There are three groups of people who are grating on my nerves at the moment.
1) The ones who are actively smug about Capaldi being another white man. The 'casting a woman or a POC would be POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!' brigade live to fight another day, unfortunately. I guess we'll have to sit through all that again when it eventually comes time to look fort Thirteen. (So not for a while, I hope.)
2) The 'OMG he's old and ugly!' fangirls. Unsurprisingly they're mostly young and mostly on Tumblr. On one level they're sort of hilarious, because this displays such staggering disregard for the history of the part. Have they never even seen pictures of, for example, Jon Pertwee? (Three is lovely, but young and hot he isn't.)
3) The 'all Peter Capaldi can play is Scots who say 'fuck' all the time' contingent. Because ... really? Even if you've never seen Torchwood or Local Hero or Neverwhere or, well, a large proportion of Capaldi's filmography, surely The Fires of Pompeii alone proves that this isn't so? There seems to be a lot of overlap with people who hated the first few episodes of Torchwood so much they refuse to watch Children of Earth. Grrrr.
Hating on Children of Earth is one of my hot buttons in this fandom - every time someone starts in on a rant about it, I have to take my hands off the keyboard to stop myself ranting back. And I think Capaldi gave the best performance among a series of great performances - it's an incredibly difficult part, and he makes Frobisher so human and three-dimensional.
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1) The ones who are actively smug about Capaldi being another white man. The 'casting a woman or a POC would be POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!' brigade live to fight another day, unfortunately. I guess we'll have to sit through all that again when it eventually comes time to look fort Thirteen. (So not for a while, I hope.)
2) The 'OMG he's old and ugly!' fangirls. Unsurprisingly they're mostly young and mostly on Tumblr. On one level they're sort of hilarious, because this displays such staggering disregard for the history of the part. Have they never even seen pictures of, for example, Jon Pertwee? (Three is lovely, but young and hot he isn't.)
3) The 'all Peter Capaldi can play is Scots who say 'fuck' all the time' contingent. Because ... really? Even if you've never seen Torchwood or Local Hero or Neverwhere or, well, a large proportion of Capaldi's filmography, surely The Fires of Pompeii alone proves that this isn't so? There seems to be a lot of overlap with people who hated the first few episodes of Torchwood so much they refuse to watch Children of Earth. Grrrr.
Hating on Children of Earth is one of my hot buttons in this fandom - every time someone starts in on a rant about it, I have to take my hands off the keyboard to stop myself ranting back. And I think Capaldi gave the best performance among a series of great performances - it's an incredibly difficult part, and he makes Frobisher so human and three-dimensional.