{"id":276408,"date":"2018-11-28T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/28\/ckerouac-one-of-the-things-that-i-really-love\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:08:54","slug":"ckerouac-one-of-the-things-that-i-really-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/28\/ckerouac-one-of-the-things-that-i-really-love\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

ckerouac<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One of the things that I really love about this season of Doctor Who is that with the make up of the cast this season, we\u2019re getting the chance to see stories that previously seasons really couldn\u2019t tell with a male Doctor and an overwhelmingly white companion collection.\u00a0 (They never really took much advantage of Martha being a black woman and it was used mostly as a plot device to keep her out of scenes in Family of Blood\u2026 am I still bitter about how underused Martha was because she was excellent and deserved better? \u2026 perhaps)<\/p>\n

But you couldn\u2019t effectively tell a story like Rosa without characters of color who experience first hand the impacts of segregation in he American South.\u00a0 Sure you could have a white Doctor and white companions visit and go\u00a0\u2018segregation is bad, look separate water fountains\u2019 but it\u2019s much more impactful as a lived experience.\u00a0 In Demons of the Punjab, it\u2019s the lived experience of Yaz\u2019s family and it\u2019s not a story that writers would think to use without Yaz as a character.\u00a0 It\u2019s a chance to see an aspect of history not usually touched on in British storytelling, and if it is it\u2019s with a colonial bent.\u00a0 But here you get the lived experience of Yaz\u2019s Nan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And with the Doctor being a woman, they\u2019re aren\u2019t shying away from pointing out the Doctor\u2019s frustration each time something she\u2019s gotten away with easily in her 12 male forms doesn\u2019t come as easy now that she\u2019s in a female form.\u00a0 In The Witchfinders, of course she\u2019s going to use her psychic paper to show that she\u2019s the witchfinder general, large and in charge.\u00a0 But sexism being what it is, and the psychic paper showing what the person reading it wants to see, of course as soon as it\u2019s a man in power he can\u2019t even fathom that she would be in charge so he reads that she\u2019s an assistant.\u00a0 And tonight gave us yet another story that you couldn\u2019t have told without a female Doctor \u2013 the Doctor being tried as a witch.\u00a0 Any other season would\u2019ve had to have one of the companions be the one on trial, but because the Doctor is a woman now she can have that lived experience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just one more thing that I\u2019m really enjoying about this season.\u00a0 I\u2019ve loved Doctor Who for a long time, and I\u2019ve loved many Doctors, but y\u2019all I am so here for the opportunity for new stories and lived experiences.\u00a0 It opens up so many doors for exciting untold stories on this show and I\u2019m so glad they\u2019re taking advantage of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ckerouac: One of the things that I really love about this season of Doctor Who is that with the make up of the cast this season, we\u2019re getting the chance to see stories that previously seasons really couldn\u2019t tell with a male Doctor and an overwhelmingly white companion collection.\u00a0 (They never really took much advantage … <\/p>\n

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