'Doctor Who' Regenerates in Surprise Season Finale. But Will the Show Return? (space.com) 77
"The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor!" writes Space.com. (Spoilers ahead...)
"The era of Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor came to a surprise end on Saturday night, as the Time Lord regenerated at the end of "Doctor Who" season 2 finale... [T]he Doctor gradually realises that not everything is back to normal. Poppy, his daughter with Belinda Chandra in the "Wish World" fantasy, has been erased from history, so the Time Lord decides to sacrifice himself by firing a ton of regeneration energy into the time Vortex to "jolt it one degree" — and hopefully bring her back. It goes without saying that his madcap scheme saves Poppy, as we learn that, in this rewritten timeline, the little girl was always the reason Belinda had been desperate to get back home. But arguably the biggest talking point of the episode — and, indeed, the season — is saved until last, as the Doctor regenerates into a very familiar face...
Hint: They played the Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler, "alongside Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor and David Tennant's Tenth Doctor during the phenomenally successful first two seasons of the show's 2005 reboot."
Showrunner Russell T Davies called it "an honour and a hoot" to welcome back Billie Piper to the TARDIS, "but quite how and why and who is a story yet to be told. After 62 years, the Doctor's adventures are only just beginning!" Although the show's post-regeneration credits have traditionally featured the line "And introducing [insert name] as the Doctor", here it simply says "And introducing Billie Piper". The omission of "as the Doctor" is unlikely to be accidental, suggesting that Davies is playing a very elaborate game with "Who" fandom...
Another mystery! The BBC and Disney+ are yet to confirm if and when "Doctor Who" will return for a third season of its current iteration.
"There's no decision until after season two..." Davies told Radio Times in April (as spotted by the Independent). "That's when the decision is — and the decision won't even be made by the people we work with at Disney Plus, it'll be made by someone in a big office somewhere. So literally nothing happening, no decision."
"For a new series to be ready for 2026, production would need to get under way relatively soon," writes the BBC. "So at the moment a new series or a special starring Billie Piper before 2027 looks unlikely." The Guardian adds: Concerns have been raised about falling viewing figures, which have struggled to rally since Russell T Davies' return in 2023. Two episodes during this series, which aired in May, got less than 3 million viewers — the lowest since the modern era began airing in 2005.
The Independent has this statement from Piper: "It's no secret how much I love this show, and I have always said I would love to return to the Whoniverse as I have some of my best memories there, so to be given the opportunity to step back on that Tardis one more time was just something I couldn't refuse, but who, how, why and when, you'll just have to wait and see."
Hint: They played the Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler, "alongside Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor and David Tennant's Tenth Doctor during the phenomenally successful first two seasons of the show's 2005 reboot."
Showrunner Russell T Davies called it "an honour and a hoot" to welcome back Billie Piper to the TARDIS, "but quite how and why and who is a story yet to be told. After 62 years, the Doctor's adventures are only just beginning!" Although the show's post-regeneration credits have traditionally featured the line "And introducing [insert name] as the Doctor", here it simply says "And introducing Billie Piper". The omission of "as the Doctor" is unlikely to be accidental, suggesting that Davies is playing a very elaborate game with "Who" fandom...
Another mystery! The BBC and Disney+ are yet to confirm if and when "Doctor Who" will return for a third season of its current iteration.
"There's no decision until after season two..." Davies told Radio Times in April (as spotted by the Independent). "That's when the decision is — and the decision won't even be made by the people we work with at Disney Plus, it'll be made by someone in a big office somewhere. So literally nothing happening, no decision."
"For a new series to be ready for 2026, production would need to get under way relatively soon," writes the BBC. "So at the moment a new series or a special starring Billie Piper before 2027 looks unlikely." The Guardian adds: Concerns have been raised about falling viewing figures, which have struggled to rally since Russell T Davies' return in 2023. Two episodes during this series, which aired in May, got less than 3 million viewers — the lowest since the modern era began airing in 2005.
The Independent has this statement from Piper: "It's no secret how much I love this show, and I have always said I would love to return to the Whoniverse as I have some of my best memories there, so to be given the opportunity to step back on that Tardis one more time was just something I couldn't refuse, but who, how, why and when, you'll just have to wait and see."
