I guess they meant "The Women of New Who" . . .

[dbskyler]

Watching the BBC America special "The Women of Doctor Who" right now, and already I'm very disappointed because it's clear they're doing New Who only. It doesn't look like they're even going to mention Sarah Jane. Instead it was all Rose Rose Rose, and now that we're past the first commercial break it's Martha Martha Martha. I guess Donna will be up next, and then Amy, and then River Song, and the show will be over? Or maybe they'll do River Song, and then Amy. Ooh, suspense!

Wait a minute, Yvonne Hartman?! They're doing Yvonne Hartman now. Why? This makes no sense. Why Yvonne and not Jackie? Or Harriet Jones?

Okay, and now Idris?? I have no idea where they're going now. They haven't even done Donna yet. Are they saving Donna for later?

Okay, I guess I have to keep watching now just to see what they do next. It's still a disappointment, though. It would've been so much better if they'd started with Barbara.

ETA: Okay, they did just do Sarah. All the clips were from New Who, but they did slip in a couple of stills from the '70s.

Comments

[shadowturquoise.livejournal.com]

Gah! I'm glad I missed that. I learned last year to skip any BBCA-produced Doctor Who specials because they are embarassingly bad.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I feared that would be the case and resolved not to watch it and disappoint myself.

[thisbluespirit]

I see somewhere else that they did a poll to go with it... and Rose came out as the Greatest Woman in Who. *cries* (I don't think she even makes it to the Greatest Woman in New Who, for me. *despairs at the state of the world*)

I don't even watch the Confidential things because of lack of Old Who clips. It's sad. Still, we should get some nice things for our anniversary next year. You can't celebrate 50 years while only mentioning things that happened since 2005. Even people of little maths would notice.

I am glad they eventually remembered to mention Sarah. I hope they put Harriet Jones in at some point, too. I think she's more awesome than Rose. :-)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

BUT BUT BUT JACKIE.

I hope they did mention Jackie later on. Because JACKIE.

... More to the point, I agree with the grumbling - where's Liz? Jo? Romana (both of them)? Ace? Even Tegan - I'm not really a fan, but she was very important! That's just ridiculous, esp. mentioning a character that appeared in one (!) episode (or two, really) over them.