Glecischaltung is what it is. The Happiness Patrol is in full force against it's politically incorrect dissenters.
He actually "Godwin'd" the thread? Yup, Starsuperion actually "Godwin'd" the bloody thread.! Oi, vey! To think I used to admire his "art". After seeing this petulant, hateful aspect of his "personality", I've since purged all his selections from my PC I once saved.
It's not the first time @starsuperion has put forth such repugnant opinions, and I doubt it will be the last either.
So.... anyway. Allegedy shooting actually began last week, with no plans for location shooting in public areas or press releases of either Jodie in costume or the companion casting any time soon.
Difficult in this age of leaks and hacks, but if they can manage it I'd imagine they'd want the Xmas Special out of the way before we get any sightings of Jodie in her costume (instead of Capaldi's clothes post-regen). Make as clean a break as possible.
Some stupid video blogger has listed his bogus 'reasons' why he thinks that the new Doctor's going to be a failure as well as being a 'PR 'disaster':
Yeah, I stopped listening when he started bemoaning "PC culture." Whenever I hear that, I always think, "Oh, you just want to be able to say all sorts of bullshit without getting called on it." Sorry, guy, but, you're a dinosaur, life is passing you by.
"I hate political correctness" = "Why do people give me a hard time these days for being a bigoted asshole? I don't like it, I'm a sensitive hate-filled snowflake."
Even better: 'I'm a big man with a big mouth, a small brain and a tiny sexual member the size of a grain of rice which became that way due to years of seeing women demand more rights and seeing a ton of assertive female characters appear in novels. comic books, movies and TV shows as well as video games-and I can't take my member getting any tinier than it is! What will I and others like me do? How will boys and young men of this generation cope?' If their lives are so constrained that they have to see Capaldi as some kind of father figure, then they have problems which should be dealt with by a shrink or therapist. Maybe your fellow Aussies should have embraced the widespread use of nuclear power, then, and made it so safe that nobody would fear any accidents or be wary of/have to rely on renewables. Just sayin'. There's nothing that says you can't have a role model in a woman, same as young girls looking up to a heroic male figure. Wonder Woman being changed into a man isn't the same as Superman being changed into a woman; both changes have impacts (negative for young woman and girls in the case of Wonder Woman, not so negative for young men and boys in the case of Superman.) The Superman character would survive such a change, the Wonder Woman character most likely wouldn't. They have a choice not to be like that, then. How is changing a character like this to fit the present times such a hard thing to accept? And why is it? It's not as half as bad as having to use a RFID card on public transit when one has a limited income, or having to survive on a limited income. In fact, compared to a lot of life changes, it isn't even that difficult. As somebody else said here, such fear of change like this isn't conservative, it's cowardice.
@Shaka Zulu you didn't read my later posts, where I've come to terms with it. I think it'll be fine now. That was my initial reaction. It'll certainly be interesting. That said, so many things you said in reply are, to me, strawman arguments, and I'm not going to bother responding to them. Except this: No. You're wrong. About as wrong as you can be. Talk to me when you're my age, and had kids and grandkids and fought against illness and little money and idiot governments. You get tired. And sometimes you just wish things would stay the same for just a little while, until you can catch your breath. Your worldview isn't everyone else's worldview. I could never be conservative for long - I've seen the political parties that espouse that, and they frankly disgust me. I just need a rest.