It wasn't Ncuti Gatwa (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:It wasn't Ncuti Gatwa (Score:4, Informative)
I really enjoyed Ncuti Gatwa playing the doctor. He was full of energy and looked like he was actually enjoying things. Jodie Whitaker was terrible and not because she's a woman. She was stone faced and admitted to never having watched any old shows. To prove my point watch the following clip and tell me who does a better job. Jodie Whitaker or Jo Martin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Ncuti Gatwa's first season was unwatchable with bad stories and plots. This second season was a complete turn around and a massive improvement. I'm sad to see him go.
Re: It wasn't Ncuti Gatwa (Score:3)
If they want to revive the show they should look at the show when it had the fourth doctor.
Disney should stuff a lot of their template rules somewhere where the sun never shines.
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Or a Fez. Fezs are cool.
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I feel like this is a step back and won't do anything for growing the audience. Ncuti Gatwa is a fantastic actor. My wife and I look forward to Ncuti's next project.
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I think Jodie was severely sabotaged by pretty terrible writing as well.
I did dropped the show because of that rather than any actor choices or..
The old Doctor who (Score:2)
I mean for the most part the original Doctor who wasn't all that controversial certainly not Star Trek levels of controversy (first interracial kiss anyone?).
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Was written by some of the best sci-fi writers and script writers out there.
When was this? In the shows I remember, the only thing worse than the "special effects" was the plots.
Re:The old Doctor who (Score:5, Interesting)
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Was written by some of the best sci-fi writers and script writers out there.
When was this? In the shows I remember, the only thing worse than the "special effects" was the plots.
That's what I remember too. I recall thinking they would have to work hard just to be on par with Lost in Space. The Sci part of their Sci-Fi seemed to be in short supply. I never could summon enough interest to try later attempts.
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They don't need sci-fi writers, they just need writers. A lot of the issues with the last two seasons could be fixed if RTD just had a decent team who could take his ideas and fix the basic writing issues.
For example, the finale was full of fan service, but it felt like empty calories because none of it had any meaning. Then after all the stuff about how bad Wish World was, how regressive the 1950s marriage was, Belinda gets stuck in a literal box for the final battle.
It's just basic stuff that they had a g
Re: The old Doctor who (Score:5, Interesting)
Too bad they replaced all those writers in the diversity purges.
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They never had them. The BBC has always had this problem with Who and many other shows. They let one or two people do all the writing, and it's hit and miss if it is any good.
Other studios have a team of writers who take the draft and refine it, which hopefully gives the shows consistently good scripts that nail all the basics like pacing, properly handling characters, and avoiding McGuffin endings. Hopefully they also tame the worst excesses of fan service.
Last season of Doctor Who was frustrating in how i
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... empowered lesbian black female.
She wasn't the Doctor, but in the 2017 season
The main companion was Bill Potts (https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Bill_Potts ). I forget why her name is Bill.
And they leaned moderately heavily into those adjectives...
Re:It wasn't Ncuti Gatwa (Score:4, Insightful)
And some of the worst episodes ever. It's a shame, because I really liked Capaldi.
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in "Thin Ice"
they landed in 1813 (?) London where
(They move on. Bill realises just how ethnically diverse London has always been, given its status as a world trading port.)
BILL: Interesting.
DOCTOR: What is?
BILL: Regency England. Bit more black than they show in the movies.
DOCTOR: So was Jesus. History's a whitewash.
[http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/36-3.html ]
And the clip ... https://youtu.be/4VOr-2K9PN4?t... [youtu.be]
(Since it's British English tere's a (small) possibility that they meant "non-white" as in diverse rather than just black, though there WERE a surprising number of African looking people there so it could have been either. However i think that meaning of black was already outdated by decades and maybe even "problematic" by 2017 when this aired. but idk tha
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And it wasn't true either. By the late Victorian era (the other end of that century), there were only a few small and relatively isolated ethnic enclaves in London. Entirely unlike what contemporary producers like to pretend it was so they can be "inclusive". But we live in a time when TV people think it's okay to make Queen Charlotte (of whom there are multiple paintings) black.
And ugh, the
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The reason the show sucks now isn't Ncuti Gatwa, his acting or any indelible characteristics. It's Disney and their infinite capacity for ruining anything creative by playing it safe, coloring inside the lines.
