The Season 7 Trailer For Doctor Who Has Landed!

I AM SO EXCITED AND OH SO FRIGHTENED.

Dinosaurs on a spaceship is the new Snakes on a plane.

dinosaurs on a spaceship!!! I can’t wait! The new series looks awesome! 

OH MY GOD THAT TEASER IMAGE HAS SUCH A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY. Seriously, I’m freaking out over here.

AHHHHH MAAHHHHHH GAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Excuse me while I watch it again… and again… and again…

MICKEY SMITH!!!!!!! My boyfriend is now complaining that he can’t hear out of one of his ears. 

Ohhhh myyyy gooddd! When will it be here?

That picture is so . . . it’s just everything – everything – that is wrong about the Moffat Doctor Who: senseless mayhem, a helpless female companion whose sexual attributes are on display (Why is the Doctor holding Amy in such a way as to show the artist her butt and breasts?) is being carried by a very masculine, unperturbed Doctor who looks angry and mean and hardcore because HE’S a power fantasy, and Amy is a sexual fantasy. It’s… really sad. I miss Russel T. Davies so much.  

Where are you seeing Mickey Smith? The black guy at about 56 seconds doesn’t look at all like him and so I’m fairly certain it’s not.  And why do I feel like deja vu? I think it’s because someone mistook this guy in another preview awhile back.

Well, looks like somebody’s got a little bit bigger budget.

 Yep, I don’t watch Doctor Who and yet I feel uncomfortable looking at that picture. It’s like a generic American superhero comic cover.

My first thought?  Oh look, he’s rescuing Amy…again.  But OMFG, dinosaurs on a spaceship!!!

I think you are blowing things up a bit. A. I am not seeing  ”butt and breasts” in that picture to amount your blowing it up to be. the doctors angry? of course the doctor is angry, a loved one was either just killed or hurt. As for the senseless mayhem, you do understand the daleks main goals are to, and I quote, ’Exterminate!’ and that its a teaser poster. Also, don’t you remember seeing first season? Christopher Eccleston was the most jaded and angry of all the doctors. He destroyed his race and David Tennant’s Doctor was very short with everyone after Rose left.  People have got to let go of Davies and Tennant, and let the doctor grow and change!

To me I see a completely clothed woman. She’s wearing black tights, boots, a skirt, a shirt and a jacket. She’s completely covered. I haven’t seen a completely covered woman in the media in a long time. I applaud this. To me the pose is shocking, her eyes are open and she is lifeless. To me I see a beloved, strong woman character that has been beaten and that provokes anxiety in me. I see the doctor to have failed, or to be worried he has failed. It does indeed look like a cheesy comic book cover, but I choose to believe it is irony. People want to believe the Doctor is a hero, but in reality as expressed in the trailer, he’s actually caused many deaths that is weighing on his soul. Could Amy be one of these deaths?

I actually can’t tell if her eyes are open or closed. Debate: 

Considering the first episode we saw Amy in, this has got to be the most covered up and unsexy picture of her in the history of the show.

Just what we need on the show: a sexy, helpless female! The absence of that crap is why I liked Doctor Who. This does not bode well. 

I’m ready for Doctor Song’s spin-off show NOW.

Hey all, I have written a DOCTOR WHO story and would like your feedback. I can’t insert the link here, but if you google “The Aresian Saga” you will find it.

Please take a moment to read an let me know what you think. Thanks.

(This is in reference to the still image)

Why is it that whenever people see someone being carried like that they automatically assume the person being carried is dead? 
It’s because of the Pietà, isn’t it? Damn older-than-dirt meme. 

 RTD was all about the sexy helpless female companion. Remember Rose?

Its a standard Pieta pose. Nothing inherently wrong with it. I understand the emotion behind it.

At worst, it evokes the pulp movie poster that matches a lot of the zany B-movies that Moff appears to be inspired by (and aren’t most Who episodes pretty much that anyways?)

I don’t miss Russell. Too many women piiiining for the Doctor. Except for Donna. Donna is the one good thing he did right.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PietaPlagiarism

So you have a show that features River Song kicking ass and Amy doing some fairly good ass kicking herself and the minute one of them poses helpless, SHOW RUINED FOREVER??

I only watched it once last night before going to bed. It wasn’t until I paused it this morning that I realized it wasn’t him. Dammit I miss the folks from 9 and 10 :( 

I also thought it was the new companion instead of Amy during the ‘dinosaurs on a spaceship’. I’m not very good with faces. 

My first post seemed to have gone lost. I posted a comment regarding the picture stating…

“It’s not what you think guys. Amy’s last episode features the Weeping Angels not the Daleks. And it is set in New York.”

My first post seemed to have gone lost. I posted a comment regarding the picture stating…

“It’s not what you think guys. Amy’s last episode features the Weeping Angels not the Daleks. And it is set in New York.”

