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tree_and_leafFurther to the mind-bogglingly stupid interview with Russell T Davis ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snorkackcatcher kindly scanned in, and Mr Davis' truth, universally acknowledged, that two characters of a similar age and appearing on screen together, must be involved in a love story: I just want to say that my new OTP is Ten/ Unexpected Woman Priest from the end of The Family of Blood. OMGtheirloveissoAnglican.
Seriously, though, this lunatic reflection reminds me of how absurdly happy it made me that Paul Cornell wrote that tiny bit part for a woman. Not as a comic lady vicar (see: The Vicar of Dibley) or as a source of predictable, boring, issue-y drama (see: The Archers), or otherwise there to be a WOMAN! priest, but rather simply as a priest, doing her job.
It's probably the most feminist moment of season 3, in its quiet little way.
snorkackcatcher kindly scanned in, and Mr Davis' truth, universally acknowledged, that two characters of a similar age and appearing on screen together, must be involved in a love story: I just want to say that my new OTP is Ten/ Unexpected Woman Priest from the end of The Family of Blood. OMGtheirloveissoAnglican. Seriously, though, this lunatic reflection reminds me of how absurdly happy it made me that Paul Cornell wrote that tiny bit part for a woman. Not as a comic lady vicar (see: The Vicar of Dibley) or as a source of predictable, boring, issue-y drama (see: The Archers), or otherwise there to be a WOMAN! priest, but rather simply as a priest, doing her job.
It's probably the most feminist moment of season 3, in its quiet little way.
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Date: 2007-12-18 11:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-18 11:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-18 11:14 pm (UTC)Russell left Oxford well before Neighbours...
rather simply as a priest, doing her job.
Paul's wife Caroline was working towards ordination at one point.
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Date: 2007-12-19 09:22 am (UTC)Paul's wife Caroline was working towards ordination at one point.
I think I vaguely knew that.
Your icon - well, it's probably a fair comment!
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Date: 2007-12-19 09:35 am (UTC)It could have been a mistake by the interviewer (though she once said in The Observer that her role model as a journalist was Sarah Jane Smith, and I can't believe Sarah would ever have made such a mistake).