• Re: Xmas Special s*tcanned for "messing with the canon"?

    From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 10:11:41 2026
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    Verily, in article <111e2gg$1uup$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:
    Is Outpost Gallifry still an exclusive club?


    I didn't know it ever was. You just have to sign up for an account,
    don't you? That was all I did.

    When the site moved, I signed up again and managed to score the "Lady President" username.
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 14:36:10 2026
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    In article <MPG.44a45e2918dfe42698a0d4@news.eternal-september.org>,
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <111e2gg$1uup$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did >doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:
    Is Outpost Gallifry still an exclusive club?


    I didn't know it ever was. You just have to sign up for an account,
    don't you? That was all I did.

    When the site moved, I signed up again and managed to score the "Lady >President" username.


    I signed up and was rejected.

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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 10:54:12 2026
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    Verily, in article <111e5kp$1oo$5@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:
    In article <MPG.44a45e2918dfe42698a0d4@news.eternal-september.org>,
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    [quoted text muted]
    don't you? That was all I did.

    When the site moved, I signed up again and managed to score the "Lady >President" username.


    I signed up and was rejected.


    I didn't even know that could happen. Was a reason given?
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  • From Jerry Brown@jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 16:04:59 2026
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    On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:42:03 +0100, "Blueshirt"
    <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    Your Name wrote:

    On 2026-06-22 14:58:27 +0000, The True Melissa said:

    It's also strange that all the Time Lords suddenly started
    swapping sexes whenever they regenerated, though it had
    never happened before. It might have been a little more
    palatable if it had been treated as the major change it
    was. Instead, the world was changed to make a new thing
    seem as if it weren't new.

    It was done simply to appease Politically Correct whiners and
    quotas. Same with the change to a black and gay male.

    The thing is - and I've been in Doctor Who fandom a long time -
    I don't recall anybody ever calling for a female or black Doctor.

    I was resistant to the latter until I saw Patterson Joseph in
    "Neverwhere" and I immediately thought he'd make a great Doctor.
    Apparently he was in the frame for a while but it never happened,

    Other actors of a similar background who might have worked out IMHO:
    David Ajala (stole every scene from the leads in both "Supergirl" and
    "STD")
    Abubakar Salim (Father in "Raised by Wolves" able to go from serious
    to comedic and back in an instant)
    Colin Salmon (previous DW guest star, currently out to pasture on
    EastEnders)
    David Harewood (Martian Manhunter on "Supergirl")

    However RTD would probably have written them as drippy as he did Gatwa
    who I've been assured is a good actor elsewhere.

    Never cared for the Gallifreyan gender swapping introduced in NuWho.
    If they wanted to enable a female Doctor type, they should have just
    brought Romana back from e Space and given her her own show.
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  • From Jerry Brown@jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 16:14:57 2026
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    On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:42:10 -0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
    (The Doctor) wrote:

    In article <xn0prd412xxog004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Your Name wrote:

    On 2026-06-22 14:58:27 +0000, The True Melissa said:

    It's also strange that all the Time Lords suddenly started
    swapping sexes whenever they regenerated, though it had
    never happened before. It might have been a little more
    palatable if it had been treated as the major change it
    was. Instead, the world was changed to make a new thing
    seem as if it weren't new.

    It was done simply to appease Politically Correct whiners and
    quotas. Same with the change to a black and gay male.

    The thing is - and I've been in Doctor Who fandom a long time -
    I don't recall anybody ever calling for a female or black Doctor.

    Fandom has moaned about plenty of things over the years, and
    demanded many many things, in a variety of forms, but the
    request for a female/black Doctor was never top of anyone's list.

    It was something the producers decided to do because they wanted
    to do... they wanted to be seen to be trendy. Either that or the
    BBC told them to do it, as inclusivity is the 'in' thing in
    their politically correct world.

    Either way, the producers/writers should have just continued to
    write good Doctor Who stories and leave the virtue signalling at
    the door.

    What if Joanne Lumley were the Doctor sometimes in the 1980s?

    She did eventually make it into the (definitively) non-canon "The
    Curse of Fatal Death" sketch in the mid-90s.

