I stopped after Amy Pond.
I did like Clara, but not her Dr.
Posted on 11/18/2023 1:51:22 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
Doctor Who returned to screens tonight as part of Children in Need, with a special five-minute scene featuring the Daleks and their creator Davros.
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Davros, played once again by Julian Bleach, looked different to to how viewers might remember him – and while fans might have assumed that's simply because this particular scene was set prior to the accident that left the character scarred and reliant on his support unit, Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies has explained that there was more to it than that.
Speaking on new BBC Three companion series Doctor Who Unleashed, Davies said: "We had long conversations about bringing Davros back, because he's a fantastic character, [but] time and society and culture and taste has moved on. And there's a problem with the Davros of old in that he's a wheelchair user, who is evil. And I had problems with that. And a lot of us on the production team had problems with that, of associating disability with evil. And trust me, there's a very long tradition of this.
"I'm not blaming people in the past at all, but the world changes and when the world changes, Doctor Who has to change as well.
"So we made the choice to bring back Davros without the facial scarring and without the wheelchair – or his support unit, which functions as a wheelchair.
"I say, this is how we see Davros now, this is what he looks like. This is 2023. This is our lens. This is our eye. Things used to be black and white, they're not in black and white anymore, and Davros used to look like that and he looks like this now, and that we are absolutely standing by."
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Yeah, she was a cutie. I didn’t watch the last few seasons of Ironside, so I don’t remember when she left the show.
Who watches Dr Who anymore anyway ,LOL
The next Doctor is a Rwandan-Scottish chap who has said he wants his portrayal of the Doctor to be "black", whatever that means.
Doctor Who is now distributed by Disney here in the states. Make of that what you will.
It's happening, albeit slowly.
Blaine Pardoe is a conservative sci-fi writer I follow on Twitter. He used to write a LOT of BattleTech fiction. Then a leftist wacko began sending him hate mail, messages threatening his life etc. The BattleTech editors FIRED Pardoe and it's pretty obvious it was because of his conservative views. It was one of the harsher examples of cancel culture I've seen.
Pardoe now writes his own series of mecha-inspired fiction and it's selling quite well. BattleTech though lost many fans.
I stopped after Amy Pond.
I did like Clara, but not her Dr.
BTTT
After the 4th season.
She turned up some later MI episodes as Mimi.
I still prefer Jo Grant, Leela, Romana II, and Tegan.
I don’t have a problem with it. This is before he mutated. The skit was very good.
I only watched Amy Pond/Matt Smith episodes after I saw a very moving clip from Vincent van Gogh episode.
I do have a HUGE bias toward redheads....but would have still watched Amy Pond as a blonde....well, maybe.
"Come along, Ponds"
They had Tegan on the last Holiday Special. She did not look good.
Does he realize that all Daleks basically use wheelchairs?
Clara was the hottest
Sad to hear.
The Van Gogh arc was a good one.
THAT definitely sent kids hiding behind the sofa!!! :-P The look of horror on Sylvester McCoy's face was intense.
The Daleks can fly, so make the wheelchair that Davros sits in fly.
The re-newed Doctor Who that started back in 2005 was great for the first three years. The episode that started it in a downward trend was the Christmas special episode, “Voyage of the Damned” in 2007.
“Does he realize that all Daleks basically use wheelchairs?”
Did you know their wheelchairs can fly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK9liYPm7eE&ab_channel=DalekBumps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL8OzLNfEcQ&ab_channel=DalekBumps
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