yep. Having a female doctor is cool. Jodie is doing a good job with what she’s been given. It’s the writing. The Rosa episode was something, but the man having a baby episode was really stupid. It’s like the writers were given a list of agenda items and were told to create stories around them, instead of starting with good stories in the first place.
The writing is even worse this year than ever.. and its been bad for along time.. and the Rosa episode was PURE pandering crapola....
Lets just throw some time traveler we know nothing about, no back story, no nothing, but toss him in there trying to stop Rosa Parks (who is completely misrepresented as are all the civil rights leaders in the episode from their historical realities.. which is fine, its fantasy.. ) who must be driven, we assume by racism, to stop her from not moving... we’ll make every white character as 1 dimensional as we can, and create a “story” with all the depth of a PETE THE CAT children’s book.
Oh and BTW whatever group or org this guy was part of, never mentioned before, foreshadowed, or mentioned again in the whole season...
Absolutely one of the WORST episodes EVER... but it hit all the WOKE notes, so it’ll get praised.
I have no problem with the premise of the episode, but the execution and writing was CHILDISH at best..... The Partition Day Episode was just as stupidly WOKE, but even it had better overall writing, but not by much.
DR Who’s problem has been, honestly, Russle T Davies was, a very strong writer, and they haven’t had consistently good writing since he left the show.. Yes he pandered and made sure every episode had a sodomite in it, and you knew it, no matter how irrelevant the character was the main storyline, let alone why we needed to know they were homosexual, but at least he could WRITE... Moffat has has written some classic episodes, but his writing generally was not on par.. and the writing of the last many seasons has been down right atrocious.. which is why the ratings have continued to fall.
Until Dr Who deals with its real problem, which is poor writing, no amount of cheap pandering is going to reverse its ratings slide
It took about three episodes for me to get used to her accent.
Female doctor who is just ugh ... sorry.