Doctor who?
Matt Smith was the best Doctor.
My fav was David Tennant
Hey maybe I’ll start watching again but not if they double down with the SJW crap.
Is there any science fiction that hasn’t gone full lefttard?
I thought Johnny Whitaker played Jody
Men are performers and women are accessories in the entertainment industry. This hasn’t changed.
I watched one episode of DOCTOR WHO years ago but could not really understand what was going on (same as starting a novel in the middle). The only thing I got out of it was that his assistant was cute but that was not enough to sit through another one.
May not be my cup of tea but you have to give a shout out to a show that has been on since 1963.
She is called Dr. Karen
And yes, Go Woke, go broke. They destroyed the series yet again...
Did you see the teaser of the Dr’s new companion..
Looked like a B grade male Porn star from the 70s
Only thing that did not happen when he smiled was his tooth did not sparkle.
Jodie Whittaker wasn’t the problem; I thought she did a great job and underplayed the woke card. The problem was that Doctor Who is certainly male, and changing him into a woman (ironically in any way that doesn’t make him come off as a mere tranny) doesn’t change that fact; it just gives us a different lead character who is NOT Doctor Who.
Ironically, the fact that the writers would tell us he is now female, instead of a man trapped in a woman’s body, contradicts the current government-mandated religion’s doctrines about gender and sexuality.
The BBC doesn’t learn.
They had a perfectly good sci/fi show with Torchwood but ruined it with the overt homosexuality. The Beebs is determined to jam their PC/Woke version of reality down the publics throat.
I remember Top Gears Jeremy Clarkson complaining about a three hour meeting, mandatory, about nothing but inclusiveness and social justice. He said he slept for2 1/2 hours.
Her mission is done. She wasn’t a fan of the program before she was cast.
Mission Accomplished
She Came, She Saw, It Died!
Doctor who has been in decline for a long long time, and the reason has been simple.... poor writing and uninspiring stories. The move to make the Doctor a woman, was just a cheap gimmic to try to increase ratings without actually addressing the underlying problem.
They got loads of press from it, and all the radical carpet munchers cheered on social media, and so did all the other female activists... But, they were almost all folks who had never really watched the show... So they brought her in, and then made their story lines all woke garbage, and made the companions (making sure we had a lot of “representation” there) 2 dimensional (and that’s being generous) caricatures.
SO they got a big bump for that season, and as they got folks to check it out after all the press... but those women that all cheered this idiotic decision, realized once again, they don’t like or watch science fiction... If they tuned in at all... and ratings went right back into the downward spiral they have been for a long long time.
I don’t blame the actress or the actors, they did what they were asked to do.. the problem is what they were asked to do was absolute crap.
The cheap pander, did exactly what it always does... Gets a quick pop, at the expense of your long time fan base, and does NOTHING to fix the true underlying problem. Which has been unbelievable poor writing, and some of the worst companions ever. Anyone who understands Dr Who’s dynamic knows the Companion is the gateway between the doctor and the viewer... and frankly the last decent companion was Clara. They clearly have just been trying to check off the right PC boxes since... Billy Potts character was utterly un-relatable... and the current 3 as I mentioned before are about as two dimensional caricature as you can get.
Making the doctor female was just a cheap ploy, then add to it making the writing beyond woke garbage on top of it, just smacked of stupidity.
Look, here’s a idea... Lose the preaching, and start ENTERTAINING... Respect the cannon and the fans who brought you this far. Just a damn thought.
For the record again, I have nothing against Jodie Whittaker, or any of the other actors currently on the show.... they are doing they job they are asked to do... unfortunately the job they are being asked to do, is absolute slop.
The obsessive wokeness and diversity of Doctor Who has been a growing problem, but there is another that’s more serious, but hard to pin down. Watch samples from the past decade, and you’ll notice the Beeb has been moving away from BBC “proper” accents for characters to make them more regional and working class. The problem is, for US viewers, it’s gotten to the point where they need subtitles to be understood.
EXTERMINATE!!!
I was able to get about 1/2 way through the 3rd episode of the new Doctor, who YouTube pundits are now calling her “Dr. Karen.”
I loved Dr. Who since the John Pertwee days, and I used to be a long time Dr Who watcher, who joined a local group for monthly discussions and PBS fund-raising drives for Dr Who and Monty Python. I was actually at the St. Louis convention where Peter Davison announced that he and his wife were pregnant, the baby who would eventually star in “The Doctor’s Daughter” and marry David Tennant!
But I lost interest in the show shortly after Colin Baker joined, but when Peter Eckelston joined up, I got excited with the sho again with David Tennant and Matt Smith. Peter Capaldi was something of a hit-or-miss for me, but Jody was really pretty bad.
And now it appears that from the latest Dr. Who writers, they didn’t just do “serious violence to the cannon,” they obliterated it completely, just as Disney did to Star Wars (and it appears that there’s been a fan revolt over that as well!)
The Dr. is no longer an old man who stole the TARDIS. Instead, it’s a little black girl who’s not even from Gallyfrey! Everything we’ve come to know about the Doctor is a complete lie, according to the BBC writers.
The BBC wants to kill Dr Who, and it appears that what they’re doing...
Mark
For those who don’t watch or know much about DR Who it’s important to put this is context.
DR Who is the british/uk superhero.. yes technically he’s an alien, but he is and always has been a uniquely British/UK Product
Dr Who is to them, what Superman is to the US.
He is an Icon and an institution.
When I moved I lost the BBC channel that had Dr. Who, but from what I was reading, I was NOT enthused about either a female Dr. Who and her as the character. Seeing the commercials reinforced that opinion. Hopefully they will not to a 300% WOKE new Dr. Who, but I can easily see the next Doctor being an Asian/African transgender midget who prefers animals as its ‘intimate’ partner. And I’ve read that Chinbal is a lousy writer.
Precisely. I have not seen a single episode of Female Dr Who because the very idea of gender swapping is repugnant and contradictory to past cannon of the series.
As I have pointed out many times, they had "Time Ladies" as well as Time Lords, Romana being the first example.