    Which reminds me of Lenny Henry's sketch as the Doctor in which he
    wore a brown leather raincoat over a Ruper Bear outfit, which managed
    to somehow look better than then-Doctor Colin Baker's costume AND most
    of the outfits subsequently flaunted by Gatwa.
    --
    Jerry Brown

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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 16:12:59 2026
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    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <111e2gg$1uup$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:
    Is Outpost Gallifry still an exclusive club?

    I didn't know it ever was. You just have to sign up for
    an account, don't you? That was all I did.

    When the site moved, I signed up again and managed to
    score the "Lady President" username.

    The real* Outpost Gallifrey is gone. People moved over to
    Gallifrey Base when that closed around fifteen years ago.
    The newer 'Outpost Gallifrey' site isn't connected to the
    original GallifreyOne site or Gallifrey Base.

    I won't cast aspersions on other online Doctor Who communities -
    especially as I am a regular of this charming hang-out! But I
    haven't heard great things about the newer site... but I'm sure
    the guy that runs it does his best. Doctor Who fandom can be
    quite challenging at times. You can't please everybody.

    (*As in, the one run by Shaun Lyon.)
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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 17:10:59 2026
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    The Doctor wrote:

    In article
    <MPG.44a45e2918dfe42698a0d4@news.eternal-september.org>, The
    True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <111e2gg$1uup$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    Is Outpost Gallifry still an exclusive club?

    I didn't know it ever was. You just have to sign up for
    an account, don't you? That was all I did.

    When the site moved, I signed up again and managed to score
    the "Lady President" username.


    I signed up and was rejected.

    LOL!

    Your reputation precedes you, obviously!

    How about I have a word with the owner and we do a deal, he
    lets you into OG.com, and you leave here?

    Sound fair?
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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 16:13:04 2026
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    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <111e5kp$1oo$5@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    I signed up and was rejected.

    I didn't even know that could happen. Was a reason given?

    You do know how infamous Yads is, right?

    We all KNOW the reason!
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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 12:17:32 2026
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    Verily, in article <xn0prde1pekwh0001@post.eweka.nl>, did blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    The real* Outpost Gallifrey is gone. People moved over to
    Gallifrey Base when that closed around fifteen years ago.
    The newer 'Outpost Gallifrey' site isn't connected to the
    original GallifreyOne site or Gallifrey Base.

    I won't cast aspersions on other online Doctor Who communities -
    especially as I am a regular of this charming hang-out! But I
    haven't heard great things about the newer site... but I'm sure
    the guy that runs it does his best. Doctor Who fandom can be
    quite challenging at times. You can't please everybody.

    I haven't been there in years, so I couldn't say. Most forums do decay
    over time.
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  • From The True Doctor@agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 20:12:34 2026
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    On 23/06/2026 11:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <xn0prd412xxog004@post.eweka.nl>, did
    blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    The thing is - and I've been in Doctor Who fandom a long
    time - I don't recall anybody ever calling for a female or
    black Doctor.

    Fandom has moaned about plenty of things over the years, and
    demanded many many things, in a variety of forms, but the
    request for a female/black Doctor was never top of anyone's
    list.

    I do. Back around 2008-10, many people on Outpost Gallifrey
    were calling for a black Doctor. There was a perpetual
    argument between those who wanted that and those who didn't.

    I can't recall too much of that debate. Although come to think of
    it, I do recall some sort of call for Patterson Joseph to be the
    "next Doctor" once upon a time, but I don't think that was ever
    a major debate.

    The people calling for Patterson Joseph to be the next Doctor were a
    minority of brainwashed idiots who didn't understand Doctor Who or the character of the Doctor. There's no way you can write a believable
    historical story for a Western audience in any part of Earth's history
    that affects them without having to explain in every single scene why
    the Doctor looks like no one else in it and why they should accept his authority or credentials, and this makes good story telling impossible.

    I'm sure the threads about the Morbius 'Doctors' or UNIT dating
    went on for much longer!

    There was never any call for a homosexual Doctor either. It would have destroyed the entire franchised, which it eventually did.


    There were fewer who wanted a woman Doctor, though. Those
    issues get lumped together a lot, but they're not the same.

