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I wanted to see F1 because Damson Idris and Simone Ashley "were" in it but now I'm reading that they like completely cut out Simone and cut down some Idris scenes. 🙃

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Everything I learn about the f1 movie is against my will but I just want to say for the umpteenth time FUCK BRAD PITT AND EVERYONE WHO HAD ANY DECISION MAKING POWER REGARDING THE SCRIPT AND EDITING OF THIS DUMPSTER FIRE.

The only female character will be the race engineer who has an inappropriate workplace relationship with geriatric Pitt's self-interest. In real life, Laura Müller is the 1st full-time female race engineer. She got that job this year. This movie has been in development since at least 2021, we deadass nearly got this movie & this bs relationship BEFORE A WOMAN EVEN GOT THAT JOB.

We've not had a woman on the grid since 1992, when 18 of the 21* current drivers on the grid literally didn't exist. The last woman to participate in an f1 race weekend was Susie Wolff in 2015. Grid Girls only stopped being a thing in 2018. How women in motorsport are portrayed absolutely matters because it impacts how they are seen and how they are treated. This depiction is a huge setback and its being fucking endorsed and promoted by the sport itself.

They also cut the only woman of colour from the movie, despite her involvement being used as marketing since the literal moment they announced her casting. They reduced her to a fucking cameo.

Justice for Simone Ashley, for Laura Müller & for women across motorsport because this movie is going to do significant harm.

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Just a note to certain video editors, not all, but you know who you are:

When you do a video that involves all the Doctors and their companions, especially if it's NuWho exclusive, I notice when you only give Martha a fraction of the screen time you gave everyone else.

I've always noticed when you skip her.

I notice when you refer to her series, instead focusing on Jack or Sally or the Master, but don't refer to her.

I notice when you jump over her to get to Donna.

I notice when you give her an obligatory flash on the screen but moving swiftly on.

I notice when the clips that are used of her are usually in reference to Rose.

I notice when you try to erase her.

I see you.

You don't get away with it.

I always notice.

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I miss when 2 seasons meant close to 30 episodes with specials included. the way TV is being restructured means we’re being robbed for each regeneration of the doctor from here.

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@zorilleerrant: #look i said something#also I'm just going to say it. I think people are so annoyed by Poppy because she'd not a white kid#I think if a white Doctor and companion had a white baby exactly the same way people would've thought it was cute#even with someone like Donna who was very much not into the Doctor and the Doctor was not into her#and screw you because Poppy's adorable

I feel like white Doctor Who fans are kind of missing the fact that there's a lot more trauma in nonwhite history regarding having children taken away and families split up. That the narrative of motherhood, especially on television, looks different for white and nonwhite women.

Now, I do honestly think that basically everyone, probably even people who distinctly don't want to be parents, would care a lot about a kid they bonded with even once they regained their memories. The Doctor moreso because he has a whole unresolved trauma about being ripped from his parents/family/people. Belinda's implicitly seen a lot of families lose children, and the parent-child bond tugged on her heartstrings; she, like the Doctor, cares a lot about kids in a general sense. So I feel like the narrative would've made sense even if they'd been white.

But with all kinds of colonial history around removing family members, nonwhite communities and found families getting split up over insufficient biological/phenotypic ties, a higher expectation of 'proof' that children belong to nonwhite parents, and pervasive myths that nonwhite people are simply less parental than white people... the fact that Belinda was losing her mind over someone trying to take a child away from her is compelling. Which is not to say it's handled well but there's a lot of weight behind the concept beyond just The Gift Of Mommyhood.

Basically all of Ncuti Gatwa's run has been about how family can come in lots of different forms which can all be important to people. Basically all of New Who has been about the Doctor building a family for himself because he didn't want to be alone. Space Babies itself was about how children can't thrive in the absence of family. Family has been a running theme in the show and especially in the latest seasons, so I don't think the groundwork was entirely absent, even if the conclusion was haphazard.

Wish World was a place where people struggled to feel happy playing out the roles that society decided were optimal for happiness, even if that wasn't optimal for them. Despite the fact that a lot of things were distinctly unhappy beforehand, people still wanted to break free and get back there. One of those things being that people's families aren't always perfect, but they're related nonetheless.

Poppy was a nonetheless. No one chose to be related to her, and she didn't choose to be related to any of them (except maybe the Doctor, in some metaphysical sense), they just happened to become relatives. That's not enough for Belinda - who has extremely strong ties to her family - or the Doctor - who's often struggled with family ties - to simply get rid of her because it's possible to do so. And they spent long enough thinking they were her parents to develop very strong parental ties to her.

There are different choices I would've made for sure. I thought the ending was clunky. I just don't think it came out of nowhere as completely as a lot of people are saying. I think a lot of the underlying work is there but not fully coaxed out. But that's true of a lot of the finales, which often try to tell multiple stories over the course of the one episode instead of tying them together, and isn't in any way unique to this particular one.

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From this post!

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The Cutie and his Beauty

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I miss martha

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the doctor being genuinely and openly scared in 42 is one of those moments that are still burned into my memory to this day

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I promise you, Mr. Smith. We will find a way out.

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Me too.

still thinking about her (14martha)

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Rewatching Doctor Who with my fiance who's only seen it once and we finished "Deep Breath" and he said, "Yep, that's my favorite episode of Doctor Who" and honestly I couldn't be more proud

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Donna Outfits Round 2 Poll 1

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