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Symon

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Been watching Doctor Who for many years. Thirteen is the Doctoriest Doctor. Also enjoy much other telly/movies. Currently on another attempt to get caught up with all the Skulduggery Pleasant novels. Often partake in a bit of Audible and love the graps.

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Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · Oct 19

No plans today, so I thought I'd post a little thread about my Doccy Who journey over the years. As there have been quite a few of them. Kicking off with the earliest photos that I still have of me doing #DoctorWho things; Watching my 'big' Christmas present in 1985. And some Nan knitting!

Me watching The Five Doctors in a very Christmassy and very 80's living room.

Me proudly displaying a Dalek jumper, knitted by me Nan, featuring some very pixelly looking Daleks!

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Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 1d

...think the Master works as a main character. At least not, for me. Sure, they're sometimes placed in a temporary anti-hero role (where there's another baddie at odds with their plans), but ultimately there's still gonna be a lot of innocent supporting characters killed, cos it's the Master.

Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 1d

I love the idea of Jacobi as the Master. And if he'd returned to the show in the role, I'd have been all for it.

That said though, I just can't get into his Big Finish stuff. Though that's not specifically his Master, I'm the same with Missy and Sacha's Master. And I love them too. But I don't...

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Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 2d

Thought so.

AEW and WWE will occasionally allow a guy to hit a move on a woman. But they make such a big deal out of it when it happens (as opposed to just treating it as two wrestlers wrestling), it feels like either company giving us proper indie style intergender bouts is still a long way off.

Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 2d

If it was only the women executing moves on guys, that's been an acceptable norm' for intergender matches in AEW/WWE for years.

But was this a "proper" intergender match, where anyone could be in the ring, regardless of gender? Or was it still officially men in/women out (and vice versa) rules?

Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 3d

That's fair. I'm a bit more cynical and probably a little glass half empty.

For me, having more women on the show, but still getting less time (or having to share that time with guys who already dominate the bulk of AEW programming) just feels like lip service.

Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 3d

Does this mean you're for more women's wrestling in AEW or against it? Genuine question, because Collision was sorta good and sorta bad.

On the up side, women were involved in three matches. But on the down, we only had one proper women's match, plus a 2 min squash and a mixed tag with four dudes.

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Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 3d

Wait, was the mixed tag proper back and forth intergender then?

Or are we talking the standard AEW/WWE model of the men can only wrestle men and the women can only wrestle women, by with a couple of token female to male moves included?

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Symon @crayonsandspam.bsky.social · 3d

To be fair, I didn't mind the story/plot of Battlefield. But the dialogue and supporting characters are the absolute antithesis of what makes Remembrance so great.