{"id":104024,"date":"2016-04-23T20:36:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/whovianfeminism-welcome-to-doctor-who-pearl\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T11:09:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:09:16","slug":"whovianfeminism-welcome-to-doctor-who-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/whovianfeminism-welcome-to-doctor-who-pearl\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/whovianfeminism.tumblr.com\/post\/143280136207\" target=\"_blank\">whovianfeminism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to <i>Doctor Who <\/i>Pearl Mackie!<\/p>\n<p>I <i>really<\/i>\u00a0love this short trip. And our first glimpse at our new companion, Bill, looks incredible.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of thoughts\u2026<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I\u2019m getting MAJOR Ace and Donna vibes off of Bill \u2013 the sass, the directness, finding the humor and absurdity in her adventures, and her ability to completely baffle the Doctor.<\/li>\n<li>I love using a short adventure to introduce us to the new companion. It gives us such a great look at Pearl Mackie, Bill, and the dynamic between the Doctor and his new companion.<\/li>\n<li>Bill sounds like a really amazing character. Pearl Mackie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/latestnews\/2016\/dr-who-pearl-mackie\" target=\"_blank\">describes<\/a> her as \u201cFantastically written, cool, strong, sharp, a little bit vulnerable with a bit of geekiness thrown in.\u201d This is pretty much everything I could\u2019ve wanted.<\/li>\n<li>Bill will be the first non-white companion to travel with the Doctor since Martha, and it was long past time for that to happen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/36a8dc8b8034e25f4f6baf6c6b2f92d4\/tumblr_inline_o63oyrTRkw1r4rbqj_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConStar24\/status\/723933740725100544\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>whovianfeminism: Welcome to Doctor Who Pearl Mackie! I really\u00a0love this short trip. And our first glimpse at our new companion, Bill, looks incredible. A couple of thoughts\u2026 I\u2019m getting MAJOR Ace and Donna vibes off of Bill \u2013 the sass, the directness, finding the humor and absurdity in her adventures, and her ability to completely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/whovianfeminism-welcome-to-doctor-who-pearl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6663,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104025,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104024\/revisions\/104025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}