Why I am boycotting Doctor Who

[triumphguy]

My kids have been excited to see the new doctor Who series with Peter Capaldi.

However I started to have reservations when I read that there was a lesbian/lizard kiss. In the end it was masked as a way to give oxygen to someone out of breath, and my kids didn’t notice. But the whole thing made me uncomfortable.

I hate TV that plays gender politics with my family.

SO I had a look at the rebooted series and found that Doctor Who has shown NO “hetero-normative” i.e., straight marriage in a good light, since the reboot of the series featuring Christopher Ecclestone’s Doctor.



In this series the companion Rose (Billy Piper) has a boyfriend, Mickey.



But Mickey was constantly referred to and acted as the Idiot - except in the parallel universe where his parallel was called Ricky, and was quite normal and a natural leader, and was gay.

Rose’s mother is a sexually frustrated middle-aged lady who had a poor marriage with her father - in both universes.

The next(ish) companion Martha’s parents were divorced, and her bumbling father was constantly making himself foolish with a young blonde girl.

Then David Tennant’s companion Donna Noble’s father was nowhere to be seen and her “hetero-normative” mother was a right cow.

During her own dating relationship the guy was only interested in using her as bait for a spider woman.

In the David Tennant episode “Love and Monsters,” the heroine of the episode (Shirley Henderson) ends up as a face in a block of concrete (ELO “I turn to stone?”) - though that doesn’t stop the happy couple from having an “unconventional” love life.

Matt Smith’s companion Amy had a crush on the doctor since she was 10 (when she met him as a child), and the night before her wedding ran off with him.

If Mickey was the idiot, then Rory her boyfriend/husband to be was “stupid-head” the clown-cuckold. The centurion who waited only to be in the wrong once again… and treated with disdain.

And Riversong, the Doctor’s wife seems to be the result of Amy’s abduction and forced conception and her replacement by sentient “flesh.” Riversong herself was brought up to be a psychopath, in order to kill the doctor though she ended up marrying the Doctor: but her marriage to the doctor was constantly in reverse, since her timeline was going the wrong way. In the end she was consigned to a library’s mainframe memory to live out her days.

Throughout the various series the only “happy” relationship is between a female Silurian (lizard woman) Madam Vestra and her maid.

The only “ladies man” in the various series is Captain Jack Harkness, himself played by a gay actor, and a very flirtatious character in the series who does not discriminate at all between men and women.

So not a great record for hetero love in Dr. Who.

Which is a real pity

And then I saw that the writer who had rebooted the whole shebang had written a letter to the Gay Pride parade in Manchester UK, and I found out that he had authored and produced the TV show Queer as Folk, and that he himself was gay.

The penny dropped.

There’s an agenda.

It’s slick, it’s exciting and the kids love it, but the Doctor Who series if not downright bad for families, casually undermines them and the men in them, while promoting the gay culture as normative.

 

[Adamgu_Dalibi]

I stopped watching after papally blessed evil monks in cahoots with gay-married priests in the militarized church tried to execute the doctor.

I should probably have stopped a little sooner, on second thoughts.

 

[jpotato]

i try to moderate my most of my media intake in this way. unfortunately, it seems a huge portion of the entertainment industry has a vested interest in normalizing homosexual behavior. if they don’t, they have still likely been inculcated in the “social justice” culture.

in contrast, THe shield had a Christian character that completed a gay conversion program and married a woman, althogh he had some struggles. the shield isn’t really a family show, even though its one of the best of all time, its definitely not for kids, nor are most of the characters paragons of virtue.

 

[Furius]

Wow! From everything that has been posted in this thread about this show, I am literally laughing hysterically at how off the rails diabolical it is.

I am one who is keenly sensitive to the ‘conditioning for evil’ that Hollywood and the media engage in. It’s usually subtle and gently guides a person towards viewing the evil as good.
But from what has been described here about from what I gather is a ‘children’s show’, it sounds like even Satan himself would reject these scripts, saying, 'Ehhh, too far too fast…maybe later."

I must admit. I don’t see much children’s programming these days. If this is what is passing for ‘normal programming’ these days, than I must say, it looks like that slippery slope is coming like an avalanche!

