anything. If you click on a Doctor Who story and see “The Sun” anywhere near it, immediately back away. They are scum. They are utter, utter scum.
Please spread this around with the same speed with which you would like to see Katie Hopkins punched in the face.
Everyone who’s freaking out over that rumour about Pearl Mackie leaving after one season, I’m not saying you’re wrong to, but here’s how The Sun – the lowest of the low; it barely deserves to be called a newspaper – treated the last black female Doctor Who companion.
Exactly the same way. And it was a lie then too.
Pearl Mackie Gets Fired From Doctor Who After Only One Season
Pearl Mackie Gets Fired From Doctor Who After Only One Season
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According to The Sun, “A source told the publication: ‘Bosses have decided to have a completely fresh start.” So, it makes sense they would start from scratch.” It goes on to say, “It’s yet to be formally decided but it makes sense to give Chris his own choice of actor to play the Doctor and his companion.”
i’m so tired of being disappointed by this show
Welp, there goes my interest in getting back into this show.
This is not a good strategy. It discourages fans from getting invested, before her season even airs we know she won’t be around later, so what’s the point of caring? This undercuts her importance. It tells audiences “she’s not important, don’t even bother.”
Fuck you, BBC.
To be fair, The Sun is pretty terrible and has made up stuff before.
This is The Sun. It claimed that Freema Agyeman was too ‘fired’ from the show after just one season.
It’s almost like they’re liars and racists, or something….
If she were enrolled in a course he took he wouldn’t have to ask why she attends, so she’s not. I think “what are you doing at this university” works the same way; not necessarily, but of course she says “I serve chips” not, “I study physics/poetry/etc.”
So I think she’s not. Maybe she doesn’t have enough money to. Maybe she’s serving chips and saving up while sitting in on lectures at the university she’s always wanted to go to, dreaming and working for it, even before we meet her.
I love her already.
Doctor Who gets first openly gay companion – BBC News
Bill Potts’s sexuality will be revealed pretty much straightaway in her second line of dialogue when the show returns to BBC One on 15 April.
“It shouldn’t be a big deal in the 21st Century. It’s about time isn’t it?” Pearl Mackie, who plays Bill, told the BBC.
“That representation is important, especially on a mainstream show.”
She added: “It’s important to say people are gay, people are black – there are also aliens in the world as well so watch out for them.
“I remember watching TV as a young mixed race girl not seeing many people who looked like me, so I think being able to visually recognise yourself on screen is important.”
“[Being gay] is not the main thing that defines her character – it’s something that’s part of her and something that she’s very happy and very comfortable with.”
HELL FUCKING YEAH
