Posted on 07/16/2017 9:43:22 AM PDT by zeestephen
The BBC on Sunday revealed Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor for hit series Doctor Who. She will be the first female lead for the sci-fi series on the U.K. public broadcaster. Current lead Peter Capaldi will leave his role after this year's Christmas special...Earlier this year, Pearl Mackie was tapped to play the first openly gay companion to the space-hopping doc.
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D’oh! Beat me by 2 minutes :-)
My favourites will always be Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.
Whatever.
When they get around to the first megadwarf hypertransgender triracial fundamentalist monoped cannibal Dr Who sporting a new set of pronouns each episode, I may give it a watch. Until then, it’s just not progressive enough for me anymore.
She won’t last a year until the pressure for her to be replaced by a Muslim or a tranny becomes unbearable.
feh...
She was good on Broadchurch. She’s easy in the eyes too. Everything will depend on the writing though. Jury is out..
December 25, 2017 Christmas special: the Day the Doctor Who Series Died.
So they’ve finally decided to end this Dr. Who thing.
I dropped the cable tier having BBC America (a.k.a., ST:TNG Rerun Channel) last year, so I have not seen any of the Season 10 Doctor. I will wait for it on Amazon Prime (not Amazon streaming videos).
Capaldi seemed to have trouble fitting the role. I couldn’t stand Companion Clara. She was too bossy the first Capaldi season and it took most of that Season for Capaldi to even start acting like a Doctor Who. Rumors had been circulating since the first Capaldi season that he was not content with the role and wanted out.
Capaldi was good in The Musketeers.
ping
That show went “full retard” a long time ago.
Dr. Who is dead.
Nothing can save it. This is an insult to the fans and a joke.
(Dr. Who staring Bruce Jenner)
Capaldi was a useful idiot communist themed Dr.
Moffit phone in PC cramming BS.
Advertisers will be suicidal to put their product next to this toxic show.
This is the essentially “New Coke” Dr. Who for the snowflake generation.
The acress who killed Dr. Who.
(next up james bond as a woman. I hear newsweak has a script staring hitlary)
Yup. Best thing about the show.
Also good: the actor and actress playing the king and queen.
This is the pc of turning male charaters femal. Star Trek discovery now has a female lead (homosexual to boot). The did not learn from the voyager fiasco.
I can’t STAND Capaldi as The Doctor. He was good as Frobisher in the multi-part episode of Torchwood, ‘Children of Earth’, but as The Doctor he’s lefty-politically-preachy and comes off as old and dour.
I liked David Tennant and Matt Smith as 10 and 11. They brought some energy and humor to the role. Clara I actually liked too.
They’re really pushing the gay stuff, too. No, every third person on the planet isn’t gay.
I disagree about Capaldi. I thought he was much more “Doctor-like” from the start than any of the other recent Doctors. He brought back a much more classic Doctor Who feel than Tennant or Smith. His character went through a similar transition as William Hartnell’s first Doctor from aggressive and unempathetic to frank but (more or less) lovable, and Colin Baker’s sixth Doctor was much more annoying, blunt, and insulting than Capaldi’s started off as. Capaldi also had more of the Pertwee third Doctor vibe and Tom Baker’s fourth Doctor’s “alienness” going on already in Season 8 too.
I’m going to hate to see Capaldi’s Doctor go, especially now that they’re making such a huge P.C. change by turning the Doctor into a woman. He was in the masterpiece Heaven Sent, which I think is the best Doctor Who episode of the new or classic series and is practically a piece of cinematic art in my opinion. He was sometimes let down by poor scripts (a little too often), but he was also in several of the best DW episodes and is a fine and nuanced actor.
(Just a warning: the show went full SJW this past season. It was the most politicized season of all in a sci-fi show that shouldn’t be political at all. The first part of the finale especially was brilliant and disturbingly creepy, though, and I liked the mind-bending “Extremis” one, so there are still worthwhile aspects to Season 10. I just had to grit my teeth and ignore the lefty preachiness.)
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