I hate to break this to you, but many people who want to avoid Dexter spoilers just pirate it. But I haven't really had a problem with that, personally. What, he killed somebody? Shocked! I'm shocked! It helps that none of my friends on social media waste my time talking about TV shows.
It's not about the money for me. It's about the constant consumerist propaganda, which I just don't want to expose my brain to. And then there are the mindless, jingoistic political ads.
Right, but their parents are the ones who are going to age out, so this isn't really a problem, since they live at home, or else at a frat house, which probably has one cable hookup for the whole house.
Wow, from "streaming works really well for me" to "women aren't attracted to dominant men" in four nesting levels. Impressive. FWIW, women are humans, and they are all over the map as far as what they are attracted to. If you think there is one rule that you must follow to attract women, you're doing it wrong.
Also, to pull us gently back in the direction of the topic, sports leagues are selling streaming apps. So on a practical level I don't think that's going to keep cable from dying.
Admittedly, I have no idea who got voted off the island, but I'm coping pretty well. I can watch all the shows I care about on streaming, when I want, with no ads. Sure, people will continue to pay for cable for years to come, out of habit, but it's a business model that's failing to deliver value to new customers, so the population that consumes it will age out over time even if the streaming services don't change anything.
Meanwhile, big cable is doing everything they legally can to prevent the streaming providers from delivering good service. And yet streaming providers are attracting plenty of customers, and plenty of people are cutting the cable. Why the hurry?
BTW, can we please stop calling it "over the top?" That implies something about the business model that's total nonsense: the idea that IP service is a side business, and cable is the real business. Where did this term come from, anyway?
I thought that was a good show. It ran for seven seasons. Granted, it ran on UPN, which had limited audience reach, but seven seasons is not bad at all.
Women aren't treated equally now, and haven't been in recorded history. Having the Doctor, who is accustomed to coming out on the easy side of that equation, come out on the hard side as he travels through history would indeed be interesting.
Huh. I didn't think the writing for the first episode was very good (still waiting for the season to come out on Netflix to evaluate the rest). But I thought casting Lucy Liu as Watson was brilliant, and I am looking forward to seeing if they made it work. Angela Lansbury didn't, IIRC, regenerate, so casting a male in that role would be different, although not necessarily weird.
No, being the Doctor makes you interesting. Some of the settings the Doctor has appeared in would be very different for a woman than a man. It would create all sorts of interesting problems when visiting the Earth's past. So yes, in fact, in some situations a female Doctor really would be more interesting than a male Doctor.
Er, no, I don't think it would be interesting, unless it were temporary and part of a single episode. Crabs can't talk, or wield sonic screwdrivers, or engage in complicated reasoning.
How would this be a drastic change? The Doctor would still be humanoid, still able to talk, still able to wield a sonic screwdriver, and still able to think. How is this a "drastic" change? How is it more drastic than any other regeneration?
Possibly the goal is to see who collects stuff to leak and arrest them. Saves on unemployment insurance... The 10% you keep are the ones who do not react badly (from the perspective of the NSA) to this announcement.
E.g., Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, about whom a game was recently released called "Slap Hillary." If that's not respect, I don't know what is.
I really don't care about viewers who would be turned off by this. Given that the ongoing theme of Doctor Who is tolerance and acceptance of difference, it's really hard to imagine that they are anything but a very vocal, very small minority.
"Political correctness" is generally a word that's used to dismiss what someone else wants as nonsense. Whatever TFA may be saying, the fact is that there's a lot of interest in a female Doctor online, and it's not out of political correctness. It's because people think it would be cool, for actually a wide variety of reasons. My personal reason is that I think it would spin off good stories and allow the writers to subvert some Whovian tropes in really fun ways.
I don't know, I'm hearing from a lot of female Doctor Who fans that they'd like a female Doctor. Color me skeptical. I think the problem here is on the management end of things, not with the audience.
Oh dear, your subtle wit has cut me to the core, young teenage boy. How shall I recover from the intense burn you have inflicted on me? Woe is me! Woe is me!
I posted it in response to the wrong message, so I re-posted it where I'd originally intended to. Deal. As for your comment, "look, the character is male," who died and made you god? This is a character. On a TV show. The writers can do absolutely anything they want. The question is, will it be interesting?
I think a female Doctor would be interesting. If you don't, I'm sorry, but you lack imagination. To cast this as some kind of political correctness is absurd. What matters is a good story. If it were the case that making the Doctor female would kill the story, that would be a good argument, but you didn't make that argument, and I don't think you can make a convincing argument to that effect.
Why should male characters stay male? You state it as if it is axiomatic, but I wonder if you've ever actually reasoned it through. Is it necessary that a female Doctor would be a bad thing, or could it come out well? If so, why? If not, why not? Come on, you claim to be a Doctor Who fan, but the Doctor is about reason, not about prejudice. The Doctor despises prejudice. And what you just said is a classic example of prejudice: valuing a deeply-held opinion more than reason.
Meh. For me a female Doctor isn't about equality or feminism. It's about good TV. A female Doctor would be a fantastic new twist to a long story line. It's hard to understand why anybody would bother to argue the point.
