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[doyle]

Ahahaha. You can run from the wank but you can't hide, even when you turn off the computer. panloaf just came over to my house to shout at me for shipping Doctor Who with anyone and got worked up about Why Any Element of Sex Related To The Doctor Is Very Very Wrong. (He is a friend of mine, by the way, this isn't some random psycho who tracked me down).

*writes Doctor/Rose/Adam/Dalek/multiple cybermen orgy just to spite him*

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[panloaf.livejournal.com]

It's more that adding sex to Doctor Who (the character), bothers me that it is just going to turn the whole thing into yet-another-teen-drama-thing where you simply say "Just sort it out, fercryinoutloud" to the screen, turn it off and go do something else. I don't mind sex in Doctor Who (the series), but why in the wide, wide world of sports should the Doctor become less ambiguous? Thank god it's way off becoming a soap...

The character has always seemed fairly ambiguous about his sexuality to me, if it ever came up, which is I think is far more intriguing. I don't think RTD is straying too far from that, but he is encouraging "teh wank" of another sort with obvious "hints" and winks to the fans who want that - bordering on Clarke/Lex-type obvious :p

Overall, I think I have been put off by many science fiction shows where most of the ideas drift down the pan in favour of having a relationship to keep a certain demographic hooked. At least the Doctor/Rose relationship seems to have some chemistry which is more than just attraction - but why must everything be turned into eros?

Going to stop there, as I'll drift off into a rant about how many sci-fi writers/directors are notoriously bad at doing interpersonal relationships - I'm looking at you, Star Wars (Ep 2/3.. heck, any of them), HHGTTG (movie) and the Matrix. Really annoying when you know that it has been shown that such things *can* actually work - believable interpersonal relationships in fantastic/science-fiction settings that don't simply kill the rest of the story for some "sexual undercurrent".

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

It's not sci-fi, but I'm afraid my beloved House is going that way too, pushing the main character into a relationship with one of his underlings that makes me cry. No romance for House! He must stay single and snarky, or else the show is in danger of turning into ER...