Elderley Brexiteers May Find It Hard To Accept Female Dr Who

[lindapalmara]

Apparently we oldues are not "progressive" enough!!

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20171204/282024737588717

You couldn't make it up!!!

[emmie]

what a load of codswallop, in this day and age accepting a woman as the new doctor is a great idea and i ain't young.

[emmie]

surely we should be past all this nonsense.

[Gromit]

They will get over it.
After all they lived through the bleak hardship of Sylvester McCoy.

[dannyk13]

Balderdash.

[mikey4444]

Codswallop indeed Emmie !

Do we even expect that many "elderly" people will be watching this superannuated children's programme anyway ?

[emmie]

lots of good memories with the first ever doctor Who, William Hartnell, every since i have wanted him to come back, and they have to an extent in that i think the Christmas edition has David Bradley done up to look like him, pretty spooky it is too

[mikey4444]

Emmie....when I was a boy in the early 60', Doctor Who was the Number One program for us kids, and was much discussed on a Monday morning in School.

50 odd years ago, I now find it slightly tiresome and repetitive.

[-Talbot-]

Dr Who is a shapeshifter (whatever that means) so why not.

On this rare occasion I agree with mikey ... kids telly.

[emmie]

i don't watch it admittedly,.

[andy-hughes]

Our media does seem intent on these pointless 'puff pieces' to accompany tv shows - this is just another one.

An idle throwaway comment is given print room and dissected as though it is the results of a serious anthropological study - when in fact it is literally nonsense, talked about a children's TV show that has morphed into an achingly right-on children's TV show that adults watch.

[emmie]

adults watched back in the day, its not just for children, i don't think.

[jim360]

I can't help but feel that calling Dr Who a "children's TV show" is meant to be a bit dismissive. I strongly suggest that people start watching "children's TV shows" or "children's movies" a little more often. More than a few of them are utterly brilliant and well worth a watch.

[emmie]

can never stop laughing at Shaun the sheep, best comedy on the box, have some of the dvd's and they always make me laugh.

[andy-hughes]

jim - // I can't help but feel that calling Dr Who a "children's TV show" is meant to be a bit dismissive. //

You're right - it is.

[ummmm]

It's not kids TV. I don't watch it but my OH and adult children do.

I sat here yesterday, on my own, watching Shrek. Kids stuff can be very funny and full of innuendos.

[jim360]

Well, you're missing out if you take the attitude that "for children" is equivalent to "vacuous and shallow" :P

It puts me in mind a little of my Dad, who would habitually walk out of films me, brother and Mum watched that he saw as "for kids". Especially Pixar films. Clearly Citizen Kane, or Cagney Movies, or Bogart etc, were far superior as an art form.

Then he discovered Wall-E, and watched it something like five times a week for a month afterwards.

[Cloverjo]

My dad is an elderly Brexiteer and, at worst, I don't expect he gives two hoots about the sex of the Doctor. More likely he'll think it's about time it was a woman, but won't bother watching it anyway.

[Cloverjo]

My dad loves 'Shaun the Sheep.' :)

[andy-hughes]

jim - // Well, you're missing out if you take the attitude that "for children" is equivalent to "vacuous and shallow" :P //

It's nothing of the kind!

'For children' means what it says - it is aimed at children, as opposed to being aimed at adults.

I am not dismissing Doctor Who for being a children's' programme, merely identifying it for what it is.

[woofgang]

I don't think that Dr Who is aimed at children any more. I think its aimed at the sci-fantasy market which spans all age groups