    Similar though, as it's all to appease a vocal political correct
    minority that seem to think they are entitled to representation
    when it comes to being "The Doctor". But, had the actual stories
    been as good as we had in the Pertwee/Tom Baker era of the show
    with the female or black Doctor that we did get, I don't think I
    would have minded at the end of the day. Tokenism itself doesn't
    sell a story, it still needs to be enjoyable and entertaining.

    Wokery, always, always results in bad writing. The character of the
    Doctor is and can only be a white, British, male, heterosexual
    character. There nothing wrong with that since that is what the majority
    of the viewers are too. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a sexist, a
    racists, and a bigot. Any other kind of depiction is impossible to write
    well because people expect a mentor and authority figure in British
    culture and society which is what all the stories are based on to be
    white, British, male, and heterosexual. There is no way the audience can suspend their disbelief otherwise and there is no way to provided a
    believably rational explanation otherwise without ruining the story.

    We've seen what wokery is. It disgusting, divisive, and debased bigotry historically founded on the same principles as Nazism as can be deduced
    from reading George Orwell's 1984 including the Appendix which shows how Political Correctness was used by Ingsoc, the Nazi based English
    Socialist Part was used to brainwash and control the entire population
    of Oceania, ie. Britain and America.

    There is no representation in this disgraceful ideology. Instead it
    takes representation away and gives it to others who are misrepresented
    to create a false narrative. Just look at the racist director
    Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey where not one single Greek actor was
    cast to play any of the prominent roles in a work based on Greek
    historical literature and Greeks told to identify with a sub-Saharan
    African from Kenya played by an actress who is an Afrocentrist racist
    bigot who never read the Odyssey before she was cast, instead of someone
    that looks like them. Everyone knows Helen of Troy was not black so stop treating them as complete idiots.
    --
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Wed Jun 24 09:09:47 2026
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    On 2026-06-23 13:26:09 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    On 23/06/2026 8:27 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:
    Verily, in article <xn0prd412xxog004@post.eweka.nl>, did
    blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    The thing is - and I've been in Doctor Who fandom a long time - I don't >>>> recall anybody ever calling for a female or black Doctor.

    Fandom has moaned about plenty of things over the years, and demanded >>>> many many things, in a variety of forms, but the request for a
    female/black Doctor was never top of anyone's list.

    I do. Back around 2008-10, many people on Outpost Gallifrey were
    calling for a black Doctor. There was a perpetual argument between
    those who wanted that and those who didn't.

    I can't recall too much of that debate. Although come to think of it, I
    do recall some sort of call for Patterson Joseph to be the "next
    Doctor" once upon a time, but I don't think that was ever a major
    debate.

    Didn't 'The Doctor' suggest, some time ago, HERE, that Idris Elba was
    going to be, or should be, the next Doctor??

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252961/?ref_=fn_t_1

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will never play James
    Bond because people won't accept a black Bond.

    If anybody actually wanted a black spy, a female Time Lord, etc., they
    should create a *new* character. Hi-jacking existing characters simply
    to appease the Politically Correct / Equality whiners is pure stupidity
    and laziness.


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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Wed Jun 24 09:13:37 2026
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    On 2026-06-23 13:32:17 +0000, Daniel70 said:
    On 23/06/2026 8:58 am, Your Name wrote:
    On 2026-06-22 09:58:25 +0000, Daniel70 said:
    On 22/06/2026 3:09 am, The True Doctor wrote:
    On 20/06/2026 22:36, Blueshirt wrote:

    <Snip>

    well who is to say The Doctor (or any other Time Lord) can't change >>>>> their sex or race? How do we know how Gallifrey biology works?

    IMPOSSIBLE! Turning the Doctor into a woman is implicit bad writing and >>>> therefore it can never be written well after doing that.

    The Doctor is a white British heterosexual male character

    The Doctor *WAS* PORTRAYED BY a white British heterosexual male
    character ... until the T.V. character wasn't.

    and always must be a white British heterosexual male character.

    WHY must it always be?? Will it break some Universal Law or other if
    the Sex of a PREVIOUSLY MALE T.V. Character changes??