Erm... Doctor Who is produced by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
And the reason it sucks is because they've run out of ideas and are refusing to admit it. They aren't playing it safe, they're taking every risk they can except for original stories and good writing. If they were playing it safe they'd have another white, male doctor.
I gave up on Doctor Who in the Capaldi era and I liked Capaldi as the Doctor, it was just everything else that went to pot.
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Dr. Who has always been woke. Granted, they've leaned into it in recent seasons, but it's still a small change.
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Somewhat. I watched some old episodes from the 70s recently and they were pushing feminism back then but it was never the focus of the show.
But I didn't stop watching this 'new, improved, better!' version because of the Woke. I did get annoyed by the way the Doctor was regularly getting bossed around by annoying English women but it was mostly just that after a few great episodes early on the stories just started to suck.
I only watched about half of Matt thingy's shows and then just one of Capaldi's was eno
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Moffat is, in my opinion, the best writer they've had
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Moffat needs to be constrained to be good. When he is forced to write an episode, with a clear ending, you get good scripts from him. When he is given free reign to do whole series he just loses plot. Literally, plots that should be resolved go nowhere, there's never any pay-off to anything, just on to the next thing.
I don't know why the BBC don't get professional writers in to help with this. They seem to think that getting a star showrunner and letting them do what they like is the key to success, but it
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i stopped watching purely because they decided to call it season 1 for the third time and it broke my plex.
ill give it a go when i get around to merging the three shows together... after plex implements native NFO support.
i put the effort in to merge 17 seasons of stargate into a single show as per this google doc BUT https://docs.google.com/spread... [google.com] BUT BUT BUT i aint doing it for new who until its got 10 seasons.
the woke is the least of new who's problems, but the constant prostrating to wokedom gets on
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i would have been MUCH happier to hear the dr regenerating as Clara Oswald or River Song but honestly throwbacks are only worth so much in staving off total creative bankruptcy. wont be long before we're at the 20th doctor.
Oswald would be hard to do, since they spent time on her already being dead and time frozen. Song? I could get behind her as the Doctor, not as much problem as Oswald. I loved her character when she was doing herself. Capaldi and her had good chemistry.
One of the fun things about Dr Who is the debates that people can have about their favorite doctors and helpers. My favorite is Capaldi and his attack eyebrows. And Master Missy is a freaking mad hoot. Some people hate Capaldi, but I like how he "brings i
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Capaldi is a great actor and I liked his portrayal of the doctor, but he had a lot of terrible scripts, particularly towards the end of his run.
This is quite true - it is impressive what he did with those not very good scripts.
It doesn't matter who they get to play the doctor if they don't have competent writers. Instead they keep trying to use nostalgia to bait people into watching. The hacks in the writing room are engaging in cargo cult behavior because they have no fucking clue why people liked the show or considered it great. I doubt Piper is actually the next doctor, not because they never planned on someone else, but because the writers threw this at the wall to see if it would stick and the reaction seems to be that it's as stupid as everything else they've vomited out the last several series.
Yes, the scripts are just kind of clumsy. I never minded the liberal bent - but the last several years they have become preachy. Entertainment people by and large have a liberal outlook, it comes with their life choices. But just like salt, a little goes a long way.
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A lot of the feminism at the time seemed to be through inter-companion chatter. Like Harry teasing Jo (or was it Sarah Jane?) about it.
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" I watched some old episodes from the 70s recently and they were pushing feminism back then but it was never the focus of the show."
THIS! Very much THIS!
Which has been a problem for the last several years. It's focus!
Seriously, Joy to the World would have been a decent Christmas show but again, even in TINY areas, the focus is obvious, annoying and can take you out of the moment. In the train exchange when the Doctor is asking "Ham and Cheese on toast with a pumpkin latte" to a lone woman in the 1950-60
Re:Doctor Woke. (Score:5, Insightful)
Dr. Who has always been woke. Granted, they've leaned into it in recent seasons, but it's still a small change.
