dr who and the politically correct script writers

We seem to have veered a long way off Dr Who

mcem
Actually, it's a very nice, safe, honest area where you can hear a pin drop after 11pm. No fights, no litter, no drunken behaviour. All good.

Dr Who?
Who Dr Who? ?

Well, Jodie Whittaker and the PC plots of the OP I think. ?

To get back on track on the Dr Who theme - apparently the PC mob are ecstatic because Yas, the Asian female police offier (tick!) might be bisexual. Sigh!

I too live a few miles from Guildford which is of course a multicultural University town. Guildford, and our area of Waverley voted Remain despite having Jeremy Hunt as an MP There is quite an active political Compass group here. www.compassonline.org.uk
which I only mention to demonstrate that even in the heart of the Surrey hills there are those who may not be blue through and through!

The small town, with which our village has blended, whilst not exactly a reflection of the wider world, has an increasing number of families from a variety of backgrounds. Rather than all being domestic cleaners or care workers are often ex-London young professionals or working at Surrey Uni and the big research park, at the Royal Surrey hospital or for Guildford Diocese. Our rail link into London is good! It is not Royston Vesey here!

tidyskatemum I had a badge in the 70s that said "Gay whales against racism" Us lefties can laugh at ourselves!

Interesting that PECS lives in a village/small town near Guildford described as a multicultural university city while GabriellaG also lives in a village a few miles from Guildford , an exclusive backwater with no racial mx no inhabitants other than middle class white, and lacking Chinese, Induan or even fish and chip takeaways!
Strange.....

I imagine that’s the village, not Guildford Maw. Some villages are very exclusive.

Ah well, N Bucks lives and learns.
Some 30 years ago “eyebrows” were being raised at the arrival of our village’s first black African family.
He was a hospital consultant. She an Accountant. Their baby son was christened at the village church and the “eyebrows” had to be readjusted when it transpired that hs godmother was a Ugandan princess.
Thank God nobody around here is like that any more.

It has occurred to me that the over bearing political correctness might be an ironic statement.

I do hope so Nelliemoser.

Perhaps there is more irony on this thread than we realise.

How do you know there are no trans people in your villages please?
Do they wear badges for identification purposes?

Who are the PC mob please? Why would anybody be ecstatic because a character on a TV programme is bisexual?

I think the posts from PECS and maw reinforce my opinion that problems are not always a result of what goes on around us but what goes on inside our heads!
We can be outward-looking and appreciate the wider world or narrow-minded and be proud that we don't have to tolerate 'undesirables'!!
As someone who has never been a Doc Who fan I find I 'm being drawn in because there's more to it than daleks and sonic screwdrivers.
Is it because the doctor is a woman?
Don't know!

The current companions of Dr Who were gathered up in Sheffield, where two of the four recent episodes have been set. I can’t see that racial mix, or the fact that one of the four travellers might not be straight, raising many eyebrows there, thank goodness.

I still catch the odd episode of Dr Who, but surely its main target is the young (and generally more open-minded) teenage audience, and the scripts reflect this. Okay, so it’s not Shakespeare, but it can be a lot of fun, and I’m enjoying JW’s take on it. Some of the quick asides (I call people dude now!) and cultural references are very funny.

I doubt they’ll ever again come up with anything as scary as the Weeping Angels, though!

Nobody on this thread has said anything like ‘being proud that we don’t have to tolerate undesirables’ so that proves to me mcem that there is a lot going on inside your own head and possible prejudices.
It doesn’t make anyone ‘narrow minded’ if they happen to live in a village where all seem to be white British, and don’t know anyone who is openly gay or trans, after all, would you condemn French villagers who lived in villages full of white French people......doesn’t make sense does it?! Or any other country come to that.
People can appreciate ‘the wider world’ and there can be few who rarely leave their village and don’t travel into towns and cities, or have lived there in the past.
I don’t prefer Dr Who because she is a woman (that would be sexist!) but because she seems a good character.

maggiemaybe I don’t think anyone is commenting here on a racial mix ( Dr Who gang) are they though?Rather that the plots are a bit heavy on the PC side.
You would expect this after all, in a city like Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, London.

Oh the weeping angels! Terrifying!

Just caught up with the comments on this thread. I find it fascinating when a thread takes a completely different turn. One minute we are talking about the heavy handed lectures on life in Dr Who, the next moment, we are off at a tangent. Life is so much more interesting when we see other people’s point of view, even if we don’t agree.
Long live gransnet
and i also found the weeping angels scary

Well...I went against the grain when I voted to leave but I have no idea how my friends voted. We never discuss religion, our personal politics or sex, only froth.

I didn't say that living in a village makes one narrow-minded nor did I say that * GG* used the term 'undesirables'.
However given the attitudes expressed and the terminology used
that is simply my interpretation of the post. I have also taken a view based on similar comments on other threads.
As far as I know I am entitled to state my point of view whether or not you like it/ agree with it / choose to argue over it.

I think you protest too much mcem and may have a personal axe to grind.

Congratulations lemon on your very vivid imagination.
I am so pleased that we live in very different worlds but am sorry that for some strange reason you feel the need to defend the indefensible!
May you find enlightenment xx

defend the indefensible? What new nonsense is this?
You are certainly being defensive about something but hey! May you find enlightenment too.