Posted on 11/06/2018 7:09:28 AM PST by C19fan
Doctor Who has seen a dip in ratings since the series, which stars Jodie Whittaker as the first female incarnation of the Time Lord, began in October.
The iconic sci-fi show is now on its fifth episode, and Sunday night's episode The Tsuranaga Conundrum, which received an average of 6.1 million viewers.
In comparison, the season's first outing The Woman Who Fell To Earth had 8.2 million watching, almost double the viewer ratings for last year's opener.
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Get woke. Go broke.
It became just another dreary Politically Correct television show. One of so very many.
Yep.
Get "woke", go broke.
Maybe it’s as with 007; people see that character as a man, a certain type of man. If a director changes too many factors, that means they have invented a new and different character, not what is being advertised at all.
When will they rerun “The Talons of Weng Chiang” episodes?
Not a Dr Who fan but did watch/enjoy the Matt Smith/Amy Pond series after watching a short YouTube clip of the final scene of the “Van Gogh” episode.
So I watched E1 out of curiosity of the female Doc...for about 20 minutes and recognized it was total PC crap.
Used to watch it with the kids, now it’s merely a LBGT type of indoctrination thing, haven’t watched in years
After David Tenant left, the show collapsed like a rock falling into the Grand Canyon
007 has become a tired cliche and an exercise in computer generated destruction. Baaaarf!
I’m OK with Jodie as the Doctor but it’s definitely leaning to preach the PC/SJW mantra and that might be enough to get me to stop watching if it keeps it up.
Tried watching it in the 80s. Then a few more times in the following decades. Always seemed LAME to me. I’m a huge sci-fi fan but no, not for Doctor Who. If it’s excessively PC? I’ll never watch it.
One smart move the producers did from the onset, they wrote a reason to can the current actor right into the story. Guy asks for a ridiculous sum…new incarnation of Doctor Who is waiting in the wings.
Jago and Lightfoot audio shows were on Bigfinish.com at one time.
I don’t blame Whitaker; it’s the writers and showrunners. she was great in Broadchurch.
I’m pretty good at ignoring PC garbage if it is incidental to an otherwise great story, the “Black Mirror” series is a good example of that. However, the new season of Dr. Who is just not good. The storylines are, for the most part, rehashed “monster of week” episodes that we’ve seen a thousand times before. The character dialogue sounds like it was written by high school theater student. And yes... the PC garbage, where in the past they would tape you on the shoulder with some gay rights agenda or anti-gun morality tale, now they beat you over the head with the PC baseball bat nonstop. In the last four episodes we’ve had one anti-gun diatribe, one entire episode that portrayed every single white American in the episode as a violent, racial slur hurling bigot. One episode with a “wealthy hotel magnate and presidential candidate” illegally dumping toxic waste beneath his hotel who was obviously suppose to be Donald Trump and the latest episode about a man “getting knocked up” on shore leave and having a baby.
Social Justice Warriors don’t watch Doctor Who ?
You may be right. Maybe that character has done all he ever needs to do. Double-O had a very good run, but everything goes out of style eventually.
Even Johnny Depp doing his Pirate act is over. He’s being substituted for another actor next film.
I never understood the appeal with Depp as a Pirate anyway.
Maybe the public’s definition of Pirate was redefined.
Johnny’s most popular film characters seem creepy and suspicious to me. Same act, but in different costumes.
New Who lost me during the creepy, stalker Peter Capaldi era. I have no desire watch an even more Woke version of the Doctor.
Time to let it go and wait 20 years for the next reboot. Besides, I still have all of my Pertwee and Baker shows to rewatch.
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