    Yep, the "laws" of common sense and intelligence ... but those laws
    disappeared long ago thanks to the Politically Correct / Equality
    morons.  :-(

    No. Those laws disappeared long ago .... when William Hartnell
    "regenerated" into Patrick Troughton.

    They disappeared far longer ago than that. They likely ceased to exist
    when proto-humans came down from the trees. :-(


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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:14:49 2026
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    In article <MPG.44a4681c6aae4b0998a0d7@news.eternal-september.org>,
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <111e5kp$1oo$5@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did >doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:
    In article <MPG.44a45e2918dfe42698a0d4@news.eternal-september.org>,
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    [quoted text muted]
    don't you? That was all I did.

    When the site moved, I signed up again and managed to score the "Lady
    President" username.


    I signed up and was rejected.


    I didn't even know that could happen. Was a reason given?


    No reson given.

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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:15:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <5e7l3l935safpre2uqop0g5t8v4fhule2j@jwbrown.co.uk>,
    Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
    On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:42:03 +0100, "Blueshirt"
    <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    Your Name wrote:

    On 2026-06-22 14:58:27 +0000, The True Melissa said:

    It's also strange that all the Time Lords suddenly started
    swapping sexes whenever they regenerated, though it had
    never happened before. It might have been a little more
    palatable if it had been treated as the major change it
    was. Instead, the world was changed to make a new thing
    seem as if it weren't new.

    It was done simply to appease Politically Correct whiners and
    quotas. Same with the change to a black and gay male.

    The thing is - and I've been in Doctor Who fandom a long time -
    I don't recall anybody ever calling for a female or black Doctor.

    I was resistant to the latter until I saw Patterson Joseph in
    "Neverwhere" and I immediately thought he'd make a great Doctor.
    Apparently he was in the frame for a while but it never happened,

    Other actors of a similar background who might have worked out IMHO:
    David Ajala (stole every scene from the leads in both "Supergirl" and
    "STD")
    Abubakar Salim (Father in "Raised by Wolves" able to go from serious
    to comedic and back in an instant)
    Colin Salmon (previous DW guest star, currently out to pasture on
    EastEnders)
    David Harewood (Martian Manhunter on "Supergirl")

    However RTD would probably have written them as drippy as he did Gatwa
    who I've been assured is a good actor elsewhere.

    Never cared for the Gallifreyan gender swapping introduced in NuWho.
    If they wanted to enable a female Doctor type, they should have just
    brought Romana back from e Space and given her her own show.


    The Stupid Corsair idea is the source of gencer swapping.

    --
    Jerry Brown

    A cat may look at a king
    (but probably won't bother)
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:17:00 2026
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    In article <pa8l3llp5rukbkl8pq4sblp2fo6qao1em4@jwbrown.co.uk>,
    Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
    On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:42:10 -0000 (UTC), doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
    (The Doctor) wrote:

    In article <xn0prd412xxog004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Your Name wrote:

    On 2026-06-22 14:58:27 +0000, The True Melissa said:

    It's also strange that all the Time Lords suddenly started
    swapping sexes whenever they regenerated, though it had
    never happened before. It might have been a little more
    palatable if it had been treated as the major change it
    was. Instead, the world was changed to make a new thing
    seem as if it weren't new.

    It was done simply to appease Politically Correct whiners and
    quotas. Same with the change to a black and gay male.

    The thing is - and I've been in Doctor Who fandom a long time -
    I don't recall anybody ever calling for a female or black Doctor.

    Fandom has moaned about plenty of things over the years, and
    demanded many many things, in a variety of forms, but the
    request for a female/black Doctor was never top of anyone's list.

    It was something the producers decided to do because they wanted
    to do... they wanted to be seen to be trendy. Either that or the
    BBC told them to do it, as inclusivity is the 'in' thing in
    their politically correct world.

    Either way, the producers/writers should have just continued to
    write good Doctor Who stories and leave the virtue signalling at
    the door.

    What if Joanne Lumley were the Doctor sometimes in the 1980s?

    She did eventually make it into the (definitively) non-canon "The
    Curse of Fatal Death" sketch in the mid-90s.

