{"id":133275,"date":"2017-04-17T09:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/i-enjoyed-pearl-mackies-first-doctor-who-outing.html"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:19:18","slug":"i-enjoyed-pearl-mackies-first-doctor-who-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/i-enjoyed-pearl-mackies-first-doctor-who-outing.html","title":{"rendered":"I enjoyed Pearl Mackie&#039;s first &quot;Doctor Who&quot; outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched the first S10 episode last night after everyone had gone home from Easter and enjoyed it a lot. The story was nothing spectacular, but Pearl Mackie&#39;s Bill makes a fine Companion &#8212; in particular, as the article notes, becaus she&#39;s not some amazing, exceptional, cosmically meaningful figure, just a London shop girl. (Though I like her, so far, a lot more than Rose.) And she has a bit of a independent streak, which reminds me of my favorite Companion, Donna.<\/p>\n<p>As to Bill being gay &#8212; that was just there, not called out as something new or dazzling or extraordinary or revolutionary. Just part of the character, like being female or mixed race or a chip cook or speaking with an English accent. Which was also kind of nice.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope she sticks around after Capaldi and Moffat&#39;s departure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2017\/04\/doctor-who-pearl-mackie-the-pilot-who-is-bill-potts-gay-companion'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/S9MHUEhf7djmrDnkhTotLM3v0RllhLq-pVRJk-t4VB3HDiDgFr3qpjEHiD3beVbi7-znIT_O-hSWmPh8s2niAFR1D9B9s3lw0IOeCdsdqV4ehC-zSks-1EMOigbmBdFe9t94mspfAZyDQ8XPvH6dfjaSrPY7EpT22SWX61_cD9pR=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2017\/04\/doctor-who-pearl-mackie-the-pilot-who-is-bill-potts-gay-companion'>How New Doctor Who Companion Pearl Mackie Revolutionizes a Sci-Fi Institution<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOn his way out, showrunner Steven Moffat had one more surprising trick up his sleeve.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/4w9x4dt8QtT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched the first S10 episode last night after everyone had gone home from Easter and enjoyed it a lot. The story was nothing spectacular, but Pearl Mackie&#39;s Bill makes a fine Companion &#8212; in particular, as the article notes, becaus she&#39;s not some amazing, exceptional, cosmically meaningful figure, just a London shop girl. (Though I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/i-enjoyed-pearl-mackies-first-doctor-who-outing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I enjoyed Pearl Mackie&#039;s first &quot;Doctor Who&quot; outing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132030,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/because-the-doctor-must-be-a-young-dashing-male-lead.html","url_meta":{"origin":133275,"position":0},"title":"Because the Doctor must be a young, &quot;dashing male lead&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Nov-16 10:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's disappointing both that BBC is giving Peter Capaldi (the Twelfth Doctor) the toss after the 2018 season (as well as getting rid of Pearl Mackie's new Bill companion), and that it's being done to raise Doctor Who merchandise sales. 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