Actually, I am fairly sure that her eyes are closed. She is just wearing some blue eye shaddow

Agreed. Maybe her eyes are close but they are painted to look like eyes. JK. That would be ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as dinosaurs. On a space ship.

That pose is associated with a number of superhero comic book cover story lines that were particularly problematic, though. The general meme is that male superhero is carrying female superhero who has been killed in some brutal fashion to advance the male superhero story line and give him something to grieve over so that he can exact revenge/justice later.

It’s part of the whole “fridging of female superheroes” problem. Very often female superheroes are killed/injured/maimed in this fashion, while it rarely happens the other way around – male superhero killed to advance female superhero story line, for example. Male superheroes are killed very rarely, and almost never to advance the story line of a female hero. The imbalance is a problem for women who look up to female heroes but can always look forward to their favorites becoming cannon fodder.

This particular type of “male hero carrying dead female” cover is so common that it’s become shorthand for discussion of the meme, actually.

It’s such a common meme for ass-kicking heroines, though. Mostly in comics but a lot of other places, too. Just when you have a  cool role model to look up to, boom! Cannon fodder.

Well I can’t wait for the next season.

Defeat ALL the Daleks!

http://vbartilucci.tumblr.com/post/28558939263/i-think-this-sums-up-my-thoughts-on-the-season-7

 I was never a Russel T. Davis fan, and although I love these new season of the Matt Smith Doctor Who, it comes at a price with how Stephan Moffat writes woman. That picture…it’s so ridiculous it’s funny!

I don’t think any of the new companions have been helpless at all.  Young and inexperienced, sometimes, but not helpless.  And if you watch the trailer, then look at the picture…well, I got a completely different impression of what led up to that scene. 

The irony is that the original subjects that popularized the pose was a female cradling a male that had been killed in a brutal fashion.
 
Slightly off-topic, but what comics have you been reading where male superheroes are very rarely killed? Most Marvel and DC heroes have been killed at one time or another, regardless of gender. Pretty sure most every A-lister has, lol.

I watched the trailer and my first thought was SPECIAL EFFECTS. So many explosions! Wow. Each episode portrayed looks spectacular. I hope they’re worth the wait!

Resounding “meh” from me.  
Pretty much what I expected: I am underwhelmed and already nervous. One glimpse of River f*****g Song, which probably means at least one episode that’ll annoy me. Also the feeling that, once again, every episode leading up to her departure will revolve around Amy Pond, because after all, it’s her show now.  Until River Song turns up, then it’s her show and the Doctor runs around like an idiot.  I really, really want to like Doctor Who again. I believe Matt Smith could be a good Doctor and the good times might come back. Maybe once the companion changes things will get better and everything won’t hinge on her. Oh, and one last thing: I predict that the new companion will be from 21st-century Earth, probably English but most certainly British, continuing the lack of original thought relating to that role.

Dinosaurs on a space ship reminds me of one of my favorite exchanges from “The Girl in the Fireplace”:

 ”What’s a horse doing on a spaceship!?”  ”Mickey! What’s pre-revolutionary France doing on a space ship? Get some perspective!

Wait. Are you being serious? You see her butt but I do not see her breasts as they are fully covered. 

I’ll admit that Moffat’s not doing a great job of writing but whoa, what? where is this coming from?

what comic books are you reading to get this? I feel like I’m having a very hard time following your logic. Could you elaborate?

Please do not crucify this show before you’ve seen the season.

Because the age old story of Hero saving the fair maiden is American. You totally don’t see that in other cultures.

Lol wait what? Can we all take a moment to recognize the issues in that statement?

This site by comic writer/DC comics author Gail Simone will get you started on this subject:

http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir/

And after that, google the topic “Women in Refrigerators” and you will find more information about the common comic book trope.

I posted a link to Gail Simone’s “Women in Refrigerators” research at the comment below.

If you have read all these comics, how is it that you haven’t heard of this highly-discussed comic book trope?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WomenInRefrigerators

I’m glad it’s not just me. There has been entirely too much focus on Amy during the 11th’s episodes. My favorite episodes are the ones where she’s not around much (and gives Matt Smith a chance to shine as the Doctor).

Oh, come on! Amy Pond is NOT “a helpless female”! Amy Pond kicks butt across ten galaxies, the thing is she does some other things besides ass-kicking as well (and some of them include being sexy). Do you require your heroines to be unflinchingly heroic in every single scene? In this picture she’s hurt, or dead, or just unconscious for some reason. Pretty much EVERY character on the show was knocked out at least once, and I don’t see people calling them stereotypicaly helpless… The idea is not to never present female characters as “weak” in any way (because that way lies PC-insanity), it’s to make sure they are shown as people, human beings who have problems, strengths, opinions and all the rest of this complex mess that happens in our heads.

personally i think its only natural for the doctor to have gotten a little more violent, hes on his 11th incarnation been alive for “who” knows how many years (hehe), and just about everyone he has ever cared for is dead, another dimension, or moved on without him and who is still there, all of his enemies still trying to kill him day in and day out. so yeah i think i would ready for a little senseless mayhem while looking angry an hardcore. plus DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP i mean come on only in the who-verse can something like that be done and not be retarded haha

Thank you! You’ve said what I’ve thought MANY times.