 

[Skye_Ariel]

I also have noticed how much homosexuality is showing up in new shows lately. I’ve been hearing people say how good Orange Is the New Black is so I decided to try it and couldn’t even get through the first episode. It was full of lesbian scenes and lesbian sex scenes and they cut to the scenes with no warning so you don’t know it’s coming till you’re looking at it. And this was **before **she even got to prison! This was in her “normal” life. And what scares me is that so many people love the show and I told my friends I couldn’t get through the first episode and they looked at me like I was crazy and wanted to know why. Now that’s scary! It scares me that so many see nothing wrong with gay sex like that.

 

[Skye_Ariel]

Wow! From everything that has been posted in this thread about this show, I am literally laughing hysterically at how off the rails diabolical it is.

I am one who is keenly sensitive to the ‘conditioning for evil’ that Hollywood and the media engage in. It’s usually subtle and gently guides a person towards viewing the evil as good.
But from what has been described here about from what I gather is a ‘children’s show’, it sounds like even Satan himself would reject these scripts, saying, 'Ehhh, too far too fast…maybe later."

I must admit. I don’t see much children’s programming these days. If this is what is passing for ‘normal programming’ these days, than I must say, it looks like that slippery slope is coming like an avalanche!

Yes they are getting bolder and bolder with it!

 

[Skye_Ariel]

Okay I did a Google search and I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like Orange Is the New Black. There are a few who also hate it, but only a few sad to say. Here is what some said about the show, I couldn’t watch it long enough to see any bad parts except for the gay sex.

“The acting is good, the story is even interesting. The problem, this show portrays Christians as dumb or white trash. I watched every episode wondering if there would be one single positive thing said or acted about Christianity. This show, and the production of it in general, is so liberal left that straight men are generally portrayed in a negative image as well, with maybe one exception. How nice of them. If you are gay or far left in your viewpoint, this show will get 5 stars. If you are conservative and lean towards the right…don’t waste your time. The elite (in their minds) left have made it a point to insult your belief throughout the series.”

“X_x SO MUCH NUDITY. I feel raped. I shut it off in the first two minutes because of how much nudity I was shown.”

…

“This show commodifies lesbianism in the worst, most misogynistic ways– by using it as an “edgy” selling point to tip the show from drama to soap opera. It’s full of hackneyed tropes: until I leave all girls school lesbian (Lorna), fat butch lesbian (Big Boo), desirable waifish femme lesbian (Mercy, Lorna), couture European lesbian (Alex), the Stud (Nicky, Big Boo), and of course, Piper the hasbian who I guess just can’t be a bisexual because she fell in monogamous love with a man. (Even though who she’s with has NOTHING to do with whether she’s bisexual, but there’s the myth of the “hasbian” for you). As with the characters of color, these demographic tropes play a huge role in presumed pre-developed characters that settle into the issued stereotypes like a foundation, rather than defying them. Piper’s “former gayness” authenticates queerness for the straight population in the same way her whiteness does w/regard to POC criminalization. Piper is less of an “other” in mainstream America’s eyes & the show admits it, but then plays on it. The show commodifies POCs and queers and, it commodifies them in the SAME way, with the voyeuristic titillating spectacle of “lesbian sex” and hype of “black and latino violence”. With less packaging, you could see the same thing on “bum fights” or “girls gone wild”, both filmed and perpetuated for the entertainment of privileged, ignorant, straight white men. The show doesn’t really even attempt a simple role reversal where racial minorities are represented as queer and the white inmates are represented as violent– it’d still be a token effort, but nope, not even that. I watched this series trying to reconcile it, trying to decide whether I liked it or not because hey, a queer, woman and POC dominated cast, but in the end I realize that it’s about us, not for us. ~Bridget”

“This show is vile and disgusting. If you have children for the love of God do not let them watch this show. Its sad to think that this is the best that Netflix can come up with when you think about how boring and stupid their other show was about that ex gangster in the Norway or whatever. Hey Netflix, here is an idea… instead of trying to make your own ****** shows, why don’t you try and stay updated with new shows and movies that come out and make your money that way? People would be much happier and you wouldn’t waste all your money on washed up actors that no one will ever look past american pie or that 70′s show to see on film.”

