Posted on 01/02/2019 8:23:20 AM PST by C19fan
Doctor Who's much-hyped New Year's special is reportedly the lowest-rated episode of the show since it returned with new Doctor, Jodie Whittaker.
The series - which returned on October 7 2018 for its 11th [reboot] season - concluded on December 9, with an audience of 6.65 million; but the January 1 special, which saw the infamous Daleks return to the show, haemorrhaged a massive 1.5 million viewers.
Estimated overnight figures, according to doctorwhonews, report that the tally of viewers was 5.15 million on New Year's Day.
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It took about three episodes for me to get used to her accent.
Dont worry. Itll get better with the tranny, black Muslim Doctor.
Calling Michelle!
It has been mediocre ever since they killed off Clara.
It was less than stellar before that, but yes, she was the last relatable Companion.... Billy was unrelatable on every level... and the Companion is what makes Dr Who... its what relates a 1000 year old alien with genius intellect to the audience... Clara was a little too plucky at times... but at least she “died” in character... not nearly as smart as she thought she was, and wound up dying because of her trying to be too clever... of course she’s not really dead of course, but taking advantage of that instant between life and death with the help of a time traveling companion to keep on living... but that’s another story.
Billy on the other hand... just not relatable...
And the current crop, just seem like PC shells... don’t care really for any of them... only thing we know about them is some PC incorrect past they all endured... who CARES... And I sure don’t want to hear the Doctor Whining how no on listens because she’s a woman, even though everyone is indeed listening to her...
Its PC pandering CRAPOLA at this point... its ratings will below the last seasons by next season...
Honestly... Even the special, where the DALEKS were the enemy, was BORING!... How the hell do you make the Daleks boring?? If you watched it, did you ever honestly have any sense of dread in it, even a remote sense of it? We all know it will all work out in the end, but honestly, it felt like a filler episode, not a special.
ANd that’s exactly why the show has been in steady decline... poor writing...
Better writing won’t save it after the gender bend.
Right about the companions not being relatable. If any one of them or ALL them suddenly got EXTERMINATED, I wouldn’t care one bit. They are boring as all heck. Empty shells.
I think you are quite right on all points. Moffat was a genius writer of individual stories but he couldn’t write female characters (Amy, River, Clara...all sassy, witty - but their lines could practically be interchangeable) and as showrunner he allowed everything to slip after Series 5.
Russell was immensely strong as both writer and showrunner and, quite frankly, such has been the decline into the pompous dull moralizing that now passes for Doctor Who, I find myself yearning for the ‘gay agenda’ that Russell pushed. At least we were entertained during that era. Doctor Who is just not fun anymore.
Get rid of agendas and quotas, and, please, please, get rid of Chris Chibnall (the utter gall of the spotty oik, to criticize Pip and Jane Baker for their writing in the 1980s, when he churns out this turgid mess today). My ideal solution would be to give Neil Gaiman complete power over Doctor Who. He gets to choose the tone, the Doctor, the arc, everything, with no interference from the powers-that-be. Then, I think, we would see something very special indeed.
As it is, we now face a 2019 with no Who at all.
Great. Thanks, Chibnall.
Actually, I found that episode to be kind of anti-PC, because, as you said, it was implying that Rosa Parks really wasn’t a hero, and needed a bunch of white people to help her out.
I actually like the female doctor, but that’s because we had to endure Matt Smith and Capaldi — if she was following David Tennant, I think I’d feel differently.
The writing in general has been pretty bad, not just the SJW stuff, but the story lines were weak, the plot rarely showing any real drama, like you knew everything would work out, that at least one person she promised to save would die, and in the end they’d ignore it all and go to the next adventure.
The show with the father and the blind girl though was well-written, and well-played, except for the bizarre creature inhabiting their version of the upside-down.
I’m not sure people watch TV as much on new years, but how would I know what british people are doing with their hangovers?
The story was kind of stupid, like I can’t figure out how the Doctor would NOT have known that a dalek nearly defeated the world, and was chopped up into 3 pieces, and buried with 24/7 watchers for centuries. That doesn’t seem like the kind of thing the savior of earth would have overlooked.
That scene was from Braveheart.
I actually think Moffat is an excellent WRITER, but was horrible at a consistent story arc. So when Davies was deciding the stories, and Moffat was writing the shows, it was great, but Moffat in charge started tweaking everything in bad, stupid, or unbelievable ways, often just so Moffat could say “look how surprised you are”. Like it is hard to surprise people by doing things entirely out of character and canon.
That’s right, NO SENSE OF DREAD.
Like when the Doctor said “one dalek, 7 billion humans”, that was supposed to be “hopeful”, but it was actually right on. I mean, the Dalek had previously been defeated by an apparently non-Doctor-Who defended world, with 14th century weaponry. How was it possibly going to do anything but lose to a modern earth with the Doctor?
The show with the man protagonist stealing worlds was a bit more dreadful, in that you could imagine SOMEONE not coming out alive, but in the end, it still seemed like the whole thing ended so easily, with the two companions just like “yep he’s in stasis now all good to go”.
I’ve never watched the series, but checked the UK listings because I thought perhaps the reason for the low viewership yesterday was because the first episode of the final season of “Luther” with Idris Alba aired, but Dr. Who was on at 7 p.m. (UK time), and Luther wasn’t on until 9 p.m.
Read yesterday that Moffat and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock), are working on a new mini-series adaptation of Dracula, and it won’t take place in the modern day. They’ve chosen Danish actor Claes Bang to play Dracula.
Yep.
I quit watching regularly when Peter Capaldi became The Doctor. And he seemed to be going through an emotional crises worthy of the most emo of teenagers on every episode.
After they killed off Clara I dropped it entirely.
Thanks for letting me know. I'm taking it out of my saved DVD queue on Netflix right now.
Hard to believe that there are 5.15 million scifi fans dumb enough to even tune to the channel this PC travesty is on!
Also in BraveHeart where he deserved it even more.
Well that’s because of your excellent taste.
When I need to find an antidote to the current dross on TV, I can always put in a Tom Baker DVD, or even listen to a Big Finish audio adventure with him (he is still recording them).
Tom Baker remains the gold standard. (although my favorite doctor is probably No 2, Patrick Troughton).
Yup. She was a strong character, well acted, good story arc. Almost as good as Rose Tyler. It’s been junk ever since.
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