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Bill Potts Rant

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behindthegoddess:

If you didn’t know, I love Doctor Who. A lot. So when I saw season 10, I was not impressed. I’m not going to hold back here, it was the worst season of Doctor Who I had ever seen. The storylines were ridiculous, the character development was.. Null. It was nothing. I cannot think, in my head of one way a character developed. Not to mention, Bill Potts. AKA I pander to SJWs.

I have never seen a character pander more to SJWs than Bill Potts. Bill Potts is everything Tumblr likes: an unattractive (call me harsh but she is universally unattractive), black lesbian. And that would be fine… If the show stopped reminding me every episode.

In the first episode, Bill has a almost partner and I didn’t mind that. But almost every episode felt to mention that she was black or a lesbian.

We had to have a racist Victorian guy, some guy crushing on Bill so Bill can tell him she’s a lesbian (this also had nothing to do with anything and added nothing to the episode), a blue guy accusing Bill of racism so she can explain racism, Bill telling the doctor randomly that she likes girl when he already knows and finally, Bill traveling the universe with her girlfriend.

I might have been able to deal with that if Bill was a good character. She wasn’t. She just asked questions and made “funny” statements. She didn’t develop at all. And don’t try to tell me her lack of development is because she only had one season. The most developed Doctor Who character, Donna Noble, had one season.

Of course though, Bill will get defended to death because she’s an unattractive, black lesbian.

All righty, this post (which was thoughtfully placed in the Bill Potts tag where all her fans go) is desperately and deliberately racist, but the OP obviously knows and is proud of that. So arguing wouldn’t do much good. So I’m taking it over instead to post many beautiful photos and gifs of the beautiful Bill and Pearl Mackie! Do join me?

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newtslayer:

highwaytohell-a:

sarah531:

Maybe this speaks to tumblr’s bizarre ‘perfect pure progressive thing/trash awful anti-progressive thing’ dichotomy more than anything else (because a different more unknown white guy will be writing the new Doctor?) , but I’m sort of discouraged that the reaction to the 13th Doctor news from a lot of quarters has been “oh good, I can finally watch this show again, it is Progressive now”. And I don’t want to underplay the huge deal that a female Doctor is, it is a huge deal. But…

Bill Potts was a huge deal too. People who see themselves in her have written about her importance at length. She was (heck, is, she’ll almost definitely be back for the Christmas Special, Pearl Mackie’s been spotted on set) a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead on one of the biggest sci-fi shows ever. Bill beamed out from a lot of the posters and from the children’s tie-in magazines. Bill kissed a girl on television, a full-on passionate overjoyed kiss, during family viewing hour on the BBC. Bill had natural hair. Bill became immortal (by choice) in a world where TV producers almost seem to hate gay characters getting happy endings. Bill was an audience surrogate who represented a lot of Brits who don’t see themselves represented on British TV often. It’s just –

The companion’s the audience surrogate. Everyone was encouraged to see themselves in Bill Potts. And she was the co-lead. That bears repeating. The Doctor’s one lead of Doctor Who and the Companion’s the other one.

If a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead wasn’t enough to get you to Finally Watch The Show Again, why is a white female co-lead what eventually manages to do it?

If a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead wasn’t enough to get you to Finally Watch The Show Again, why is a white female co-lead what eventually manages to do it?

a more articulated version of what I was trying to say yesterday, thank you.
I loved Bill so deeply and was wounded by the way she was treated that all those “I can finally watch DW” messages that have been pouring from twitter and tumblr, mostly coming from white queer people, feel like a personal attack.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that literally nobody ever talked about it so there was no way to know unless you were already watching the show? Why is it that you and all the people that were apparently still keeping up with what was going on with the show never spread the word that this character even existed? LIke, you’re the one here shitting on people for being excited for a female doctor just because there’s a more progressive character there’s a pretty good chance they literally never heard of.


literally nobody ever talked about it….Why is it that you
and all the people that were apparently still keeping
up with what was going on with the show never spread the word that this
character even existed?

LIke, you’re the one here shitting on people for being excited for a female doctor

Source and quote please.

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sarah531:

Maybe this speaks to tumblr’s bizarre ‘perfect pure progressive thing/trash awful anti-progressive thing’ dichotomy more than anything else (because a different more unknown white guy will be writing the new Doctor?) , but I’m sort of discouraged that the reaction to the 13th Doctor news from a lot of quarters has been “oh good, I can finally watch this show again, it is Progressive now”. And I don’t want to underplay the huge deal that a female Doctor is, it is a huge deal. But…

Bill Potts was a huge deal too. People who see themselves in her have written about her importance at length. She was (heck, is, she’ll almost definitely be back for the Christmas Special, Pearl Mackie’s been spotted on set) a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead on one of the biggest sci-fi shows ever. Bill beamed out from a lot of the posters and from the children’s tie-in magazines. Bill kissed a girl on television, a full-on passionate overjoyed kiss, during family viewing hour on the BBC. Bill had natural hair. Bill became immortal (by choice) in a world where TV producers almost seem to hate gay characters getting happy endings. Bill was an audience surrogate who represented a lot of Brits who don’t see themselves represented on British TV often. It’s just –

The companion’s the audience surrogate. Everyone was encouraged to see themselves in Bill Potts. And she was the co-lead. That bears repeating. The Doctor’s one lead of Doctor Who and the Companion’s the other one.

