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”.
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Yawn.
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Haven’t watched since Amy Pond.
Jodi who?
Move along folks, nothing to see here, just more of the same.
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
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
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.
Just couldn't get into the rest of it. Love 'The Prisoner', 'Monty Python' of course. One of my favourites of all time is 'The Young Ones'.
I wonder if she’ll stand while she pees?
It’s getting so that the only strong male roles in books and films are of Evil Bad Guys. Do you wonder whom the current generation of boys will accept as role models?
They misspelled “disgusted” as “delighted”. Way past time to re-cancel.
I lost interest after the 10th Doctor. I also really liked Eccleston. Too bad he was only on for such a short time.
Doesn’t matter Dr Who has become very monotone and boring
Doctor Who ended for me when Matt Smith ended his time.
Change is always vital for Doctor Who. It is the most extraordinarily durable and successful show for exactly that reason. If you dislike a Doctor or showrunner you know that if you hang in long enough, everything will change.
I do think that the digs at the First Doctor’s ‘1960s views’ were greatly overdone. I’ve seen all the surviving Hartnell episodes and his character was simply not like that. It was a cheap shot, and the same, tired joke was repeated several times throughout the episode. Lazy. But the writers and show-runner are now leaving. Moffat probably should have turned it in a couple of years ago, in truth.
Will give Jodie Whittaker every chance next year, and hope she is a big success.
My favourite has always been the 2nd Doctor, Patrick Troughton. Without him there would not have been a show today.
Glad that Moffat is leaving. The whole series has grown stale, self referential, and PC.
I have generally enjoyed watching the Dr Who series since the advent of Eccleston (I’ve seen some of the earlier episodes, but not enough to get into the various Doctors). But it seems to me that BBC is on a roll, killing off successful programs. They fire the star of Top Gear which leads to the exit of all of the presenters. They fail to renew the contract of 3 of 4 of the presenters on the Great British Baking Show, and now they feel the need to make the Doctor female. Dr Who may survive this, but I doubt the other shows will.
an other enjoyable, successful franchise ruined buy sjws