so glad for you to feel like you're making progress, and hoping for it to build and build for you.
I felt similarly about new Doctor Who, and (speaking as a trans person) some of it was a bit. . . rough. That said, I also think RTD made it intentionally on the nose, as a means of drawing a line in the sand, as it were, doubling down on what the show is (and always has been) for all the bigoted whiners. I think in his way he intended to leave absolutely no room for denying it.
And that said, I was just buzzing in my skin about seeing the Doctor and Donna together again. And the promo for the next ep, brief as it was, looks proper eerie!
I'm not trans, but I liked the trans stuff, particularly the conversation Donna and her mother had in the kitchen about Rose -- that seemed really honest and generous to me. It's wasn't any of that that seemed a little off to me: it was the bit at the very end when Donna and Rose lamented the Doctor's lack of feminine energy, and that if only he were still a woman, he'd understand. That felt a little like a man trying to be super-duper feminist, and not quite getting it.
so glad for you to feel like you're making progress, and hoping for it to build and build for you.
I felt similarly about new Doctor Who, and (speaking as a trans person) some of it was a bit. . . rough. That said, I also think RTD made it intentionally on the nose, as a means of drawing a line in the sand, as it were, doubling down on what the show is (and always has been) for all the bigoted whiners. I think in his way he intended to leave absolutely no room for denying it.
And that said, I was just buzzing in my skin about seeing the Doctor and Donna together again. And the promo for the next ep, brief as it was, looks proper eerie!
I'm not trans, but I liked the trans stuff, particularly the conversation Donna and her mother had in the kitchen about Rose -- that seemed really honest and generous to me. It's wasn't any of that that seemed a little off to me: it was the bit at the very end when Donna and Rose lamented the Doctor's lack of feminine energy, and that if only he were still a woman, he'd understand. That felt a little like a man trying to be super-duper feminist, and not quite getting it.
completely agree!
So damn happy to hear this. May the goodness build on itself.