“This show is an abhorrent example of religious bigotry. As a person who has christian friends and family, I find the mischaracterizations portrayed in this show deeply offensive. Netflix should be ashamed of producing a show with so many false and degrading negative stereotypes. In the show 1 of the primary antagonists is a “devout” christian. Throughout the series she is the sounding board for the protagonists anti christian rants. Christians are portrayed as stupid, unthinking drones, who support the murderer of an abortion clinic employee in a cultist fashion. The person who wrote this utter **** has obviously never looked at people of faith in any sort of positive light, and has no objectivity to even begin to effectively portray a christian.”

“This could have been a great show, I enjoyed it for a little while but due to extremely graphic gay sex I had to stop. Too bad too because they had a good cast and a good concept but the story got boring pretty fast and the show got a little too disgusting and vulgar.”

 

[Skye_Ariel]

Orange is the New Black has got to be the worst TV show ever made in the history of TV. :nope:

 

[Megan7]

My kids have been excited to see the new doctor Who series with Peter Capaldi.

However I started to have reservations when I read that there was a lesbian/lizard kiss. In the end it was masked as a way to give oxygen to someone out of breath, and my kids didn’t notice. But the whole thing made me uncomfortable.

I hate TV that plays gender politics with my family.

SO I had a look at the rebooted series and found that Doctor Who has shown NO “hetero-normative” i.e., straight marriage in a good light, since the reboot of the series featuring Christopher Ecclestone’s Doctor.

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/35/c3/43/35c343d76af3895c7b7dddb32659bcba.jpg

In this series the companion Rose (Billy Piper) has a boyfriend, Mickey.

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/200x150/ba/b9/9c/bab99c3aa0915d6d7109de4c1652caa1.jpg

But Mickey was constantly referred to and acted as the Idiot - except in the parallel universe where his parallel was called Ricky, and was quite normal and a natural leader, and was gay.

Rose’s mother is a sexually frustrated middle-aged lady who had a poor marriage with her father - in both universes.

The next(ish) companion Martha’s parents were divorced, and her bumbling father was constantly making himself foolish with a young blonde girl.

Then David Tennant’s companion Donna Noble’s father was nowhere to be seen and her “hetero-normative” mother was a right cow.

During her own dating relationship the guy was only interested in using her as bait for a spider woman.

In the David Tennant episode “Love and Monsters,” the heroine of the episode (Shirley Henderson) ends up as a face in a block of concrete (ELO “I turn to stone?”) - though that doesn’t stop the happy couple from having an “unconventional” love life.

Matt Smith’s companion Amy had a crush on the doctor since she was 10 (when she met him as a child), and the night before her wedding ran off with him.

If Mickey was the idiot, then Rory her boyfriend/husband to be was “stupid-head” the clown-cuckold. The centurion who waited only to be in the wrong once again… and treated with disdain.

And Riversong, the Doctor’s wife seems to be the result of Amy’s abduction and forced conception and her replacement by sentient “flesh.” Riversong herself was brought up to be a psychopath, in order to kill the doctor though she ended up marrying the Doctor: but her marriage to the doctor was constantly in reverse, since her timeline was going the wrong way. In the end she was consigned to a library’s mainframe memory to live out her days.

Throughout the various series the only “happy” relationship is between a female Silurian (lizard woman) Madam Vestra and her maid.

The only “ladies man” in the various series is Captain Jack Harkness, himself played by a gay actor, and a very flirtatious character in the series who does not discriminate at all between men and women.

So not a great record for hetero love in Dr. Who.

Which is a real pity

And then I saw that the writer who had rebooted the whole shebang had written a letter to the Gay Pride parade in Manchester UK, and I found out that he had authored and produced the TV show Queer as Folk, and that he himself was gay.

The penny dropped.

There’s an agenda.

It’s slick, it’s exciting and the kids love it, but the Doctor Who series if not downright bad for families, casually undermines them and the men in them, while promoting the gay culture as normative.

