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Just want to preface that I completely agree with you, I just want to share some fun trivia. The Greek and Norse mythologies are the same*. They both originate from the Proto-Indo-European people. They're not the only ones either, the Proto-Indo-Europeans are thought to have a wide reaching influence, even to this day. As stated, Greek and Norse mytholfogies along with the Roman pantheon, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Bahaism, zorastrianism, along with Celtic, Baltic and Slavic mythologies. There's even reason to believe that the Proto-Indo-Europeans had an influence on Shinto and early Judaism. To my understanding, its believed that Norse mythology is the most "intact" version of the Proto-Indo-European myth. Pretty neat stuff!

The show just sucks for a variety of other reasons.

Terrible writing. It's been bloody awful for a few seasons now imo. I don't care about the race or gender of any of the actors, but you've got to give me good storylines.

She's a fantastic actress that had horrible writing. Also, she really aped Tennant's Doctor's mannerisms more than making her own, though I'm not sure how much of that was within her control.

Watch Broadchurch if you want to see them in something good~

I only want realistic episodes of a show centered around a godlike being that can manifest any reality they choose.

Where’s “The Doctor has to paint a fence”, “Dr. Who and people coughing while standing uncomfortably close at the shops” or even “Dr. Who’s request for holiday got denied and now they are answering emails on a glorious day”?
If my escapist fantasy isn’t reminding me of my dreary life, then what’s the point?

I dislike how the stories end. The buildup is alright, the setting's the same. But then the ending is terrible. The Doctor isn't being clever or smart or witty or whatever, a solution randomly presents itself and that's it.

It's like, great you can move the space station by causing a burst of baby farts, but you have a TARDIS. You can take the babies yourself. You even talked about that with the only adult there! He then was soundly defeated by the Maestro, only for the Beatles to randomly show up and play a random chord? They even had a clever way to defeat the Maestro (the bubble of silence that the sonic could create), and then did nothing with it.

It's just so... Meh. If only they could write the Doctor to be clever again, I'd enjoy it so much more!

a village where the book made a huge deal about the fact that everyone looks the same due to isolation and inbreeding.

Two particular families were called out as marrying into one another often, not the entire village. In fact I feel like Robert Jordan generally does the opposite of what you describe here - he goes out of his way to uniquely describe a ton of Emond's Field residents, and gave them all pretty varied appearances. Heck, two of the main characters, Mat and Perrin, are different as can be in appearance, aside from the fact that they both have dark hair.

Anyways, either way, even if what you're describing is accurate, it's still not a good excuse to get upset that they casted dark skinned actresses for Egwene and Nynaeve.

I can't tell if Japanese gamers are genuinely frustrated with the inclusion of Yasuke or if right wingers are comment/review bombing the Ubisoft Japan YouTube account's upload of the trailer.

Apparently a lot of the angry comments read as if they've been put through Google Translate and aren't actually in Japanese.

Yeah it's a kids show dude

They always have been. Next step is realising that even though they're stupid as fuck they're still pretty enjoyable.

This is the most IYKYK pic I've came across in Lemmy

They are from outer space though, not time travelers

Just thinking of the running scenes through random spaceships being spiced up with some wall runs and flying rotating kicks and it is glorious.

You have watched the Pertwee era right? Actually, on second thought, if you really like kung fu, don't watch Pertwee 😁

Never knew his first name.

Comparing mutants to "aliens" is boarding on anti-mutant hate speech. SMH

Yeah, well, blame Dudley Simpson for suggesting The Doctor was infinitely old when he wrote The Brain of Morbius back in 1976.

Or blame Douglas Adams for making The Doctor's interference necessary for all life on Earth to begin when he wrote City of Death in 1979.

Or blame Stephen Gallagher for making The Doctor's interference necessary for The Big Bang to happen when he wrote Terminus in 1983.

I can come up with plenty of other examples that show that The Doctor has been super special for a very, very long time.