    Which reminds me of Lenny Henry's sketch as the Doctor in which he
    wore a brown leather raincoat over a Ruper Bear outfit, which managed
    to somehow look better than then-Doctor Colin Baker's costume AND most
    of the outfits subsequently flaunted by Gatwa.


    Lumley kicks! Henry tickles.

    --
    Jerry Brown

    A cat may look at a king
    (but probably won't bother)
    --
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:18:39 2026
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    In article <xn0prde1pekwh0001@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <111e2gg$1uup$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
    doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:
    Is Outpost Gallifry still an exclusive club?

    I didn't know it ever was. You just have to sign up for
    an account, don't you? That was all I did.

    When the site moved, I signed up again and managed to
    score the "Lady President" username.

    The real* Outpost Gallifrey is gone. People moved over to
    Gallifrey Base when that closed around fifteen years ago.
    The newer 'Outpost Gallifrey' site isn't connected to the
    original GallifreyOne site or Gallifrey Base.

    I won't cast aspersions on other online Doctor Who communities -
    especially as I am a regular of this charming hang-out! But I
    haven't heard great things about the newer site... but I'm sure
    the guy that runs it does his best. Doctor Who fandom can be
    quite challenging at times. You can't please everybody.

    (*As in, the one run by Shaun Lyon.)

    Must check in.
    --
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:18:57 2026
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    In article <xn0prde7oeocnh002@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article
    <MPG.44a45e2918dfe42698a0d4@news.eternal-september.org>, The
    True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <111e2gg$1uup$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
    doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    Is Outpost Gallifry still an exclusive club?

    I didn't know it ever was. You just have to sign up for
    an account, don't you? That was all I did.

    When the site moved, I signed up again and managed to score
    the "Lady President" username.


    I signed up and was rejected.

    LOL!

    Your reputation precedes you, obviously!

    How about I have a word with the owner and we do a deal, he
    lets you into OG.com, and you leave here?

    Sound fair?

    No deal!
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:19:30 2026
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    In article <xn0prdeh5f21ka003@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <111e5kp$1oo$5@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
    doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    I signed up and was rejected.

    I didn't even know that could happen. Was a reason given?

    You do know how infamous Yads is, right?

    We all KNOW the reason!

    You would!!
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:21:46 2026
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    In article <MPG.44a47baa9d18a7cd98a0d8@news.eternal-september.org>,
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <xn0prde1pekwh0001@post.eweka.nl>, did >blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    The real* Outpost Gallifrey is gone. People moved over to
    Gallifrey Base when that closed around fifteen years ago.
    The newer 'Outpost Gallifrey' site isn't connected to the
    original GallifreyOne site or Gallifrey Base.

    I won't cast aspersions on other online Doctor Who communities -
    especially as I am a regular of this charming hang-out! But I
    haven't heard great things about the newer site... but I'm sure
    the guy that runs it does his best. Doctor Who fandom can be
    quite challenging at times. You can't please everybody.

    I haven't been there in years, so I couldn't say. Most forums do decay
    over time.


    And then you get Facbook , X and other big Social media.


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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:23:06 2026
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    In article <111elr3$2g4g7$1@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 23/06/2026 11:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <xn0prd412xxog004@post.eweka.nl>, did
    blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    The thing is - and I've been in Doctor Who fandom a long
    time - I don't recall anybody ever calling for a female or
    black Doctor.

    Fandom has moaned about plenty of things over the years, and
    demanded many many things, in a variety of forms, but the
    request for a female/black Doctor was never top of anyone's
    list.

    I do. Back around 2008-10, many people on Outpost Gallifrey
    were calling for a black Doctor. There was a perpetual
    argument between those who wanted that and those who didn't.

    I can't recall too much of that debate. Although come to think of
    it, I do recall some sort of call for Patterson Joseph to be the
    "next Doctor" once upon a time, but I don't think that was ever
    a major debate.

    The people calling for Patterson Joseph to be the next Doctor were a >minority of brainwashed idiots who didn't understand Doctor Who or the >character of the Doctor. There's no way you can write a believable >historical story for a Western audience in any part of Earth's history
    that affects them without having to explain in every single scene why
    the Doctor looks like no one else in it and why they should accept his >authority or credentials, and this makes good story telling impossible.