Honestly...no, it's not. There were some moments of it here and there during the Tennant/Smith eras, but even those moments were interestingly written in a way that was still ultimately entertaining. ...But I blame Chris Chibnall for turning the dial to 11 and making the show boring in the process. Season 10 was really the beginning of the end for me; the entire season was basically the Scooby Doo formula - unfamiliar location, meet a person that exposits a problem involving an antagonist, attempt to solve the problem, find out the antagonist is really the victim, call out the expositor for their terribleness, exonerate the victim. Now, what made this particularly obnoxious was that they also had a propensity to have The Doctor inject information that the audience wasn't aware of up until the climax; it was even more magic-wand, hand-wavey than the Sonic Screwdriver. Compare that to "Asylum of the Daleks", where there were subtle nods to the fact that Oswin was a Dalek, that eagle-eyed viewers would have been able to pick up on before The Doctor realized it himself.
By time Jodi came around, it was pretty clear they were planning to deflect any and all criticism by chalking it all up to sexism. Personally, I felt sorry for Jodi; she came across like Matt Smith on an entire case of Red Bull, while being stuck with the same Scooby-Doo, hand-wavey scripts that Peter was toward the end of his run. Certainly, there's an argument to be made that sociopolitical commentary has been salt-and-peppered throughout the show's run, but you *can't* convince me that Jodi turning to the camera and flat-out lecturing the audience about climate change at the end of "Orphan 55" would have readily fit in during the Tennant or Smith era...and even if you did, the season lacked anything resembling Blink or The Impossible Astronaut to work as a counterbalance. Just episode after episode of Jodi sorting out who's the oppressor and who's the oppressed, and then giving a sternly-worded warning to the oppressor, and going home. That's not on Jodi, that's on Chris.
The problem with the "always been woke" argument is that it way-too-efficiently serves to deflect any criticism. The TNG episode "A Taste of Armageddon" was "woke" in that it clearly decried the nuclear arms race that was underway during its run....but it left the audience with something to ponder by telling the story through another society's perspective. "Orphan 55" had Jodi look at the camera and say, "Catastrophe is coming. But it’s not decided. You know that. The future is not fixed. It depends on billions of decisions and actions and people stepping up." "A Taste of Armageddon" was serious, but entertained through intrigue. "Orphan 55" tried to shame its audience, and one doesn't need to be in favor of setting fire to a rain forest to arrive at the conclusion that it simply isn't entertaining to be preached to.
The GP may be overreaching here, but I don't think the series is above criticism.
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I think the community leaned into it a bit. Jon Pertwee's somewhat foppish outfit and perhaps mannerisms lead to his adoration by the gay community, and I'm not sure it was in the script. Certainly he was asexual back then, but that makes sense for an alien.
Nevertheless, they were watching in the first place, because of the Doctor's independent spirit and willingness to stand up for the marginalized.
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It was also c
Re:Doctor Woke. (Score:4, Insightful)
The problem is when they priotitize their political message above the quality of the story... It becomes preachy instead of subtle, and that turns a lot of people off.
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Not for some time. (Score:5, Insightful)
You can say it: RTD's insatiable desire to serve the woke ideology has perhaps slain a 60 year old series.
Then when The Message took over, The Star Beast took a giant shit on the franchise, and then we recruited a new Dr Who who "wanted to twerk a space alien to death" campy preachy bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
The only way it comes back is if it does what it did last time - it vanishes long enough that a generation forgets what the fuck they did.
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The more people complain, the fewer people watching the show, the less chance it has of surviving.
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So, we are stuck between the hammer and anvil? If people stop watching the show, it dies. If people keep watching even if they hate it, the show stays crappy because the people who make it get convinced that they are going a good job.
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You know he does this just to make people like you angry?
No, he does it because he isn't very good at his job. If he can't create compelling stories and characters that are enjoyed by millions, being super-progressive gives him a shield for all the criticism that comes his way. He keeps his job and his salary no matter how poor his episodes become.
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"Made up shit like DEI"
Cope harder, your bullshit woke religion is dying.
Dr Who scored the lowest ratings EVER IN 60 years.
Nobody wants watch a campy queer shake his ass *while telling* insipid stories that basically revolve around propaganda.
I like how you just throw in racist like it's assumed because I don't belong to your church.
Any guess what skin color I have? Or if I'm gay/straight?
dude! spoiler alert! (Score:2)
haven't seen the episode yet... so.. thanks! :p
what's the point of putting in "(Spoilers ahead...)" in the article when you put the information in the headline?
THREE HAPPY FANS (Score:1, Troll)
The five people who think "British Humor" is funny and the seven people who think Doctor Who is relevant concide into a union of three people who give a rat's ass about this.