Thanks fot the thread TG, it seems they always have an agenda…

 

[phil_at_dayboro]

May I suggest you find The Waltons , it’s a very family orientated show,
It may be a little old now,.,but still worth a showing to you children ,

 

[Memaw]

May I suggest you find The Waltons , it’s a very family orientated show,
It may be a little old now,.,but still worth a showing to you children ,

I keep lots of good VCRs and DVDs on hand for my grandkids to watch when they are at Grandma’s house. NO cartoons! God Bless, Memaw

 

[MichaelTDoyle]

I made probably the mistake of buying the season on iTunes. On one hand it’s an eye view into the mind of “the world”. They spend the first thirty minutes proclaiming a lesbian marriage (supposedly different because one is a female dinosaur alien)

The villain is searching for the promised land. He’s told there is no such thing by the doctor.

He’s thrown out of a balloon and is impaled on a cross on top of a cathedral.

Do they really think they’re being that clever?

I want my money back.

 

[Cat]

We were big fans of the Tom Baker Dr. Who.

We’ve watched several of the recently-done episodes and found them highly-creative.

It seems to me that we all need to remember that this is science fiction, not just fiction.

I’m not even sure that the Doctor is “human”. He’s a Time Lord. He looks like a human, but he isn’t. And I don’t think he reproduces. He just exists. Is this correct?

From what I’ve seen in science fiction, the non-human creatures often have very different sexualities. E.g., on Star Trek, Mr. Spock had a ritual of mating that was nothing like human sex.

So I don’t think it matters whether the Doctor is a “ladies man.” I don’t think he’s any kind of man!

I realize that there are some Christians who just can’t get past certain things that in OUR world would be forbidden, but in the fantasy (not real) worlds, are acceptable . E.g., many Christians will not read Harry Potter and other fantastic stories, because in their mind, witchcraft and magic are wrong, even if it’s pretend.

In the same way, perhaps it’s difficult to watch a science fiction show that shows homosexuality as “normal.” In our world, it isn’t. In their world, it is.

Remember the movie, Logan’s Run? In this film, people had sex only for pleasure, and the babies were born in biological chambers. Yes, this is very wrong in our world. In that science fiction world, it’s the way things were. The film actually took the point of view of denouncing this depersonalization of sex, conception, birth, and childrearing, so it was a great film for Christians. But if you couldn’t get past the sexual practices, then you missed it.

I think the same thing can happen with Dr. Who. It often has thought-provoking plots that are worth watching and discussing. But if you can’t get past the fact that two human beings of the same sex kiss on the show, then you will miss some great stories with themes worth incorporating into our lives.

And that’s OK. We can’t watch everything.

But IMO, if you like Dr. Who and can get past the current trend of writers inserting homosexual couples, I don’t see any problem watching the show. I think the show itself is great (creative), and if it continues to stick around (which I hope it will), eventually the fad of writing homosexual couples into every episode will go away.

It’s a decent show, as TV shows go. All too often, Christians shoot themselves in the foot and drive very decent shows off the air because they won’t watch them because of one little thing that offends them, and non-Christians don’t bother to watch these “decent” show either because they’re too "decent, and so the shows go off the air. This happened to the show The Unit–a wonderfully-written (Shawn Ryan), patriotic, pro-religion, pro-family show, but Christians wouldn’t watch it, and it’s gone.

So don’t drive Dr.Who off the air for the sake of a gay couple. It’s actually reality in this world, and even if we don’t approve, we still have to get along with these couples (or lose our jobs and be un-hireable).

I remember when I was raising my children that there were some parents who would NOT allow their children to make their stuffed animals talk, because this was an abomination to the Lord (in their minds).

Seems extreme, but it was happening back in the 1980s. Parents were actually afraid of talking stuffed animals, and shows on TV where animals talked (e.g., Mr. Ed re-runs!).

Personally, I think that the Lord gave us our imaginations, and has no objection if we create fantastic worlds with marvelous creatures that do things differently than we do them.

I hope this post gives you some food for thought about Dr. Who.