    Ever saw Neverwhere?


    I'm sure the threads about the Morbius 'Doctors' or UNIT dating
    went on for much longer!

    There was never any call for a homosexual Doctor either. It would have >destroyed the entire franchised, which it eventually did.


    There were fewer who wanted a woman Doctor, though. Those
    issues get lumped together a lot, but they're not the same.

    Similar though, as it's all to appease a vocal political correct
    minority that seem to think they are entitled to representation
    when it comes to being "The Doctor". But, had the actual stories
    been as good as we had in the Pertwee/Tom Baker era of the show
    with the female or black Doctor that we did get, I don't think I
    would have minded at the end of the day. Tokenism itself doesn't
    sell a story, it still needs to be enjoyable and entertaining.

    Wokery, always, always results in bad writing. The character of the
    Doctor is and can only be a white, British, male, heterosexual
    character. There nothing wrong with that since that is what the majority
    of the viewers are too. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a sexist, a
    racists, and a bigot. Any other kind of depiction is impossible to write >well because people expect a mentor and authority figure in British
    culture and society which is what all the stories are based on to be
    white, British, male, and heterosexual. There is no way the audience can >suspend their disbelief otherwise and there is no way to provided a >believably rational explanation otherwise without ruining the story.

    We've seen what wokery is. It disgusting, divisive, and debased bigotry >historically founded on the same principles as Nazism as can be deduced
    from reading George Orwell's 1984 including the Appendix which shows how >Political Correctness was used by Ingsoc, the Nazi based English
    Socialist Part was used to brainwash and control the entire population
    of Oceania, ie. Britain and America.

    There is no representation in this disgraceful ideology. Instead it
    takes representation away and gives it to others who are misrepresented
    to create a false narrative. Just look at the racist director
    Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey where not one single Greek actor was
    cast to play any of the prominent roles in a work based on Greek
    historical literature and Greeks told to identify with a sub-Saharan
    African from Kenya played by an actress who is an Afrocentrist racist
    bigot who never read the Odyssey before she was cast, instead of someone >that looks like them. Everyone knows Helen of Troy was not black so stop >treating them as complete idiots.


    Go woke, go broke.

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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:23:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <111esmq$2ibvi$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2026-06-23 13:26:09 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    On 23/06/2026 8:27 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:
    Verily, in article <xn0prd412xxog004@post.eweka.nl>, did
    blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    The thing is - and I've been in Doctor Who fandom a long time - I don't >>>>> recall anybody ever calling for a female or black Doctor.

    Fandom has moaned about plenty of things over the years, and demanded >>>>> many many things, in a variety of forms, but the request for a
    female/black Doctor was never top of anyone's list.

    I do. Back around 2008-10, many people on Outpost Gallifrey were
    calling for a black Doctor. There was a perpetual argument between
    those who wanted that and those who didn't.

    I can't recall too much of that debate. Although come to think of it, I >>> do recall some sort of call for Patterson Joseph to be the "next
    Doctor" once upon a time, but I don't think that was ever a major
    debate.

    Didn't 'The Doctor' suggest, some time ago, HERE, that Idris Elba was
    going to be, or should be, the next Doctor??

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252961/?ref_=fn_t_1

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will never play James
    Bond because people won't accept a black Bond.

    If anybody actually wanted a black spy, a female Time Lord, etc., they >should create a *new* character. Hi-jacking existing characters simply
    to appease the Politically Correct / Equality whiners is pure stupidity
    and laziness.



    Still Elba is a proven drama actor.
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Tue Jun 23 23:24:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <111esu1$2ie3f$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2026-06-23 13:32:17 +0000, Daniel70 said:
    On 23/06/2026 8:58 am, Your Name wrote:
    On 2026-06-22 09:58:25 +0000, Daniel70 said:
    On 22/06/2026 3:09 am, The True Doctor wrote:
    On 20/06/2026 22:36, Blueshirt wrote:

    <Snip>

    well who is to say The Doctor (or any other Time Lord) can't change >>>>>> their sex or race? How do we know how Gallifrey biology works?

