I'm on holiday visiting family at the moment and for the past few days I've been staying with my sister. I'm just dashing this off before I go to catch a train because I can't get it out of my head.
Last night one of my sister's friends came over for a quick cuppa. She watches Doctor Who and knowing I'm a fan, she asked what I thought of the new Doctor. When I said I thought he'd be really excellent, he was a talented actor, etc., she looked puzzled.
"Oh. But he'd not very attractive is he?"
I brushed it aside with a comment that, as a newly single woman I wouldn't turn him away (and I do think he is a fairly good looking older man) but it bothered me. Is this what the David Tennant and Matt Smith eras have done to the show in the eyes of casual viewers? Is it judged not on having the cream of British talent playing the lead roles, but on whether the Doctor is "sexy"?
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