The Doctor is dead. The Daleks ran out of oil years ago. The TARDIS wasn't granted a license by the FAA. Billy is 75 years old.
Geezeus kids, get over it and go watch something modern like Knight Rider.
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lol, it was funny that the car got more fan mail than the 'Hoff.
Anybody saying the actors (Score:5, Interesting)
have anything to do with it have completely failed to understand anything that made Doctor Who worthwhile in the first place - and what's currently destroying it. Even with shoddy sets, weak effects and needing to replace actors, it's the writers and the science-fiction that made the show the phenomenon it was.
You want to talk about "wokeness"? I don't care. I'm not here for the politics. The politics is a symptom, it's not even the problem, even if the politics have been dialled to 12 and rammed down your throat in a way that neither the classic series nor the books and audios between series ever did.
In 1966, the Doctor voice-hacked the "Trilogic" game to defeat the Celestial Toymaker. In 2023, he was defeated by two Doctors playing catch with a ball. And there's the best single example to illustrate the problem.
The show, like its showrunner, IS AN IDIOT. Davies is incompetent. He's incoherent and self-contradictory in interviews, let alone single episodes, let alone seasons, let alone the show's history.
The Radio Times 7 December 2023 quotes him: "The show is taking a sly step towards fantasy, which will annoy people to whom it’s a hard science-fiction show." and immediately follows that with "Episode two next year is wildly fantasy."
18 May 2024 he's quoted in The Verge as saying, and let me break the paragraph up for you: ..."
"I think one of the strengths of Star Trek — and I’m a very big Discovery fan — is you’ve got to be the best to be aboard the Enterprise. You are the elite. You are the best of the best of the best." and
"Even the Lower Decks are very good. I think that’s true of American society, which is very aspirational. Star Trek always feels very demotic and down to earth
And finally there, he said: "In a science fiction setting, the Doctor is always two steps away from pressing the right button and saving the day. But when you introduce a fantasy element to the equation — which is only in some episodes — it allows us to take away the buttons. There’s no computer or sonic screwdriver for him to immediately save the day with, and all rules are off, which means the Doctor has to think harder and fight harder than ever before, and I really enjoy that." ... so ignoring that now he has FANTASY AND BABY WISHES WITH WHICH TO SAVE THE DAY, now that all the rules are off, the Doctor hasn't really had to think since about 2005. With the false exceptions of Matt Smith's first episode pretending to be Moffat's "Sherlock".
In 1964, writer/story-editor Dennis Spooner was interviewed in the Daily Mail, where he said:
“The futuristic stories ought to be easier because the scope is endless but we have to set some limits to remain mildly plausible and we have found that many writers are completely lost with science fiction."
And first producer/showrunner Verity Lambert, what did she say?
"I have strong views on the level of intelligence we should be aiming at,” she told me briskly. “‘Doctor Who’ goes out at a time when there is a large child audience but it is intended more as a story for the whole family.
And anyway children today are very sophisticated and I don’t allow scripts which seem to talk down to them.”
And Davies selected Moffat as a successor, whose work was in the same ballpark of evil. And Moffat selected Chibnall, who threw out everything the show had been based on... paving the way for Davies's mutant-cerebrally-damaged return.
So Russell Davies is as intellectually retarded, self-contradictory and evidently stupid-and-delusional as, in the entirety of history, can only be seen elsewhere in the White House. If you defend "Doctor Who" as it has been since, let's say 2006, then you're both a symptom of the problem and an enabler of the cause.
I've been a fan, having watched and read the material every year since 1978. I've had pieces published in both fan magazines when they still existed, and
Re: Anybody saying the actors (Score:2)
As a guy who never watched the old series (I was a baby when it ended), I find your take on the new one rather surprising, but also interesting, especially as I had hope when it was announced that RTD was coming back.
You seem to put all of the new series in the same bag of awful, and while I understand why you wouldn't like any of it since it changed too much compared to the old, I still find it odd you don't differentiate between the first seasons and the latter seasons of the new series.
Like it or not, th
Re:Anybody saying the actors (Score:4, Interesting)
The sci-fi stuff in Who was rarely any good, and the current series is no exception. There are moments but most of it was bad. Like a poor episode of Star Trek Voyager, there is often an interesting idea there, but it gets resolved with some McGuffin or technobabble nonsense, not in an interesting way.
