Posted on 12/26/2017 6:43:12 AM PST by C19fan
Doctor Who fans have shared their delight after the Time Lord regenerated into a woman for the first time ever - with actress Jodie Whittaker keeping her Yorkshire accent for the role. Tonight's Christmas special Twice Upon A Time marked the exit of both leading star Peter Capaldi and showrunner Steven Moffat. But the hour-long episode also heralded a new beginning for the long-running BBC sci-fi series as it welcomed the first female Doctor ever.
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I will give the new person a chance.
In reality, a lot of fans are outraged. Just look at the comments at the Daily Mail today. This is just another attack by SJWs on men and “patriarchy”.
FWIW The producer of Dr. Who despises Trump.
(in Yorkshire accent)
Yawn.
(in normal accent)
Haven’t watched since Amy Pond.
Jodi who?
Move along folks, nothing to see here, just more of the same.
Not surprised.
My thoughts:
* Really long time on the visuals to accentuate the feminine form.
* Immediately has the female doctor hit a random button, lose control of the tardis, set it on fire and fall out. While trying to be dramatic, you just proved the female doctor is an incompetent pilot and a downgrade.
Big scifi fan. Never liked Dr. Who. Perhaps a woman will make it better. The series despite having poor effects could be good if the stories weren’t so British-centric. It does not play for me as an American. Though python and other British stuff does play for me....something about ‘Who’ that does not
I watched a few episodes a few decades ago. I tried to watch it again a couple of years ago. I just couldn’t get into it.
Used to like the show ... but all the PC stuff and so-so writing have left the show waning. With this latest move to a female lead, which I’m sure satisfies the strong wise smart female meme and feminists everywhere, the show has jumped the shark once too often and is dead.
Will re-watch the old 3rd and 4th doctors and some of the later doctor episodes but no more.
Why can’t feminists create and develop their own characters; why must they steal male role models? Why must progressives poison everything they touch? I’m now boycotting Dr, Who...
The best Dr was Chris Eccleson
Rose Tyler lives forever
“The Prisoner” is a cult classic.
There are a new series of audio dramas out from Big Finish that fleshed out the show a lot more.
Mrs. Butterworth is back.
The series despite having poor effects could be good if the stories weren’t so British-centric. It does not play for me as an American. Though python and other British stuff does play for me....something about ‘Who’ that does not.
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The only British show that worked for me was Benny Hill. He spoke a universal language.
In reality, a lot of fans are outraged. Just look at the comments at the Daily Mail today. This is just another attack by SJWs on men and “patriarchy”.
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That would have been my first guess.
If you’re a fan, you would know the doctor has done that same thing, the tardis taking off, flying erratically and crashing right after several regenerations. Matt Smith did it, Peter Capaldi did it, I believe Peter Davison did it as well. The Tardis catching of fire is just a convenient device to introduce a new tardis interior set.
CC
#6? is that you?
They brought back the very first doctor from the 1960's show, originally played by the long deceased William Hartnell, and reprised by David Bradley. Then proceeded to spit on his grave, by spending the entire episode portraying him an old fuddy-duddy racist, sexist, homophobe who was constantly being "put in his place" by the Doctor's current companion, the black lesbian, Bill Potts, with the current Doctor being ashamed and embarrassed by the way his former self acted. The thing was, the first doctor, or the actor that originally portrayed him, was far from any of those things and the character was actually created and written by a women, Verity Lambert.
So after spending an entire episode taking a crap on the origins of Dr. Who, the Coup de grâce was, displaying the ultimate in modern political correctness, by having the current Doctor, "regenerate" into a women for the first time ever (for those not versed in the Doctor Who world, regeneration is the way the show replaces actors, the character of the Doctor literally turns into someone else).
As someone who has watched Dr. Who since the late 1970's, the show finally died last night. I have zero interest in seeing the adventures of politically correct she-Doc, as she fights global warming or Donald Trump or whatever the new PC writers have up their sleeves for the once great show.
Wow. Didn’t see the episode, but your comments sound like something that should be posted on a British forum for reaction; might be a rallying point for those who are opposed for what has happened to the show.
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