rtdvsmoffat:

ritchandspace:

Russell T Davies wrote these episodes, with these lines:

• End of the World: Ladies and gentlemen and trees and multiforms…
• The Long Game: Ladies, gentlemen, multi-sex, undecided or robot…
• Midnight: Ladies and gentlemen, and variations thereupon…

In Russell T Davies’ futures, gender is always more complicated than today.  

Davies also created Jack Harkness, from a future (the 51st century) where sexuality is fluid (also Jack and the Face of Boe have both been said to carry pregnancies).  

On the other hand the Moffat years gave us this line:

“We’re the thin/fat, gay, Anglican marines: why would we need names as well?“ 

Because its so funny and weird that out of hundreds of “anglican marines” in Demons Run in the 52nd century, that a fat guy and a thin guy would be a couple…ok….

And they’re literally credited at the end as “Fat One” and “Thin One”.   They’re purely a joke.

Is that how straight people see us?

Anyway, in the meantime (bringing us back to the original post), the fact that no one knew this Hostess’s name in “Midnight” is considered a major tragedy, because she is a hero.

(The episode also features a character named Sky who mentions her ex with she/her pronouns, and no one makes a big deal out of it.  Its entirely normal, and not a joke at all.)

This post may have been on this blog before, but it is such as good example of the difference between the writers in regards to the representation of minorities, that I had to share it again.