Like Trek, Who is at its best when it's about the characters, about their stories. RTD tries to do that, but he doesn't bring the depth needed to any of it, and it comes over as tokenistic and shallow. It's certainly bombastic and loud (the sound was really bad in the finale), but doesn't do the work to really make the viewer care about any of it.
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Which is a shame since I really enjoy(d) the show.
If they are going to pull this stunt... (Score:3)
I'd rather see Clara Oswald as The Doctor.
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My guess is that Piper will not be the official 16th Doctor, she will do maybe the xmas specials and then regenerate into the actual 16th.
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My guess is that Piper will not be the official 16th Doctor, she will do maybe the xmas specials and then regenerate into the actual 16th.
Pretty much. They'll try a Christmas special to see how it goes down with the audience but chances are it'll be someone else.
Piper was one of the more annoying companions... worse than Donna IMHO (Catherine Tate is a semi-OK comedian and played that in the show).
Changing the actor who plays the Doctor is just really dancing around the problem that they've got no original ideas left... and none of the original sense of humour.
At this point (Score:2)
De-Americanize Dr Who (Score:2)
Also, CGI has gotten so cheap and effective, it's being over used.
I've got my asbestos longjohns on as a precaution, but you know I'm right.
Death spiral (Score:4, Insightful)
Speaking as someone that watched the first Dr Who broadcast and was a fan until a few years ago, I am so disappointed at the general decline of the show. It has become too wrapped up in portraying social issues to the detriment of actually engaging stories. That's not even mentioning the fact that at its height it was a serial, with cliff-hanger endings wheras the reboot rushes to finish even the most complex (potentially) stories in one go. I don't watch any more. A fascinating concept ridden into the ground having survived and prospered for decades. 'Change' is not always the answer.
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Recent Star Trek shows have proven that serials work really well and are good for streaming. They should copy those, especially Strange New Worlds. Serial characters, episodic plots.
Has Russell T Davies got Alzheimer's? (Score:2)
When he first revived Doctor Who he did a great job. His latest material - especially the finale - is appalling. Or maybe he's decided that he's earned enough to retire, so would use his status to indulge in severe wokery. Ncuti suddenly wearing a dress? Why? 'The power of millions of supernovas' - scientifically illiterate.
There were a few interesting ideas in the last series, but the finale was a total bust. Let's hope for a relaunch with a massively reduced budget - we really don't need the massive TARDI
Re: Has Russell T Davies got Alzheimer's? (Score:2)
That's weird, right? Maybe it's similar to Georges Lucas with star wars: people were allowed to tell him "no" during the first movies, and he didn't have much power. Then for the newer ones, he was completely unchecked.
It maybe the opposite, he had freedom at the beginning, but now big mouse has a day in the scripts.
I was hopeful when I learned he'd return, especially with Tennant for the specials, but then said specials were released and that hope was obliterated.
I don't know what happened, but something d
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Ah yes, that's where we solved the Doctor/Donna problem by lecturing Tennant about being a "male presenting" timelord. Don't forget RTD decided that Davros being in a Dalek undercarriage was like a wheel chair and that somehow created the impression that disabled people were evil, so now Davros can walk.
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If it will it will have to change a lot (Score:2)
"In surprise season finale..." (Score:2)
it's not much of a surprise if you're shouting it at us to get clicks, now is it?
I had watched every single episode until Gatwa.. (Score:2)
I watched his first two episodes and I was 1000% done. That shit was garbage. I haven't watched an episode since, and I won't unless I hear its back to its roots.
I didn't sign up to watch Gay Dr. Clown in Fantasy Land. I signed up to watch Doctor Who, a grounded Science Fiction.
Doctor Who Cares ? (Score:2)
The show fell off a cliff with Jodie Whittaker and not at all because of her. The first three or so episodes I watched she put on a reasonably good performance. But the material they gave her to work with was just atrocious. Utter crap. Stuff they must've dug out of the very bottom of the "rejected ideas" bin.
The ensemble cast didn't work, like at all. I never cared for any of them even the tiniest bit. The Doctor, the most feared creature in the universe, a being able to rip reality apart and put it back t
The Doctor will return.... (Score:2)