The thing about Doctor Who

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When we're criticizing the fact that the Doctor is AGAIN white and male...we are not criticizing Peter Capaldi. Maybe there are some people out there who don't like him as an actor and thus don't like him as the new Doctor. But people criticizing the casting regarding race or gender are not blaming Peter Capaldi. I am sure many of the people who are currently upset at the casting fully support him as an actor in the role and will love him once they see what he does with the role (or at that point, they may decide they don't like him as the Doctor, which is fair game). Those of us criticizing the casting choice hold no aversion toward Pete Capaldi. We take issue with the fact that a character - who by definition can look like anything - is AGAIN, for the 12th time, still only representing white males. We are upset at Moffat for his choice, for his lack of creativity (I will not make the potential bigotry comments here as other people have done better than I could and I don't know Moffat as well as many of those people making those arguments), for his pointed and decidedly sexist comments.

So please, you can love the actor, love him as the next Doctor, but do not tell other people they can't criticize the casting choice based on race or sex, do not patronize people who are disappointed because of a lack of diversity in a character who can be anyone and anything. Your actor and the institution of the Doctor are safe. But people are allowed to be upset by the great potential being lost, and upset by the creators lack of creativity in their decision-making process.

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Peter played Frobisher in COE better known and the Torchwood that shall not be named, He also played another character on the DW Pompeii episode. I had to look him up. I just thought he looked like a Doctor. He sort of reminds me of a mixture of Chris and David. My first choice was Gareth David-LLoyd which I knew wasn't going to happen, followed by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Frye. I was pretty sure I wasn't getting them either. I'm just happy it's not another kid. Bless Matt, He was far better than I would have imagined, but I'm old and am just not comfortable with my Doctor being young enough to be my child.

Moffett is on my shit list for a completely different reason. I'm still pissed-off that John hasn't been on any of Matt's DW episodes and if the rumors are true, he also got screwed out of being in the 50th Anniversary Special. It makes it even worse that Moffett was Jack's creator.

I'm glad I didn't sound catty. I've not had a lot of sleep since mom went into the hospital and work is driving me around the bend the last couple of days. At least the hospital finally released her. They were supposed to do it yesterday, but the buggers claimed they couldn't find anyone to do it and today they found a moron that didn't even bother to call her scripts into the pharmacy. At least she's finally home.

We should get shirts made as soon as Daniel Craig decides to turn in his gadgets. He can play Bond forever if he wants to. I think he's the best Bond ever, but when he does retire-- IDRIS FOR BOND.