    IMPOSSIBLE! Turning the Doctor into a woman is implicit bad writing and >>>>> therefore it can never be written well after doing that.

    The Doctor is a white British heterosexual male character

    The Doctor *WAS* PORTRAYED BY a white British heterosexual male
    character ... until the T.V. character wasn't.

    and always must be a white British heterosexual male character.

    WHY must it always be?? Will it break some Universal Law or other if
    the Sex of a PREVIOUSLY MALE T.V. Character changes??

    Yep, the "laws" of common sense and intelligence ... but those laws
    disappeared long ago thanks to the Politically Correct / Equality
    morons.  :-(

    No. Those laws disappeared long ago .... when William Hartnell
    "regenerated" into Patrick Troughton.

    They disappeared far longer ago than that. They likely ceased to exist
    when proto-humans came down from the trees. :-(



    Like yourself?
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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.arts.drwho on Wed Jun 24 09:38:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <xn0prde1pekwh0001@post.eweka.nl>, did blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    I won't cast aspersions on other online Doctor Who
    communities - especially as I am a regular of this charming
    hang-out! But I haven't heard great things about the newer
    site... I'm sure the guy that runs it does his best though.
    Doctor Who fandom can be quite challenging at times. You
    can't please everybody.

    I haven't been there in years, so I couldn't say. Most forums
    do decay over time.

    <looks around>

    Yeah... and some decay more than others! ;-)
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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Wed Jun 24 09:38:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    Your Name wrote:

    On 2026-06-23 13:26:09 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    Didn't 'The Doctor' suggest, some time ago, HERE, that
    Idris Elba was going to be, or should be, the next Doctor??

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will never play
    James Bond because people won't accept a black Bond.

    Now that Amazon are in charge of the James Bond franchise, they
    could cast anyone!

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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.arts.drwho on Wed Jun 24 09:38:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0prdeh5f21ka003@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <111e5kp$1oo$5@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
    doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    I signed up and was rejected.

    I didn't even know that could happen. Was a reason given?

    You do know how infamous Yads is, right?

    We all KNOW the reason!

    You would!!

    But I didn't though, did I?!
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.drwho on Wed Jun 24 12:03:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <xn0prei8w1fviep001@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <xn0prde1pekwh0001@post.eweka.nl>, did
    blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    I won't cast aspersions on other online Doctor Who
    communities - especially as I am a regular of this charming
    hang-out! But I haven't heard great things about the newer
    site... I'm sure the guy that runs it does his best though.
    Doctor Who fandom can be quite challenging at times. You
    can't please everybody.

    I haven't been there in years, so I couldn't say. Most forums
    do decay over time.

    <looks around>

    Yeah... and some decay more than others! ;-)

    You might call it evolution.
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho,alt.fan.james-bond on Wed Jun 24 12:04:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <xn0preib81fyxw0002@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Your Name wrote:

    On 2026-06-23 13:26:09 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    Didn't 'The Doctor' suggest, some time ago, HERE, that
    Idris Elba was going to be, or should be, the next Doctor??

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will never play
    James Bond because people won't accept a black Bond.

    Now that Amazon are in charge of the James Bond franchise, they
    could cast anyone!


    Good point.
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.drwho on Wed Jun 24 12:04:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <xn0preie01g2zf6004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0prdeh5f21ka003@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <111e5kp$1oo$5@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
    doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    I signed up and was rejected.

    I didn't even know that could happen. Was a reason given?

    You do know how infamous Yads is, right?

    We all KNOW the reason!

    You would!!

    But I didn't though, did I?!

    You did.
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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.arts.drwho on Wed Jun 24 13:29:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0preie01g2zf6004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0prdeh5f21ka003@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Melissa wrote:

    Verily, in article <111e5kp$1oo$5@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
    doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    I signed up and was rejected.

    I didn't even know that could happen. Was a reason
    given?
    You do know how infamous Yads is, right?

    We all KNOW the reason!

    You would!!

    But I didn't though, did I?!

    You did.

    I did?!

    <looks sheepish>

    Oh okay... I can't undo my past actions so you'll just have
    to accept my non-apology and move on.
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Thu Jun 25 09:46:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    On 2026-06-24 09:38:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:
    On 2026-06-23 13:26:09 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    Didn't 'The Doctor' suggest, some time ago, HERE, that Idris Elba was
    going to be, or should be, the next Doctor??

