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I had high hopes for this. The three specials with David Tennant were great, the Xmas episode was ok and now this.
Two steaming turds of episodes in a row.
One featuring talking babies and a monster made out of snot.
One featuring a drag queen who destroys all good music (or something because reasons) yet somehow there's still a music industry, an EMI and a Beatles.
On the plus side Gatwa and Gibson have good chemistry.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 1, 2024 9:09 PM |
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 12, 2024 11:18 AM |
The ratings are at the lowest in the show’s history. They continue to plummet.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 10, 2024 5:15 AM |
Blah blah blah woke broke blah blah.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 10, 2024 6:49 AM |
Other than the appearance by DL fave Dame Sian Phillips, I don't see much to interest me in the new season.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 10, 2024 7:12 AM |
Russell T Davies who many considered the saviour of the show when Eccleston starred in it is now presiding over its rapid decline. Saturday’s episode had The Doctor kissing the character played by Jonathan Groff. Davies has set out his woke agenda and determinedly continues to push his rigid ideas and clearly it is failing with the audience.
The BBC never admit mistakes and in the case of Dr Who the astonishingly fast decline in viewing figures should have them worried. It will prove interesting to see how this plays out.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 10, 2024 8:58 AM |
This has all been said in the other thread but RTD's "we're woke and if you don't like woke don't watch" is ridiculous because the show is not that different to when he relaunched it.
"First gay kiss" - that was 20 years ago when John Barrowman (ugh) kissed Christopher Eccleston.
The problem is that nothing is new after 20 years.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 10, 2024 9:26 AM |
[quote] The problem is that nothing is new after 20 years.
Except the undisguised contempt towards the viewers
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 10, 2024 10:12 AM |
R4 Say it ain't so! This shit show isn't fit to wipe the Dame's feet!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 10, 2024 12:47 PM |
Ncuti is absolutely adorable. I love his smile, skin and thighs of life.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 1, 2024 2:31 AM |
Has it jumped the shark?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 1, 2024 2:55 AM |
r11, it jumped the shark with Jodie Whittaker and Chinball.
Bad writing and a whole fan fiction rewrite of The Who canon rendered Doctor Who unwatchable.
Plus, Disney is putting all the acquisition cash in special effects on the screen with no attention to plot and arc development. It looks beautiful but is a pile of chaos shite.
It is a mess.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 1, 2024 4:41 PM |
They turned the Doctor into Willy Wonka.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 1, 2024 4:42 PM |
I thought from the very beginning of the new show that adding romance to the Doctor was a mistake, much less sexuality. Also, there was a progression of no THIS is the companion that the Doctor loves the most - no, this next one he loves even MORE, and so on. It was like the problem that comic books have, with character X needing to be the strongest or most powerful, etc, until some even more powerful character Y comes along.
The regenerations are kind of a way to reset that clock, at least. I do remember that it was regarded as controversial that Davison's Doctor was traveling with Tegan and Nyssa, two beautiful young women. Speculation about the "sleeping arrangements in the TARDIS" was as rampant as any fanfic.
So we've had a lady Doctor, and now a black gay Doctor. What's left, will the next Doctor be trans?
None of it really matters, except that this is where they are spending their energy, rather than writing engaging stories.
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