 

[Kithrus]

Thanks fot the thread TG, it seems they always have an agenda…

Want some tin foil with that hat?

 

[triumphguy]

May I suggest you find The Waltons , it’s a very family orientated show,
It may be a little old now,.,but still worth a showing to you children ,

I loved the Waltons.

As a family we are going back to our old habit of reading a book out-loud after supper. A Wrinkle in TIme to be specific.

@Cat - you have some good points there Cat.

I’m just a bit resentful that I am forced to deal with gender issues when all I want is to watch a show that I remember so well from my own childhood. I was just hoping to share and experience, but instead of cringing at the amateurish stage props of the 60’s, I’m cringing at the sexuality of the characters.

 

[Pat_Payne]

I made probably the mistake of buying the season on iTunes. On one hand it’s an eye view into the mind of “the world”. They spend the first thirty minutes proclaiming a lesbian marriage (supposedly different because one is a female dinosaur alien)

The villain is searching for the promised land. He’s told there is no such thing by the doctor.

He’s thrown out of a balloon and is impaled on a cross on top of a cathedral.

Do they really think they’re being that clever?

I want my money back.

SPOILERS. CONSIDER THIS YOUR ONE AND ONLY WARNING IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN WHAT WE’RE DISCUSSING.

I’m reserving my judgement on the season. I thought that the whole Vastra/Jenny thing was way, WAY overdone, almost to the point of “have we mentioned to you this quarter of an hour that we’re ‘married’ les–” “YES YOU HAVE, YOU CAN SAFELY SHUT UP ABOUT IT!” . Does it offend me that the two are “married”? From a Catholic viewpoint, very definitely yes. From a “culture war” standpoint, yes. From a character, storytelling standpoint, not as much. However, the fact that this episode was beating us over the head with it was obnoxious in the extreme, mostly because the repeated allusions and references to their “marriage” added nothing to the plot and was just Moffat being cheeky. Really, what did Jenny posing sexily and being objectified for Vastra’s benefit do to advance the plot in any meaningful sense? Did Vastra really need to start subtly hitting on Clara for no real reason other than… well no reason other than to make her the series’ new Captain Jack Harkness? For pity’s sake, Vastra and Jenny are supposed to be two capable women (Vastra is Doctor Who’s answer to Sherlock Holmes, while Jenny is a capable fighter and Victorian ninja, who was instrumental in freeing The Doctor and Clara in “The Crimson Horror”) – how demeaning is it to see them reduced for much of the episode to serial flunkers of a lesbian version of the Bechtdel Test? Quite honestly, outside of the rescue, they pretty much could have been excised from the episode and there would have been no changes. (I’d have missed Strax, though, who is still pure comedy relief gold.)

The “promised land” subplot I’m intrigued with, and the way that the Doctor said there wasn’t may have been an attempt to not play the clockwork robot’s game (also, for a robot without a soul, there wouldn’t be a heaven anyway) by not validating its murder of countless innocents to get to it’s conception of “heaven.” And the Doctor HAS a promised land for himself, at the very least Gallifrey. I was a little annoyed with Michelle Gomez’s character describing what the clockwork robot was seeing as “heaven”, but then again, remember that The Devil himself would probably pull that same schtick on souls at first till he’s got 'em right where he wants 'em, so it’s not out of character for the big bad of the season. And it’s not as obnoxious as the “church” from the past couple of seasons.

OTOH, do we need yet ANOTHER never-before-mentioned old flame for the Doctor to meet up with? We just got through with the River Song continuity trainwreck followed on the heels by that “Mother Superior” who also seems to have an intimate back history with The Doctor… does Moffat really need to double down on that plotline with yet another out from left field romantic entanglement?

Which, BTW, I sincerely hope these aren’t the “mistakes” over 2000 years The Doctor intends to rectify this entire season. I’d like for the mistakes he was alluding to to be a bit loftier than a string of jilted girlfriends. Does anyone remember there’s an entire planet he’s trying to get safely out of a pocket universe… anyone… Bueller? Or that he’s left entire serials/episodes being one of the few characters still alive at the end? Or that he’s had to mourn the deaths of at least three companions who died on his behalf, though certainly not on his orders? That he’s had to manipulate, lie and even commit genocide numerous times for the greater good? That he for hundreds of years lived with the guilt of believing he had exterminated his own race?