If a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead wasn’t enough to get you to Finally Watch The Show Again, why is a white female co-lead what eventually manages to do it?

#i thought she was horribly murdered????

Without giving too much away, no, she wasn’t. Actually, out of all the Moffat companions, I’m pretty sure she’s the only one who’s never died. (Clara’s immortal, but her death is a a fixed point; River is dead but her consciousness exists in a computer; Amy is dead from the Doctor’s perspective albeit after living a long life; and Rory…. let’s not get started on Rory.)

Being shot didn’t kill her, what happened to her in the Doctor Falls didn’t kill her, her love for another woman did save her life (it’s complicated) and now she’s functionally immortal, with the option of returning to being human if she really wants to.

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A fic I’ve been mulling over since The Doctor Falls aired. One of those strange, sad little affairs told from the perspective of a not-so-great person

or, “Bill heads ‘home’ to her foster mother after meeting Heather again.”

[warnings: homophobia, unsupportive parental figures, ….nothing you couldn’t have guessed about the Bill and Moira relationship from the show though?]

[Also, this has no title yet.]

(more…)

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highwaytohell-a:

sarah531:

Maybe this speaks to tumblr’s bizarre ‘perfect pure progressive thing/trash awful anti-progressive thing’ dichotomy more than anything else (because a different more unknown white guy will be writing the new Doctor?) , but I’m sort of discouraged that the reaction to the 13th Doctor news from a lot of quarters has been “oh good, I can finally watch this show again, it is Progressive now”. And I don’t want to underplay the huge deal that a female Doctor is, it is a huge deal. But…

Bill Potts was a huge deal too. People who see themselves in her have written about her importance at length. She was (heck, is, she’ll almost definitely be back for the Christmas Special, Pearl Mackie’s been spotted on set) a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead on one of the biggest sci-fi shows ever. Bill beamed out from a lot of the posters and from the children’s tie-in magazines. Bill kissed a girl on television, a full-on passionate overjoyed kiss, during family viewing hour on the BBC. Bill had natural hair. Bill became immortal (by choice) in a world where TV producers almost seem to hate gay characters getting happy endings. Bill was an audience surrogate who represented a lot of Brits who don’t see themselves represented on British TV often. It’s just –

The companion’s the audience surrogate. Everyone was encouraged to see themselves in Bill Potts. And she was the co-lead. That bears repeating. The Doctor’s one lead of Doctor Who and the Companion’s the other one.

If a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead wasn’t enough to get you to Finally Watch The Show Again, why is a white female co-lead what eventually manages to do it?

If a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead wasn’t enough to get you to Finally Watch The Show Again, why is a white female co-lead what eventually manages to do it?

a more articulated version of what I was trying to say yesterday, thank you.
I loved Bill so deeply and was wounded by the way she was treated that all those “I can finally watch DW” messages that have been pouring from twitter and tumblr, mostly coming from white queer people, feel like a personal attack.

^^

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Maybe this speaks to tumblr’s bizarre ‘perfect pure progressive thing/trash awful anti-progressive thing’ dichotomy more than anything else (because a different more unknown white guy will be writing the new Doctor?) , but I’m sort of discouraged that the reaction to the 13th Doctor news from a lot of quarters has been “oh good, I can finally watch this show again, it is Progressive now”. And I don’t want to underplay the huge deal that a female Doctor is, it is a huge deal. But…

Bill Potts was a huge deal too. People who see themselves in her have written about her importance at length. She was (heck, is, she’ll almost definitely be back for the Christmas Special, Pearl Mackie’s been spotted on set) a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead on one of the biggest sci-fi shows ever. Bill beamed out from a lot of the posters and from the children’s tie-in magazines. Bill kissed a girl on television, a full-on passionate overjoyed kiss, during family viewing hour on the BBC. Bill had natural hair. Bill became immortal (by choice) in a world where TV producers almost seem to hate gay characters getting happy endings. Bill was an audience surrogate who represented a lot of Brits who don’t see themselves represented on British TV often. It’s just –

The companion’s the audience surrogate. Everyone was encouraged to see themselves in Bill Potts. And she was the co-lead. That bears repeating. The Doctor’s one lead of Doctor Who and the Companion’s the other one.

If a black, lesbian, working-class co-lead wasn’t enough to get you to Finally Watch The Show Again, why is a white female co-lead what eventually manages to do it?

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