Re: The Unicorn and the Wasp...
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redscarlach, this is the first episode they filmed with Catherine Tate, and it really shows - not just the snappy dialogue typical to Doctor Who, but a lot of good physical comedy. I quite liked it, really, and LOL'd at the
ginger beer commentI did have one bone of contention, though: the death of Roger, which
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For other shows--House once had a pair of lesbians on it, and they both survived, though the state of their relationship was a little up in the air.
*is now running through every New Who episode she can think of in her head, because she is bored and wants to prove some point or another* Lessee, Algy and Jack in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances...and then, you know, I don't think there were any others. But! I also scanned for straight couples, and, whups, they don't seem to have a very high survival rate either: the married couple in Rose, and then there weren't any couples until Algy and Jack--except, wait, Pete and Jackie in Father's Day--and then the guy ( ... )
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...And have I ever told you how much I love that icon? Because, um, yeah. Reminds me of our production of B&tB.
[ 1] There is far too much social activism going around lately. It's like, let's hang Obama signs, flamethrow the Capital, criticize television shows! And so forth.
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(I love that icon too, but I can never remember where I actually got it from...I suspect it is just One of Those Things.)
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On DW, there's one lesbian couple in "Gridlock" who I think survive the credits. As for Torchwood: all the female same-sex encounters/relationships we've seen thus far fit the Evil/Dead Lesbian cliché pretty well. (I'm not counting Suzie kissing Gwen ( ... )
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Make the appropriate substitutions with respect to sexual orientation instead of race, and there you have it. The visibility of same-sex relationships on TW is a start; now both TW and the New Whoverse in general need more that aren' ( ... )
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I think that with the famed Torchwood Lesbians, the thought behind that was further alienation between Jack and Torchwood. Like, these are the two creatures on the planet that Jack (supposedly) can't charm himself out of captivity with, but since we all know that all heterosexual women are completely gullible to this (never mind that they could just say, no), they therefore have to be Man-Hating Lesbian Minxes whose relationship seems not to exist for their own benefit, but for the sole purpose of taunting Jack. Which is, how you say - Also Not Cool ( ... )
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