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I hate to break this to you, but many people who want to avoid Dexter spoilers just pirate it. But I haven't really had a problem with that, personally. What, he killed somebody? Shocked! I'm shocked! It helps that none of my friends on social media waste my time talking about TV shows.
It's not about the money for me. It's about the constant consumerist propaganda, which I just don't want to expose my brain to. And then there are the mindless, jingoistic political ads.
Right, but their parents are the ones who are going to age out, so this isn't really a problem, since they live at home, or else at a frat house, which probably has one cable hookup for the whole house.
Wow, from "streaming works really well for me" to "women aren't attracted to dominant men" in four nesting levels. Impressive. FWIW, women are humans, and they are all over the map as far as what they are attracted to. If you think there is one rule that you must follow to attract women, you're doing it wrong.
Also, to pull us gently back in the direction of the topic, sports leagues are selling streaming apps. So on a practical level I don't think that's going to keep cable from dying.
Admittedly, I have no idea who got voted off the island, but I'm coping pretty well. I can watch all the shows I care about on streaming, when I want, with no ads. Sure, people will continue to pay for cable for years to come, out of habit, but it's a business model that's failing to deliver value to new customers, so the population that consumes it will age out over time even if the streaming services don't change anything.
Meanwhile, big cable is doing everything they legally can to prevent the streaming providers from delivering good service. And yet streaming providers are attracting plenty of customers, and plenty of people are cutting the cable. Why the hurry?
BTW, can we please stop calling it "over the top?" That implies something about the business model that's total nonsense: the idea that IP service is a side business, and cable is the real business. Where did this term come from, anyway?
I thought that was a good show. It ran for seven seasons. Granted, it ran on UPN, which had limited audience reach, but seven seasons is not bad at all.
And you don't like watching girls run? Are you dead inside? Oh wait, I already said that...
Women aren't treated equally now, and haven't been in recorded history. Having the Doctor, who is accustomed to coming out on the easy side of that equation, come out on the hard side as he travels through history would indeed be interesting.
Huh. I didn't think the writing for the first episode was very good (still waiting for the season to come out on Netflix to evaluate the rest). But I thought casting Lucy Liu as Watson was brilliant, and I am looking forward to seeing if they made it work. Angela Lansbury didn't, IIRC, regenerate, so casting a male in that role would be different, although not necessarily weird.
No, being the Doctor makes you interesting. Some of the settings the Doctor has appeared in would be very different for a woman than a man. It would create all sorts of interesting problems when visiting the Earth's past. So yes, in fact, in some situations a female Doctor really would be more interesting than a male Doctor.
Er, no, I don't think it would be interesting, unless it were temporary and part of a single episode. Crabs can't talk, or wield sonic screwdrivers, or engage in complicated reasoning.
How would this be a drastic change? The Doctor would still be humanoid, still able to talk, still able to wield a sonic screwdriver, and still able to think. How is this a "drastic" change? How is it more drastic than any other regeneration?
Possibly the goal is to see who collects stuff to leak and arrest them. Saves on unemployment insurance... The 10% you keep are the ones who do not react badly (from the perspective of the NSA) to this announcement.
E.g., Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, about whom a game was recently released called "Slap Hillary." If that's not respect, I don't know what is.
I really don't care about viewers who would be turned off by this. Given that the ongoing theme of Doctor Who is tolerance and acceptance of difference, it's really hard to imagine that they are anything but a very vocal, very small minority.
"Political correctness" is generally a word that's used to dismiss what someone else wants as nonsense. Whatever TFA may be saying, the fact is that there's a lot of interest in a female Doctor online, and it's not out of political correctness. It's because people think it would be cool, for actually a wide variety of reasons. My personal reason is that I think it would spin off good stories and allow the writers to subvert some Whovian tropes in really fun ways.
For lulz.
I don't know, I'm hearing from a lot of female Doctor Who fans that they'd like a female Doctor. Color me skeptical. I think the problem here is on the management end of things, not with the audience.
Oh dear, your subtle wit has cut me to the core, young teenage boy. How shall I recover from the intense burn you have inflicted on me? Woe is me! Woe is me!
I posted it in response to the wrong message, so I re-posted it where I'd originally intended to. Deal. As for your comment, "look, the character is male," who died and made you god? This is a character. On a TV show. The writers can do absolutely anything they want. The question is, will it be interesting?
I think a female Doctor would be interesting. If you don't, I'm sorry, but you lack imagination. To cast this as some kind of political correctness is absurd. What matters is a good story. If it were the case that making the Doctor female would kill the story, that would be a good argument, but you didn't make that argument, and I don't think you can make a convincing argument to that effect.
Yes.
Why should male characters stay male? You state it as if it is axiomatic, but I wonder if you've ever actually reasoned it through. Is it necessary that a female Doctor would be a bad thing, or could it come out well? If so, why? If not, why not? Come on, you claim to be a Doctor Who fan, but the Doctor is about reason, not about prejudice. The Doctor despises prejudice. And what you just said is a classic example of prejudice: valuing a deeply-held opinion more than reason.
In what sense is it disrespectful to those characters for the Doctor to regenerate as a female?
Meh. For me a female Doctor isn't about equality or feminism. It's about good TV. A female Doctor would be a fantastic new twist to a long story line. It's hard to understand why anybody would bother to argue the point.
Oh, well played, sir or madam. Well played.