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will never play James
    Bond because people won't accept a black Bond.

    Now that Amazon are in charge of the James Bond franchise, they could
    cast anyone!

    They could ... but it wouldn't be sensible and would ruin yet another franchise.

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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Thu Jun 25 04:45:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <111hj7e$3bb5p$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2026-06-24 09:38:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:
    On 2026-06-23 13:26:09 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    Didn't 'The Doctor' suggest, some time ago, HERE, that Idris Elba was >>>> going to be, or should be, the next Doctor??

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will never play James
    Bond because people won't accept a black Bond.

    Now that Amazon are in charge of the James Bond franchise, they could
    cast anyone!

    They could ... but it wouldn't be sensible and would ruin yet another >franchise.


    Get the correct people!
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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Thu Jun 25 11:30:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <111hj7e$3bb5p$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2026-06-24 09:38:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will
    never play James Bond because people won't accept a
    black Bond.

    Now that Amazon are in charge of the James Bond franchise,
    they could cast anyone!

    They could ... but it wouldn't be sensible and would ruin
    yet another franchise.

    Get the correct people!

    That's just it... who you, me or anybody else here feels are
    the correct people could be entirely different to who Amazon /
    MGM feel are the correct people. (In the case of James Bond.)

    No production company can keep EVERYONE happy.
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Thu Jun 25 12:28:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <xn0prfyjt2xomw5001@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <111hj7e$3bb5p$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2026-06-24 09:38:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will
    never play James Bond because people won't accept a
    black Bond.

    Now that Amazon are in charge of the James Bond franchise,
    they could cast anyone!

    They could ... but it wouldn't be sensible and would ruin
    yet another franchise.

    Get the correct people!

    That's just it... who you, me or anybody else here feels are
    the correct people could be entirely different to who Amazon /
    MGM feel are the correct people. (In the case of James Bond.)

    No production company can keep EVERYONE happy.

    Ad the tenders are going to ?
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Fri Jun 26 09:30:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    On 2026-06-25 10:30:50 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    The Doctor wrote:
    In article <111hj7e$3bb5p$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2026-06-24 09:38:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will never play James >>>>> Bond because people won't accept a black Bond.

    Now that Amazon are in charge of the James Bond franchise, they could >>>> cast anyone!

    They could ... but it wouldn't be sensible and would ruin yet another
    franchise.

    Get the correct people!

    That's just it... who you, me or anybody else here feels are the
    correct people could be entirely different to who Amazon / MGM feel are
    the correct people. (In the case of James Bond.)

    No production company can keep EVERYONE happy.

    They can keep as many people happy as possible by simply not making
    idiotic changes to the existing established facts of the franchise just
    to appease the whims of Politically Correct whiners or whater silly
    idea the new moroon in charge comes up with. They can also use some
    common sense and intellgence and NOT create so-called "reboots" that
    are a completely different product hiding behind the original's good
    name.

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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.drwho on Fri Jun 26 02:48:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho

    In article <111k6m6$3afg$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2026-06-25 10:30:50 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    The Doctor wrote:
    In article <111hj7e$3bb5p$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2026-06-24 09:38:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:

    Idris Alba has just been reported as saying he will never play James >>>>>> Bond because people won't accept a black Bond.

    Now that Amazon are in charge of the James Bond franchise, they could >>>>> cast anyone!

    They could ... but it wouldn't be sensible and would ruin yet another >>>> franchise.

    Get the correct people!

    That's just it... who you, me or anybody else here feels are the
    correct people could be entirely different to who Amazon / MGM feel are
    the correct people. (In the case of James Bond.)

    No production company can keep EVERYONE happy.

    They can keep as many people happy as possible by simply not making
    idiotic changes to the existing established facts of the franchise just
    to appease the whims of Politically Correct whiners or whater silly
    idea the new moroon in charge comes up with. They can also use some
    common sense and intellgence and NOT create so-called "reboots" that
    are a completely different product hiding behind the original's good
    name.


    Spot on!
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