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For questions about canon (or fanon I suppose).

What does the wizarding world think of homosexuality?

In comparison to the muggle world do they discriminate more, less, or about the same? I know that Dumbledore was supposedly gay but it was never shown in books.

I'm not sure we know? The only evidence we have of discrimination is against muggleborns/half-bloods/muggles. The author has said that the sexism of the muggle world doesn't exist in the wizarding world (though I'm not entirely sure I completely buy that). But I'm not sure she's said anything about homophobia one way or another.

I heard she said that about racism not sexism. Or did she say it about both? I don't buy it at all either way. It's not possible to write a world free of racism or sexism unless you're actively trying very, very hard, and she wasn't. You can't just add "It doesn't exist" as an after-statement.

Eh. It could be that the Harry Potter world has shifted their prejudices from race/sex to Pure blood vs Half Bloods vs Muggles.

I thought she explicitly said both. I think she talked about the fact that there have been just as many female minister's of magic as male and Hogwarts headmistresses and stuff like that? I don't buy it either, though, and I think sexism clearly comes out in at least a few places.

It's a bit like the "Dumbledore is totally gay" thing: After the series is finished, you can pretend you had all kinds of background representation but that doesn't make the books any less painfully straight with everyone paired up in a nice little straight relationship with kids. Dumbledore being gay when he was just about the most sexless character in the whole series doesn't mean anything.

And like this, she can tell her readers "oh but sexism doesn't exist because there were just as many women as men in high positions" when in the book, there never actually really is (and those who are are often incompetent villainous caricatures). Same with racism. JKR can pretend like she totally imagined Hermione as not-white all she wants, it's a pretty transparent lie to grab at representation points.

Ok I think you are reaching a little bit to be mad. She did not say she imagined Hermione as not-white, she just said she likes the black interpretation.

I agree with you that Dumbledore's sexuality, while interesting from a story perspective, doesn't really add representation. I do however think there's a good argument to be made that homophobia, racism (referring to actual race, not blood status) and sexism aren't as strong of social forces as in the Muggle world. They just aren't as important as aspects of one's status and power as a witch or wizard in determining status. That doesn't mean JKR actually wrote real representation (not a lot anyway), and it doesn't mean she wrote an amazingly beautiful perfect egalitarian society, or that she gets brownie points for not writing in, say, overt misogyny - but I do think it's true that those things manifest themselves differently in the wizarding world.

Dumbledore being gay when he was just about the most sexless character in the whole series doesn't mean anything.

Except that LOTS of fans (even fans without "slash goggles," for example, me) picked up the subtext about him and Grindelwald in the book before JKR said he was gay...

Idk,I think that's basically the same as saying "oh yes, I totally imagined Hermione as non-white" after lots of people already headcanoned her as black, even though there was no indication she actually thought that when she wrote it.

I read somewhere that she told the directors of one of the early movies that Dumbledore couldn't mention a wife cause he was gay.

Or she knows how to do subtle gay because not everyone is flaming and some people still hold candles for their first love and don't move on? That's how I always viewed it.

I don't really think so. She didn't include actual representation because that thought never crossed her mind. And then she pretended that the single character not paired off in a heterosexual-with-kids-relationship was totally gay all along.

I'm not huge into Harry Potter, but I seem to recall in the last book, Rita Skeeter wrote something about how Dumbledore's relationship with Harry was suspiciously close, and I always kind of read that as a kind of coded dig ala the way gay teachers used to be/sometimes still are treated as possible predators, but this is just what I remember and I haven't read the last book in many years so I could be making over exaggerating that - also Rita Skeeter of course represents the worst of the wizarding world

I always read that as "Dumbles is playing favorites" or "Harry is getting extra special help in the Triwizard Tournament". I think I was way too naive even the last time I read that book to think of that line in terms of a potentially predatory relationship...

At exactly what point in the show did the doctor become the hero saving the Earth/universe/universes? I know it started out as an educational show, but I'm not sure at what point that changed.

Also, during which Doctor's seasons could the TARDIS still change shape and when did it stop being able to?

Also, which companions of Classic Who besides Sarah Jane are the most popular? Which, besides Adric, are the most hated?

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It changed to the Doctor as a sort of crusader before the end of Billy Hartnell's run, I know that. He was proactive about tracking down evil and confronting it in The War Machines, so it has been there for a good long while.

Apart from the odd occasion the TARDIS has always been police box. It got stuck sometime during that stay in Foreman's Yard during An Unearthly Child. Its varied as to the model of police box a few times, there have been a lot of them in UK policing as every police service had their own design (Glasgow's were pink, for example).

The most popular companion has always varied, I believe Jamie is currently the hot property but every single one of them including Adric (and, yes, even Mel) have enjoyed that status at one point or another. Least favorite is probably Turlough since nobody even remembers he exists.

1) honestly probably the Daleks

2) I don't remember! I remember he fixed it at some point (probably during the Third Doctor era?) and then it just didn't get mentioned ever

3) Ace, Leela, Jamie. Also the Brigadier if you consider him a companion.

The Brig is my personal favourite character, including all umpteen Doctors. I don't know whether to call him a companion, boss or friend. He's simply the Brig, and his like will not be seen again.

I sort of agree with anon who said it changed with "The Daleks," ie, the second serial ever. They sort of figured out as they went along it was more interesting to make up adventures and aliens and that sort of thing than be constrained by history. The first season sort of alternates SF stories and historical stories, 4 of each. The second season has only 2 historicals of 9.

"The Highlanders" (in season 4, 1966) would be the last purely historical story until "Black Orchid" (in season 19, 1982). Other stories might have a historical setting, but they also had to have aliens or something meddling with time, not just the Doctor and co. walking into a situation.

A lot of people dislike early companions without ever really have seen much of them. Victoria and Vicky in particular, and sometimes even Polly. Of companions who aren't mostly burninated, Mel gets a lot of hate for being shrill and bossy. Screams a lot. When I got into Classic Who in 2008, Peri was undergoing a bit of a perception shift from being seen as annoying to really being thought of cool. Same thing a little with Tegan, but a lot of people liked Tegan overall.

(I still like Romana I better than Romana II because I think Mary Tamm's the better actress, but they wanted to go a different direction with the character and...)

Anyone have a good vidoe that summarizes Mass Effect 1. I want to play ME2 and also want to skip 1 because I don't like the controls.

There's Mass Effect: Genesis which might be helpful. It's probably the most complete summary you'll find, and you can import a character with it.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Genesis

Here's a video recording of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvvAe_KGovs (Sheploo pt 1)
https://youtu.be/fjLW5bMexvA (femShep pt 1)

what don't you like about the controls? Are you on console? ME1 is a really good game and I think you'd miss out on a lot of context. Just skipping through those vids, there's a HUGE amount they don't cover. Almost all of ME2's emotional plot-line is based on how you feel about the changes between ME1 and ME2. Like, a lot of the game revolves around stuff like "remember this random shopkeeper in ME1? here's what happened to him!"

The story of the game is pretty straightforward, but there's a lot of background lore, and most of the small sidequests set the stage for much bigger plots in ME2/ME3.

I also want to encourage you to play 1 if you can get used to the controls. The series just builds on itself so much.

(Sorry if this is an annoying comment. But I think it's worth it.)

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