If Moffat is alluding that a string of romantic liaisons is more important than those guilts weighing on his conscience, I do hope he thinks again, or turns the show over to a different showrunner and takes up the mantle of mere writer again.

I was dismayed at first by the circumstances of the robot’s death, although in fairness, the spire that the robot is impaled on is NOT a church spire, but the tip of the Elizabeth Tower which houses Big Ben, at the Houses of Parliament. So the robot “died” in a legendary London landmark, and not a cathedral. (See here for comparison).

 

[MichaelTDoyle]

This show is driving in a heavy handed fashion an LBGT agenda and an anti-christian/atheist agenda.

I love Christ more than any show. He died for me and his Truth is not the message these people are telling as truth. They are leading people to their possible damnation. What will a person inculcated by this teaching say at the final judgement when finally exposed to Truth. Will they accept Truth-or try to school Jesus that he should be tolerant of sex acts outside of marriage? And when they deny Him (for denying the Truth is denying Him) where will they be?

If there is no such thing as hell, who cares whatever Dr. Who says.
But there is a hell and we are liable to it. Creating an environment where the Truth can be heard is profoundly important. Dr. Who views hetero’s as abnormal and Christians as villains and religion as myth and therefore not of importance.

 

[MichaelTDoyle]

SPOILERS. CONSIDER THIS YOUR ONE AND ONLY WARNING IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN WHAT WE’RE DISCUSSING.

The “promised land” subplot I’m intrigued with, and the way that the Doctor said there wasn’t may have been an attempt to not play the clockwork robot’s game (also, for a robot without a soul, there wouldn’t be a heaven anyway) by not validating its murder of countless innocents to get to it’s conception of “heaven.” And the Doctor HAS a promised land for himself, at the very least Gallifrey. I was a little annoyed with Michelle Gomez’s character describing what the clockwork robot was seeing as “heaven”, but then again, remember that The Devil himself would probably pull that same schtick on souls at first till he’s got 'em right where he wants 'em, so it’s not out of character for the big bad of the season. And it’s not as obnoxious as the “church” from the past couple of seasons.

The specifics in the plot matter less than what the viewers take away from their hero. I’m insulted at the lame indoctrination of anti-religion and pro-sexuality/perversion. This episode really bummed me out as I was always a big Whovian. I tried to ignore the constant pushing (remember the previous doctor and the horse who was male and thought he was female–so stupid it breaks suspension of disbelief),

At this point giving them my $$ seems too much like I am condoning it.

The virtues that made the Doctor great–Courage, sanctity of life, scientific curiosity, fun–have nothing to do with this nastiness they insist on proclaiming.

I was dismayed at first by the circumstances of the robot’s death, although in fairness, the spire that the robot is impaled on is NOT a church spire, but the tip of the Elizabeth Tower which houses Big Ben, at the Houses of Parliament. So the robot “died” in a legendary London landmark, and not a cathedral. (See here for comparison).

It looked like a cross. I can’t go back and watch it cause (yay!) I got a refund. You may be right but the imagery would tell me more clearly. I believe it’s BB, just does it look like a cross.

What a cultural force for good this show could be if the Doctor were pro-life and pro-Christ!

 

[KevinAK]

My kids have been excited to see the new doctor Who series with Peter Capaldi.

However I started to have reservations when I read that there was a lesbian/lizard kiss. In the end it was masked as a way to give oxygen to someone out of breath, and my kids didn’t notice. But the whole thing made me uncomfortable.

I hate TV that plays gender politics with my family.

SO I had a look at the rebooted series and found that Doctor Who has shown NO “hetero-normative” i.e., straight marriage in a good light, since the reboot of the series featuring Christopher Ecclestone’s Doctor.

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/35/c3/43/35c343d76af3895c7b7dddb32659bcba.jpg

In this series the companion Rose (Billy Piper) has a boyfriend, Mickey.

