{"id":185716,"date":"2014-08-28T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/28\/the-talibaptists-in-the-uk-challenge-the-doctor\/"},"modified":"2014-08-28T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T02:40:00","slug":"the-talibaptists-in-the-uk-challenge-the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/28\/the-talibaptists-in-the-uk-challenge-the-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Talibaptists in the UK Challenge the Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously?&nbsp; They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2014\/aug\/28\/doctor-who-lesbian-lizard-kiss-peter-capaldi\">filed complaints about <i>Dr. Who<\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The controversial \u201clesbian-lizard\u201d kiss in Saturday\u2019s Doctor Who episode will not be investigated by the media regulator, which said it \u201cdid not discriminate between scenes involving opposite sex and same-sex couples\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Six people complained to Ofcom after Saturday\u2019s series opener, Peter Capaldi\u2019s first full episode as the Doctor, in which lizard woman Madame Vastra kissed her human wife, Jenny Flint.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The pair, played by Neve McIntosh and Catrin Stewart, shared a kiss as they were forced to hold their breath as they hid from killer droids, prompting complaints from some viewers that it was \u201cgratuitous\u201d and \u201cunnecessary\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A spokeman for Ofcom said: \u201cOfcom can confirm it received six complaints about a kiss broadcast in an episode of Doctor Who on Saturday 23 August.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHaving assessed the complaints, we can confirm that they do not raise issues warranting further investigation. Our rules do not discriminate between scenes involving opposite sex and same sex couples.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a bunch of f%$#ing wankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously?&nbsp; They filed complaints about Dr. Who? Seriously? The controversial \u201clesbian-lizard\u201d kiss in Saturday\u2019s Doctor Who episode will not be investigated by the media regulator, which said it \u201cdid not discriminate between scenes involving opposite sex and same-sex couples\u201d.Six people complained to Ofcom after Saturday\u2019s series opener, Peter Capaldi\u2019s first full episode as the Doctor, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,1064,985,1171,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-media","category-regulation","category-science-fiction","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}