Strange Happenings

There are people in the USA and in the UK who appear to have lost their marbles.

   Can you believe a movie about Snow White in which the main character is played by someone who screams out that her skin is not as white as snow? Should the moon be some other colour to calm down the loonies or do we keep it white with dents in it here and there?

  Is this butchering of Snow White coming from Disney and is it in any way true?

  It is hard to believe Disney productions would go so mental. Maybe it isn't true and is just scuttlebutt. All very weird if true.

   I have read that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a tale that originated in Poland where the majority of the people there are, in fact, white and they do have snow in winter. And the moon there is also, no doubt white. So, someone in the USA has a problem with Polish people and Polish fairy-tales? That is wacky!

   What is happening to Doctor Who in the UK over the last couple of years is tragic. I grew up with William Hartnell as the first Doctor. He was a cranky old man but in some ways loveable. Back then the Daleks were a real threat and the stories were good, even if the sets and costumes were sometimes not so great. 

William Hartnell's performance as the Doctor set the standard for the other Doctors that followed. Now those in charge of Doctor Who want some woman to be the Doctor before Hartnell and fans my age don't like it. Me? I am not happy with it either. Fine with me that the latest Doctor is a woman. A pity she is given the worst scripts and her companions are about as fascinating as cardboard cut-outs you move about. They seem to blindly follow the Doctor no matter what she says or does. 

   I don't know if it really is true or not but the present Doctor might be replaced by a freaky dude who cannot be described as a gentleman though that may change if he gets the role.

Will Doctor Who survive the current scriptwriters and actors? I don't know.

 If they reinstate Hartnell as the first Doctor they might stand a chance.  

   There was a time when racism in comic books and in  movies in the USA was the norm. That was way back in the 1930s and 1940s. Is it going on today in American comic books and movies? I don't believe it is in the comic books but I haven't been keeping up. Is giving the impression that white people are evil a form of racism? I believe that is the case but, if so, it has become a form of racism that some people in the USA and in the UK appear to approve off. It is a case of nothing to see here, moving on...

    I remember back in the 1980s there was this woman on a mid-day television show who said that only white men are racist and that white women simply go along with what their fathers, husbands and sons believe. She probably didn't realize it at the time but this kinda makes women associated with male racists wimpy, not able to express opinions of their own. No woman I know and associate is like that. They do have opinions and are not afraid to express them to anyone and everyone. 

     Meanwhile pale men are on the hit list everywhere. It doesn't make much sense but it doesn't have to. We are likely to get even paler with lock-down in winter in Australia but we may be able to get tans in summer so maybe then we will be saved. Also redheads, both male and female, are not very popular with the BBC and quite possible Hollywood. Ah! The times we are living in!        

       

 The Difference between The Irregulars and DCs Legends of Tomorrow!

The Irregulars produced in the UK and starring Dari Shaw and Jojo Macari, tick all the politically correct boxes. The Irregulars themselves are a mixed crew of investigative young people, Holmes is a hopeless drug addict and Watson is black and gay. Also the royal disease is regarded as not much of a worry even though, in the 20th Century, it would bring down the last Russian Tsar. This is definitely not for Sherlock Holmes fans or for those who have any understanding of 19th Century London, politics or 19th Century USA. Great sets and look but too much pandering.   

DCs Legends of Tomorrow, starring Victor Garber, may tick some of the politically correct boxes but cuts a damn sight closer to the history that historians know and understand. Yes, there was slavery in the south of the USA during the American Civil War and it was definitely not a good thing. The Irregulars producers disregard this history. Yes, going over the top in France and Belgium during the First World War was hazardous to your health and prohibition on alcohol drinking in the USA did turn out to be a really bad idea. The special effects here are amazing and seeing superheroes and villains romping around in the past, present and proposed future is fun.