Yes, more doctor who

[sqbr]

My overall reaction to "Turn Left" is OMGWANTNEXTEPISODE. Also I guess it answers the "where are all the asians?" question: On planet Asia! Being really asian! (I'm sure Serenity would have made a pit stop there too eventually)

Someone needs to tell Russel T Davies that there are certain values of X where you should avoid having characters whose entire description is "Evil X (who probably has to die)" unless you're also going to have a whole bunch of non evil examples of X (and actually, it's still not ok then if your evil X is one big cliche)

Some sample values of X: slave race, lesbian, chinese person (but not politician. I don't have a problem with evil politicians :))

Have I missed any others?

Oh! And amusing Turn Left macro. Well, it amused me :)

(In non Dr Who news, I am heartily sick of this on-again off-again illness. I was FINE yesterday!)

Comments

planet Asia

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I love the way all alien planets are culturally homogenous. But that's a problem with sf in general.

Thanks for that bad bad link :)

Re: planet Asia

[alias_sqbr]

See, I totally agree that that is a HUGE problem in sf in general, but I'm not sure it is in Dr Who just because we so rarely see enough of a planet to know if it's homogeneous or not :/ (The bad guys tend to be clones etc so don't count) That said, the bits we do see are somewhat homogeneously english...