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/200x150/ba/b9/9c/bab99c3aa0915d6d7109de4c1652caa1.jpg

But Mickey was constantly referred to and acted as the Idiot - except in the parallel universe where his parallel was called Ricky, and was quite normal and a natural leader, and was gay.

Rose’s mother is a sexually frustrated middle-aged lady who had a poor marriage with her father - in both universes.

The next(ish) companion Martha’s parents were divorced, and her bumbling father was constantly making himself foolish with a young blonde girl.

Then David Tennant’s companion Donna Noble’s father was nowhere to be seen and her “hetero-normative” mother was a right cow.

During her own dating relationship the guy was only interested in using her as bait for a spider woman.

In the David Tennant episode “Love and Monsters,” the heroine of the episode (Shirley Henderson) ends up as a face in a block of concrete (ELO “I turn to stone?”) - though that doesn’t stop the happy couple from having an “unconventional” love life.

Matt Smith’s companion Amy had a crush on the doctor since she was 10 (when she met him as a child), and the night before her wedding ran off with him.

If Mickey was the idiot, then Rory her boyfriend/husband to be was “stupid-head” the clown-cuckold. The centurion who waited only to be in the wrong once again… and treated with disdain.

And Riversong, the Doctor’s wife seems to be the result of Amy’s abduction and forced conception and her replacement by sentient “flesh.” Riversong herself was brought up to be a psychopath, in order to kill the doctor though she ended up marrying the Doctor: but her marriage to the doctor was constantly in reverse, since her timeline was going the wrong way. In the end she was consigned to a library’s mainframe memory to live out her days.

Throughout the various series the only “happy” relationship is between a female Silurian (lizard woman) Madam Vestra and her maid.

The only “ladies man” in the various series is Captain Jack Harkness, himself played by a gay actor, and a very flirtatious character in the series who does not discriminate at all between men and women.

So not a great record for hetero love in Dr. Who.

Which is a real pity

And then I saw that the writer who had rebooted the whole shebang had written a letter to the Gay Pride parade in Manchester UK, and I found out that he had authored and produced the TV show Queer as Folk, and that he himself was gay.

The penny dropped.

There’s an agenda.

It’s slick, it’s exciting and the kids love it, but the Doctor Who series if not downright bad for families, casually undermines them and the men in them, while promoting the gay culture as normative.

Donna Noble’s father was not around because he was dead. He was originally to have been a recurring character in season 4 but the actor who played him in Runaway Bride passed away and out of respect the character was dropped and replaced with her grandfather.

Amy NEVER had a crush on The Doctor. After meeting him at the age of ten she was subjected to years of therapy because her family thought she was making him up.

She left with The Doctor the night before her wedding. So what? Maybe she had cold feet. She came back and was completely committed to her husband Rory(who was in no way depicted as an idiot).

 

[Cat]

I loved the Waltons.

As a family we are going back to our old habit of reading a book out-loud after supper. A Wrinkle in TIme to be specific.

@Cat - you have some good points there Cat.

I’m just a bit resentful that I am forced to deal with gender issues when all I want is to watch a show that I remember so well from my own childhood. I was just hoping to share and experience, but instead of cringing at the amateurish stage props of the 60’s, I’m cringing at the sexuality of the characters.

I hear you. I get resentful because all I want to do is live my real life–go to work, go to a concert, go to a sporting event, go to a community event (parade, rally, festival, etc.), go outside and sit on my porch, etc.–but I can’t do any of this anymore without meeting up with a gay couple physically demonstrating their love for each other, or a gay rights organization usually staffed by gay people who are very open about demonstrating their affection for their partner (or wife or husband), or a gay supervisor or manager who holds my job in their hands.

At least on television, in the privacy of my home, I can react the way I honestly would like to react–with disgust and dismayand sadness, and I can say out loud what I believe to be the truth about the practice of homosexuality (what the Church teaches), and I can say a heartfelt prayer that the gay world would be touched in their hearts by the Holy Spirit and see the profound error of their choices. I can’t do this in real life, especially at work where I would be instantly fired for “harassment.” All I can do in real life is be polite.