Amy Pond- She could be dead, she could be having an orgasm.  In Moffat’s universe, it literally does not matter.

Can’t be sure, but I’m don’t think that’s what HudaM meant; the specific pose (hero carrying the fair maiden bridal-style toward the reader and away from something scary) in question is really, really commonly used on the covers of American comic books (maybe those in other countries too, but I’m not familiar and thus wouldn’t want to generalize). I don’t think ze was talking about the more general trope.

I just can’t muster up the wherewithal to really care about the fashionable outrage over Moffat’s sexism when RTD gets so little criticism for taking an iconic asexual character who had a huge following in the gay community for *decades* due to his lack of explicit heterosexual coding and immediately saddling him with an insipid hetero romantic plot featuring a conventionally attractive female lead.

No matter how much hand-wringing there is over Amy’s damsel in distress status and River’s descent into a obsessive woman whose life revolves around a man, Moffat hasn’t had an episode where a woman is reduced to a blowjob-giving floor tile. He didn’t seriously  consider an episode where the female companion was groomed over her entire lifetime by the Doctor to be his ideal mate. He never attempted to erase the existence of racism in 1930s America. He never flippantly had the Doctor use blatant misogynist rhetoric to remove a female politician from power because he believed he was the final authority on how Earth should conduct their interplanetary affairs. Moffat’s worthy of criticism, sure, but if you think this pose (also used in the RTD episode “Smith and Jones” and the JNT episode “Caves of Androzani”) is really the part of modern Doctor Who really worth griping over, you seriously need to examine your priorities.

 Increasing the resolution and zooming in… Amy’s eyes are definitely closed.

I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves.  We don’t know Amy’s been fridged.  Perhaps she’s temporarily dead as part of some Dalek ploy and will shortly be revived, or maybe she’s been knocked on the head and he’s carrying her to safety (goodness knows Rory has suffered his fair share of similar incidents, so it’s not necessarily gender-biased in this specific context).  

Or maybe not–that’s my point.  We don’t know much of anything at this stage.

“…a helpless female companion whose sexual attributes are on display..” I’ll give you helpless, but the rest… that’s pretty much par for the course for most of DW since the 60′s.

We’re not discussing the plot here, though, just the posted image and it’s visual similarities to some iconic images with problematic storylines. I didn’t make any assumptions about what the story would be. I just noted that the image invokes a meme, and wondered whether tat was intentional.

Nobody’s crucifying the show; just wondering at the choice of iconic imagery.

 I’m rather worried about the orgasms you’ve witnessed if that image of what is clearly dead or unconscious reminds you of.

Or that you think a piece of hammy artwork is somehow direct proof of the sexism of the show’s writer.

When did I say I hadn’t heard of Women in Refrigerators?

This website hasn’t been updated since the year 2000. You want me to take you seriously when providing a source that’s 12 years old? All this site does is provide a list of female characters that have met unhappy endings. Have you ever bothered looking into how many male characters have been brutally killed, maimed and/or dismembered? I’m assuming not.

Again.

Lol. This is totes something that only Amurricans do.

Hahahahaa. Wait what?

 Mildred – Did you also use your Google-Fu and spend some time doing the research I suggested? There are stats out there on the subject and up-to-date research. People are not required to do the reading for you, and I certainly don’t have the time to cater to people who like to throw poo.

I don’t care whether you take me seriously, actually. No one takes you seriously if you can’t be bothered to spend some time looking things over.

It’s not my job to prove your point. If you don’t want to take the time to do that then it shows a great deal of how much you actually have a point to prove. The Burden of Evidence is on -you-, my friend, not me. 

Why is it that a woman showing a single moment of weakness is suddenly heralded as this terribly offensive thing? A poster that conveys a single moment in an entire season suddenly is becoming this massive topic of debate for sexism and female representation. 

You’re crucifying it. 

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About time someone puts some damned dinosaurs on a spaceship if you ask me.

Also,Karen Gillan.Nof said.

Oh god, thank you. 

Ugh, River Song? She may not be helpless, but she certainly is heavy on the sexy. It’s obnoxious.

Powerful female sexuality is awesome. Brainwashing-induced female sexuality that turns into hopelessly pining female sexuality doesn’t say “empowered” to me. I liked her much better before all that nonsense came into play.