Tsk tsk!

[trinityvixen]

Okay, Who fans and fanatics: Who the hell neglected to tell me that the new Doctor is a Scot? Do you have any idea how much more sexy that makes him? Hello!? I don't care if he isn't using his normal accent in the series, this is a serious lapse on your parts. I need to be informed when main characters are played by people with incredibly awesome accents. I watched a behind-the-scenes for the Christmas Special, and DOOD. I knew I liked that guy back when he was a tongue-flicking psycho Barty Crouch Jr, but WHOA. Scottish, too? REPRESENT!!!

Also, why am I not surprised that Captain Jack is gay? No way you'd get a straight guy to be that bisexual on screen, not even in England...

Comments

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Well actually I know one or two people who probably *would* be that bisexual on screen even though they're straight. However there does seem to be rather a large amount of movie stars coming out of their closets.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I just think that bisexuality is so rare, and so unusual for sexual preference that it would take someone with a liberal attitude towards sex to get it right, and the gays would be more liberal than the straights. Not to say they couldn't do it, 'cause, I mean, Brokeback Mountain, right, but just that an out homosexual would have the confidence and chutzpah more often than not.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Rare? Seriously?? I'd think WAY more people are bisexual than gay.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think you'd get a lot more people claiming to be, but I think bisexuality, true bisexuality with no bias is extremely rare. I think most people have a preference for male or female, and a small subset of those would be willing to go so far with a member of the sex they're not attracted to or to have sex with that other gender occasionally. But I bet people who really have no preference and go for whatever comes first? Totally rare. Which is why I'm guessing bisexuality as a popular movement didn't survive much past the 51st century...

[viridian.livejournal.com]

But there's no such thing as true bisexuality, is there? I mean, who's to say that having a preference one way or another makes it any less true? I think 100% truly straight or truly gay with not even the slightest inclination any other way ever under any circumstances is probably equally rare, despite what people convince themselves of.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I think the instances of people being so willing to be so flexible are pretty rare. Unless they're terrible sluts, like Captain Jack.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

HEE!!!

He uses his real accent in one episode.

<3's David Tennant.

I adore him to bits, but I don't love his Doctor as well as I loved Nine. David Tennant is infinitely hotter than Christopher Eccleston, who is creepy when he's not being the Doctor. But something about their respective Doctor-personas makes Nine my favorite. So far. I imagine I'll succumb to the Tennant-love enough that I won't give a crap who he's playing so long as he plays him on my screen.

SQUEE now we can squee over a fandom again!!!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::giggles:: I'm missing the christmas episode but I did just watch the first full episode with him in it and I like his portrayal of the Doctor just fine. He's not a grinning madman, but he is clearly mad. He just does it with his eyes. It doesn't hurt that he and Rose (as Cassandra ) got a mad kiss on and then he was playing Cassandra as the Doctor and talking about the bits of him and stuff and that's where I kind of stopped being able to pay attention to the story...

Yay! Fandom SQUEE. You'll have to get me into the fandom fun stuff, like where to get good fanfic and what have you. And I'll catch up and watch Torchwood besides.

[stars-fell.livejournal.com]

Having just jumped headfirst into this fandom myself--

I was watching the first Doctor Who Confidential for the new series and David busted out with his real accent and I just DIED. I mean nevermind that he (and Chris Eccleston) pretty much own my soul now... the Scottish was the icing on the cake.

Also, John Barrowman makes me giggle a lot because he's an old skool Raoul from the London production of The Phantom of the Opera. :D

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I know, I just jumped into this fandom, too, and I'm chomping right through the available stuff. Chris Eccleston was fantastic, and I miss him terribly, but David Tennant is so different, I don't feel bad loving him just as much, Because they are each so very adorable.

And Captain Jack is hi-larious. Next up after I get through the second series is Torchwood.

[sols-light.livejournal.com]

It feels like Tennant got drunk before work and just started delivering lines and they made him keep doing it, it's wonderfully weird, but it doesn't give me the feeling that he's getting clawed it inside subtly by the things he has to do to keep the universe from falling apart that the other doctors have.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I gathered that the representation of the Doctor varied so much that you could pretty much chose your camp--silly or serious Doctor. Christopher Eccleston was always fairly goofy, but underneath was all this guilt and morose fatalism. I think David Tennant does it slightly differently, and he's coming at the character as manic to cover for the Doctor's lonliness. Notably, Tennant's Doctor has shed Nine's guilt and is now aware of the reality of being alone, so he embraces everyone. It's not a lack of gravitas, it's clinging to what he can get. Which is why he tends to run away a lot, because retreat is preferable to loss. I still think he's very serious and aware of just how awful it is to be able to know all time.