Baghdad_Rob
Vital 1st Team Regular
Well he obliged again didn't he Rainham.
This stuff about "identity politics" and how awful and contrived it all is comes as news to me. Maybe I've been subject to it and failed to realise how awful modern times are when gays and women actually exist. Why are people so upset when there is an attempt to redress the balance. Scared of losing power?
Apart from that I think there have been some hysterical objections to, for example a female Dr Who.
Maybe you should read again what I wrote? I certainly don't have an issue with films being exclusively about woman or black people or the entire cast of a Shakespeare Theatre Troupe being all black ir gay or muslim or whatever.
What I was getting at is the laziness of sections of the film and TV making industry who take an established franchise and simply give the lead character a sex change in the name of the current year but then don't actually give the character an interesting back story and give them some sort of kryptonite to overcome before the final battle. In the terrible films like the later Star Wars, the female characters have no real identifiable flaws in which to overcome and it is largely about them simply turning up at the end.
As per my original post on the matter, films like Black Panther was well done as it was a new franchise where the film needed to show the entire back story before leading up to the end.
What I want to see in terms of representation of women are more characters like the original Sarah O'Connor or Ripley from the Aliens franchise who were strong, independant characters who had their own issues to deal with like real human beings. What I don't want to see are underdeveloped female characters who only exist in order to have more women in lead roles written by writers who having decided to use a female lead then ran out of ideas for the plot.
(and obviously the word "woman" can be replaced by the words such as black and gay etc as applicable)
As for Doctor Who, I haven't really bothered with it since the 80s so couldn't really get angry about that one although I suspect you brought it up as an attempt to . The only thing I will say is that I think they missed a great opportunity to have both a separate male and female doctor who team up together against a mega boss in the usual Christmas special.